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Tuesday 18 June 2013

Karl Chapman


Karl Chapman

Curriculum Vitae
Address:
8 Navigation Yard
Chelmsford
Essex, UK
Phone:
+44 7902 933 049
E-mail:
chapman10000@gmail.com
Date of Birth:
25 May 1978
Nationality
British


Flight Time




Pilot in command
104 hrs 40 mins
Multi engine(DA42):
28 hrs 30 mins
Night
25 hrs 20 mins
Single engine:
190 hrs 35 mins
Simulator
44 hrs 50 mins
Total flight time:
219 hrs 05 mins
Flight Experience
December 2012

April 2013
EASA Class 1 Medical

MCC Certificate.
Pathfinders / CTC Simulators Southampton

(valid till 18/12/2013)



December 2012
Stapleford Flight School
EASA MEP/IR



October 2011
Stapleford Flight School
EASA CPL



2009 – Aug 2010
Bristol Ground School
JAA ATPL Ground School



June 2008
Ormond Beach Aviation
JAA PPL


Education


1997- 2001

University – University of Cardiff, Cardiff UK
BA Hons Business & IT Management 2:2

1995- 1997
College (A-Levels) – Ivy bridge Community College, Devon, UK
Business (D), Geography (D), General Studies (D)

1990-1995
Secondary School (GCSE’s) - Ivy bridge Community College, Devon, UK
8 GCSE’s passes at Grade C and above


Employment History


Jan 2008 – Present Jan
Aviation Finance Analyst, Royal Bank of Scotland, London


2007 – Dec 2007 Sept
Analyst, Merrill Lynch Investment Bank, London


2006 – Dec 2006
Analyst, UBS Investment Bank, London


Personal Details




Nationality:
British


Languages:
English and Intermediate Portuguese


Martial Status:
Single


Availability:
Immediately


Interests:
Skydiving (600 jumps completed) Surfing, Bungee Jumping. Trained for the Royal Marine Commando Reserves, Open water diving, Climbed MT Kilimanjaro raising over £6000 for charity (Dream is to climb Mount Everest)

NAME:                                                                                            Karl Chapman
TELEPHONE:                                                                                07967 296 647  Home 01245 492681
EMAIL:                                                                                           chapman10000@gmail.com


EDUCATION:
                                                                                                       
1997-2001                       University of Wales Business School, Cardiff
BA (Hons) Business Studies with Information Systems Management  2:2

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
April 2002                      Financial Planning Certificate 1
March 2004                    SI Regulatory Paper

PROFESSIONAL COURSES ATTENDED:                                  
Convertible Structure Arbitrage (Dr Andrew Street)

PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE
Exotic Based Products, Equities, Mini Certificates, Warrants, Convertible Bonds, Futures and Options, Equity Swaps, Capped Bonus Certs, CFD’s.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Sept 2010 – Present                                                                        ABN Amro Investment Bank/RBS Global Banking
Non Core Analyst Aviation Capital Finance

·          Reviewing and drafting ISDA/Long form confirms
·          Took part in the uk challenge raising over 17k for various Charities
·          Working with the Middle Office and Front office to book new trades for novated business
·          Various Swap and Loan calculations for Novated businesses
·          Drafting ISDA Novation agreements
·          Drafting New Mirror Swap confirm for Novated Business
·          Sending Swap Valuation notices and reset Information


