Michael Collier

Experience

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  Bank of England

  Aug 2001 - Jun 2007

  Settlement Analyst
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  Credit Suisse

  Jun 2007 - Aug 2015

  •Swaps Trading assistant responsibilities for all Trade Date bookings across the following products (Portfolio and Total Return Swaps for Equities/Bonds/Stock Loan/Corp Actions/FX).•Prime Brokerage Trade Date trade management across the following products (Equities/Bonds/Repo/Stock loan/).•Trade Date Delta reconciliation with daily sign off to the Swaps Trading Desk Key Stake Holders and senior management.•Trade Date Allocation and break identification reporting with Top tier clients expecting exceptional client service and resolution. •Key Risk Indicator monitoring, maintenance and evolution.•Top tier client facing responsibilities which included acting as a single point of contact and escalation for all Prime Brokerage Equity Swaps and Cash product issues.•Trade Date +1 break resolution across the following products (Equities/Bonds/Repo/Stock loan/Corp Actions/FX).•Client focused Root cause analysis of ongoing Trade date issues. Providing presentations to Key Stake holders and clients to obtain by in for resolution.•Implementing the resolution of identified issues and reporting time saves and FTE reduction to Stake Holders & Clients. •Driving improvements to Client Reporting, Service and Break resolution by hosting and minuting meetings across several departments within the Trade Capture and lifecycle work flow. •Out Sourced Vendor platform meetings, providing required enhancements and implementing any functional changes to our Target operating models and procedures. •Driving change via Root cause analysis to back office managers to increase control and STP.•Generating and providing Monthly & Quarterly client presentations on statistics, issues, root cause analysis and improvements in controls and risk.•Front Office escalation contact for Client issues across all products (Equities/Bonds/Repo/Stock Loan/Swap/FX).•Escalation for all back office queries and resolution. Show less •Managing an Onshore team of five, who have oversight of an off shore team of 40 / 50.•People management, Structuring cross training plans, holding 1-2-1 development meetings and providing Midyear and End of year appraisals•Prioritising tasks and delegating workloads •Key Risk Indicator monitoring and reporting•Root cause analysis and development of Settlements STP•Implementing improvements to STP and providing reporting on these FTE saves to Stake holders •Continued assessment and analysis of Vendor operational procedures•Client money decision making and approval•Monitoring departmental risk, exposure and Red flag items•Escalation of all issues to the relevant Key Stake holders •Point of Escalation for internal and external Clients and Business leads•Activity based costing analysis of the External Vendor with Presentations to Business leads•Daily management of an out-sourced Vendor in India covering all Settlement tasks for the Products (Swaps, Cash Equity, Fixed Income, Repo, Stock Borrow & Loan, Collateral, Corporate Actions, Fund Transfer)•On-sight training in India •Monitoring and sign off of trade, payment and reconciliation queues throughout the day•Coverage of departmental Buy-Ins from local exchanges•Undertaking delivery management function Show less

  • Prime Brokerage Swaps Trading Assistant

    Nov 2012 - Aug 2015

  • Vendor Management - Operations Manager

    Dec 2010 - Nov 2012

  • Euronext Settlements Senior Analyst

    Jun 2007 - Dec 2010
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  State Street

