Gareth Kiernan

Experience

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  PFPC International

  Jun 1998 - Sept 2005

  Fund Accounting Assistant Manager

  Managing a team of fund accountants working on large hedge funds for one of the company's biggest clients.

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  Pioneer Investments

  Sept 2005 - Nov 2013

  Deputy Head of Middle Office - Single Manager Funds

  Heading the Middle Office function for Single Manager funds, primarily Long/Short Equity. Middle Office consisting of Trade Matching & Settlement, Collateral & Cash Management, Currency Exposure monitoring, Broker Reconciliation, Shadow Fund Accounting, & Investment team support.Built the Middle Office operation from a basic Investment support function in Pioneer Alternative Investments to a skilled fully supportive team for Investments, covering almost all facets of what can be considered middle office. Show less

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  Amundi

  Nov 2013 - Dec 2018

  Vice President Derivative Operations - Regulatory Reporting & Project Management

  Recently took redundancy from Amundi. In the lead up to that I led the outsourcing of the Amundi Regulatory Reporting function and CFD middle office function to a third party provider. And prior to that led the migration of the ex-Pioneer regulatory reporting function and CFD funds to the Amundi platforms. Before the merger with Amundi I was responsible for the implementation of ESMA's EMIR regulations across Pioneer's european entities. This led into projects on OTC Clearing & FFX Collateralisation. I acted also as the primary liaison with the Investments teams on Absolute Return Long/Short Strategies specialising in CFD's and currency exposures. Our Derivative Operations team in Dublin managed all OTC Derivatives business for Pioneers European entities. I represented the Derivative Ops function on any project committees within Pioneer/Amundi. Show less

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  ThreeSixty Investments Sp

  Jan 2020 - Aug 2020

  Senior Consultant

  Setting up the Investment Operations function for ThreeSixty, an Italian Investment Manager start-up. Onboarding and implementation of Broadridge PMS/OMS platform. Onboarding of Custodian and Fund Admin, Trading platforms (EMSX, Tradeweb, FXAll), Clearing Brokers for ETD & OTC, & Management Company. Setting up the Reg Reporting. Putting in place a Middle Office/Investment Support team.

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  Plenisfer

  Aug 2020 - now

  Head Of Middle Office