Experience

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  Carrick capital

  Aug 2014 - Mar 2015

  Associate assistant

  Carrick Financial Services (Pty) Ltd. is a Wealth and Capital management company that guides high net worth individuals onward to real dominion over their financial future. The company offers independent financial advice and a comprehensive spectrum of the finest financial products through well-respected international financial institutions. Carrick’s advisory team employs financial diversification and active portfolio management to prepare our clients for a truly prosperous future. Guided by a masterful understanding of every financial situation, through careful financial planning, strategic implementation and ongoing management, we build long-term wealth. Capital protection is the central pillar in our success. The security of our client’s money is our chief concern and we employ the legal and technical knowledge and investment experience gained over decades to defend and grow your wealth. The Carrick seal carries with it the principles of trust, professionalism and partnership. https://www.carrick-wealth.com/ Show less

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  Bloomberg new energy finance

  Mar 2015 - Dec 2015

  Wind data research

  Overview• Creating a massive database of global Renewable Energy Infrastructure (Renewable Energy Pipeline Project)• Translating technical data into financial data that is valuable to Investment decisionsResponsibilities • Assisting various Bloomberg analysts in a range of countries with regards to the accumulation of priority infrastructure data• Researching technical detail of renewables projects• Investigating finance contracts for projects• Networking with local players in the renewables industry at Trade Fairs and Indabas• Combining engineering and technical data, such as capacity factors and output with general electricity market condition (incl Government Incentives and electricity exports) to create data used to calculate RoI• Contacting key personnel at companies in the renewable energy of electricity generation sector to confirm progress or project detail• Organising the back-end of the Bloomberg BNEF portal• Collaboration with other Bloomberg departments (such as Bloomberg News or Bloomberg Intelligence) for the production of Market Reports or articles• Ensuring efficient communication with senior staff around the compilation of Bloomberg League Tables• Assisting Bloomberg clients with queries and redirecting to the relevant departments if needed Show less

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  Maitland

  Dec 2015 - Jul 2018

  Security valuations specialist

  Overview• Build and Maintain Valuation Software and Processes• Provide the best possible service levels to clients with regards to bespoke pricing requests• Ensure the accurate and timeous release of valuations to Hedge, Unit Trust, CIS, Pooled and Segregated Fund Accounting teamsResponsibilities • My primary responsibility is to develop new valuations processes, or improve existing processes to enhance Maitland’s pricing mechanisms• I communicate and collaborate with all Fund Accounting, Front Office and Fund Set-Up teams to ensure co-operative governance between teams• I ensure that the administrators meet their daily and monthly targets • I control the flow of the valuations process and direct administrators during Unit Trust pricing daily at 3pm• I give final sign off that prices have been captured and validated and that all Fund Accounting teams may proceed with NAV pricing• I deal with advanced valuations queries from all Fund Accounting teams and from clients (particularly with regards to valuation of fixed income securities) Show less

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  Old mutual investment group

  Aug 2018 - Aug 2020

  Quantitative analyst - fixed income

  I work within the Actuarial, Risk and Quants unit of the Liability Driven Investments boutique of OMIG. My general function is to provide technical support to Portfolio Managers, both in terms of technology and in terms of risk management, valuation and hedging strategy.My primary responsibility is the creation of a BI Analysis and Reporting tool (using MS PowerBI), integrating performance, risk and holdings data into intuitive and value-adding visualisations, for both clients and portfolio managers. The scope of my responsibility reaches from database design (SQL) to the calling and transforming of data, to the manipulation and filtering of components in the BI model.Further responsibilities include various process optimisation and automisations as well as the trading and management of notional benchmark fixed income portfolios Show less

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  Red bull

  Sept 2020 - now

  Cpm development project manager

  I work within the Customer Profitability Management team, taking care of the suite of software used to manage the volume and profitability of Red Bull's global beverage business.As part of the Development sub-team, my role focuses on expanding the CPM environment, both in terms of reach and integration as well as in terms of modernity. Goals of various projects range from system efficiency, to data quality, to improvements in UI/UX.