Experience

Zenzic Capital

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Fund Operations VP

  • Oct 2022 - Present



Big 4 Consultancy - Tier One Asset Manager

• Senior Operations Analyst

  • Feb 2022 - Sep 2022

  Working within the Fund Services Oversight team, assisting with fund and share class launches. Coordination of working group calls. Liaising with In-house teams, Service providers and Lawyers Analysing workflows for in house system enhancements. Working within the Fund Services Oversight team, assisting with fund and share class launches. Coordination of working group calls. Liaising with In-house teams, Service providers and Lawyers Analysing workflows for in house system enhancements.



Fairwater Capital LLP

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Operations Analyst

  • Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

  Responsible for the daily ops processes, including daily reporting, trade instruction to custodian, payment of invoices, cash flow projections and proxy voting. Overview of NAV process and accrual budgets, including weekly and monthly reconciliation to administrator. Responsible for onboarding of new SMA Credit Fund. Including liaising with clients, custodian DTCC and ICE Link. Manage the day to day operations and ensure processes are re-developed (where necessary) to improve efficiency. Interaction with fund Administrator (HedgeServ), Custodian (BNYM), Lawyers and Directors. Responsible for administrator KYC and FACTA/CRS project. Led the coordination of the Real Estate 2020 fund audits and quarterly board meetings.



Tortoise Advisors UK Limited (formally Ecofin Limited)

• London, United Kingdom

• Senior Operations Specialist (Operations Manager)

  • Jun 2007 - Sep 2019

  Worked within a London team of three, responsible for the operational setup of new managed accounts (including UCITS, Cayman Funds and private mandates) also assisted in the restructure of the existing Cayman L/S and Long Only fund. Main point of contact with fund service providers including administrators, prime brokers and custodians Responsible for the implementation of Omgeo CTM, Alert Swift messaging and MSDW Fx confirmation. Responsible for the daily cash reconciliation of the funds, including corporate events, cash payments, margin transfers and F & O statements. Other duties included the daily, weekly and monthly reconciliation of the fund NAV’s at Feeder and Share Class level. Ensuring all trading is matched on a T+0 basis. Processing and payment of fund invoices and monthly fees. Responsible for the setup of Emerging Markets this included fund registration to the SEBI and continuous KYC requirements in the Indian ODI market. Opening of broker accounts and providing documentation. Also responsible for ensuring the data in the FM system Beauchamp was correct (broker commissions, WHT rates (including US WHT rules for Onshore investors) settlement rules etc.) Respond to data requests from clients as and when required. Responsible for keeping the fund managers and trading advised of fund subscriptions and redemptions. Including the restricted and non-restricted investor splits when necessary. Provided cover as necessary for corporate actions, including proxy voting. Systems used – Beauchamp, Omgeo CTM, Swift, Alert, Bloomberg, Excel, Matrix



Dalton Strategic Partnership LLP

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Hedge Fund Operations Manager

  • Feb 2005 - Jun 2007

  Responsible for Hedge Fund operations including the launch and set up of a new European Long Short Fund and Japanese segregated account. Daily processing off all Equities, Futures and Options, Swaps, CFD’s, Corporate Actions and currency trading Responsible for reconciliation of Hedge Portfolios. Other Duties include performance reporting, monitoring of currency positions, subscriptions and redemptions and shares class hedging. Month end duties include confirming NAV’s, Fee’s and retrocession calculations. Responsible for providing cover of the trading and processing of Dalton managed accounts, including the updating of in house risk position sheets. Main point of contact with Prime Brokers and the Administrators, also daily liaison with the Dalton Fund Managers and Traders. Daily contact with clients and dealing with ad hoc requests and information. Also responsible for the Japan Hedge Funds monthly attribution and marketing data. Provide ad hoc cover to the Long Only team including monitoring the Asian Funds. Assisted in the Beauchamp upgrade project and PB reconciliations



Schroders

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Manager - Hedge Funds

  • Jul 1999 - Nov 2004

  Responsible for the daily confirmation of all Long/Short Equity and Emerging market Hedge Fund trading including local currency FX requirements, derivatives and stock borrow confirms. Responsible for the overview of all OTC Swaps, Futures and Options processing and confirmation. Monitoring and arrangement of Margin payments/receipts on Swaps/Options/Futures Forwards and NDF’s Main point of contact with Prime Broker for all trade enquiries and free cash payment reconciliation’s. Constant liaison with the Fund Managers, Dealers and Fund Accounting to ensure the smooth running of the funds. Monitoring of Corporate Action advice for the hedge fund ensuring the FM and Prime brokers are aware of the relevant actions. Responsible for the processing and confirmation of Fund of Fund dealing and FX share class Hedging including efficiency, quarterly rolls subscriptions and redemptions. Daily use of Portia, Open Trader, Salerio, Excel, Microsoft Outlook and in house systems. ISDA Confirmation checking (queries of commercial language) Responsible for the training and supervision of two members of staff. Adhoc project work relating to the outsourcing of the middle and back office process’s Responsible for the monitoring of external Unit Trust processing this included trade input, authorising Swift messages via Salerio and all failed trades and unit queries. Worked in the Fails trade team exposure to Interest claim processing.



IBJ LANSTON FUTURES

• London, United Kingdom

• Financial Futures & Options Broker

  • Sep 1993 - Jul 1999