Keitaro ASABA

Experience

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  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

  Jul 2000 - Aug 2000

  Developer (Internship Program)

  Designed and developed internal webpage models working with international officers.

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  World Trade Organization

  Jul 2001 - Aug 2001

  Analyst (Internship Program)

  Assisted in the drafting of Asian National Trade Policies of Annual Report 2002.

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  The Global Fund

  Dec 2003 - May 2004

  Screener (Short-term Contract)

  Assisted African governments in the drafting of technical / financial proposals.

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  Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking

  Sept 2006 - Aug 2012

  - Developed applications to process and analyze regional financial and economic data, and to monitor regional competition information; reported to the CEO in Asia Pacific, and regional country heads and managing directors.- Monitored regional (operational and organizational) data and information working with internal teams in nine (9) markets; and reported to regional stakeholders, other regions, and headquarters, as a key regional contact person.- Worked and communicated with nine (9) regional markets and nine (9) departments to coordinate and monitor regional cost reduction and promotional projects; and to plan and manage local CSR and charity projects. Show less As part of the Graduate International Program 2006:- Developed simulators to analyze equity market performance following equity market position recommendations made by major investment banks; and to analyze profitable positions to be taken based on the performance.- Traded commercial papers working with commercial paper issuers and brokers; financial institution buyers; internal sales, back office, and treasury teams; hedged trading portfolio by swapping fixed and variable interest rates.- Developed applications to structure and price interest rate and foreign currency index products; priced index products set by internal sales and marketing teams; reported index product daily prices to purchasing investors. Show less

  • Chief of Staff Office to Head of SG CIB Asia Pacific

    Sept 2009 - Aug 2012

  • Trader

    Sept 2008 - Aug 2009

  • Financial Engineer

    Sept 2006 - Aug 2008
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  IC Net Limited

  Dec 2014 - Feb 2022

  Consultant

  - Assisted Filipino bankers in delivering loans worth JPY 4.9 Billion to Filipino organizations as part of an agro-business project in the Philippines: developed a monitoring system using Microsoft Access, Excel, and VBA to process/analyze financial and economic data; and to calculate/report KPIs. - Delivered 5S/Kaizen services to 1,336 Cameroonian SMEs and trained 116 Cameroonian private consultants as part of a business development services project in Cameroon: monitored project progress and conducted related studies through 2 trained Cameroonian consultants.- Assisted 65 local governments in formulating and implementing development plans as part of a governance project in Bangladesh: monitored project progress through 10 trained Bangladeshi consultants; and discussed and agreed upon project progress with central government.- Conducted a survey on gender-specific obstacles targeting 571 SME owners as part of a cross-border trade project in Fiji: developed an e-survey application using VBA; trained 10 Fijian surveyors; supervised survey progress; analyzed survey data; and reported analysis results to World Bank.- Conducted a socio-economic survey targeting 720 households as part of a peacebuilding project in the Philippines: designed the survey; trained 3 Filipino consultants and 24 Filipino surveyors; supervised survey progress; analyzed survey data; and reported analysis results to JICA.- Delivered 5S/Kaizen services to 110 Cameroonian SMEs as part of a business development services project in Cameroon: trained 41 Cameroonian private consultants and 10 Cameroonian public officials in basic accounting and financial analysis; and managed three training programs.- Trained 10 Japanese consultants per annum in financial and economic analyses in project finance: designed and conducted training programs on remote feasibility studies and field data processing; assisted financial and economic analyses workshops; and coordinated training programs under ECFA. Show less

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  Tenchijin

  May 2022 - now

  International Business Developer