  Aug 2015 - now

  • Assist the sales process Pre Contract for State Street Alpha Model (State Street Alpha is a full front to back operating model -Services: Front/Middle/Back Office & Data).• Create and present to external clients and 3rd parties opportunity specific documentation of applicable Alpha Services. • Ownership for RFP & RFI response, validation and leading client facing demonstration of services, products and technology.• Gathering of dependencies, risks and cost towards BAU Resourcing, technology and implementation for Indicative pricing.• Generation of Commercial proposal for senior stakeholders formal approval (Architecture/Services/Implementation/Finance/Sales).• Presentation of commercial and servicing proposal to clients and 3rd parties.• Proposing and implementing project governance, timeframes and deliverables to achieve contract signature. • Ownership and co-ordination with internal and external key stake holders of documentation to facilitate contract signature (Service Level Agreements(SLA)/Future state operating model(FSOM).• Facilitate and govern a Service Definition phase with client facing workshops defining Service requirements. • Highlight, validate and solution gaps requiring resourcing or technological enhancements via strategic or tactical options.• Selling of services and technology to solve client pain points and in-efficiencies. • Generation and ownership of project documentation capturing risks, dependencies and impacts (ARRIAD, Gap Log, TOM).• Protect the commercial proposal and minimise risk associated towards resourcing or technical enhancements. • Ownership of Steerco and senior stake holder meetings and documentation. • Achieve contract signature within expected timeframes with a healthy Commercial proposal. • Analysis and review of deals won and lost, implementation across global model on lessons learned. Show less Project Management Skills:• Defining project objectives, timeframes, prioritisation and deliverables.• Managing project risks towards services, technology, operating model and resourcing costs. • Production of project documentation to define clear targets, achievable goals, costs, resources and reporting.• Completion of project plans, milestone plans and check points to drive forward delivery requirements.• Generation of Project test plans, check points and test deliverable documentation.• Deployment to end users of deliverable items and closure of project when required.• Up keeping project RAID, defect and lessons learned logs. • Holding Key stake holders accountable for pending deliverable dates, targets and requirements. • Presenting project updates to senior stake holders. Business Analyst Skills:• Completing root cause analysis via the gathering of dependencies, risks and associated costs towards a proposed solution. • Interaction with SME’s to drive solutioning of strategic and tactical solutions. • Production of achievable strategic and tactical solutions to senior stake holders and the impacts on project costs and timelines• Documenting, presenting and submission of Operational or IT enhancement requests to senior key stake holders. • Production of Target operating models, ensuring they promote straight through processing, strong control points and risk aversion.• Working with respective Stake holders to outline proposed project governance, structure and interaction model for Due diligence phases.• Generate, document and presenting to the Business SME’s adjusted Target operating models, Service level agreements and control frameworks applied to the operational process. (IT Architecture/Business). • Generation, analysis and presentation of KRI reporting on timelines, issue’s and solutions to key stake holders. • Generation, documentation and presentation to SME’s of test scripts, their objectives, desired output and sign off requirements. Show less •Completing initial project definition, Information gathering, planning, execution, control and delivery of an Equity Swaps product across the following work streams: Cash & Security Settlements/Cash Management/FX/Client Reporting/Static Data/Stock Loan Borrow/ Trade Lifecycle Events.•Business Analyst & Project management responsibilities on respective streams. •Gathering information from Key Stake holders for Business Requirement Documentation & Business Requirements Functional Specification, Document generation, development and implementation. •Production of Root Cause analysis on Key Stake holder requirements, identifying areas of Risk, control and change to increase straight through processing. •Production of Target Operating Models and presentations to the business. Once reviewed Implementing any changes and improvements to designs and obtaining successful sign off from Senior Stake holders. •Using Root Cause analysis to generate FTE costings, requirement and processing timeframes. Rolling this out across several teams and functions within the Global Markets products. •Generating QA & BUAT Test cases, reviewing with the Business and key stake holders for end level sign off. •Completing QA & BUAT system testing, raising and monitoring defects within QC ALM.•Defect resolution, prioritisation, delegation and implementation to QA & BUAT environments.•Delegations of workloads to ensure targets and deadlines are met.•Working with External Vendors to drive change, manage requests and timelines for resolution.•Hosting, driving and minuting meetings across several business groups, external vendors and key stake holders.•EMEA region “Above and Beyond” Award winner Q3 2016 for successfully obtaining, improving and implementing all Static data required to complete BUAT testing across several entities, systems and counterparties. •Achieved a “LEAN Practitioner” certificate and status. •Acting as a Poppy Factory Mentor to a war veteran Show less

  • State Street Alpha – Client Solutions Deal Lead

    Aug 2020 - now

  • State Street Investment Manager Services – Project Manager / Senior Business Analysts

    Apr 2017 - Aug 2020

  • State Street Global Markets - Swaps Project Business Analyst

    Aug 2015 - Apr 2017