Adam Daniel

Experience

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  Craven Slater and Associates Ltd

  Jul 2010 - Jul 2011

  Assistant to Independent Financial Adviser

  Providing Financial Advice to clients with varying needs and objectives. Offering advice to all aspects of a clients portfolio including; Retirement Planning, Investments, Savings, Insurance, Protection and Mortgages.• Researching and analysing investment performance, providers, and products.• Calculating clients tax liabilities in efforts to create more tax efficient portfolios• Liaised with other offices within the company in order to create a final report/portfolio together for joint clients.• Communicate with clients helping with queries. Show less

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  UBS

  Aug 2012 - now

  SME for Secured Treasury Services, core focus on optimisation of the OTC Collateral Pool along with supporting Collateral Transfer Pricing, Multiple Cost of Funding (MCoF), Downgrade and Regulatory Reporting and management of CSA non-standard Terms.Key responsibilities:• Manage stakeholder’s needs and requirements and ability to face off to Operation’s senior management. Build and maintain relations across a large number of teams.• Support the derivative pricing model, MCoF. Requiring static analysis and designing/maintaining sufficient controls. Perform MCoF pricing impact analysis as a result of CSA negotiations• Identify potential operational risk and implement strategies to improve controls and mitigate risk.• Identify optimisation opportunities within the OTC collateral pool in order to make significant financial savings for UBS.• Manage the funding of the OTC Collateral Pool to ensure daily margining needs are met. Including proactively anticipating large collateral swings as a result of market fluctuations (i.e. SNB unpeg)• Oversee the implementation of a new strategic Collateral Transfer Pricing tool and design sustainable controls and investigation processes for STS• Support the front to back ECP/CD trading flows including maintaining external clients relations and promptly resolving any queries or issues.• Implementation of an enhanced Benchmark Submission reporting tool and implement controlled exception reporting for a number of benchmarks (LIBOR, GOFO, GEMMA, ISDAFIX and RBA)• Identify offshoring opportunities and travelled to India to oversee the migration of processes.• Management of non-standard terms within CSAs and reviewing there static profiling.• Identify STS’ key requirements for the introduction of several new GUIs across our processes and also changes required as a result ISDA’s proposed Standard Initial Margin Model (SIMM) for bi-lateral margining Show less Operate in a Run the Bank position as part of the Global Cash and Liquidity Management Team. The team’s focus is on efficiently funding a number of accounts for both Dollar and Non-Dollar Currencies. Providing this service involves interacting with external commercial banks and number of various internal business lines including; Equities, Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income and Prime Brokerage.The role involves a variety tasks-• Understanding of complex funding models, with the ability to use initiative to improve funding models and optimize accounts. • Efficient and timely work in order to adhere to strict cut-off times. • Ability to work under intense pressure whilst producing accurate work.• Strong communication skills both written and verbal.• Training new team members, requiring confidence in own abilities and communication skills.• Operate as part of a multi-functional team in order to operate efficiently.• In depth understanding of the reconciliation process – developing problem-solving skills. Show less

  • Executive Director | Head of Liquidity, Funding & Capital Operating Office

    Feb 2024 - now

  • Director | Group Treasury ALM | Business Manager

    Feb 2021 - Feb 2024

  • Associate Director | Group Treasury ALM | Business Manager

    Oct 2017 - Feb 2021

  • Authorised Officer | Collateral Specialist

    Oct 2016 - Sept 2017

  • Authorised Officer | Secured Treasury Services Analyst

    Sept 2013 - Oct 2016

  • Cash Management Analyst

    Aug 2012 - Aug 2013