• Research and analysis of market driven events to ensure S&P Dow Jones global indices accurately reflect the impact of corporate actions in a time critical environment. Maintaining responsibility for ensuring consistent methodologies are applied across indices.• Performing price validations and verifications and regular share/float updates. • Responsible for validation of system captured prices at local market close. Verification of captured prices against multiple sources and rapid resolution of any discrepancies under restrictive timeline. • Performing end of day index calculation, file generation & distribution.• Identifying index composition changes, reviews and rebalances.• Working with a variety of sources including but not limited to: Bloomberg, Reuters, S&P Capital IQ, Company IR websites, Stock Exchanges to verify the accuracy of market data.

• Working within the operations team focusing on UK indices and the corporate actions that affect the UK indices such as return of capital, mergers and acquisitions, share consolidation and share split.• Analysing market news and data sources processing complex corporate actions to be applied to the UK indices focused on the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250. • Completing the daily production of the FTSE UK indices products sent to all financial clients.• Analysing and calculating FTSE free floats of shares to be applied to the constituents of the indices, and responding to queries from large financial institutions.

• Analysing and completing reconciliations of client accounts to confirm relevant covenants had been maintained to the agreed limit and further investigation if required.• Reviewing client availability of funds for draw down on the agreed facility against the invoices raised and processed.

• Coordinating global teams on tax compliance for all relevant territories, being a direct point of contact dealing with any issues raised affecting the client.• Completing tax audits on large and medium sized clients, giving me a great insight into different clients and drilling down into financial information to test the reliability of the information supplied.• Gained valuable knowledge working with a big four accountancy firm, which has given me experience of working directly with a variety of clients, senior management and partner level staff.• Completing bespoke formal business development tenders for prospective clients allowing me to gain valuable knowledge regarding how to specifically tailor our offering to clients. Also completing internal business development helping executive directors identify and demonstrate to the business potential growth areas for a particular service line.

• Working for an insolvency practitioner has exposed me to companies in distress, ranging from trading companies in administration as a going concern to pre-pack administrations.• Integral part of a small trading team seconded to a client, responsible for trading the company with a positive surplus through their restructuring. This experience allowed me to develop good relationships with management and develop a strong leadership role dealing with creditors and employees.• Assisted management from the start of the administration process through to taking offers. Experiencing the whole process provided me with a good understanding of issues that can arise.

• Two month internship. My responsibilities required me to carry out the administrative tasks on corporate recovery cases, and to provide direct support on all areas of the day-to-day running of clients’ businesses in a broad range of cases.• Within Corporate Recovery, my tasks were based both at client sites and in the office working on projects to overcome the financial, strategic and operational difficulties faced by businesses.• A significant proportion of my time was dedicated to managing the closure of Birthdays card shops, including dealing with landlords and the Birthdays management team.