Jan 2008 – July 2010                                                                     ABN Amro Investment Bank/RBS Global Banking
Equity Derivatives Front Office Support Covering Exotics/Certs/Funds/Volatility Based Products
·               Pricing and Fixing Monte Carlo Exotic Products (1200) Products fixed twice a day, Involved checking Reuters vs Bloomberg prices
              and Investigating all differences due to Corporate actions etc.
·               Use of SQL programming to upload info in to Front Office Support Systems.
·               Check Exotic Fixing Holidays and rolling all Constituent Underlying Equities.
·               Updating Funding Rate Levels in Front Office Systems.
·               Trade Recap for Tier One Clients.
·               Responsible for Setting up all new Issues across Certs/Volatility and Exotic desk.
·               Informing relevant exchanges of updated Strike/Stop loss levels of Mini Cert products.
·               Setting Up all Commodity Futures and Options in Front Office systems and checking Fair Value Calculations.
·               Expiring Commodity futures and rolling contracts into new months within Front Office systems and ensuring Deltas are correct for     
             Mini  Certs and notifying exchanges of future Stop loss and Financing Levels.
·               Extension Project work due to the Merger between ABN and RBS (including moving Positions from RBS onto ABN systems 
              ensuring all positions are correct, P+L is correct and Market feeds are accurate and up to date.
·                 Management of entire New Issues process from product origination to exchange listing. Responsible for continuous process
     improvement.
·                 Management, Verification and Reporting of all barrier breaches on Retail Derivatives.
·                 NAV calculation and Compliance Monitoring for Open End Funds and re-weighting of Closed End Funds post trade.
·                 Confirmation of Funds price and capturing positions, fees and P&L in the Front Office system.
·                 Resolution of front to back breaks (FOBO’s) involving dividends, coupon rates, cash flows and positions.
·                 Creation of static instruments such as Swaps, Equities,Futures, CPPIs and CPNs in Front Office system.
·                 Maintenance of an events calendar and subsequent processing post issue.
·                 Performing Gap analysis to analyse gaps between funds and indexes they track.
·                 Booking Corporate Actions (stock splits, special cash dividend, rights offerings)
·                 Management, calculation and booking of licence & brokerage fees.
·                 Daily sourcing of Funding, FX rates and Exotic Fixing rates from Bloomberg and uploading into Front Office system.


JAN 2007 – Dec 2008                                                                     MERRILL LYNCH, KING EDWARD STREET, LONDON

CFD/Equity Swaps Desk Support
Duties:
·          Booking Sector, Equity and Portfolio Swaps
·          Calculating daily P&L for CFD / TRS / Portfolio Swaps
·          Confirming swap cash flows with clients
·          Resetting/Terminating equity swaps
·          Answering ad hoc trader and client queries
·          Liaising with clients, confirming and booking Corporate actions events into swaps
·          Notifying clients of upcoming events
·          Prepare PDF versions of the notices for each client and liaise with client services
·          Answer ad-hoc queries clients have regarding Corp Action events
·          Monitoring deadlines on Voluntary events
·          Monitoring elections-centralising the elections sent by the Client service reps
·          Liaising with CA on those elections
·          CA booking into CFD system,
·          Analysis of workflow and implementation of process improvements
·          Participating in ongoing projects
·          Producing Swap Term Sheets
·          Ability to work under pressure with good time management and ability to work to time constraints


SEPT 2006 – DEC 2006- 3 Month Contract                                  UBS 1 FINSBURY AVENUE LONDON

Equity Trade Support Analyst
Duties:
·          Continuously improve processes to increase STP and eliminate waste.
·          Understanding of Front to back processes for Equities and associated hedges (ETD, Swaps, OTC)
·          Minimise risk within the area - by making sure that all necessary controls are being carried out e.g. resolving intersystem breaks daily, monitoring and clearing Front Office trade flow exceptions, helping front office and operations teams resolve any other exceptions in a timely manner with appropriate prioritization.
·          To understand and carry out all day-to-day processes within the cash equity team.
·          Primary point of contact for the traders with regards to Operations questions.
·          Risk management from a trading perspective and Operations.
·          Manage static data amendments and User ID amendments within Front Office systems.


July 2006 to Sept 2006: Upon taking voluntary redundancy I commenced a skydiving course and came back to the city to work at UBS on Three month contract as above.

NOVEMBER  2002 – JUNE 2006                          CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LONDON

Convertible Bonds Desk Trading Assistant- Supporting 6 Traders and 9 sales person (Globally)

Duties:

