John Wendell Alvarez

Seasoned operations and finance leader with 20 years of APAC experience across fund accounting (NAV), collateral management, valuations, treasury settlements, and financial control, partnering with and leading cross-functional, multi utility teams and stakeholder groups. Proven track record of delivering, driving end to end balance sheet substantiation, and resolving complex valuation and reconciliation issues under tight deadlines. Recognized as Subject Matter Expert for APAC treasury and financial control with strong governance, stakeholder management, and continuous improvement delivery.

Known for disciplined execution, audit-ready controls, and client-centric service quality in global banking environments.

Fund Accountant NAV, Assistant Vice President - JPMorgan Chase

(2024-04)

• Deliver timely, accurate Net Asset Values (NAVs) across a multi-client portfolio with strong SLA adherence.
• Investigate and resolve cross-utility exceptions, reconcile trade lifecycle and accounting entries to custody records.
• Align broker statements with accounting records and general ledger, substantiate variances with clear evidence trails.
• Reconcile expense and reclaims accounts, escalate recurring breaks with appropriate regional hubs for resolution.

Department Head – Collateral Management, Valuation and Settlement - Chinabank Corporation

(2022-12 - 2024-04)

• Led enterprise functions for collateral management, valuations and settlements, minimizing credit market risk, and operational risk.
• Maintained a complete inventory of the Bank's collateral agreements (GMRA, ISDA, CSA); ensured documentation currency and compliance.
• Monitored collateral, cash exposures, syndicated loans, and valuation versus counterparties; enforced dispute-resolution protocols.
• Managed client queries for price challenges, mark-to-market discrepancies, and trade details corrections; coordinated with Front Office, Compliance. Legal and Risk.
• Instituted routine counterparty reconciliations to ensure accurate margin calls fair market-aligned valuations.

Treasury Manager – Financial Control, Subject Matter Expert APAC - Deutsche Knowledge Services (Deutsche Bank Group)

(2019-06 - 2022-12)

• In-charge in ensuring the completeness and accuracy of the General Ledger for the financial transactions and provide full balance sheet substantiation for the product-specific accounts.
• Responsible for reconciling and closing the month-end General Ledger for the accounts (BS and P&L) of the financial products (i.e. bonds, money markets, derivatives) relating to the Business and Entities within the SLA.
• Performs FX Position reconciliation for APAC Entities and ensuring that breaks are investigated and any aged ones escalated properly.
• Coordinating and closely working with Financial Reporting Team by providing Financial Statement Disclosures every quarter end for financial instruments across APAC Entities
• Participates in Change the Bank (CTB) initiatives of the team as well as domain-wide. This includes working with different stakeholders to improve existing processes and outputs

Manager – Valuations Asia/ Tokyo Valuations Issues Management /Collateral Mgt/ Data Control Team/ Treasury Operations - Deutsche Knowledge Services (Deutsche Bank Group)

(2013-07 - 2019-05)

• Seasoned Manager
• Subject Matter Expert
• Valuations statement distribution management
• Ensuring timeliness of distribution of the Client Statements
• Client queries management - price challenge, mark-to-market discrepancy, trades details discrepancy, etc.
• Attend to valuation request queries from external clients and internal parties (such as Front Office, Credit, and Legal etc) in a timely manner.
• Follow-up closely with various teams (FO, Sales, TMG, etc) to resolve valuation issues.
• Ensure prompt escalation to Management and FO on client-related issues.
• Contributes to the development and implementation of mitigation or control solutions
• Provides ad-hoc reporting as and when required by regional/global teams.
• Review process for improvement
• Engage and influence stakeholders, internal partners, and peers associated with Commercial Valuations functional area across various assets or products, syndicated loans, equities, bonds, etc.

ASSOCIATE – Pricing Valuations Specialist - Deutsche Knowledge Services (Deutsche Bank Group)

(2008-08 - 2013-07)

• Trade Valuation. Provision of timely, accurate and consistent Fixed Income, Equities, Funds, syndicated loans and other derivative and structured products valuation data to DB external clients. Creation of non-B&R prices through the execution of Deutsche Bank approved models and identification of market data and input parameters
• Price Verification. Analysis of computed valuations/prices, provision of explanations for significant price movements and participation in resolution of Client queries
• Price Confirmation. Confirmation of prices/valuations provided to Client Valuations/Client Statement Reporting (CSR) Team

PAYMENT POSTING OFFICER - Smart Telecommunications

(2008-02 - 2008-08)

• Posts payments from different payment channels nationwide.
• Performs adjustments and reconciliations to and from banks, subscribers' accounts and the interfacing units.

FINANCIAL CREDIT ANALYST - Philippine Bank of Communications

(2005-09 - 2008-02)

• Evaluates entity's financial statements through preparing financial spreadsheets, gathering research about the company and generating credit risk report which will determines if entities pass the bank's credit standards.

Bachelor Science - Financial Mgt - Ateneo De Zamboanga University (2005)