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"I've moved around a fair bit since graduation in 2007. Initially I went into a front office grad scheme, but it didn't suit me. At the start of 2008 it became very difficult to find work, so i took an operations temp contract which lasted 6 months. More recently, I've interned for a proprietary trading firm, as a day trader."

Education

· 2003 - 2007 London University BA (Hons.) 2:2

· 1993 – 2002 A Levels: BCC

· 10 GCSE Passes A* - B

Work Experience

12/2008 – 04/09 Trading company, London

Position: Futures day trader (intern)

· Intraday Equity Index futures trading

· Identifying arbitrage opportunities between the cash and futures markets

· Using chart and technical analysis to develop indicators for entry and exit points in the market

· Momentum trading

3/08 – 9/08 European investment bank

Position: Exchange Traded Derivatives Brokerage Analyst

Duties:

· Reconciling and paying brokerage invoices against internal systems and exchanges on a timely basis

· liaising with traders

· Use of GMI & R&N

· Provision of detailed responses to management and traders if requested

· Ensure invoices balanced to a high level to reduce risk of over payment or incorrect payment

· Daily dealings with internal clients, (front office, finance, legal) regional team members and external brokers

· Liaison between onshore and offshore teams

· Training junior members of off-shore team

· Covering and chairing meetings with regional ETD heads

· Taking ownership of counterparty exposure and ‘change the bank’ projects

· Challenging internal systems and processes to identify opportunities for improvement

· Daily trade reconciliation between CME and CBOT exchanges and in house systems

· Liaison with regional CSG teams, internal and external clients to investigate and resolve rate discrepancies arising during invoice reconciliation process

07/07 - 04/0 Fund management company

Position: Fund Sales graduate role

Duties

· Assisting Sales Managers by performing the following functions:

· Obtaining the allocation or break-downs (splits) for client transactions

· Account opening:

· Liaising with clients to obtain client information and documentation

· Account accurate maintenance of client account information in I-Avenue (e.g. updating settlement instructions)

· Liaising between my client advisors and other Sales Desks, Marketing, Legal and other Operational areas (e.g. Client Services, Settlements, RFP teams etc.)

· Provision of phone coverage

· Ensuring that sales relationship data in in-house systems is up-to-date

· Follow up on client queries

· Researching other competitor funds, market trends, and opportunities to sell funds in new markets,

· Supporting management reporting through data extraction and manipulation on an ad-hoc basis

· Assisting with the preparation of presentations

· Increasing product knowledge of equities, bonds and commodities

· Rotation through broker & client services on the UK and offshore desks, responding to a variety of client queries whilst building product knowledge and relationships with product specialists.

08/06 - 02/07 American investment bank

Position: HR (Investment Management and Global Private Clients)

Duties

· Supporting 2 HR Managers of MLIM/GPC

· Assisting the contracts and IB teams

· Liaising with external consultants and client requests

· Inputting, maintaining and auditing high quality data on Workflow

· Issuing letters for contract amendments, new hire information, leavers, promotions, salary increases, transfers, providing reports and telephone interviewing

· Booking meetings and interviews.

· Liaising with all HR specialist groups including contract, temp, accounts, and ML Executive teams.

· Assisting senior HR management on ad-hoc projects.

Systems Skills

MS Office Suite, Macros, Pivot tables, V look-ups, I-Avenue, FAST, Micropal, Bloomberg, Stellar, TT, CQG, GMI, R & N.

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