Emmanuel Ogwang

Results-driven Fund Accountant and Fund Operations specialist with 4+ years' experience safeguarding NAV integrity and delivering accurate fund data, reconciliations, financial statements and reporting across complex multi-asset portfolios. Trusted to challenge administrator valuations, resolve holdings, trade, cash and pricing breaks, and prepare financial statements for 13 umbrella funds, securing clean audit sign-offs with zero material findings.

Advanced

Excel, SQL Server, Oracle and Bloomberg expertise, rigorous database control and proven platform-testing success offered the precision, adaptability and operational judgement required to make an immediate impact in a Fund Accountant role.

Career break

(2025-04)

Fund Accountant & Trade Administrator - Cantor Fitzgerald - Dublin

(2021-11 - 2025-03)

Delivered high-impact fund operations and investor services across multi-asset trading, fund accounting, NAV oversight, transfer agency and operational change.

• Converted multi-asset dealing activity into complete, settlement-ready records; covered equities, bonds, FX, futures and options across the full post-trade cycle.
• Kept transactions moving against strict T+1 deadlines; processed more than 35 equity trades alongside bond, futures and options activity, escalating exceptions before settlement failure.
• Restored ledger accuracy each day; matched cash and holdings, isolated unmatched items, traced discrepancies and closed breaks before NAV production.
• Challenged outsourced fund valuations before release; tested prices and positions, explained variances and prepared financial statements for 13 umbrella funds, securing audit sign-offs with zero material findings.
• Combined fund accounting with sole transfer-agency ownership; administered multi-asset portfolios, maintained share-class records and responded to investor and client servicing requirements.
• Re-engineered repetitive processing through Oracle and advanced Excel; simplified trade-ticket handling, strengthened reporting controls and reduced avoidable manual input.
• Lowered manual data-entry errors by 25%; directed user acceptance testing for a replacement transfer-agency platform and surfaced defects before implementation.
• Removed staff onboarding activity from the migrated process, delivering a 100% reduction in internal handling time; completed the AML refresh and transferred shareholder records to an investor-operated digital portal.

Transfer Agent - State Street IFDS - Dublin

(2020-09 - 2021-06)

Provided accurate, compliant investor services across fund dealing, AML/KYC, register maintenance, cash controls and complex probate administration.

• Translated investor instructions into accurate register movements; completed subscriptions, redemptions and transfers across high-volume dealing queues.
• Applied prospectus terms at transaction level; observed dealing cut-offs, controlled processing deadlines and delivered against client service-level agreements.
• Determined whether investor files were onboarding-ready; examined identity evidence, tested AML/KYC completeness and unravelled complex Ultimate Beneficial Owner structures.
• Connected cash activity to shareholder dealing; matched subscription receipts and redemption payments, cleared differences and released contract notes within required timescales.
• Preserved register integrity through controlled maintenance; amended personal details, ownership information and bank mandates while keeping records ready for audit.
• Managed sensitive stakeholder exchanges with discretion; coordinated information between investors, executors, beneficiaries, legal representatives and internal teams.
• Brought the probate process under single-point ownership; controlled documentation, communication and case progression from first notification to final asset distribution while meeting service-level commitments.
• Restored currency to an aged review queue; completed more than 100 outstanding investor accounts while sustaining 100% compliance with AML policy requirements.

Fraud Analyst - Bank of Ireland - Dublin

(2019-12 - 2020-05)

High-impact financial crime operations role across real-time transaction monitoring, fraud investigation, loss prevention, asset recovery and analyst mentoring.

• Made time-critical risk decisions from live transaction alerts; distinguished suspicious behaviour from legitimate activity and stopped unauthorised payments where evidence supported intervention.
• Built defensible investigation narratives; questioned potential victims, reconstructed events, weighed conflicting evidence and recorded clear reasons for dispute outcomes.
• Followed money beyond the originating account; activated tracing procedures, contacted receiving institutions and pursued recoverable funds before onward movement.
• Coordinated multi-party investigations across organisational boundaries; aligned banks, beneficiaries, third parties and regulatory contacts around complex and cross-border cases.
• Turned historical transaction behaviour into fraud intelligence; identified recurring patterns and fed emerging typologies into fraud-rule refinement.
• Controlled a fast-moving investigative workload; maintained complete case files, protected data integrity, tracked hourly output and met daily service-level requirements.
• Accelerated analyst readiness by 25%; coached more than 12 new team members on live fraud systems, investigative judgement and emerging transaction patterns.
• Prevented large potential losses and recovered misappropriated funds for affected victims; intercepted high-risk activity early and drove immediate asset-recovery action.

Bachelor's Degree - Business Information Technology - Technological University Dublin (TUD) (2019)