Experience

720 Management Limited

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sports Trading Manager

  • Aug 2014 - Present

  Duties include: • Responsibility for the day to day running of the Prop Trading department, managing a team of Traders, Junior Traders and Analysts. • Overseeing the liabilities taken across the company in a number of European and Worldwide football leagues plus US sports. • Compiling prices for major European leagues and major football tournaments in order to manage liabilities accordingly, placing bets to take value positions for the company and clients as well as hedging out into the market where necessary to reduce overall risk. • In charge of the decision making on how to deal with VIP client bets and assisting with the execution of bets. • Customer analysis of Brokerage department customers. • Training and ongoing observations of junior members of the team. • Liaising between the Prop Trade department and software developers to design, produce and test new trading tools including watching analysis processes and Player Databases. • Liaising with software developers to design, test and implement a new spread betting website and betting exchange. Show less



Samvo

• United Kingdom
• Gambling Facilities and Casinos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Football Trader/Trading Quant Coordinator

  • Jul 2010 - May 2014

  Duties include:• Responsibility for the liabilities taken in a number of European football leagues, specialising in French Ligue 1 and Italian Serie A.• Compiling prices for French Ligue 1 and Italian Serie A in order to manage liabilities accordingly, placing large bets to take value positions for the company and also hedging out into the market where necessary to reduce risk.• Assisting with the execution of VIP clients bets.• Implemented new procedures for bet placing and recording, fully documenting these processes in order for regular progress to be tracked.• Training and ongoing observations of junior members of the team.• Liaising between the Prop Trade department and Quantitative analysts to create and improve statistical models for the use of the prop trade team.• Liaising between the Prop Trade department and Quantitative developers to produce and test new automated trading tools in order to improve and streamline the day-to-day trading processes.• Customer analysis of Brokerage department and Sportsbook customers. Show less

• Sportsbook Trading Coordinator

  • May 2009 - Jul 2010

  Duties included:• Responsibility for managing a team of up to 20 Junior Traders and part-time market monitors.• Creation and upkeep of sportsbook process documents.• Responsibility for the sportsbook liabilities across all worldwide football leagues.• Compiling prices for Spanish Segunda in order to manage sportsbook liabilities which involved executing bets into the market to take value positions or hedge liabilities accordingly.• Reviewing and categorising sportsbook customers according to their betting patterns.• Reporting to management on a daily basis regarding departmental performance and progression.• Training and ongoing observation of new members of staff and subordinates, as well as cross-training with staff from other departments.• Responsibility for liaising with other departmental managers to ensure operational efficiency.• Assisting with the development and testing of new software such as semi-automation of the sportsbook trading platform.• In addition to all Junior Trader responsibilities. Show less

• Junior Trader

  • Jul 2008 - May 2009

  Duties included:• Uploading events onto the systems with correct settings, in accordance with the football schedule.• Trading and controlling liabilities and risk for a large number of football matches, pre-game and in-play, both as an individual and under the guidance of senior traders.• Ensuring all games settled accurately and promptly when complete.• Observing all football betting markets and reporting to line managers regarding abnormal customer betting activity, volatile market movements and overall game-to-game exposure.• Conducting research and match previews/reviews for senior traders. Show less