Experience

PELHAM CAPITAL LTD

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Ops/Middle Office

  • May 2021 - Present

  Senior Ops/Middle Office role in an equity based fund supporting the COO with all aspects of Ops and Middle Office including weekly NAV recs to the fund administrator, share class hedging, Disclosure reporting and position and cash recs Senior Ops/Middle Office role in an equity based fund supporting the COO with all aspects of Ops and Middle Office including weekly NAV recs to the fund administrator, share class hedging, Disclosure reporting and position and cash recs



HORIZON ASSET LLP

• United Kingdom

• Head of Operations

  • Mar 2012 - Dec 2020

  Manage and develop a team of 4 Ops staff which performs the inhouse operations function for a high frequency Asian focussed hedge fund with up to 3,000 trades per day and two managed accounts. Supported trading desks in Japan and HK and a few years ago a trading desk in the UK. Tasks included trade bookings, daily trade, position and cash recs against multiple PBs and ISDA relationships as well as all corp action bookings for cash and stock divs and associated elections, splits and tenders. Also did daily Flash P&L reconciliation between the live P&L on the trading desks and the books and records P&L and monitored the EMIR transaction reporting results. Project work included sourcing, implementing and maintaining the i-Recs reconciliation system (replacing Excel recs) and implementing Omgeo, Traiana and Misys CMS and updating systems for MiFID2 changes



Altima Partners LLP

• Operations Manager / Front Office Controller

  • Apr 2006 - Mar 2012

  Built and manage the small Middle Office function which produces: Live and COB P&L reports by country, sector or region Exposure reports that monitor various limits, such as issuer, country, liquidity, complex ISDA default triggers, private equity investment limits and net and gross limits Concentration reports that are used to report holdings that breach % of shares outstanding limits Currency hedging, for share class hedging trades and for monitoring currency exposure for liquid positions Rebalancing reports that are used to rebalance Managed Accounts, ensuring that performance tracks and providing information to the Managed Account to explain any differences Upcoming dividends, corporate actions, AGM's and restricted lists Free Cash reports Reconciliations to the administrator month end P&L and NAV reports - these are full granular recs down to product level and reconcile all fees including admin, management and incentive fee, even when complicated by fee paying share classes, deferred management fees on private equity investments and investors at different highwater mark levels Any adhoc performance reports requested by the marketing department that are used to report returns to investors Overseeing the PB and Administrator relationships Had to turn a newly installed but not functioning accounting system in to the central accounting system and position store Together with the head trader, researched and sourced a new OMS and then completed the installation to ensure that it syncs seamlessly in to the existing Altima architecture and is available and producing accurate holdings and P&L information from 6am each morning Work closely with traders, fund managers and all senior Altima members. Products covered include: Equities and CFD's Futures and Options FX forwards and spots Emerging Markets Private Equity



DWS Group

• Germany
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Middle Office Analyst

  • Jul 2004 - Apr 2006

  Manager or a team of 2 Middle Office staff supporting internal and external hedge funds. Produced daily COB P&L, reconciled NAV to Fund Administrator and agreed all margin and reset information. Products covered include: Equities and CFD's Futures and Options FX forwards, spots and Options Emerging Markets Manager or a team of 2 Middle Office staff supporting internal and external hedge funds. Produced daily COB P&L, reconciled NAV to Fund Administrator and agreed all margin and reset information. Products covered include: Equities and CFD's Futures and Options FX forwards, spots and Options Emerging Markets



BlueCrest Capital Management

• Operations Manager

  • Sep 2002 - Jul 2004

  Manager of a team of 8 operations staff supporting 14 traders for a fixed income hedge fund with a daily trade volume of about 600 trades. Maintained the outsourced risk system and ran the daily risk reports, checked the curves used in the P&L and oversaw the work of the Administrator. Products covered include:Swaps, Swaptions and FRA'sFutures and OptionsBonds and ReposCaps and FloorsTotal Return SwapsFX spot and vanilla Option

• Settlements Officer

  • Dec 2000 - Sep 2002

  Input and checked all trades, controlled all aspects of the confirmation procedure for OTC trades and general trade maintenance including expiring futures and options in to their underlying, interpolating float fixes, booking haircuts etc. I also managed the ops side of the transition of Back Office providers from IFS to GlobeOp



Prudential Banking plc

• Settlements Officer

  • Jan 2000 - Dec 2000

  Products covered include: Asset Backed Securities Bonds Swaps, Caps, Floors and Collars Money Market Loans, CD's and Gilts Products covered include: Asset Backed Securities Bonds Swaps, Caps, Floors and Collars Money Market Loans, CD's and Gilts