Mena Read
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Saint-Lambert, Quebec J4S 1G7
514-***-**** **************@*****.***
English ● French
PROFILE
Key Skills
Commercial sales experience
Proactive relation developer
Mentoring and Coaching
Strong Organization and analytical skills
Commercial portfolio management
Skilled at learning new concepts
Enthusiastic and experienced in overseas travel.
Team Player
Negotiation skills
Flexible to business needs
Quickly learn procedures and methods
Assertive, self-motivated and dynamic
Summary of Qualifications
Strong Knowledge of FX Spot, Forward, Options, Fixed Income & Derivatives.
Developed Business with a strong client focus.
Attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines while handling multiple projects
• 10 years solid work experience combining marketing strategy implementation, international sales, business development, accounting practices, finance, and promotional and customer services.
Proficient with 2 languages: English and French. Professional Experience
Foreign Exchange Officer Royal Bank of Canada December 2018 – Present
• Demonstrate effective call handling.
• Responsible for the negotiation of foreign exchange deals directly with clients.
• Deliver high quality, timely and error-free services to clients and services partners.
• Monitor limits utilization through the day for the OTC, IBC & CM Business.
• Grows Spread revenue on transaction priced by the IBC & CM Clients.
• In charge of trading agency type business on Spot, Forward & Swaps.
• Responsible to process work volumes to consistently meet daily deadlines.
• Coordination with the internal stakeholder Legal, Risk, Credit
• Assumes ownership & accountability for the resolution of complex issues & concerns relating to Foreign Exchange transaction & associated wire payments.
• Works With bank applications e.g. RFX, RFT, Whistler, CWB, Sales Platform & CMS.
• Complies with RBC Policies including operations risk & fraud management.
• Effectively interact with Account Managers, Branches & Clients. Senior Credit Analyst CIBC Bank March 2018 – December 2018
• Verify loan to ensure that all credit approval conditions in the loan are met and documented.
• Analyzes portfolio data and identifies trends as an input into future practice.
• Analyze financial information detailing assets and liabilities.
• Reconcile bank accounts, balance sheet, and intercompany accounts.
• Conducts complex data analysis and provide financial reports for portfolio.
• Ensure the loan documentation is maintained in accordance with credit facilities.
• Responsible for performing clerical functions to support the security and loan processing activities of Commercial Banking, Private Banking and Small Business.
• Enter, update and retrieve information for credit applications.
• Determine credit worthiness of applicants.
• Designate degree of risk involved in extending credit by performing cash flow analysis of businesses.
• Prepare and complete account reconciliations.
• Ensure all approved applications comply with firm and lender criteria.
• Respond to inquiries from lenders.
• Assist with company and client audits.
Treasury FX & Fixed Income Trader Banque Misr January 2011 – June 2017
• Closely follow the macroeconomic variables in the G7 countries.
• Managing the bank’s position of the foreign currencies (Surplus-Deficit).
• Quoting spots, forward & FX swaps at the best prices available comparing with different prices.
• Monitor the limits assigned to each counter party.
• Enter the investment policy asset mix constraints to help Portfolio Managers to monitor their accounts.
• Adjusting the bank short term liquidity, managing either surplus or deficit by placing or taking deposits in the money market among other financial institutions using Reuters trading systems.
• Ensure all pooled fund trades are completed accurately.
• Maximize bank profits by using gaps according to the permission granted by the bank treasury management and in light of my sentiment and vision of the yield curves of the major currencies.
• Trade settlements of various instruments (fixed loan & deposits and foreign exchange and swaps operations, cash &fixed income).
• Cash and securities accounts reconciliation.
• Initiating all the debit and credit accounting entries related to all the money market deals done with foreign banks and all swift messages related to this deals.
• Shared in computerizing our computer system with the new intelligence system
(The I. flex. & Kondor) as we played an important role in coping the old system with the new one successfully.
• Preparing the Maturity ladder of the overall bank assets and liabilities. Operations Analyst Banque Misr January 2008 –December 2010
• Participating with The LoBue Group, part of the Central Operations team and responsible for the re-engineering of the operations & Retail process.
• Deliver quality service, achieve performance goals such as SLAs and KPIs, in a transformative and changing environment.
• I was working on new centralized Inward automated Clearing House with average monthly volume of 120,000 cheques and in charge of 16 branches.
• Prepare, review and post journal entries and required transactions
• Responsible of sorting an average of 300 cheques/day and using OCR to verify signatures.
• Preparation and review account reconciliations.
• Analysis and investigation of financials.
Junior Accountant Egyptian Engineering Agencies November 2006 – December 2007
Recording entries into journal using “Infinity & Al-Motammem” application program. Recording the adjustment entries of petty cash, payroll & the advance payment entries.
Recording reconciliation entries for foreign currencies prices.
Summarizing ledger using “Infinity & Al-Motammem” application program.
Preparing compromise between our balance in the bank and the balance of the company.
Following the account receivables & payables balance and preparing summary reports Education
Diploma in French Language (DELF B1), Centre Culturel Français 2013-2014 ACI Dealing Certificate 2007-2008
B.A Commerce, Specialization: Accounting, Helwan University 2002-2006 Activities
Experience abroad: worked with international companies like EEA. Chess: played and trained primary and secondary students (2 gold medals and one bronze) Volunteering: active member in Centre ESPOIR, helping the community and new immigrants.