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Clark Chan, CFA

Clark Chan, CFA

Portfolio Administrator

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    CFA Charterholder - Associate Director, Property at Wingate

  • Education

    • CFA Institute

      2017 -
      Finance & Investments Charterholder

      Completed exams in 2014, awarded charter in 2017

    • University of Warwick

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      Bachelor of Social Science Industrial Economics

    • Monash University

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      Master of Practising Accounting Accounting and Finance

  • Experience

    • Wealth Within

      Jan 2007 - Jan 2007
      Portfolio Administrator

      Responsibilities:• Maintaining client records & portfolio data on system• Assisted Finance manager in quarterly reporting• Liaising with bank margin lending & stockbroker officers• Delivering portfolio related client services. Achievements:• Performed all responsibilities to a high standard • Developed strong multi-tasking abilities

    • AXA Advisors

      Jan 2008 - Nov 2009
      Investment Administration Officer

      Responsibilities:• Monitoring & advising daily cash flows within cut – off times to various departments • Reconciliations of outstanding items for funds • Handling applications, redemptions, transfers & switches • Managing custodian relationships & client requests • Maintaining client registers on various systems & sending monthly/quarterly reports Achievements:• Clearing the fund balances outstanding for financial year end • Received the Most Improved Award for month of May 09 Show less

    • National Australia Bank

      Jul 2011 - Jan 2012

      Responsibilities:• Entering end of day BBSW interest rates into system• Entering trades into Austraclear system and ensuring that they were matched by counterparties• Answering enquiries & solving issues from stakeholders such as traders, dealers & bankers • Managing trading & dealing exceptions• Processing and amending Business Market Loans, a new business banking product with derivative overlays• Creating and amending bills for business banking clientsAchievements:• Won Achievement Plus Award for embedding a process of reporting bill parcel histories• Successfully automated process of keying in of debit and credit entries into system via Excel macros• Passed AFMA Accreditation Program on the first attempt Show less Responsibilities:• Identifying, investigating & resolving issues with market risk reporting systems• Preparing & ensuring the accuracy of the daily Value at Risk (VaR) and stress test reports for global trading desks• Reporting on breaches of risk limits• Analysing & explaining the causes of backtesting exceptions• Attending & recording minutes of meetings for project work Achievements:• Taking the initiative to learn aspects of role not initially involved in, particularly resolving backtesting exceptions.• Updating procedures for daily risk reporting• Organising the team Christmas barbecue Show less

      • Discount Securities Analyst

        Jan 2009 - Jan 2012

      • Market Risk Reporting Analyst (Secondment)

        Jul 2011 - Dec 2011

    • National Australia Bank

      Aug 2012 - Apr 2016
      Implementation Specialist

      Key Responsibilities:●Accountable for managing various transitions including changes to asset allocations, investment managers, and acquisition of new clients ●Review unit prices in relation to investment options by NAB Asset Servicing, followed by striking prices into Superb (i.e. superannuation administration system)●Rebalancing of multi sector funds – this involves calculating and trading the amounts required in order to maintain the appropriate asset allocation of the funds● Analysis and compilation of detailed commentary as to the large breaks between Plum prices and weighted underlying fund price movement ●Implementation of investment strategy changes into the trade file●Development and maintenance of productive working relationships with custodians●Liaising with and assisting fund accountants with APRA reporting; this involves ensuring they understand the structure of investment holdings and have a detailed understanding of the trade flows●Compilation of weekly, monthly and quarterly reports, including:--Performance and attribution analysis of large discrepancies between Plum & underlying price movements-Management rebate calculation -Arbitrage analysis (i.e. conducting analysis as to whether members are making arbitrage trades on late priced funds) Achievements:●Nominated 5 times for the NAB Finance Enterprise Recognition award●Won the “Thoughts into Action” award in April 2013●Saved approximately 450 hours per year through making significant improvements to existing financial models●Delivered a Microsoft Excel presentation for the Wealth Finance World Class Week which was very well received and rated 4/5●Exceeded tight deadlines regarding the upload of unit prices and trade files●Exceeded objectives with respect to target proficiencies regarding monthly and quarterly reporting●Selected to design the visual management boards for the Finance and Investment Control teams●Kaizen representative for the Pricing and Controls capability pool Show less

    • VicSuper

      Apr 2016 - Aug 2018
      Senior Analyst

    • Wingate

      Aug 2018 - now
      Associate Director

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Clark Chan, CFA
      Finance Enterprise Recognition Award Manish Gaind Apr 2013 Effectively managed workload as the other unit pricing analyst was away, making sure that all the daily tasks were completed on time.
    • Awarded to Clark Chan, CFA
      Thoughts into Action for the month - April NAB Wealth Finance Apr 2013 Successfully automated funds flow report which was previously done manually by copying the figures from a PDF document to a spreadsheet. I created a report with the correct parameters from the raw data that was provided by the custodians, and inserted formulas in the spreadsheet so that the funds flow each month was able to be automatically read off the newest data.
    • Awarded to Clark Chan, CFA
      Finance Enterprise Recognition Award Jennifer Khoo Dec 2012 Working together within a team to put together a visual management board for the finance, fund reporting and investment control team.
    • Awarded to Clark Chan, CFA
      Achievement Plus Award Chris Iliopoulos Mar 2012 Category: Creating value through excellenceEmbedding a new process where information about historical bills could be retrieved directly from archives and downloaded into the spreadsheet which provided a detailed breakdown of each parcel, margin, rate and amount charged to client. I did this by creating a macro manipulating the original data which was in Wordpad format and presented it in readable form with a touch of a button. This process saved hours of work for each bill history created… Show more Category: Creating value through excellenceEmbedding a new process where information about historical bills could be retrieved directly from archives and downloaded into the spreadsheet which provided a detailed breakdown of each parcel, margin, rate and amount charged to client. I did this by creating a macro manipulating the original data which was in Wordpad format and presented it in readable form with a touch of a button. This process saved hours of work for each bill history created in this way and provided Business Bankers a service which they did not have access to before. Show less