Sarah Hatfield

• Played an integral role in the training of our Apollo NA team to support Ph1 fund migration, spending a week with the team in Boston . Working with our stakeholders on KPW requirements and initially taking ownership of breaks whilst we completed training to NA team.
• Dedicated leader with extensive experience of OTC instruments, · liaise with executing brokers, clearing brokers, custodians, middleware vendors, fund managers on a daily basis to ensure the effective administration of derivative transactions, maintaining internal and external relationships.
• Initiate/participate in change projects to enhance the control framework for all trade processing tasks in the team, mitigate risks and close internal/external audit points
• Identified and resolved operational issues impacting productivity, performance to improve efficiencies and operational risk.
• Directed day-to-day work of 9 employees , hosting daily huddles and weekly team meetings.
• Managed daily planning of workplace operations, clearly communicating targets to staff for smooth, efficient task delivery and training.
• Increased team productivity through effective staff planning, coordination and task delegation.
• Have an end to end understanding of team’s tasks and how they relate and impact to all processes; ensuring improved ways of working are constantly identified. Proactively and continuously examine and evaluate departmental processes and procedures to ensure best practice is followed. Resolving complex problems/issues, advising staff involved in resolving them.
• Acting as point of escalation for issues/conflicts and ensuring resolution through own knowledge
• · Work collaboratively with supervisor/manager fostering credibility and influence towards developing a reputation of operational excellence across the firm, share best practise with peers, creating an awareness of issues throughout the department.
• Work collaboratively with senior management fostering credibility and influence towards developing a reputation of operational excellence across the firm, share best practise with peers, creating an awareness of issues throughout the department.

• Supervised activities of a team of 9 supporting the post trade execution of OTC instruments, including confirmation, settlement and cash movements, investigation and resolution of any resultant trade issues or transaction entry into portfolio administration systems,.
• Oversaw day-to-day activities of team, ensuring tasks were completed to high standard.
• Trained new hires and set up mentoring relationships to drive team performance.
• Led by example to maintain team motivation, ensuring daily tasks were performed accurately and efficiently.
• Identified operational problems and proposed solutions to management, improving service efficiency.
• Liaise with Brokers, Trade Capture and Middleware Vendors, Global Clearers, DCM’s to determine and maintain best practice and market initiatives to include ISDA 2021 definitions , libor cessation and transitioning Cleared CDS portfolio to LCH .

• Supported the post trade execution of OTC instruments, including trade booking , confirmation, settlement and cash movements, investigation and resolution of any resultant trade issues or transaction entry into portfolio administration systems in a high volume , fast paced environment.
• Maintained detailed knowledge of platform operation processes and system; perform a continuous review of team procedures, policies and systems. Recommended and lead on the creation and automation of operational processes and procedures to ensure continuous improvement.
• Assisted department and IT to define requirements, developing innovative system or process solutions where gaps identified.
• Worked collaboratively with supervisor/manager fostering credibility and influence towards developing a reputation of operational excellence across the firm, sharing best practise with peers, creating an awareness of issues throughout the department.

• To ensure all OTC derivatives Confirmations, both incoming and outgoing, are documented and executed in accordance with the various legal jurisdictions and trade associations, i.e. ISDA & DRV .
• Checking and documenting of Novation Confirmations.
• To chase all outstanding Confirmations and liaise with clients to resolve discrepancies.
• Monitoring of Confirmations on DTCC and investigating mismatches.
• To perform ad hoc duties, e.g reconciliation of ISDA Master Agreements data and reporting of monthly statistics.
• Data integrity check of all new OTC deals on Atlas (Front Arena) and Misys Midas Plus.
• Process day to day queries, trade amendments and close-outs.
• Reconcile term-sheets & broker notes.
• Daily monitoring of PATH.

Assist the Settlements area as required

• To ensure accurate and timely settlements of all OTC business using Midas and SWIFT.
• Timely investigation and resolution of all outstanding assigned items on the nostro.
• Daily checking of rate fixings on Atlas and Midas.
• Daily inter-system reconciliation, ensuring both systems are correct and inline with each other.
• Revaluation of MTM trades.
• Monthly suspense account reconciliation.
• Implementation of New Atlas/Midas reconciliation report for Derivatives Settlements.

• Processing of payments manually and system-generated through SWIFT Alliance.
• Confirm IRS payments.
• Dealing with all queries regarding payment and settlement for Vanilla Swaps, Asset Swaps, Default Swaps and Overnight Index Swaps.
• Input of trades & Daily fixing of rates.

• Preparing and verification of SWIFT payments.
• Preparing Daily positions for Money Market Dealers and resolving any discrepancies.
• Verification of MM Deposits and Verification of Loan payments.
• Checking TRAM Confirmations and investigating queries.
• Confirming Option Trades with counterparties and checking trades to Reuters.
• Middle Office support role.

• Similar duties to those of the above Bank of America role, with the addition of Position Keeping and the use of BART and BDS.

• Various Retail Banking roles, encompassing account opening, cashier duties, equity sales and purchases and SWIFT payment processing.