SKILLS:

Financial: Member, the Society of Technical Analysts, Certified Technical Analyst

Technical: MS Office, Project, UNIX, Martini, Apex, SQL, Access, Excel, Pivot TablesISEB Foundation

Other Interests: Travel, Swimming, Running, Cycling, Reading, Research and Writing, founder at Confidential

WORK EXPERIENCE­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­:

Confidential

Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Specialist role supporting the repo desk, middle office, market activity monitoring (risk), back office and sales in their use of the repo and SBL platform FIS Apex.
• Role highly geared toward time - critical complex troubleshooting involving the resolution of PnL, Risk and STP issues.
• Raise enhancement / fix requests to development and management in order to address improvements or flaws in the front-to-back trade-processing platform.
• Provide PnL explain for the repo desk PnL, covering FX Swaps, TRS, Repo, Stock Loan and Bond Forward trades.
• Utilise SQL for querying trade data tables in order to resolve issues.
• Support the front to back flow for repo and SBL involving Apex, Calypso, in-house pricing applications for real-time mark-to-market calculations, and in-house swaps trading application.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Role based principally around Repo; highly geared towards the creation of functional specifications and project management, with a small element of support.
• Lead business analyst for all aspects of Repo Request for Quote project. Specification for the GLMX Repo RFQ platform and it’s subsequent rollout to users in New York and London. Other RFQ related initiatives include writing the functional spec for TradeWeb RFQ STP, with a high degree of focus on FixLink in order to feed trades STP from TradeWeb into front office systems.
• Ad-hoc front office support for Sungard (FIS) Apex

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• BA role for the first global distribution of the new Confidential /sbl trading system
• Working for the Repo IT team, worked closely with repo trading and sales users across rates, credit, EM, central bank, in London as well as users in Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Tokyo, and New York.
• Provided on-the-fly resolutions to traders’ queries involving position discrepancies between Apex and legacy system, introducing functionality of Apex to users, demonstrating time-saving measures which directly feed the P&L.
• Built a wide variety of custom profiles for users based on requirements to better assess positions.
• Liaised with treasury to deploy and build profiles for daily cash movements to and from the repo desk.
• Utilised UNIX to invoke stored procedures to kick off finance allocation (book-to-book and legal entity-to-legal entity) processes within Apex, SQL to check integrity of data within the Apex GUI, and other UNIX tools for trade modification and maintenance, maintaining static data on counterparties, books, and securities, pulling new static into Apex.
• Conducting daily positions investigation utilising automatically generated reports to ensure Apex and to-be-decommissioned legacy systems remain in line.
• Lead requirements gathering initiative to scope out ION MarketView replacement for Nomura. Documented all use-cases where Rates and Credit utilise ION MarketView. Liaised with vendor developer for the build out of the replacement platform.
• Performing manual cash calculations of bullet and linker type bonds in order to determine calculation methodologies amongst disparate trading and settlement systems.
• Worked closely with middle office to investigate reasons for rejected trades, which requires a fundamental appreciation of the trade life-cycle, and in particular repo inter-life processes.
• Maintained and updated the Apex Automated Financing Tool and Apex Finance Allocator to take into account changing ownerships of the firm book structure. Tested and released enhanced versions to release schedules.
• Gathered requirements for and supervised the creation of reports for repo-sales, government repo, and cross-asset sales.
• Liaised between Treasury and the Rates Repo desk to gather requirements and build spec for regulatory report relating Treasury Liquidity Pool positions and street-side reverse trades.
• Client demand necessitated an index spread based repo product for long term repo lockups which reset automatically against the index on a fixed basis (quarterly etc…); I gathered the requirements, advised the dev team and followed through with testing and support of this feature as well as continuing enhancements.
• Settlement system limitations required an enhancement on the Apex side such that auto-generated messages are passed down on margin tickets at initiation such that settlement teams can action accordingly; I created the requirements, advised dev, and tested this feature.
• Advised various PMs how a given funding model amongst disparate firm entities can be automated given specific liquidity requirements for certain collateral.
• Liaised with treasury and rates desk to determine the duration-based haircuts required by LCH, in order to create auto defaults in Apex such that repo desk borrowing for treasury matched margin defaults automatically as per LCH margin requirements.
• Initial requirements gathering and analysis for introduction of ION MarketView, basic support for MarketView for the Rates and Credit Flow Repo desk.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Confidential brought onto a high-profile Securities Lending and Repo systems decommission and migration project for DekaBank.
• Conducted business analysis on swaps, stock loan, and repo trade types.
• Ensured requirements for downstream settlement system were correctly integrated into the Martini to Settlement System interface, such that inter-life trade events, and appropriate front to back office flow functioned as expected.
• Managed team of external QA professionals in order to ensure application release met critical baselines.
• Gathered requirements for the implementation of ECN feeds from BrokerTec and Eurex. The resulting interface allowed traders to input 300% more repo and reverse repo trades on a daily basis, greatly improving processing efficiency, back-office administration, and allowing the front-office to gain greater exposure for itself and clients within the fixed-income space.
• Wrote test manuals for the Martini stock loan/repo trading application, including the front to back office trade flow, inter-life trade actions, repo, stock loan, and total return swap (TRS) trade types.
• Reported business analysis and QA team progress to senior Deka management.
• Utilisation of SQL queries in order to derive data from Martini tables in an effort to aid testing, such as identifying mismatches between pre and post migrated databases, identifying static-data issues, ensuring data quality for Bloomberg and Reuters price feeds and their effects upon SBL and Repo positions.
• Utilisation of Access to drive testing where Excel was not sufficient in order to test complex price feeds, using joins, Access queries, and several data sources.
• Assisted with the trade migration from Martini 5.2 to Martini 5.6 environment.

