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• Process daily FX and intercompany trades in SAP.
• Actively manage intercompany loan portfolio.
• Manage/maintain bank account mandates
• Manage/maintain electronic banking users
• Monitoring straight-through-process payments for errors/rejects
• Processing of manual payments

• Review design specification to analyse the impact that the project will have on Banking, Credit Control and Tax.
• Update process manuals to reflect the changes.
• Design test scripts to ensure all current and new processes are tested at each phase of the project.
• Ensure all testing is performed by the key business users and all issues are fully documented, raised and resolved.

• Daily processing CHAPS & BACS payments and collections for UK and Ireland
• Cash pool forecast for next 3 business days, and funding requirements for 2 day’s time.
• Administration for 2 online banking systems.
• Provide advice and recommendation on projects which have a cash/banking requirement.

Achievements
• Creation of 2 day cash forecast for loan requirements, also creation of same day, 1 and 2 day cash pool requirement forecast. Analyst of variance against actual movements.
• Worked on project to improve processing of payment files and manual payments. This included changing files to have value date instead of creation date. Validation of bank details within files. Computerised the for manual payments to a file based payment with secured online authorisation.

Various temp role entailing the following -

• Daily and monthly delivery of Client Net Asset Value statement, reconciliation between Fund Manager and Custody system to ensure all transactions are correctly recorded.
• Reconciliation between bank statements and internal accounting systems and resolve any queries.
• Analysis of cash forecast to actual to highlight areas of improvements.
• Confirmation and settlement of treasury transaction in a timely manner.

• Set up and maintain controls for all cash movements.
• Set up on-line banking system for improved statement and payment delivery

2006-2009 Senior Treasury Settlements Analysts
• Manage customer relationships between Treasury Back Office and Front Office, Corporate Finance and Accounting
• Regularly review end-to-end deal process to ensure no control weaknesses, recommend and implement solutions.
• Act as first point of contact for all system/process and control related queries raised by the Back Office teams in the UK and Asia Pacific.
• Process the monthly Inter-Company netting and maintain the database to ensure all relevant business units and personnel are up to date.

Achievements
• Created the Back Office section of the Project Initiation Document for a new Treasury system.
• Improved process for short term cash forecasting between Business Units and Treasury.
• Provided technical support on the transfer of the Back Office in Asia Pacific from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur.

2005 SAP Finance Systems Support
• Migration of Accounts Payable vendor creation from European operations companies into Shared Service Centre
• Key user for account code mapping, cost centre’s, vendor mapping and user profiles on upgrade of SAP accounting system.

2002-2004 Treasury Settlements Administrator
• Confirmation and settlement of Treasury transaction, across 26 currencies with over 100 entities.
• Daily reconciliation of 33 bank accounts.
• Updating standard settlement instructions in SAP for all banks and business units.
• Maintain daily KPI statistics for the performance of the Back Office.

Achievements
• Training of Asia Pacific Back Office staff in Singapore.
• Improved system set-up in SAP to limit dealer input and settlement errors.
• Improved Cash Balance process to eliminate input errors on daily report to Front Office.

• Management of cash positions for three funds and 30 bank accounts
• Placing fixed term deposits and F/X trades with Money brokers and banks
• Analyzing and monitoring credit ratings for current and potential financial institutions.