BNP Paribas

Senior Analyst

BNY Mellon

Responsible for Pershing’s Cash Management function for Ireland, U.K. and Channel Island. 
We manage our liquidity and optimal funding of accounts.

Minimising loans and debit interest costs, managing term and overnight deposits.
Effective intraday Euroclear, Clearstream, CREST funding.
Client money segregations in accordance with regulations.
Monitoring and ensuring institutional limits set by Credit Risk and Treasurer are adhered to.
Managing FX settlements, Stock Borrows and funding of Margin Calls.
Daily reconciliation our in-house ledgers.
Effect all the necessary payments, paying particular attention to individual currency COT.
Review all the relevant Swift messages and action where necessary.
Create manual journal entries and general ledger when required.
Complete daily and monthly stats, provide information for Management.

Senior Representative Client Service Delivery

U.S. Bank

Generating accurate client files for a portfolio of client within agreed CSL's, reconciling bank's account system with forecast transactions, highlighting and investigating breaks in client files, processing loan and bond trades while managing business deadlines, updating settlements to ensure accurate cash forecasting, assisting with screening notices for processing.

Senior CDO Deal Administrator – Corporate Trust

Certus

Reconciliation of Internal and 3rd party Bank Accounts, ensuring correct allocation of funds, and managing internal and external queries on receipts and payments. Accurate completion of monthly Oracle reconciliations to customer deadlines. Ensuring customer service level agreements, internal procedures and controls, and SOX guidelines are adhered to. Prompt resolution of customer, client, and colleague queries in a helpful and professional manner.

Finance Operations - Bank Reconciliations & SEPA Administrator

Citi

Continuous Linked Settlement is a product intended to eliminate the settlement
risk that can occur when FX trades are settled, ensuring that the two legs of the
trade are settled simultaneously across the books of CLS Bank. The 3rd Party
Operations department is a 24-hour operation, providing support over 3 shifts
covered by the Dublin Service Centre and TCS team in Chennai.

Main responsibilities:
- Correct work-flow prioritisation to ensure trades and payments are processed via CLS PAYplus application in accordance with the CLSB daily cycle timings
- Responsibility for correct approval/validation of trades requiring repair
or cancellation
- Management of STP monitoring of trades and payments and follow-up with clients.
- Responding to clients telephone enquiries in a professional and timely manner
- Monitor and review all outstanding enquiries daily to ensure timely completion and customer satisfaction

- Risk monitoring and management, understanding of the risk
requirements and adherence to the company Risk policy
- ARR and ISO audit preparation and team representation,
- Account reconciliations for 16 currencies (OA/Internals),
- Process improvements, regular review and management of existing and new procedures 

Ensure timely execution of transaction processing functions - Zero Balancing, Treasury Reporting, Central Bank Reporting, enquiry resolution, Standing Instruction processing and any other Funds Transfer related activities applicable to CLS.

Senior Service Representative CLS

Secondary School

I taught Maths & Business Studies to all levels of secondary students. Over my scheduled time table, I devised a learning schedule and assigned '​ meaningful homework'. I made sure to mix relevant theory and practice with fun to ensure the students remained interested while still learning the fundamentals.

Teacher

Payment Processing - Message Receipt & Control was the first Department to receive the internal payment instructions from the European branches, and I was involved in the prioritising, processing of payments using, amongst others, the PEGA and FTI systems. I was involved in the investigations with cash transfers; I was the point of contact for all banks branches. 
It was also necessary to deal with the reconciliation between instructions received and cash transfers processed. I reviewed procedures, day to day people management, prepared monthly reports and participated in projects as they arrived. 
Resource Management - Supervisor of 14-person department; Building, coaching, and directing a team of employees into a highly responsive team that meets the required performance standards as set quarterly by the business; Timely completion of staff appraisals and conducting of semi-annual performance/salary reviews; Reporting of staff performance levels on a monthly basis.
Communication - Communicating on a monthly basis the performance trends, skills depth and process improvement initiatives for the unit to my manager.
Contingency - Ensuring that unit contingency plan is regularly tested and maintained in order to support Day 1 "ready state"; 
Continuous update and maintenance of Emergency Escalation Procedures;
I helped to implement the Image and Workflow system, which eliminated manual paper, based instructions.
Quality / Service Standards - Performance detailed source cause analysis and investigation of all processing errors and identify the systems or training deficiencies, which contributed to the error cause.

Team Leader

In this role, I was involved in:
Dealing with customer phone queries and branch phone queries;

I was in charge of insuring external reports for branches nationwide and statements for customers were issued.

Output Member/COM Operator

Senior Representative

Cash Products, Problem Solving, Financial Compliance, Sanctions, Sanctions Screening Solutions, Audit Prep, Reconciliations, Forecasting, Cash Flow, Excel, Word, Reconciliation, Settlement

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