BNP Paribas CIB Marylebone, London
MANAGER EXOTiC RATES P&L TEAM ‑ VP July 2023 ‑ Present
- Leading the team on workload for multiple desks whilst meeting day‑to‑day production delivery deadlines. Interacting with front office stakeholders with aims to improving the delivery system and data flow long term.
- Responsible for on boarding and training new hires with correct processes whilst maintaining a motivated and positive team atmosphere for all 7 employees.
- Became a contact for all complex Exotic Rates booking queries globally. This involved various projects such as maintaining a database on Day
1 P&L and testing newer booking systems.
- Participating in higher level management meetings covering global product control and offering personal insight. Suggesting improvements to reporting using feedback gained from stakeholders.
BNP Paribas CIB Marylebone, London
SENiOR EXOTiC RATES P&L CONTROLLER ‑ ASSOCiATE Jan 2019 ‑ July 2023
- Responsible for EOM process for all of Europe, involves liaising with risk managers and traders to settle reserve levels and model corrections.
- Running a forecast P&L and producing the official P&L for multiple trading desks dealing with XCCY swaps, bonds and inflation products. Require a deep understanding of pricing of financial instruments and the economics that drive each one.
- Managing the bank wide counterparty exposure via default claims and structuring resulting deals.
- Helping to restructure exotic trades whilst monitoring cash balances and resulting FX impacts. Any discrepancies will require investigation and solutions by EOD.
- Producing daily P&L explain reports, providing an attribution breakdown by curve effect validated against a risk based P&L explain at curve and spread level. Executing a case by case analysis of multiple portfolios under the time pressure of releasing the P&L daily.
- Working closely with middle and front office teams to troubleshoot discrepancies whilst adhering to proper P&L practices within the bank.
- Improving bank processes and data pipelines and migrating data across internal systems.
- Developing new tools using primarily VBA to further the accuracy and depth of forecasting reports.
State Street Global Advisors Canary Wharf, London
ETF SALES STRATEGY INTERN July 2017 ‑ Sept 2017
- Generating competitor analysis on Smart Beta and ESG ETFs using methodologies and feedback from the Sales team.
- Providing market foresight to SPDR EMEA and improving how flow data was processed. Used back testing to validated potential future products under the SPDR offering.
- Researching and presenting findings on ’Combating Fee Compression in ETFs’ to a panel of Executive VPs based in the Boston HQ.
- Building multiple VBA tools using Bloomberg api. These provided a breakdown of funds and benchmark indices to create comparative studies more efficiently.
