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PROFILE:

CORPORATE ACTIONS ANALYST | BANK PAYMENTS ANALYST | FINANCIAL SERVICES

An experienced Corporate Actions Analyst with strong and broad-ranging back-office skills in processing large volumes to tight deadlines in high profile financial institutions. A good team player, with a deep level of expertise who has trained and coached junior team members. Highly analytical approach and confident working in a fast moving, deadline driven environment.

SKILLS:

• Extensive Corporate Actions experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent Communication – written and verbal
• Thrives in high pressure environment
• Team player, also happy to work independently
• Maintains and develops client service levels Deals efficiently with risk, deadlines and anomaly resolution Team Training and Coaching
• Client Money | CASS
• Systems: MS Office, Swift, Euclid / Easyway, Global 1, Bloomberg, Telekurs

LANGUAGES:

• English
• French – fluent, 3 years spent working in Paris

CAREER HISTORY:

October 2022 – Present

Banking

Payments Analyst

• Exception-based processing of all payments requiring manual repairs in order to facilitate the payment process.
• Familiar with the new ISO 20022 standards and MX messaging.
• Ensure that payment processing is in line with industry PSD2 regulations.
• Monitor and clear all Montran JGPS payment queues each day in line with currency cut off-times.
• Actively support the month end processing for both EMEA and London Payment teams.
• Investigate all STP payment exceptions and take appropriate actions to correct and enable processing.

April 2022 – August 2022

Seeking a new role

October 2021 – March 2022

Capital markets

Senior Associate – Project Cosmos Investigations Officer (5-month FTC)

• Historic Client Money investigations, working closely with Group Finance and guided by the FCA.

June 2021– September 2021

Investment banking

Corporate Actions Associate (3month FTC)

• Interpreting complex global voluntary corporate actions of all types and reflecting the terms and details accurately in the form of client / trader notifications.

November 2014 – September 2020

Capital markets

Corporate Actions Analyst

Processing Equity Dividends, Fixed income Coupons, and Corporate Actions on all products. Responsible for all daily Client Money calculation and segregation, and Nostro and Stock Reconciliations

• Modified day-to-day working practices to greatly reduce generation of, and reliance on, paperwork.
• Nurtured and developed excellent service levels for all clients, internal and external.
• Managed the day-to-day calculation and segregation of Client Money, according to CASS rules.
• Provided four months’ remote Corporate Actions training prior to outsourcing
• Oversaw the successful transfer of the role to outsource provider in Belfast.

October 2013 – June 2014

Asset Management

Back Office Operations

Processed all Dividends on U.K. and International Equities, Interest on Fixed Income products, and Distributions on Unit Trust holdings.

• Liaised with Custodians, Fund Managers and internal departments to resolve any cash or stock reconciliation issues, and to ensure compliance with CASS time constraints.
• Contract role for maternity cover during which half the business sold and so contract not extended.

October 2012 – October 2013

CAREER BREAK

Took a short career break to care for unwell parent.

July 2011 – October 2012

Financial planner

Custody Asset Income Analyst

Processed all Dividend and Interest income arising from the investments in Unit Trusts on behalf of their clients.

• Liaised with Fund Managers and internal departments to resolve any cash or stock reconciliation issues which might affect the timely processing of Dividend and Interest income.
• Processed rebates of Annual Management Charge and Trail Commission, and ensured they are correctly applied underlying clients.

November 2006 – September 2009 and February 2010 – September 2010

Financial services

Asset Services Analyst

Set up and processed all types of International Manufactured and Proprietary Dividends in all markets, including MOD tax rules and tax matching on stock lending positions. Also dealt with all coupon payments and redemptions on any bonds lent as collateral.

• Sole responsibility for exceptions management on dividend claims.
• Trained junior members of staff in the timely and accurate processing of International Dividends.
• Carried out extensive U.A.T. system testing, providing feedback to I.T. engineers.
• Monitored and cleared cash reconciliations breaks.

June 2006 - October 2006

Financial services

International Dividends Analyst

Worked on proprietary dividends backlog, chasing payments and Appendix C’s and F’s for stock lending trades.

• Given sole responsibility for working on dividend backlog, which had been left untouched for over one year. Achieved clear-up rate of 75-80%.
• Created spreadsheets to collate all tax documentation - ensuring correct delivery / receipt of all necessary Appendix C’s and Appendix F’s.

2005 - 2006

Banking

Internal Control and Procedures Dept

Monitored and calculated traders’ P&L on Stock Borrowing and Lending positions.

• Liaised between traders and the Corporate Actions processing team, with special regard to Withholding Tax rates and postings.
• Prepared and distributed all Excel-based reports used by members of the Corporate Actions and Benefits department to assist in the execution of their duties.
• Prepared tax reclaims for those countries which do not refund at source.

EARLIER CAREER:

Banking:

• International Dividend Department
• Dividend and Corporate Action Dept
• Global Equity Derivative Settlements, Senior International Dividends and Corporate Actions clerk
• International Equity Corporate Actions, 3-year secondment to Bacot-Allain, Société de Bourse Paris, International Equity Settlements
• General banking Assistant
• Started on Management Development Scheme, leading to Sub-Manager’s Assistant

EDUCATION:

• I.O.B. Bankers Conversion Course – Economics, Accounts, Elements of Banking
• 2 ‘A’ Levels
• 7 ‘O’ Levels including English and Maths
• Supervisory training and Time Management Courses

INTERESTS:

Music - classical, jazz and contemporary, art, architecture, photography, literature and sport

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