Nicholas Barrow

Experience

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  UBS Investment Bank

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  Support Analyst Fixed Income Securities
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  Barclays Capital

  Jun 2007 - Oct 2014

  Responsible for Rates Regulatory projects based in Asia, acting as Project Manager and single point of contact for Rates in the region. Manage derivatives strategic and tactical reporting solutions, to the DTCC (Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation) and CCIL (Clearing Corporation of India (CCIL) for end of day and real time reporting. Stakeholders include operations, compliance, front office, middle office and IT (trade capture, trade management, exotics, reporting framework, NIKKO, SUMMIT, testing and application management)• Identify and managing resources across Rates IT, depending on reporting solution required for the particular regions regulatory authority and the reporting trade repository.• Project plan creation, risk and issue management, and monitoring throughout the entire project’s life cycle.• Elicit reporting requirements from operations and regulatory authority documentation to produce function specification documentation.• Prioritise and monitor development tasks, escalating potential blockers and identifying/agreeing potential workarounds with stakeholders. • Manage UAT, single point of contact for operations/compliance testing teams, prioritising and monitoring issues.• Responsible for solution rollout, and back loading strategies (Depository priming).• Responsible for handover of the solution to front office support, ensuring support/BCM documentation have been provided, SLA’s are in place and the solution if fully compliant as per firms and reporting authority policies.• Successfully rolled out reporting for JFSA, MAS, Taiwan, India, and HKMA.Global Rates Bond ReportingResponsible for the Rates strategic trade reporting platform, acting as project manager and single point of contact for trade reporting to the LSE. Platform receives numerous settlement feeds from multiple asset classes, applies reporting logic, and sends/receives FIX messages to/from the London Stock Exchange for real time reporting. Show less MIN strategic migration project: Project managed complex trading, price, risk and regulatory reporting system migration to strategic platforms. The project was high profile as the system was identified as high risk due to the critical functions the system currently operates, while being exposed to scalability and support related issues. The project involved numerous business and technology teams, including Fixed Income, Emerging Markets, Credit, Equities, Securitised products, Money Markets and Liquidity Management.• Analysing current system flows and down-stream dependencies, breaking down the complex system into manageable isolated sub systems, which can be efficiently migrated on to supporting strategic platforms.• Front to back knowledge, understanding numerous product flows across multiple asset classes to ensure the most efficient solution is proposed for each sub system, and any migration related issues are captured and translated into workable technical solutions. • Communication and stakeholder management, due to the vast number of different products and feeds, the project requires coordination of stakeholders from different departments and time zones.• Project plan creation, risk and issue management, and monitoring throughout the entire software development cycle.Emerging markets projects: Responsible for all EM related development activities, manage limited resources to deliver prioritized minor and major works under tight deadlines.• Conduct regular prioritization meetings with stakeholders, and responsible to provide delivery estimations and status updates.• Obtaining requirements and translate into workable technical solutions.• Manage resources, monitoring, risk and issue management.Markitwire reconciliation project: Project Manage rollouts of new products for reconciliation reporting system. Show less Project manager for APAC EMIT rates platform migration project (RPM), successfully migrated KRW eT execution (BARX) from third party ION MMI solution to the Barclay’s strategic ecommerce platform. • Worked with traders, business analysts, front office, and operations to prioritize requirements and to define the projects scope. Worked with developers to define development activities and duration estimations.• Provided workaround solutions to allow the removal of dependencies from the projects critical path (delayed projects), by utilizing existing STP infrastructure, until strategic trade flow became available.• Worked with QA team to build up robust test cases, to ensure quality and functionality delivered as per trader’s expectations. • Applied structured and robust methodologies throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring successfully UAT and seamless rollout to production. • Coordination of trader, operations, front office trading assistants, sales, compliance and front office support to ensure successful go live and smooth daily operation of new platform.Project manager for EM ION platform (BARX).• Developed industrialized project plan templates and managed the team to rapidly rollout successive new EM rates products (IMM swaps, curve spreads, cross currency spreads) on BARX, to ensure first to market.• Elicited requirements to design and implement ION MMI application, tailored for EM rates swaps.• Managed and implemented APAC ION platform migration for production windows platform to Linux.• Managed and implemented consolidation project for ION gateways, therefore reduction in running costs and migration development time.Project manager for RPM APAC hardware project, critical project to consolidate, decommission and virtualize hardware, resulting in successfully releasing crucial hardware for RPM projects under extremely tight deadlines. 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  • Project Manager

    Jan 2014 - Oct 2014

  • Project Manager – APAC Trade & Transaction Reporting

    Mar 2014 - Sept 2014

  • Project Manager – APAC Rates Regulatory Reporting

    Jun 2012 - Mar 2014

  • Project Manager – Trading Core Group

    Jun 2011 - Jun 2012

  • Ecommerce Project Manager - Emerging Markets Development.

    Jan 2009 - Jun 2011

  • Deputy Team Lead - Emerging Markets Applications Management

    Jun 2007 - Jan 2009
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  Standard Chartered Bank

  Oct 2014 - May 2019

  Financial Crime Compliance - Business Process Analyst

  Transaction and Name Screening specialist, implementing and tuning Fircosoft name screening systems.

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  Emirates NBD

  May 2019 - now

  Program Manager

  Program Manager – Group Compliance Systems