Kendwin Eddrick Y. Ku

****-* *. ***** **. Sta. Cruz, Manila, Philippines ? +639**-******* ?

acebzq@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

. A banking and finance professional with a keen interest in studying and

observing the financial markets.

. A self-learner with a strong background in financial market products.

. A multi-lingual who can converse in English, Cantonese, Mandarin,

Hokkien.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Deutsche Knowledge Services Pte. Ltd. (June 2011 - present)

Structured Finance Asia Middle Office - Senior Associate (Feb 2014 -

present)

. On top of individual contributing role listed below, supervises and

guides a team of four members on daily BAU activities, workarounds and

issue resolutions.

. Prepares and leads the weekly team status call discussions.

. Attends monthly performance calls with Documentation and Settlements

teams on query volume analysis.

. Spot Awardee for February 2014 for compiling and maintaining a database

for all existing insurance trades.

Structured Finance Asia Middle Office - Associate (June 2013 - Jan 2014)

. Migrated the trade capture functions of Complex Credit and Principal

Finance Desks.

. Performed trade capture, booking verification, coupon fixing and

enrichment processes for credit default swaps and structured derivatives

such as insurance wraps, loan syndications, fee bookings, etc. for

Structured Finance Asia desks.

. Monitored reconciliation breaks of internal trades, and advises

reconciliations team on resolution.

. Provided resolution of workflow queries through investigation and

resultant trade booking amendments

. Monitored trade life cycle management such as coupon fixings, trade

settlement validations, and option exercises.

. Liaised with internal teams such as Settlements, Documentations, Business

Area Controllers, Reconciliations teams.

. Provided ad-hoc support for Complex Credit, Local Currency Market,

Principal Finance, Investment Grade, and High Yield desks.

Tokyo Rates (Exotics) Middle Office - Associate (June 2011 - June 2013)

. Part of the team that successfully went live in Manila for the trade

capture function of the Exotic Desk.

. Performed trade capture, booking verification, coupon fixing and

enrichment processes for structured derivatives such as interest rate

derivatives, currency swaps, power reversal dual currency notes, etc. for

Tokyo Rates Structured Desk.

. Monitored reconciliation breaks of internal trades, and advises

reconciliations team on resolution.

. Provided resolution of workflow queries through investigation and

resultant trade booking amendments

. Monitored trade life cycle management such as trade settlement

validation, option and knockout exercises.

. Provided ad-hoc support for Exotic Rates Trading desks.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Treasury & Securities Services (November 2009 -

June 2011)

Derivatives Collateral Management - Transaction Processing Specialist

(March 2010 - June 2011)

. Promoted to Team Leader (two job levels above former position) on

February 2011 due to substantial contribution in facing clients and their

counterparties in managing both sides' expectations.

. Awarded on July 2010 for exemplary efforts in transitioning the work

process from UK to Manila while simultaneously improving on reconciliation

percentage completion.

. Point person and subject matter expert of all dispute reconciliation

issues and procedures unique to each client.

. Provided ad hoc and monthly reconciliation reports to highlight any

discrepancies and breaks in aid of dispute resolution and reduction during

margin calls.

. Provided daily collateral balances reconciliation for non-custody

accounts to ensure that margin calls are calculated correctly based on

correct collateral balances.

. Improved reconciliation percentage completion in spite of 75% increase in

volume (start-to-date) and additional specialized reconciliations for

clients.

Securities Processing - Reconciliation Specialist (November 2009 - March

2010)

. Awarded Zing Star Best Performer of the Month for four consecutive months

(December 2009 to March 2010).

. Sole person-in-charge for Residual (Certificated) holdings

reconciliation, a six month task that was 75% completed in two months.

. Lent a hand in Unit Trust holdings reconciliation and aided the team to

deliver complete reconciliations within the monthly timeframe in each

month.

Security Bank Corporation (August 2008 - January 2009)

Treasury Group - Junior Assistant Manager, Treasury Trainee

. Trained and served as backup of the dollar and peso liquidity desk,

ensuring that FCDU and regular accounts are positive daily.

. Augmented sales of time deposits, government securities, ROP's, special

deposit account placements of institutional and bank branch clients.

. Assisted the traders of the Peso Fixed Income Trading Desk in booking and

execution of daily trades.

EDUCATION

Chartered Financial Analyst Program Candidate (December 2010 - Present)

Passed the December 2010 Level 1 examination

Ateneo de Manila University (School of Science and Engineering) (March

2008)

Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, Major in Mathematical Finance,

Minor in Economics

. Ongking Foundation Scholar

AWARDS AND CITATIONS

. Champion, MECO Livestox Stock Trading Game (2008)

. Finalist, 2007 ING Funds Tournament (2007)

. Ateneo Reserve Officers Training Corps Efficiency Award (2006)

. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Award for Excellence in Leadership

(2004)

. AY Foundation National Discipline Award (2004)

. Mercury Drug Award for Excellence in Mathematics (2004)

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