·          Providing full trading floor operational and administrative support to the Convertible Bonds/Equity trading desk.
·          Responsible for managing a STP initiative throughout the Converts desk.
·          Safe Sql Programming to setup new issues into mainframe pricing Front Office pricing systems
·          Liaison with salespeople, traders to ensure timely execution of electronic order flows.
·          Working with audit teams to provide full support with regards to regulatory audit requirements.
·          Ensuring timely ticketing of trades and the onward delivery of telexas and trade confirmations on to clients.
·          Monitoring recap of previous day’s business. Anticipating and eliminating problems.
·          Keying trades into various front-end systems. Ticketing of trades (sub-allocations).
·          Trade Settlement- liaison with support departments for global markets.
·          Desk Administration – Opening new accounts, completing account updates, getting appropriate authorisation, tickets and other admin matters.
·          Telephone coverage, dealing with client queries, system problems and requests for information.  Maintaining MIS stats and updating databases.
·          Responsible for the desks FX trading activities.
·          Involved in coming up with new business/trading strategies for Senior Management with regards to CFDS and corporate actions
·          Collation and publication of relative data for each specific Corporate Action issue from information provided by Operations Group.  This includes:
                  o    Proactive deadline monitoring on all voluntary events to ensure no instruction is missed
o      Participation on Operations conference calls and attending meetings when required
o      Monitoring and oversight of all asset servicing entries that hit accounts and timely communication of any errors or reversals
o      All-inclusive monitoring of Convertible funges and adhoc conversions to ensure the desk took advantage of converting cum-dividend
·          Support for all voluntary events where the Convertible trading desk intended to take advantage of unelected positions for Arbitrage purposes
·          Reconciliation of the desks security holdings on numerous internal systems across all entities.
·          Ensuring correct payment and reconciliation of all entitlements due to Firm and Prop trading books against receipts on securities and proceeds that would be subject to corporate actions.
·          Allocation of new securities to CB trading accounts where stock is received as the result of a corporate action.
·          Liaise with internal and, where necessary, market counterparts to achieve satisfaction of claims due in respect of fixed income trades, propriety trading, stock lending and repo’s. 
·          Involved with training new joiners on the desk with regards to the Corporate Action processes, procedures and controls
·          Reconciliations between the relevant systems on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

JUNE 2002 – SEPT 2002                            DEUTSCHE BANK, LONDON (Temp Contract)

Commodities and Precious Metals Analyst

·          Input of customer and broker trades.
·          Input of Foreign Exchange Trades.
·          Input of Bullion Trades.
·          Investigating and solving matching queries.
·          Communicating with Account Executives and Dealers.
·          Knowledgeable of LME Matching rules and regulations.
·          Monitoring Dealers positions.
·          Producing statistical spreadsheets.
·          Declaration and Abandonment of LME options.
·          Monthly processing of Average Accounts.
·          Reconcilation of AE and Dealer paper flow.
·          Attending the daily London Gold Fix.


JULY 2001 – MAY 2002                                                        TXU EUROPEAN ENERGY TRADING


Financial Analyst


·          Managed project to avoid over £50 Million of fines due to regulatory legislation (risk and damage limitation).
·          Managed another project for the collection of debt in excess of £70 Million.
·          Department Ambassador, ensuring the development and communication of the entire supply management department.
·          Studying contractual agreements to ensure legal debt collection process is effective and efficient.
·          Designed databases to co-ordinate debt collection and management and payback strategies to add value to the organisation.
·          Day –To-Day Review, analysis and reporting of factors affecting regulatory income.
·          Maintain an awareness of external factors that impact on the pricing model.
·          Analyse the markets so those situations that arise are dealt with and resolved effectively and efficiently.
·          To provide support to the European Trading Team by carrying out analysis on energy markets when required and to ensure traders are aware of recent happenings in the market to enable effective and efficient trading to take place.
·          Develop and communicate recommendations that ensure pricing strategy continually support the achievement of segment targets.
·          Develop close, productive relationships with key people in Retail/ Finance, Trading, Sales.
·          Give appropriate trading and structured deal support by doing  the relevant necessary analysis.
·          Work closely within the Position Analyst and Risk Manager to ensure proactive delivery of the teams aims and objectives.

   INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES
  Skydiving (600 jumps completed) Surfing, Bungee Jumping, Abseiling (raised over £4,500 for Charity). 
   Qualified Private Pilot
   Training for the Royal Marine Commando Reserves.
Extensive travelling including France, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Dubai, Greece, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Singapore, Denmark, Egypt, US and Cyprus.
   Open water diving (50 dives completed)
   Climbed MT Kilimanjaro raising over £6000 for charity

  VOCATIONAL SKILLS

Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel (including basic programming/macros); Access; Word;
PowerPoint; Outlook,
Publisher and Project.  Ability to use Bloomberg; Reuters, Euclid; Swift and Crest for daily use. 
Advanced knowledge of in-house/ operational systems
Strong written and oral communication skills
Familiarity with Stock Lending, CFDs, Pre-borrows; Equity Finance
            





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