Simon Kerley Email & Phone Number

County Dublin, Ireland

• Operate & oversee reconciliation technology to deliver a full reconciled gross NAV to the client service team including cash, position, dividend & interest reconciliations.• Work closely with our middle office team to ensure trade processing is complete, corporate actions have been booked correctly & security pricing is accurate.• Operation & oversight of reconciliation technology to deliver Investment Manager positions & profit & loss reconciliations• Ensure client SLA’s are strictly adhered to• Work hand in hand with our client service team to provide superior customer service to hedge fund managers and investors• Ownership, management and resolution of all client & internal client queries• Develop and maintain relationships with client service teams & hedge fund clients• Initiate frequent, proactive communication with internal clients, as directed, to verify perceived levels of satisfaction and demonstrate proactive service• Ensure all professional relationships internal and external are maintained at the highest level• Business Continuous Improvement - analyzing processes through the use of Kaizen to create efficiencies.• Assist in the new clients’ onboarding processesResponsible for onboarding clients to automated reconciliations tool through inter-departmental discussions and agreements.Training and up-skilling of Jnr Analysts, and workflow management to account for staffing resources, and with particular emphasis on meeting agreed SLAs. Responsible for drafting standardised procedural documentation in relation to onboarded clients.

Dublin 2

 NAV calculation and review Expense budget update and preparation of liquidation budgets. Experienced with Performance Fees on a Series of Shares basis. Daily reconciliation of Cash/Stock positions to Custodian or IM. Report preparation for Financial Reporting purposes and resolution of Audit queries. Preparation and review of periodic Board Reports. Preparation and review of departmental Monthly Control checks. Previously member of FA Corp Actions panel, leading to 12 month part-time secondment to FA Corp Actions team. Experience with traditional Fund Accounting on structures including Master Feeder funds, Liquidity funds, Multi Class Multi Currency funds and ETFs. Experience with Equity, Debt and Liquidity instruments, Futures, and am the department expert in relation to Repo contracts. Experienced InvestOne user, Bloomberg and IDS, and Advanced Excel user. Productivity Enhancements through use of technology, such as Excel macros. Resolution of technology/automation issues both internally and externally. Involved in workflow management and training.

Duties: Since Nov. 2006 I have worked as a Fund Accountant in the ETF Valuations Shift Team in BOISS. Daily duties include timely production of fund NAV's, reconciliation of cash, dividends, stock nominals and futures against the custody system; liasing with Client Services, Dividends and Corporate Actions Depts in relation to queries; training of new staff in valuations and new scanning procedures.I have gained further experience using Bloomberg and FTI systems to obtain pricing, dividend and corp. action back-up, and have added greatly to my knowledge of Excel formulae. My particular strengths would lie in problem-solving and reconciliations (particularly in relation to cash accounts and stock nominals, but not specifically so).

Duties: Since joining Scottish Provident, I initially worked on Seda Valuations before moving onto Seda Claims. I have experience in dealing with client and Broker queries and complaints directly and have been successful in resolving a number of issues. I have also put my experience gained in previous employment to good use by being able to advise other team members in relation to technical queries. Calculation of Bond valuations. Claim calculation and processing. Preparation and distribution of documentation. Direct meetings with clients to discuss Retirement options.

 Group policy/scheme setup. Scheme alterations. Estimated Retirement Valuations. Retirement and Claims processing. Maintaining close relationships with Brokers and in-house Sales team. Query investigation and resolution.

Duties: During my first year with Davy, I worked as part of an Institutional Support team for Davy's Equity dealing desk. My duties involved liaising between our dealing room and the settlement/confirmations areas of our institutional clients. Confirming trades with these clients generally took place by fax, or by sending trades electronically on the OASYS system. I also used the Rapide system for confirming trade details with other brokers. Balancing of daily trading accounts was also an important daily task. I also have outline knowledge of the ISEQ's new XETRA electronic trading system.I spent the remainder of my time with Davy heading an accounts reconciliation project. This entailed identifying and checking uncashed cheques on client accounts, contacting the clients in relation to these cheques and the re-issue of stale/uncashed cheques if and when the need arose.

Duties: During my time here, my position was Senior Retail Sales Associate. My duties were quite varied, encompassing everything from checking deliveries to stock maintenance and appearance of the shop floor. Working as Head Menswear Associate, I had the responsibility of organising a team of junior/part-time associates. This has given me a great appreciation for what it takes to work as part of, and as head of, a team of people, along with a feeling for personnel responsibility and management.

Duties: In this spell in Davy's, during a summer off College, I was a member of a team taken on to handle the Postal Sharedealing service, and Helpline, for the initial public offering of Norwich Union plc shares. This position gave me experience in both share sales/processing and customer services due to the fact that the helpline took all queries relating to the sale of these shares. Duties also included processing and posting payment cheques for sales of said shares.

Professional Certificate, International Investment Fund Services, Pass

Engineering

Leaving Cert., Leaving Certificate