Experience

Queenswood School

• United Kingdom
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Digital Lead

  • Sep 2021 - Present

• Head of Sixth Form Subjects

  • Sep 2017 - Present

• Head of Economics

  • Sep 2015 - Sep 2017



Sandringham School

• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teacher of Economics

  • Sep 2013 - Sep 2015



University of Bedfordshire

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Maths PGCE Student

  • Sep 2012 - Sep 2013

  Retraining to be a Maths and Economics Teacher. Retraining to be a Maths and Economics Teacher.



ICE

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investment Grade Corporate Fixed Income Broker

  • Jul 2008 - Jul 2012

  • Responsible for developing and building client relationships and conducting vanilla derivative and bond business on a day to day basis. • Maintained good revenue levels during very difficult trading conditions. • Led a project to expand desk coverage to include smaller banks in mainland Europe. • Worked in tandem with the compliance department to ensure we were adhering to any local requirements when building new business contacts abroad. • Regularly undertook compliance training and tests to ensure good understanding of relevant UK and EU Compliance regulatory framework. • Further developed product knowledge of Fixed Income debt capital markets including Euro Corps, Euro Financials, Itraxx Indices, tranches and hard currency CEE sovereign cash and CDS. Show less



GFI Group

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investment Grade Corporate CDS Broker

  • Mar 2006 - Jul 2008

  • Helped to build a successful industrial CDS business, covering both large US and European clients in the previously problematic utilities sector. Grew flow business from virtually zero to 50,000 Euros a week in brokerage • Responsible for rapidly reacting to market news and accurately and quickly disseminating information to clients, growing business by ensuring that we were always aware of every aspect of news potentially affecting our sector. • Helped to build a successful industrial CDS business, covering both large US and European clients in the previously problematic utilities sector. Grew flow business from virtually zero to 50,000 Euros a week in brokerage • Responsible for rapidly reacting to market news and accurately and quickly disseminating information to clients, growing business by ensuring that we were always aware of every aspect of news potentially affecting our sector.



Deutsche Bank

• Germany
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Trainee

  • Aug 2004 - Mar 2006

  • Comprehensive Graduate training program in investment banking, followed by rotations in fixed income, repo, syndication, money markets and compliance. During compliance rotation carried out the monitoring function for one month and was required to escalate any suspicious transactions to senior compliance officers. • Worked as part of a team conducting the global audit programme of all aspects of the investment bank. • Led meetings to analyse business processes at all levels of the business interacting with analysts to managing directors. • Undertook technical audits verifying random samples of desk product valuations and P&L figures. Areas audited in detail include fixed income, equities, FX, Structured products, Loan origination, loan syndication, compliance and money laundering. • Wrote several audit papers and findings and recommendations documents for presentation to the audit committee. • Conducted follow up reviews to ensure recommendations were implemented in order to reduce business risk. • Acted in an advisory capacity to different areas of the business and helped them to understand the requirements of the audit programme and how they may best be achieved. Built relationships within business units in order to increase the buy in of the departments being audited. • Undertook special investigative audits as and when the need arose. • Assisted the external auditors on the annual Year end business-wide audit. Show less



ICE - International Currency Exchange

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Risk Management

  • Aug 2002 - Aug 2004

  Internal Audit for a financial services firm largely involved in the currency exchange market. • Helped to set up and implement a new risk-based audit programme. Involved in risk analysis of business processes and also helped to create a new handbook readying the company for FSA compliance. • Conducted risk based audits all over the world, including Eastern Europe and North America. • Led meetings with both FSA and BaFin to determine regulatory requirements and implementation plans. • Led meetings with external auditors to ensure best practice in implementing their recommendations for FSA compliance. • Presented audit findings and recommendations at board level. • Reported directly to North American based global head of audit. Show less