Keywords
Skills
fx settlements
fx confirmations
fx investigations
trade support
fx confirmations
fx investigations
trade support
Project history
Barclays Africa - Investigations Payments Consultant
(June 2017-May 2018)
Responsibilities:
Language Skills Development
Studies: German: CEFR B1 – Goethe-Institute, Cape Town
(July 2016 –ongoing)
Standard Bank - Commodities Confirmation Officer
(Sep 2015 – May 2016)
Responsibilities:
Barclays Capital London - CLS/FX Confirmations Specialist
(Sep 2012 – Jan 2015)
Transferred with department to Mumbai
Responsibilities:
JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services, South Africa (contract)
(Dec 2010 – June 2011)
Responsibilities:
Royal Bank of Scotland, London/Chicago - FX Associate
(July 2005 – Dec 2009)
Transferred with department to Chicago
Responsibilities:
(June 2017-May 2018)
Responsibilities:
- Nostro cash breaks of Foreign Exchange (FX)
- Checking Credit authorisation and indemnities for clients-Ensure funding is secured.
- Following SLA protocol. Ensuring non-receipt of funds are promptly followed up and resolved
- Aged breaks - Facilitated resolution
- FX trade breaks - Accurate and timely resolution
- Monitoring solutions to alleviate losses to the bank and its stakeholders
- Controlling contact point of escalations and direct resolution for clients
- Forex Investigations (swift, email and telephone)
- Controlling investigations for both the outwards and inwards department payments
- Midas System Controller of captured deals and instigating corrections
Language Skills Development
Studies: German: CEFR B1 – Goethe-Institute, Cape Town
(July 2016 –ongoing)
Standard Bank - Commodities Confirmation Officer
(Sep 2015 – May 2016)
Responsibilities:
- Commodities Trading Desk - Back office functions
- KNOX - Verification of trades
- Documentation generation confirmations to clients
- Intellimatch - Monitor and match incoming confirmations
- Legal compliance of confirmation documentation
- Hoops and Knox Internal reconciliations
- FEDS/KNOX - Reconciliations
- Discrepancies - Monitoring and escalating on detection
- MIS data reporting
Barclays Capital London - CLS/FX Confirmations Specialist
(Sep 2012 – Jan 2015)
Transferred with department to Mumbai
Responsibilities:
- Managed CLS confirmations desk for Barclays London.
- Raising of CLS static and all training within a high-volume environment, liaising with middle office PB and Core Data Maintenance to resolve CLS issues
- One of 2 Authorized signatory
- Transferred as an SME to Mumbai to run CLS and the Money Market process
- Co-ordination with front office desks such as Sales, Trading and Prime Brokerage; back office support functions such as BARX Support, Client Data and IT; as well as external clients to investigate and resolve issues relating to unmatched/mismatched FX/MM confirmations
- Supported MM Alleged process as well as FX financials. Trader liaison and query resolution
- Provided a bespoke service for Premier clients. Use extensive knowledge of confirmation issues and the function as a whole to ensure exceptional client service is provided to the firm’s high value, or sensitive clients
- Understanding of processes in order to drive synergies within FX Confirmations
- Monitor exception queues within the electronic confirmation matching systems (Intellimatch, FXall, GTSS and Misys)
- Provide operational support to the Asian, London & New York based traders
- Provide accurate handover reports to London & New York operations for Management Information (MI) reporting purposes
JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services, South Africa (contract)
(Dec 2010 – June 2011)
Responsibilities:
- Overseeing of all cash related transactions on Hiport system
- Releasing of Electronic Fund Transfers (EFTs)
- Second sign-off of cash-related instructions processed within the team
Royal Bank of Scotland, London/Chicago - FX Associate
(July 2005 – Dec 2009)
Transferred with department to Chicago
Responsibilities:
- Sent as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) to train and supervise staff in Chicago as a result of the acquisition of ABN AMRO by RBS
- Played an integral role in the transition process from London to Chicago
- Managed a small team domiciled in Chicago including Toronto staff members.
- Engaged in training on all FX netting functions, processing and authentication of payment instructions through Wall Street in-house system. Extracting and supervising loading of Standard Settlement Instructions
- Responsible for all training on Electronic Platforms namely FXALL, CMS (Misys)and GTSS for Chicago and Toronto staff. Managed entire confirmations process from Chicago
- Monitored and actioned entire CLS function and training, liaising with middle office, PB and Core Data Maintenance to resolve CLS issues
- Conducted the settlement process for FX/MM including Non-Deliverable Forwards for NY based clients using the Wall Street system. Swift super-user
- Monitored exception queues re failed trades and adherence to cut-off times
- Investigations of non-receipt or non-payment of funds
- Investigating failed trades and journal posting and reconciliations
Local Availability
Only available in these countries:
United Kingdom
