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Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

Working on a wide range of applications to facilitate operations on and off port for C3 operational staff. A primary focus on front-end design with accessible and easy to use UX, as our applications are used in a variety of situations from inside warehouse offices, to outside on the port and in the rain.Main technology used includes, React, Javascript (ES6) and CSS, with exposure to AngularJS, C# and .Net.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Languages & Frameworks focused on: JavaScript, HTML, CSSReact, Redux, Rest API’s, Bootstrap, BulmaTDD ( Test Driven Development), SuperAgent, Node.js, AuthorizationSkills focused on:Agile project management Scrum, KanBan, Retrospectives, Sprint-Planning, StandupsThe role of a Product OwnerEffective communication in teams

Asia

After working in Japan for a ski season my travels took me through Nepal, Japan, South east asia and back home in New Zealand.

London, England, United Kingdom

My role at Schroders required me to understand financial regulations from many different European jurisdictions and apply that understanding to daily operational tasks. In a fast-paced environment that is constantly changing, I needed to be aware of any changes in regulation and implement these changes in our operational processes. This requires constant communication with financial regulators, external legal counsel, and internal compliance and operational teams. I was also responsible for running the daily BAU processes of the Regulatory Reporting team

London, United Kingdom

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Operations Risk & Control Division is a global team responsible for Control (Balance Sheet Control, Credit & Market Risk, Policies & Procedures), Regulatory Reporting (Disclosure of Interest, Client Money, Transaction Reporting), Risk (Client Confidentiality, Operational Risk, BCP) and CTB Projects. The Division has over 300 team members across the Firm, with the majority residing in New York, Glasgow and London as well as with Vendors in Chennai.The Disclosure of Interest team is focused on fulfilling regulatory requirements including; Short Position Monitoring and disclosure, Substantial Shareholder position monitoring and disclosure, Takeover Panel Reporting and disclosures as well as multiple other oversight functions to ensure Morgan Stanley is meeting reporting and disclosing in line with European Regulations.Responsibilities:- Monitoring of various exceptions to highlight potential disclosure obligations across EMEA (approximately 30 jurisdictions).- Working to tight daily deadlines- Building a detailed understanding of each exception type, allowing accurate filings to made to the regulator- Building knowledge of security transactions and various product types.- Acquiring an intricate knowledge of firm systems, data sources and processes, building the ability to question data integrity.- Close communication with dedicated compliance team.- Identification and implementation of process improvements- Providing support to other members of the team.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Account Reference Data team (ARD) provides critical functions to the Firm including the enforcement of account referential data standards, standards governance, rule editing, and ownership of the renovated concepts of General and Specific Account Usages. As a result of this critical function, the team receives daily requests (some urgent) for project consultation, data enrichment, remediation of account exceptions, in addition to initiating the cleansing of all sub-ledger account exceptions. Responsibilities:- Demonstrating information and project management skills through the following:- Responding and assisting in stakeholder requests around reference data, system dependencies, and account opening- Managing a population of account referential data, working with relevant stakeholders to identifying system dependencies and data consumption.- Re-validating and proposing standard changes to Account Usage Steering Committee.- Notifying account stakeholders when reference data is misaligned based on validated standards and working to remediate discrepancies- Supporting ad hoc requests relating to Regulatory Compliance and/or Legal Entity-related Programs through execution of surveys, data collection, and communication to relevant stakeholders- Engaging in weekly team meetings with the larger Data Governance team to highlight achievements, work priorities, and to provide updates on work stream (as assigned)- Gathering and presenting risk metrics as requested to support additional governance work streams by conducting surveys and/or setting up meetings as necessary

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment management and investment services in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments. Responsibilities:• Oversight of full settlement process• Investigate errors that arise during settlement transactions and provide resolutions that ensure the settlement can be made within defined trading SLA’s• Settle deals according to differing client procedures and requirements.• Processing payments via Swift, BACS and Chaps.• Completing coverall deals• Action all client instructions and assigned tasks within specified deadlines in order to deliver a high quality service and meet the overall objectives of the department.• Liaise with Client Services and internal departments to ensure queries are responded to, thereby ensuring that internal/external client satisfaction is maintained.• Track the performance of each of the assigned tasks in order to ensure that they are operating efficiently and effectively thereby maintaining the departmental delivery objectives.• Liaison with Unit Trust Managers, Fund Managers, Registrars, Counterparties, Revenue Offices, Brokers, Clients, CREST, external auditors, vendors

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Customer Enquiry Investigation (looking in to missed payments or branch-level errors, calculating tax and interest earned on Term Deposits, completing special customer requests.)• Process Improvement (Finding ways to decrease paper dependency, time and costs for all tasks.)• Interbank communications (Working with representatives from other banks to complete customer requests, specifically fast-tracking cheque clearances.)• Undertaking brand new tasks due to new AML legislation and working with other areas of the business to ensure these tasks are managed and completed as efficiently as possible.• Completing customer requests that are sent to Head Office (Automatic Payment and Direct Debit setup, Fee reversals, large-sum one-off payments and balance transfers, special answer cheque clearances, verifying identification)• Dealing with sensitive customer information when completing information requests received from government departments.• Training team members on new tasks – following up on training to ensure no mistakes are made or no part of the task is missed. · Excel spreadsheet management, tracking and distribution to stay on top of team-wide tasks.· Credit card reconciliation· Reconcile transactions and accounts, investigate and correct automatic payment errors, load various deposit details and ensure loan and security documentation is drafted accurately.· Provide settlement and on-going securities administration and maintenance.

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Marketing/Marketing Management, General

Web Development