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Daniel Sharples

Daniel Sharples

Greenwich, London

Summary

I am a driven and motivated individual, with a consistent record of achievement in challenging and rigorous environments. I take great pride in my work, and I always aim to complete it to the high standards that I set myself. I have experience in various banking operations roles, and across multiple market products. What has always remained constant during my career is the responsibility I have to mitigate operational, financial and reputational risks, that are critical to the success of any institution.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work history

FX Options & Precious Metals Trading Assistant

HSBC
London
07.2024 - Current
  • Managing the exercise event of maturing options, communicating decisions with counterparties, and ensuring accurate risk capture on behalf of the trading desk.
  • Management of other key lifecycle events of exotics such as barrier knocks, digital payouts, and callable options.
  • Ensuring accurate and timely funding of cash and metal balances with FX and PM trading desks.
  • Lead responsibility within team for off-platform novations, handling a high volume of requests, directly liaising with clients and ensuring accurate rebooking.
  • Handling any manual trade booking, allocation and amendment requests on behalf trading and sales.
  • Assisting traders when any unexpected jumps in P&L or risk occur.
  • Identifying gaps and enhancements to current processes to minimise operational risk to the business.


EM Rates Trading Assistant

HSBC
London
01.2022 - 07.2024
  • Ensuring accurate and timely trade capture of IRS, OIS, FRA, Cross Currency IRS and Basis Swaps.
  • Live price trade modelling of IRS, OIS, FRA, Cross Currency IRS and Basis Swaps on behalf of trading and sales desks.
  • Timely execution of post-trade events, including full/partial terminations, amendments, client novations and compressions.
  • Primary point of contact between front and back office teams, to resolve intraday queries, minimising unnecessary delay and involvement of senior stakeholders.
  • Ensuring accurate capture of sales revenues.
  • Lead tester for new trading system implementation, to ensure all current trade booking/amend scenarios are in line with expectations.
  • Implementing a fortnightly working group within middle office and back office teams to highlight process improvement opportunities and encourage wider collaboration.
  • Ensuring desk procedures are up to date, documenting any new processes thoroughly.




FX Middle Office Associate

HSBC
London
07.2019 - 01.2022
  • Senior point of contact within middle office for HSBC front and back office teams across multiple regions.
  • Handling cancellation, amend and booking requests on behalf of sales and trading.
  • Monitoring risk in sales and trading books, escalating any breaches with the relevant owner.
  • Execution of novation and NPV requests on behalf of sales, ensuring that all required approvals have been obtained.
  • Pricing and booking of high value spot month end sell-downs for HSBC UK and Paris regions on behalf of London trading desk.
  • Execution and reconciliation of interbank and inter-entity FX risky and riskless compressions.
  • Lead responsibility for the global implementation of the MCA and fixing source onboarding process, across front, middle and back office teams.
  • Producing a weekly 'week ahead' update on market events, to help keep colleagues informed on currency trends and highlight any upcoming key event risk.
  • Training of new team members and ensuring accurate procedures.

Retail, Commercial and Internal Pricing (Contract)

HSBC
London
05.2018 - 07.2019
  • Accurate and timely pricing of high value client instructions, ensuring that pricing is within pre-authorised margins.
  • Execution of take-ups on time options.
  • Primary contact for HSBC branch, payment and fraud teams, pricing on instruction and reversing any outstanding deals.
  • Pricing of high value month end sell downs for HSBC UK.
  • Training and mentoring of team apprentice.
  • Identifying and improving process gaps.

FX Middle Office Associate

The Bank of New York Mellon
London
08.2016 - 05.2018
  • Producing, validating and distributing daily spot rates to a large internal base.
  • Setting credit limits across all electronic trading platforms at an individual counterparty level.
  • Maintaining up to date static data in front office platforms on behalf of Sales and Trading.
  • Inputting the fixing legs of NDFs on behalf of sales and trading.
  • Producing and distributing reports on existing client base to senior management.
  • Verification of flash P&L figures with trading desks.
  • Producing and distributing EOD P&L reports to senior management.
  • Identifying and improving gaps in processes.

FX Settlements Associate

The Bank of New York Mellon
Manchester
11.2014 - 07.2016
  • Ensuring accurate & timely settlement of spot, forward, CLS, collateral & NDF transactions.
  • Daily confirmation of FX transactions with multiple counterparts.
  • Execution of CLS interbank in/out swaps to meet bank obligations in CLS.
  • Inputting & releasing internal FX swaps against other regions.
  • Investigating and escalating to relevant stakeholders any non-receipt of payment.
  • In fortnightly meetings, working with senior ops managers to enhance settlement processes.
  • Carrying out stress & regression testing of internal systems.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Banking and Finance

Cardiff University Business School
2014

A levels - undefined

Runshaw College
2011

Skills

  • Highly analytical
  • Excellent work ethic
  • Experience working in a team and individually
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Self-motivated
  • Comfortable working to tight deadlines

Other Accomplishments

  • I self-funded and passed all three levels of the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) program at the first attempt.
  • I was part of a team of five that were awarded the BNY Mellon Markets Team of the year for 2015.
  • I am the current general manager of HSBC Cricket Club, organising training and match days.
  • I recorded and released an album with my brother during lockdown, feel free to ask for further details!

Timeline

FX Options & Precious Metals Trading Assistant

HSBC
07.2024 - Current

EM Rates Trading Assistant

HSBC
01.2022 - 07.2024

FX Middle Office Associate

HSBC
07.2019 - 01.2022

Retail, Commercial and Internal Pricing (Contract)

HSBC
05.2018 - 07.2019

FX Middle Office Associate

The Bank of New York Mellon
08.2016 - 05.2018

FX Settlements Associate

The Bank of New York Mellon
11.2014 - 07.2016

A levels - undefined

Runshaw College

Bachelor of Science - Banking and Finance

Cardiff University Business School

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