Experience

Arrow Global Group

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Vice President - Real Estate Private Equity

  • Jul 2021 - Present



Man Group

• United Kingdom
• Investment Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investment Associate

  • May 2019 - Mar 2021

  ► Founding member and right hand of Shamez Alibhai, Portfolio Manager of the Responsible Investment Community Housing Fund (the Fund) Working alongside UK councils and housing associations, the Fund intends to deliver additional homes affordable to people at local income levels, to help meet the need for 2.5 million more affordable homes over the next 15 years. The investment strategy seeks to accelerate the provision of affordable homes in the UK across both rental and ownership tenures with a strong focus on creating sustainable communities. Specifically, the strategy will accommodate a range of housing tenures from social and affordable rent, to shared ownership, rent to buy, and more traditional market rent and sales. - Main responsibilities include: underwriting, structuring and execution of transactions (traditional land and build, forward fund, forward purchase, acquisition of existing stocks), making sure it reflects the investment strategy and fits within the overall portfolio guidelines - Build a large part of the infrastructures for the team, including a dynamic underwriting model to assess new investment opportunities, investment processes, underwriting tools (using tableau), fund structuring - Assist in the fund raising, answering queries from investors, helping in the due diligence process, building and maintaining the fund model Show less



ARA Venn

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Real Estate - Associate

  • Jan 2016 - May 2019

  ► Commercial Real Estate: Venn offers a tailored advisory service, enabling us to structure complex transactions. Venn directly originates and structure High Yield loans, focusing on whole loan, stretch senior and mezzanine debt but also on preferred equity in both the UK and Continental Europe. Sectors include: Office, Hotels, Logistics, Healthcare, Residential, PRS, Student Housing, Retail, Business Park. - Deal sourcing and Structuring: building complex dynamic cash flow models to analyse various capital structures and asset performance scenarios (acquisition, development, repositioning, etc.); - Deal execution: terms negotiation and due diligence process; - Transaction management and post financing deal monitoring. ► Key role in the implementation of the £3.5bn UK Private Rented Sector Housing Guarantee Scheme. The Scheme enables landlords of new build properties to use a government guarantee to secure long-term financing. By providing debt guarantees, the government is looking to encourage institutional investment in PRS. - I am involved in every step from the sourcing of transactions and their structuration to the bond issuance, including terms negotiation and due diligence. ► Structured credit (RMBS, CMBS, CLO) - Perform valuation of structured credit portfolio using our internal proprietary risk analytics and valuation tool ► Improving infrastructure across the commercial real estate business Show less



Schroders

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Junior Credit Portfolio Manager

  • Sep 2014 - Aug 2015

  The European and UK Credit team actively manages around GBP 13bn in assets across Euro, Sterling and Global Credit Strategies (both IG and HY). Through an integrated global team, funds are offering consistent outperformances and are usually ranking in the first quartile vs peer group. My main role is to support PMs in their daily job by: ► Analysing companies and industry, ► Generating ideas ► Creating new tools to support our decision The European and UK Credit team actively manages around GBP 13bn in assets across Euro, Sterling and Global Credit Strategies (both IG and HY). Through an integrated global team, funds are offering consistent outperformances and are usually ranking in the first quartile vs peer group. My main role is to support PMs in their daily job by: ► Analysing companies and industry, ► Generating ideas ► Creating new tools to support our decision



Citi

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• CMO Summer Analyst

  • Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

  Capital market origination summer analyst program. I did two rotations, one in Corporate DCM and the other one in Securitisation ► Updated pricing for clients and prepared error free presentation in a timely manner for several clients ► Prepared a presentation for senior management on the new trend for Reverse Yankee issuances ► Provided a great support to the team by taking care of daily/weekly tasks such as EOD closing colour paper or the Weekly DCM corporate update ► Participated in the elaboration of Greenlight and Credit Memo for various Auto, Trade receivables, Consumer loans and Credit Card ABS transactions Show less



Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB

• France
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Rates Trader - Placement Analyst

  • Feb 2013 - Aug 2013

  Within the rate trading team at Société Générale, I had a modelling role as my main duty was to build various models using VBA, SQL and internal add-ins. My main roles were to: ► Build a stress test model to monitor Stress tests in real time ► Make sure that broken limits were monitored and understood, and hedging position taken when required ► Build a real time monitoring for EM desks positions ► Build a real time monitoring for Repo positions Within the rate trading team at Société Générale, I had a modelling role as my main duty was to build various models using VBA, SQL and internal add-ins. My main roles were to: ► Build a stress test model to monitor Stress tests in real time ► Make sure that broken limits were monitored and understood, and hedging position taken when required ► Build a real time monitoring for EM desks positions ► Build a real time monitoring for Repo positions



Allianz Global Investors

• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Structured Products Portfolio Manager - Placement Analyst

  • Aug 2012 - Jan 2013

  As part of the structured products team at Allianz Global Investors in Paris, my main activity was to manage formula based funds. ► Monitored formula based funds on a daily basis: P&L, Coupon payments, NAV validation ► Dealt with inflows or outflows: traded unwinds on equity swaps, asset swaps and Total Return swaps ► Did research on numerous topics (answered to RFP): new strategies and amelioration of management tools, pricing of structured products, analysis of post trade investments Show less



ESTER

• France
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern, Junior Consultant Specialised in OTC Derivatives

  • Mar 2012 - Jun 2012

  Ester is a consulting firm whose mission is to assist its clients in managing their overall exposure to financial markets. My mission there was to build a report about the new regulation on OTC derivatives and the clearing requirements. Ester is a consulting firm whose mission is to assist its clients in managing their overall exposure to financial markets. My mission there was to build a report about the new regulation on OTC derivatives and the clearing requirements.



HSBC

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Debt Syndicate - Summer Analyst

  • Jun 2011 - Aug 2011

  I was part of the London syndicate team ► Participated in the execution process of bond issues ► Developed and implemented new tools for bond pricing in order to identify market windows ► Monitored secondary market and updated pricing for DCM teams I was part of the London syndicate team ► Participated in the execution process of bond issues ► Developed and implemented new tools for bond pricing in order to identify market windows ► Monitored secondary market and updated pricing for DCM teams