Nicola Rushin

Experience

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  Southern Asset Management

  Jul 1999 - Oct 1999

  CSDP Reconciliations
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  Tasc Administration (Curofund Services)

  Oct 1999 - Jun 2001

  CSDP & Securities Lending Reconciliations
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  Peregrine Holdings Limited

  Jul 2001 - Aug 2007

  Head of Securitites Lending: Peregrine Equities

  Set up and managed a securities lending desk, capable of dealing with high volumes of loan and collateral activity. Worked closely with business analysts and developers to create and test solutions for the full automation of several complex and high risk securities lending functions, including BDA trade analysis for short sales and collateral, messaging, reporting, fees & interest. Previous roles:OTC derivatives (margin calculations / mark-to-market for CFD's and futures); dealer support; JSE Settlements Officer. Show less

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  Irish Life Investment Managers

  Sept 2007 - Jun 2009

  Team leader: Accrued income (NAV)

  Led a team of 6 individuals responsible for NAV sign-off of projected income transactions: securities lending income, dividends, interest, corporate actions, coupons, maturities, rent and forex (for 31 countries, across Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific Region).Together with the Operational Excellence team (Lean Six Sigma) and developers, I was responsible for identifying areas of inefficiency in the team’s processes & systems, as well as proposing and implementing solutions. Show less

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  Planned work sabbatical

  Jun 2009 - Dec 2021

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  *Completed a Business Analyst course (with distinction), a Transact SQL course and two coveted Canadian capital markets certifications (with distinction).*Carried out all the immigration administration and logistical planning for three international relocations, due to my husband being offered positions at Bank of Ireland and TMX (Toronto & Montreal Securities Exchange). *Volunteered at a local public school in Ontario, while assuming family responsibilities.

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  LEAD2 Consulting

  Jan 2022 - May 2023

  Business Analyst

  July 2022 to May 2023. M&G Investments: CRIMS (portfolio construction & trading system), SaaS implementation. Agile, Jira.Epic owner for “trading & execution” and “compliance & risk”. Gather, document and manage business requirements for trading, risk & compliance and end-to-end tradeflow integration, as well as processes that required direct access to the CRIMS database (in particular, for managed funds). Worked with trading, risk and compliance teams, as well as business analysts at Charles River Development and internal IT, to ensure that solutions are successfully delivered. Jan 2022 to June 2022. Global Independent Administrators: Fundamental to InvestOne (fund accounting systems) migration. NAV reconciliations for fixed-income funds that were not ready for migration. Investigated and explained NAV discrepancies caused by trades, maturities / redemptions, accrued interest, static data setup, days-to-maturity, prices etc. Show less

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  SecuritEase

  Jul 2023 - now

  Business Analyst

  Licensee: Investec Wealth & Investment. High priority change requests: Analyse BRS documents from Investec BA’s and document functional requirements for developers. Assist with creating solutions, together with systems analysts and developers at SecuritEase. Test solutions using SQL, SID and Git, as well as testing new API endpoints using Swagger. Resolve issues directly with the developers, prior to deployment to UAT.Previously, I was the Lead BA for a significant project that involved gathering business requirements from the data (IT) team and various back-office and middle-office stockbroking teams at Investec, synthesising requirements into tables and documenting process flow diagrams & UML activity diagrams. Show less