SEI Investments
Total years of experience :2 years, 3 Months
SEI Investments (July 2012 - Present)
Business Unit Information
SEI has developed a transformational service and technology capability, incorporating functionality for client administration, financial and non-financial advice, investment modeling and decision support through to full client accounting, portfolio administration and reporting. The suite of services will be the first of its kind, built on a deep understanding of the new wealthy client and how advisers must adapt to serve them and provides truly end-to-end functionality, all residing on a single global platform. This allows for a holistic view of client relationships and their activities with control metrics.
Role
As a member of the Global Trading Team I am responsible for processing mutual fund transaction activities from trade execution through to settlement. I am used to dealing in multi-currency transactions related to both internal and external third party funds. After working within the Trading team I have discovered that I am an individual who is detail oriented, efficient, and enjoys handling the pressure of working to tight deadlines in a high volume environment.
Responsibilities
• Process daily trade activity for Global Mutual Funds and Global Money Markets in a multi-currency environment
• Calculation and processing of incoming and outgoing multi-currency bank transfers for settlement of trade activity
• Ensure cash agent deadlines are met to ensure timely processing
• Monitor and resolve stock holding discrepancies with custodians and fund providers within defined time frames
• Building relationships with custodians, TAs and clients
• Ownership of individual client base
• Resolving differences from cash reconciliations between internal ledgers and cash agent balances within defined timeframes
• Speaking to and justifying cash and stock breaks to higher level management
• Supporting asset data maintenance, including research and establishing of new assets, monitoring of prices and manually pricing of assets as necessary
• Enriching client reports, creating and maintaining internal and external MI reporting
• QA daily workload to identify errors, provide feedback, identify trends and contributing factors and recommend solutions
• Rewriting entire daily operational procedures to improve the process, reduce risk and increase control & efficiency
• Identify which issue need to be escalated to seniors immediately
• Keeping current - (market conditions, regulation, financial products and services, etc) and maintain ongoing and effective communication and alignment of these with client business practices.
• Dealing with client sensitive information including client money
• Interviewing & training of new team members
• Adhering to all relevant FCA requirements and internal compliance reporting
Ladbrokes HQ (Summer 2011)
Work experience at Ladbrokes HQ spending time with the accounts payables/receivables and the data analysis and planning departments. I was able to see how the theory of accountancy modules at university was applicable to a multinational company with a huge volume of transactions. I worked with accountants using the Oracle system to reconcile balance sheet entries working towards the departments target to close off the week. I also examined the journal entries and was given the responsibility to update the provision for bad debt for rent receivables. Within the data analysis and planning department I was given the task to update the weekly international egaming sales figures. I pulled the figures through the dedicated database and wrote a company weekly performance report comparing actual performance with forecasts which would be read through the whole internal company. This was a fantastic experience to show off my statistical analysis skills to interpret financial data and to create and present an important company document.
StormHarbour Securities (Summer 2010)
As an intern at StormHarbour London I was given direct experience with the financial markets with particular focus on leveraged credit and asset backed securities. The experience gave me a unique insight in how debt is restructured, ranked via grade (risk) and sold to institutional or hedge fund investors. Whilst at StormHarbour my department was involved in negotiations to raise capital to fund a client's distressed debt. As well as being a part of these negotiations with both sides I also worked with client solution managers helping to build research documents which would eventually help facilitate the successful refinancing decision. Moreover StormHarbour is company built on research, analytics and systems; I had the opportunity to gain skills in using software including BloomBerg.
Skills, Achievements, Hobbies
• Awarded the Dean of Taught Faculties Commendation for my academic performance in my 1st year of university study
• Studied for a year in Brussels during my third year at university as part of the Erasmus scheme. Developed my language skills in French and Dutch as well as becoming more culturally aware and sensitive to diversity.
University of Exeter, Business & Management with European Study: 2008-2012
Hogeschool Universiteit Brussel (HUB): 2010-2011 (Erasmus) A-levels: Economics (A), English Literature (A), Theatre Studies (B) University: 1st Year average grade: 76% (First Class) 2nd Year average grade: 70% (First Class) Final Year: 68% (2.1) Relevant Courses: Accounting, Management Accounting, Accounting Models for Management Decisions, Financial Policy, Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Management, Economics & Ethics, Statistics
- J.F.K Roman Catholic School, Hemel Hempstead
Sector: Currently studying Investment Operations Certificate CISI Module 1- Introduction to Securities & Investments: Pass Module 2- UK Financial Regulation: Pass