Experience

Strata

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant - Operational Change

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Aladdin Ops Change BA

• Executive

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  Aladdin Ops BA



Pictet Asset Management

• Investment Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Analyst

  • Oct 2019 - Sep 2021



Sanlam Investments UK

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Associate Fund Operations

  • Apr 2018 - Oct 2019



Sarasin & Partners

• United Kingdom
• Investment Management
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Settlements supervisor

  • Oct 2013 - Oct 2017

  The supervision of Global market settlement – emphasis on equities, bonds, CD’s and third party funds, FX (Spot and Forward) and derivatives (ETD and OTC).Supervision and execution when needed of the following tasks:Monitoring and troubleshooting on OMGEO CTM system.Creation and transmission of trade administration files and reports to Administrators and Trustees.Creation, validation and transmission of instruction trade files to custodians and fund accounting houses.Dealing with trade queries, fails, and liaising with brokers, custodians, trustees, administrators and in-house fund managers and traders.Assisting in the maintenance of settlement instruction data on the in-house system and Oasys/ Alert.Trade processing on the in-house system from confirmations received.Processing of any IPO/placings that the firm undertake.General administrative duties as part of a small team.Dealing with a range of custodians on a daily basis including Northern Trust to resolve queries and send trade files across to them with regards to trading that has been dealt. We also use NT as third party administrator to value our funds, this means that daily trade files are reported within the NAV cut off times.Dealing with any private or institutional Transitions in or out of the business.Supervisory Tasks: Comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of the settlements team, including derivatives and transitions. Ensure that all aspects of the settlements tasks can be undertaken when needed. Identifying issues requiring process change or system development, and ensuring implementation. Cover for the Manager when needed, including attending and running internal and external meetings, full back up of derivatives, settlements and Transitions. Ensuring all project work is carried out for the team and necessary testing is down for all system upgrades within Charles River and in house systems.Carry out year-end appraisals for all members on the team.Systems used - Charles River



Ruffer LLP

• United States
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Analyst

  • Oct 2012 - Oct 2013

  • Trade Matching and Settlement • Post trade counterparty matching, ensuring that all trades are advised to all custodians and interested parties within the agreed service levels timelines.• Management of the Omgeo CTM platform and other related internal systems to allow for deal analysis. Tolerance and broker mapping management to ensure efficient STP. Knowledge of all major markets (EMEA, US, Asia Pacific and EM) for equity and fixed interest.• CIS trade instruction, matching, settlement and monitoring.• IPO/Placing/Private Equity Placing instruction and settlement• ETD/OTC derivative matching and instruction – primarily options• Fund Administration liaison for issue resolution• Custodian liaison for issue resolution.• Broker liaisonResponsibility for operational relationships with Brokers, ensuring high levels of service delivery to meet our investment model.• Internal Deal processing managementEnsure that all trades from Front Office are correctly entered into and enriched in Pulse within timeframes agreed with the Operations Manager• Reconciliation investigation and resolution• Failed trade report managementEnsure all failed trade reports are received and reviewed on a daily basis. Escalate any problematic trades.• Administration and accurate record keeping• Trade related FX management for non standard investment activity• Involvement in system testing and development, progressive workflow development.• Monitoring and adapting to regulatory and market best practice and developments• Operational risk reduction and control for settlements and related processes.•System testing and development.



Legal & General Investment Management

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Settlements Clerk

  • Aug 2007 - Oct 2012

  - Contribute to the provision of an efficient and effective Settlement function of LGIM Fixed Income & Equity Securities purchases & Sales covering all markets.- Assist in the processing of FX and Money Market deals that have been placed out with counterparties.- Investigate reasons for trade failing and liaise with brokers and custodians to ascertain what action is required to ensure trade settles at earliest opportunity. Monitor the resolution of all transactions. This will be all Fixed Income trades and Equities trades.- Ensure all securities related cash problems outstanding on cash report are resolved in a timely fashion.- Ensure requests for stock movements are processed with Custodian in a timely manner.- Contribute to the provision of an efficient and effective Settlement function of LGIM ensuring all claims either against L&G or in favour of L&G are processed in a timely fashion.- Ensure all interest claims are logged on a central database.- Investigate reasons for claims and liaise with brokers and custodians to ascertain what action is required to ensure resolution of all claims in a timely fashion.- Provide the Treasury Supervisor with details of claims on a weekly basis. Data to include reason for claim and all related paperwork.- Assist in the running of the Treasury Team when the Supervisor requests.- Undertake special project work including support and implementation of future systems developments as directed.



Capita Trust Company (Ireland) Limited

• Financial Services

• Settlements administrator

  • Sep 2004 - Nov 2006



Teather & Greenwood

• Investment Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Settlements Clerk

  • Nov 2005 - Aug 2006

  - Institutional Crest checking / Agreeing trades with custodians- Stock borrowing & lending- Bought/Sold stock processing- Settle stock via Crest counter / Manual physical delivery/receipts- Chasing brokers/custodians re: Outstanding trades- Unit trust processing- Residual stock processing- Bought/Sold transfer reconciliation’s- Stock registration.- Failed item payment reports- Crest fails reports update- Probate registration- Certificate processing.- Certifications- Certificate amendments.- Indemnities.- Chasing outstanding registrations.- Resolve queries from Client / Account Executive / Unit Trust manager / Custodian- Non-market transfers/Crest transfers.- Updating Insight (Bulk bought/sold reconciliation)