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Mississauga, Ontario L5M 4L1 acu05m@r.postjobfree.com ca.linkedin.com/in/tonygibara
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, SENIOR TREASURY AND BANKING PROFESSIONAL Providing Forward Thinking Solutions that Optimize Efficiency and Mitigate Corporate Risk Creative and inventive thinker with extensive banking and treasury expertise, in cash management, trading FX, money markets, fixed income, derivatives, and hedging currency and interest rate risk. Ability to develop rapport easily helps build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external partners. A motivated team player and self-starter, with an entrepreneurial mindset towards bottom-line results, and focus on optimizing efficiency and profitability. Comfortable multitasking in a high-paced environment, while analyzing and resolving complex issues in a timely manner. Currently seek a suitable position with an organization that values integrity, passion, positive thinking, experience and hard work. Expertise includes:
Banking and Treasury Risk Management
FX, MM and Cash Management
OTC Currency Options and L/C
Exemplary Customer Service Skills
Educating clients to use treasury products
Managing Projects, to ensure cost objectives
Superior Communication, Interpersonal and
Listening Skills
Effectively communicate appropriate
solutions to complex issues
Drafting Policies & Procedures
Multitasking in a high-paced environment
SELECTED CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS
Restructuring companies’ cash flow management reduced operational/carry costs by 1.5%.
Assured a 3:1 return on client costs, and historically delivered 4:1 return.
Advocated cost-effective solutions from an operational, technology and treasury perspective.
Formulated hedging strategies that included the use of currency options.
Identified structural deficiencies and recommended solutions and alternatives that improved efficiency and profitability.
Assisted in implementing launch of trading system when working for bank.
Introduced various treasury and bank products, not used prior to engagement, and educated clients by providing detailed accounting of the Pros and Cons of using each product.
Drafted treasury policies and procedures for clients, when none existed.
Ensured that trading activity was PROFESSIONAL within predefined EXPERIENCE guidelines. PECH CONSULTING INC. 2015 – 2016
Business Development and Project Manager
Helped manage commercial contract furniture projects, and cultivated new and old customer business.
Responsible for developing and maintaining productive relationships with both new and old clients.
Identified sales leads and of reconnected with old clients in an effort to increase revenue.
Helped plan, manage and oversee projects, while working closely with clients to ensure that the scope and direction of each project was on schedule and within budget. SUMITOMO MITSUI BANK CANADA 2013 – 2014
FX / MM Trader
Managed Canadian and US dollar balances and helped cultivate customer business.
Quoted, executed and covered corporate foreign exchange and money market trades.
Initiated trades on clients’ behalf thus assured that trades were filled at desired currency levels. Anthony Gibara 2
RMS RISK MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED 2000 – 2013
Senior Treasury Risk Manager
Mandated to manage client’s treasury operations, hedge currency and interest rate exposures with their respective banks, and operate within predefined risk parameters and guidelines. Key Achievements:
Prior to taking control of treasury operation, ensured that operating procedures, risk parameters and hedging procedures, for current and future treasury exposures, were predefined.
Helped formulated sales process to ensure pricing accounted for possible currency fluctuations.
Introduced various treasury and bank products, not used prior to engagement, and educated clients by providing detailed accounting of the Pros and Cons of using each product.
Restructured cash flow management to coincide with payables and receivables thus reducing operational and carry costs.
Used currency options to formulate hedging strategies that mitigated risk, and when possible, had the propensity to increase profit potential, when ensuring to remain within client’s risk parameters.
Assured a 3:1 return on costs, but historically delivered an excess of 4:1 vs Bank of Canada rates.
Assisted clients negotiate operating and FX lines with their respective banks.
Initiated trades on clients’ behalf ensuring timely execution.
Kept clients informed of daily market activities. ABN AMRO BANK CANADA 1997 – 2000
Assistant Vice President, Risk Management Services As a past top performer in treasury, I was rehired, after Dresdner Bank closed its Toronto treasury operation. Executed customer orders, formulated hedging strategies that mitigated currency exposures using a variety of Treasury products.
DRESDNER BANK CANADA 1997 – 1997
Assistant Vice President, Trader Foreign Exchange
Traded currencies for the bank, customized trading blotter, executed market orders and formulated currency hedging strategies for clients. Centralizing global Treasury operations led to moving their Toronto office to New York, after 11-weeks of being hired; despite shortcoming, budget expectations were exceeded.
ABN AMRO BANK CANADA 1987 – 1997
Assistant Vice President, Treasury
As bank’s first currency trader, responsibility included management of Inter-bank trades of all major currencies and execution of customer orders.
Key Achievements:
Pioneered concept of selling customized hedging strategies to clients using currency options. In the first year, volume for options sales exceeded $400 million, the following year sales exceeded $1 Billion; while bank profit, using this instrument, increased 30% and 150% respectively. EDUCATION & TRAINING
Montreal Stock Seneca Exchange College Options, – enrolled Commodities, in Financial Stocks Services and Compliance Foreign Exchange Administration Trading (Certificate) program - 3-yr Business Administration Montreal Diploma Stock Exchange (Completed) - Vanier College LANGUAGES – Fluent Other LANGUAGES
English, French Greek and Arabic