Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details

Name: John Bennett

Address: ** ******* *****, ***********, **. Dublin, Ireland

Home Telephone: (01) 8460269

Mobile Number: 003***********

Email Address: accnj2@r.postjobfree.com

Work Experience

July 2012 - Present

Treasury and New Business Accountant, Cluid Housing Association

Working in conjunction with the Financial Director to maintain the finance

and new business strategy in alignment with the overall policy of Cluid

Housing Association. The main responsibility was to manage the finance

treasury function to deliver best practice treasury management and the

assessment of new business.

. Control of all bank accounts with responsibility for completion and

reviewing of all reconciliations to ensure fund levels are maintained

as required.

. Management of short and medium term deposits, with the objective to

ensure the best possible return of funds within acceptable pre-set

risk levels.

. Management of long term planning models to ensure accuracy and

appropriateness.

. Reporting to business managers on cash management and new business

performance.

. Working closely with the Financial Controller to ensure accuracy of

monthly management accounts and audit reporting.

. Develop and contribute to business planning.

. Liaise with relevant managers to provide timely and accurate

assessment of all new business proposals

. Monitoring the development of new proposals from concept to

completion.

. Provide sound financial advice to managers to assist in their decision

making.

. Represent the association to external bodies such as financial

institutions.

. Establish and maintain good working relationships with finance

personnel of key business partners.

January 2011 - July 2012

Senior Treasury Analyst, Accenture

The Treasury team within Dublin is responsible for managing the financial

requirements of every Accenture office in Europe, the Middle East and

Africa. Main responsibilities include

. Calculate daily liquidity positions for all countries to ensure each

individual office has sufficient funds in place in order to fund

financial obligations when they fall due

. Identify opportunities to maximise cash returns through various

financial instruments when there is surplus funds within specific

accounts.

. Interact with clients to provide them with an efficient service on

their queries.

. Maintain professional working relationships with our main service

provides to make certain that when we have an issue or problem to be

resolved we know the direct point of contact and can guarantee it will

be resolved promptly.

. Prepare various summary reports for top level Finance management

. Provide support for the Cash Management Specialist

. Prepare weekly and monthly cash flow forecasts

. Calculate inter-company loan positions and coordinate execution

. Handle issuance of bank guarantees

. Supporting local cash needs and liquidity related issues

. Work with Treasury team on liquidity based issues

. Assist in the transition of ongoing strategic Treasury initiatives

. Work closely with financial institutions and country Finance Managers

to ensure entities comply with Treasury policies

. Assist in the identification of issues relating to Treasury Management

and the development of quality solutions

June 2007- December 2010

Treasury Analyst, WSS, AIB Global Treasury

Wholesale Support Services is a specialised business within AIB Capital

Markets. Wholesale Support Services provide Foreign Exchange, Money Market,

Securities and Derivative Services for the Treasury Department. Main

responsibilities include

. Monitor and review all over night reports to ensure all payments have

been successful and correct accounts have debited/credited.

. Timely monitoring and settlement of FX and Money Market deals.

. Liaise with the counterparties, brokers, front office and other

internal departments to ensure all queries are resolved in a timely

manner.

. Deal capture, repair, and payment delivery.

. Continuous maintenance of the Treasury database

. Confirmation issuance and matching.

. Management of exceptional items.

. Actively support ongoing change initiatives and business projects.

. Ensure payments are made before relevant cut off times for different

currencies.

. Continuous monitoring of various accounts and funding positions to

ensure sufficient liquidity for the bank.

Within my first four months I progressed through all the confirmation job

points.

I then proceeded to the payments team where I spent 18 months. I then spent

3 months working on a project to implement a Continuous Linked Settlement

(CLS) payment system. I then became a senior member of the Funding team

which monitors and advices the whole bank on funding positions.

December 2006 - June 2007 Travel

June-December 2006

Repo Specialist, Merrill Lynch, Bond Middle Office

Bond Middle Office was responsible for trade support and the trade

processing of debt trades. Main responsibilities include

. Ensure all trades input into the front end system process correctly

to downstream systems for settlement.

. Trade breaks had to be investigated and cleared on a timely basis so

as not to incur time delay penalties.

. Reconciliations had to be carried out at various stages during the

day these included funding reconciliations, front to back office

system reconciliation and position reconciliations.

. It was vitally important to review checklists and reconciliations to

ensure that processes were complete and the group's targets were met.

. Adhoc queries had to be answered for both front office and back

office users.

. This role involved high levels of accuracy and multiple daily

deadlines.

April-August 2005 (College Work Placement)

AIB Global Treasury, Change Management Unit

I worked within the Market Risk project team. The team was responsible for

introducing a market risk system in accordance with Basel II requirements.

This was an exciting time to be working on this project as the project was

in the start up stage of development. My main duties were

. Upgrade the trade information system into a more comprehensive

mechanism.

. I was responsible for updating the reporting documentation on this

project.

. Identify all products dealt by Global Treasury to be implemented in

testing.

. Access the valuation and sensitivity of all products to be

implemented on a single Market Risk single platform.

Educational Record

3rd Level

. Sept 2009-May 2010 Graduate Certificate in Corporate Treasury

Dublin City University, Business School, Centre for Executive Programmes

Core Subjects: Funding, International Financial Markets, Cash and Working

Capital Management, Corporate Financial Management, Risk Analysis and

Corporate Treasury Case Study.

. 2003-2006 B.Sc. (Mgmt) Management and Marketing

Dublin Institute of Technology, Faculty of Business, Aungier St.

Core Subjects: Marketing, Marketing Research,, Consumer Behaviour

Financial and Management Accounting, Corporate Finance, Financial Services,

Tax, Business Policy, Human Resource Management,, Management, Law, Supply

Chain Management, Enterprise Development, Management Information Systems. I

also completed a thesis on Ambush Marketing, many class projects and group

presentations during my degree.

2nd Level

. 1996-2001 Portmarnock Community School, Carrickhill Road, Portmarnock,

Co. Dublin

Leaving Cert Subjects: English (H), German (H), Irish (L), Business (H),

Maths (L), Geography (H).

Skills

. Information Technology Skills

I am extremely capable in such programmes as Microsoft Access, Word, Excel,

SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), Internet, Intranet,

PowerPoint and Visio. Xtas, Repo Front End, Gloss BTM, Bloomberg, Cash

Manager, CAMS, Euclid, Opics, Paywatch, Payplus, Intellimatch, SMART, Swift

Alliance, Reuters, DDI Monitor.

. Languages

I studied German for six years in School and two years in College. I have

recently taken up Spanish, and feel I have reached a proficient level.

. Communication and Presentation Skills

A very important aspect of my College course was to be able to communicate

effectively with other people through continuous group work. Presentations

were an essential part of this and we were expected to be able to give

weekly presentations on a number of different topics.

Hobbies and Interests

Golf: I have been playing golf since I was 12. I am a full member in

Hollystown golf club.

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