Emer SIMS

• Voting member at EMEA (Europe, Middle East Africa) Markets and Collateral Business Acceptance Committee (BAC).
• Articulates key concerns observed by Risk for businesses within remit.
• Collaborates with businesses to accurately evaluate the impact of change.
• Delivered Risk training to the Manchester Operations team to enhance their understanding of the role of the Operational Risk Officer (ORO) and provides ongoing training to new joiners of the Operational Risk team.
• Works with the Business to ensure quality updates are captured in RCSA (Risk Control Self Assessment) and in (ORL) Operational Risk Limits.
• Provide oversight and challenge to ensure accountability with the Operational Risk Framework (ORF), policies, standards, and procedures.

• Coverage of Sell and Buy side clients
• Worked extensively with Two Key Hedge Fund clients contributing $1MM growth for the Firm while ensuring compliance with Regulatory deadlines(Initial Margin Segregation Phases 1-5).
• Engaged with a virtual stakeholder team to ensure excellent service standards met and customer needs satisfied. (Featured in Top 5 of Client Providers based on Senior Client feedback)
• Responsibility for Know your Customer completion (KYC).

• Engaged with Asset Servicing client base to ensure readiness for regulatory deadline to update their KIID (Key Investor Information document)
• Worked with a virtual internal team to ensure that client requirements were satisfied.
• Supported +10 new wins and RFPs (Requests for Proposals).

Coverage - Banks in Spain, Italy, Ireland & Nordics

• Worked with Global Clients and key internal stakeholders to establish credit facilities.
• Developed an understanding of the Banks credit product range and presented Credit risks to Senior Risk Committee for approval.
• Maintained credit exposure within my portfolio in line with the Risk appetite of the Bank

• Cultivated and maintained long-term relationships with clients to support account retention and growth.
• Conducted regular service review meetings with clients to review account performance.
• Worked with key internal stakeholders to ensure client requirements were achieved.