00204487

PROFILE:

Accomplished and energetic finance professional, with a solid history of achievement in Capital markets and Private Equity firms. A motivated leader with strong organisational and prioritisation abilities. Successfully assist with several system migration from one accounting system to another. Areas of expertise include project management, trade reconciliation, funding, trade/settlement management. Effectively led and arranged meetings using applications such as Teams and Webex.

CAREER HISTORY:

August 2023 - Present

Banking

Treasury liquidity Operation (AVP)

• Responsible for the timely and accurate processing for the Cash and Intra-day Liquidity Management
• Reconcile CM statement to ledger statement.
• Liaise between counterparts and internal stakeholders to promote quality of service, ensuring the timely escalation and resolution of issues such as Treasury Vice President and Treasury Managing director.
• Input fees and payments /nostros into company systems.
• Utilising Euroclear to monitor trades and payments – (R34, R35, R37, R32, R29 etc.)
• Reconcile USD, EUR and exotic currency accounts.
• Collateral and credit line monitoring (where extension is needed request for it)
• Excellent knowledge of MT950, MT103, MT199, MT202 etc
• Client money - investigate and return funds to client if needed.
• Daily funding estimate input and investigation
• Investigation and resolution of failed trades and negative balances
• Action client money processes and return funds if/when needed.
• Verify and release funding requirements for all currencies.
• Manage intraday account activities.
• Process requirements relating to Cash and Liquidity Management and resolve routine problems and queries escalating more complex issues to supervisor or section head.
• Produce analysis as required to gauge level of errors and highlight areas that can proactively be improved
• Complete updates and create procedures relating to day-to-day processes for managers, passing to managers for approval.
• Complete UAT as part of new system upgrades and development. Escalate any issues identified and follow through to remediation.
• Ensure bank policy and best practices are rigorously followed and adopted as part of the overall framework.

February 2022 – July 2023

Asset Management

Cash Operation Analyst

• Daily reconciliation and publishing of cash/currency balances in Aladdin
• Reconciling and investigating portfolios via cash master
• Utilising Aladdin View to check collateral, trade investigation and liquidity research.
• Used security master to gather information on securities including interest/principal claims.
• Aladdin MT950/Statement reconciliation-portfolio mapping/uploading account balances manually from custodian websites.
• Collateral management
• Solved problems through the timely communication of issues to team members, Front Office, Client Services, custodians, and other impacted parties.
• Answering queries from funds managers and other third parties
• Continuous review of current processes to seek and implement efficiencies and process improvements.
• Partner with Client Reporting to provide accurate and timely cash activity and position data to clients.
• Investigating and resolving discrepancies by working with banks and other groups within Asset Operation (i.e., overdraft investigation)
• Project coordination
• SME on cash operations duties and aladdin implementations, this included training new joiners.
• Project coordinating using Agile methodology.

January 2021 - February 2022

Insurance

Cash Management Analyst

• Supported front office in the execution of core activities in a fast pace and dynamic environment by ensuring the delivery of accurate, timely and comprehensive information.
• Project management of intra-day accounting
• Utilised my problem-solving skills by analysing/investigating overdraft/ mandate queries.
• Investigate outstanding claims/ break reports and escalate if and when required.
• Manage communication effectively between myself and front office (fund managers, PM’s, Client relationship managers)/ I also liaise with national and international third parties.
• On a day-to-day basis I deal with/resolve client service queries and cash queries
• Action all cash reconciliation duties effectively
• Implement all payment requests accurately
• Processed payments using SAP.
• Resourcefully manage my time which enables me to adhere/meet strict deadlines.
• Act as SME on cash queries (such as overdraft/ trade queries)
• Queried/ suggested ways in which processes can be improved such as preprocessor system on Aladdin.
• Created a payment/instruction manual for new employees, this I believe will reduce training times and will improve processes and reduce risk
• Manage oversight of daily liquidity cash figures provided to front office.
• Manage the ongoing maintenance of cash management operating models/procedures.
• Effectively utilise systems such as Aladdin, Alfie, Sam, and other systems to gain desired results
• Project management
• I ensure there are minimal errors by reconciling items/accounts and monitoring causes immediately. This enables my team to identify underlying trends.

March 2020 – January 2021

Financial services

Senior Operations Associate

January 2018 – March 2020

Operations associate

• Provided front office trade support and general trade lifecycle management.
• I was responsible for daily cash management, including cash balances, cash projections, cash transactions and reconciliation across all funds. Managing collaterals, overseeing account administration
• Settlement management including amending and effectively managing trade issues.
• Trade file management, to ensure intra-day trades are reported to the administrators for daily NAV calculations.
• Reconciliation (NAV, Stock and Cash)
• Various fund accounting and custody for cash equities and cfds (derivative)
• Fx input/ request
• Main point of contact for any queries/ issues that may arise from custodians, brokers and so on
• Accountable for updating fund performance on platforms.
• Corporate action management -ensuring deadlines are met and options have been handed over to relevant parties.
• Overlooking information regarding pricing and nav documents sent from third parties.

August 2014 - December 2017

Financial services

Settlement Analyst

• Manage all incoming funds from clients and ensure payments are processed compliantly and accurately.
• Communicated with various third parties to resolve issues that occurred via payment platforms.
• Day-to-day duties consisted of processing private and corporate payments via Swift, SEPA, CHAPS and BACS
• Dealt with cases that involved Mt103's, trace and recalls.
• Managed and maintained corporate and private client funds via a back-office system.
• Managed all previous account movements from the previous day for record keeping and payment processing reconciliation (including movements from client and trading accounts)
• Conducted inter-account bank transfers (IAT) for cards, main trade, and fast pay.
• Maintained funds book and allocated trades against deal book and back office.
• Updated excel spreadsheet with balances and daily reports.
• Authorised payments and made sure account balance report were accurate.
• Maintained and regulated communication with account managers.
• Communicated clearly with colleagues across various departments.
• Kept updated with global economic news to see the affects of outside economic changes.

EDUCATION:

January 2008 - May 2011: University

Bachelor of Science -Sociology

May 2024: Technical Education

Project Management Course

INTERESTS:

December 2012 – Present: Newspaper

• Writing articles for the Bristol Herald'
• Watching documentaries and keeping up to date with current events regarding social occurrences, especially consumer behaviour and the transformation of work.

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