BANKING | STOCK RECONCILIATIONS , CORPORATE ACTIONS & STAFF TRAINING
Sep. 2006 – Sep. 2007 & Jul. 2008 – Oct. 2008
The Role:
- Priorities included: processing equities/bonds/unit trust/derivative deals before strict valuation points.
- Acted as the first point of contact for allocated clients. I regularly resolved queries which entailed issues such as: stock discrepancies, trade mismatches, settlements, and fund valuations.
- Made SWIFT payments relating to client trades and FX's. I was entrusted to sign-off new deals for settlement.
- Processed Corporate Actions and Placings. This involved manually obtaining responses from clients and ensuring that their decisions were reflected in the fund’s valuation.
- Trained new staff on their role within the IC ('Instruction Capture') team.
- Gained an invaluable insight into the fast-paced, challenging banking industry. I credit my roles at BNY for inspiring my Computer Science Dissertation Project, where I designed and developed a database-driven trade booking system.
HIGHER EDUCATION | UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Sep. 2007 - 2010
Grade:
- 2:1 in Computer Science Bachelors
Skills:
- Java, C, C#, PHP & Visual Basic Web applications
- Hardware organisation, artificial intelligence & networks
- Advanced mathematics & statistics
- Business studies, including the use of Office applications.
Other Achievements:
- DeutscheBank Software Engineering Competition: built an automated trading system which combined live FTSE-350 news feeds, news feeds and broker recommendations to strategically trade in the real-time stock market. IBM, DeutscheBank and the Computer Science department awarded our team a first-class grade for the quality of the implementation.
A-LEVELS | THE LEVENTHORPE SCHOOL, SAWBRIDGEWORTH
2004-2006
Grades:
- ICT (A)
- English (B)
- Mathematics (B)
- Geography (B).
Other Achievements:
- National Association of Gifted & Talented Youth: high performing GCSE students were elected.
- Sports: Goalkeeper for the sixth form team.
GCSE'S | ST JOHN'S C OF E SCHOOL, EPPING
1999-2004
Grades:
- 2 (A*), 7 (A) & 2 (B) grades.
Other Achievements:
- Prefect: organised and initiated extracurricular events.
- Ford Minimal Mouse Challenge: took part in an engineering competition where participants built an electronic device capable of independently navigating around a track.
- TES Newspaper: a competition where selected students from schools around the UK assumed the role of a journalist for a day. Our team achieved ‘Highly Commended’ status for our newspaper.