Oliver Shrimpton

Key Responsibilities:

• Liaise with the product and tech colleagues to produce business analytics for new product offerings, enhancements to internal trading systems and full client reviews for trading and front office based on AGILE methodology
• Regional lead with full ownership & management of onboarding FX & Commodity clients on all eplatforms including JPMorgans Execute and all third party platforms
• Coordinate with vendors and clients to ensure a streamlined experience through enablements and trade lifecycles
• Manage various project deliverables with teams including front office, trading, middle office, back office and onboarding to deliver positive results for both clients and the business
• Provide client-facing support to commercial clients, including platform demos and coordination of settlement, account and trading queries
• Drive client and platform meetings with sales teams to manage client relationships and provide optimal FX solutions

Achievements / Projects

• Delivered key analytical enhancements for front office for onboarding system, creation of bespoke product STPs and platform to platform mappings without manual intervention allowing an increase in trading volume and reducing regulatory risk against JPMorgan
• Developed trackers for front office using Alteryx workflows to identify potential gaps in our onboarding of clients, presented to the business to demonstrate a more proactive capture method between client check-ins/reviews
• High volume removal of obsolete accounts from internal systems increasing the systems daily performance and allowing front office to have more accurate trading analytics
• Owned and co-ordinated a mass overhaul of priority client fund onboards which included an intricate remediation of the full onboarding workflow
• Training lead for FX & Commodities migration of functions to an equivalent Mumbai team
• Held training sessions over Zoom/Teams, produced training resources, and ran check-in sessions following the migration of responsibility
• Created and presented Powerpoint decks to front office and upper management on e-trading onboarding lifecycle enabling to forge a much stronger relationship between different front office teams, shared understanding, and more effective project management as a business
• Day-to-day management of electronic FX & Commodity clients in the Markets space
• Overseeing onboarding procedures for new clients, management of day-to-day trade queries, and coordinating product launches and technology projects

Key Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinating Novation’s for Front Office, instigating the re-booking of trades with Middle Office through our risk management system (Athena) supporting Front Office desks
• Identify possible lack of controls for all aspects in Novations, making sure all trades rebooked under the Novation umbrella are always accurate
• Global FX Novations SME for Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office & clients, guidance on scenarios, timelines and complex situations

Achievements / Projects

• Identified Novation knowledge gaps within FO desks
• Presented face to face FX Novation Knowledge Shares to bridge the gap
• Co-ordinated with Middle Office to create a stepping into new risk rebooking template, thus decreasing manual intervention
• Received monthly department awards for my handling of extremely large Novations, Novations with 5000+ trades involved was the largest

• Conduct due diligence into mortgage applications and applicants, to analyse and raise fraud concerns, inform various teams on common fraudulent behaviour