Confidential

Lead Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with stock lending/repo clients to implement an interface between Martini front office trade application and Global One back office settlements system for European and Japanese banks. .
• Documented business process flows for repo and stock loan trade types via use-cases and activity diagrams, utilising UML.
• Utilisation of SQL in order to derive data relevant to scoping statistics relevant for business analysis on client systems, such as investigating trade volume, trade types utilised, inter-life actions executed, securities and cash-currencies used in trade execution.
• Developed knowledge of fixed income repo and stock loan trade lifecycle, and related front to back processes.
• Led sales initiative and initial implementation efforts for a SunGard Agency Lending Disclosure of Principal application.
• Produced Business Impact Assessment analysing current equity finance operations processes and how these processes should be re-designed following a Martini implementation.
• Conducted stakeholder workflow analysis with Product Control, Reconciliations, US/European/Japanese Settlement teams, and Collateral Management, produced use-cases, swim lane diagrams.
• Conducted Gap analysis at various client sites identifying how current systems and processes would work with Martini.
• Managed a team of testers at the client site in order to meet strict project constraints.
• Worked extensively on SunGard Martini’s Tri-Party repo trading application.
• Escalated client requirements to management in order to meet go-live deadlines.
• Worked directly with securities lending traders, setting up trade interfaces, provided training.
• Worked as liaison between the Business Process Team, Gas Traders and Operators conducting gap analysis, diagramming process flows and recommending workarounds to process bottlenecks.
• Worked extensively with SunGard ETM, EDX, EWX and Zainet applications.
• Responsible for business user review sessions, requirements gathering, UAT test scripts, project planning and resource planning.
• Gathered requirements, created & received stakeholder approval for improved testing framework for applications within Shell Energy Trading Limited.
• Conducted parallel run on test systems, mirroring Gas Operator actions for UK, Belgium, Netherlands and Essent gas markets.
• Tested UK, Belgium, Netherlands and Essent gas markets on SunGard’s ETM application for short, normal, long and summer day scenarios.
• Reported directly to the Chief Operating Officer
• Executed and Project Managed a full move from one Fund Administrator to a new Service Provider
• Mapped process flows for interaction amongst property master funds, property fund SPVs, and the self-financing ring-fenced cost structures associated with the funds.
• Worked with external parties & internal stakeholder groups from Operations, Technology, Investment Desk, Sales, Marketing, and Legal. Project delivered under considerable external constraints to deadline
• Developed an Introducer fee-collection business solution that reduced time and pressures on Operations at critical work-heavy time periods, and shifted reporting responsibilities to introducers

Confidential

Intern, Alternative Investments

Responsibilities:

• Represented a number of niche hedge funds focussing primarily on the natural resources space.
• Managed sales database covering Western Europe and Switzerland
• Coordinated meetings with investment managers for London-based partner
• Liaised with fund managers collecting NAV and monthly performance data

Confidential

Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Contract Management analyst for Lloyds TSB Transformation engagement
• Due Diligence Analyst, Deal Development and Realisation Team
• Transformation Analyst, Lloyds TSB engagement
• Managed Project Office for a number of work orders on the LTSB Transformation engagement including service delivery and application management.