Experience

BMO Nesbitt Burns
• Canada
• Investment Management
• 700 & Above Employee
• Business Development/ Portfolio Strategist

  • Apr 2020 - Present


BMO Private Banking

• Senior Analyst

  • Jun 2017 - Apr 2020

  • Set up and check distributions for securities and present yield report to Chief Investment Strategist • Support investment projects (e.g. fund establishment, T+2 settlement and GICS) by setting up back-end mapping and codes for models and rules • Coordinate with stakeholders and developers for system improvement projects (e.g. Charles River upgrade, performance data purge and operation improvement) • Communicating with different stakeholders to identify discrepancies in performance records for High Net Worth clients and Asset Management accounts • Automate daily tasks by creating batch scripts and Marcos; improve efficiency by 100% • Create models and override policy trades for portfolio management team in Charles River and Pacer • Perform UAT testing for new rules and compliance in Charles River



Scotiabank

• Canada
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Collateral Analyst

  • Jun 2016 - Jun 2017

  • Investigate into the discrepancy between trail balance and Sentry and make adjustment journal entry accordingly • Prepare and check collateral trades for the whole team in a daily basis and convey the accurate information such as CUSIP, notional and account details to the settlement team • Actively be involved in the testing of new system, pointing out problems and training other • Map counterparties’ GL account and debug the trail balance macro to run the updated trail balance smoothly • Take responsibility of credit total return swap collateral by communicating with counterparties, third party and internal loan specialist, passing accounting entries and keeping record in Sentry in a timely manner • Provide customer service to the counterparty by sending and responding margin calls and substitutions, and reconciling interest statements correctly on time • Communicate with counterparties and settlement team actively when trades are failing, to settle them before cut-off • Solve the collateral evaluation difference such as balance and haircut between BNS and counterparties, to ensure collaterals are matched and measured consistently • Negotiate and book transactions of eligible collaterals like treasury bonds and cash resulting in minimizing counterparty default risk • Prepare MTM statements by evaluating future SWAP trades in the month end



DBS Bank

• Singapore
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Internship

  • Jul 2013 - Aug 2013

  • Collected and analyzed weekly mortgage referral data via Excel to find the top referral branch • Contacted VIP customers, arranged and sent financial investment information to them resulting in strengthened relationship (Relationship Management; Customer Service) • Took the relationship manager training program and learned professional products information • Collected and analyzed weekly mortgage referral data via Excel to find the top referral branch • Contacted VIP customers, arranged and sent financial investment information to them resulting in strengthened relationship (Relationship Management; Customer Service) • Took the relationship manager training program and learned professional products information