Management Sales

Profile

Proactive, technical and analytical mind individual. MSc in applied Economics and IT with good quantitative skills and excellent working knowledge of simple and complex energy derivatives. Ambitious analyst and form an integral part of any team.

Education

Sept 02 – Sept 03 London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

MSc. Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems

Relevant Courses: Information Security Management, Systems Development, Interorganisational Information Systems, Econometrics, Logical programming

Sept 96 – Jul 00 University of Science and Technology, Ghana

BSc. (Hons) Economic Planning (2.1)

Relevant Courses: Economics, Statistics, Quantitative Analysis, Projects Design and Management

Professional Training

Option Pricing and Applications – The Oxford Princeton Programme (Dec 2010 – New York, USA)

Programming (Java level 1 and VBA) Course at Wharton College, London between April and September 2006.

Summer course in Management and Negotiation Skills at London School of Economics and Political Sciences between July 2002 and August 2002.

Skills and Competencies

Energy Derivatives - Market Knowledge

Excellent understanding of Energy derivative markets.

Excellent experience of FEA Models (Advanced user)

Excellent experience of Lacima risk management, valuation and optimisation models

Experience with Symphony application

Excellent experience with OpenLink Endur trading and risk management application

Good understanding of trading characteristics and operations of the Gas and Electricity derivatives markets.

Excellent experience and understanding of commodity Options models used in Gas and other commodity Swing contracts

Excellent experience of Risk Management Concepts such as VaR, Stress Testing, Scenario Analysis and Back Testing.

Good understanding of the relationship between physical and financial assets across a range of commodities markets

Ability to communicate the principles and results of analysis to peers and senior management.

Ability to apply independent critical thinking to a model validation project

Risk Modelling

Econometrics and Time Series Analysis

Ability to innovate in the design of risk reports and risk measures

IT skills

Excellent working knowledge of VBA, particularly Excel with Marcos and good working knowledge of programming concepts of SQL, C++. In-depth understanding and working experience of most risk management tools and applications.

Work Experience

May 2015 – Present

Petrochina International London (Trading & Risk management Department)

Senior Market Risk Analyst (Temporary Contract) – Crude, Gas & Power and LNG

To prepare daily, weekly and monthly market risk reports for Crude trading, Gas and Power and LNG trading desks and FX deals used to hedge foreign transactions.

Validate forecasting models - including daily changes and long term modelling assumptions

Documentation and maintenance of all related business processes

Ad-hoc data analysis all traded commodities

Implement and operate risk measurement solutions with respect to credit, price, volume, imbalance and hedge ineffectiveness risks

To provide support within the Risk team for the development and validation of risk models

Mapping of risks and controls for defined processes

Support the identification and assessment of major operational risks across core commercial and operational activities

Support the identification of risk requirements to support commercial development and maintain risk oversight

Daily analysis of the market risk profile of the commodities trading businesses using tools such as VaR, Stressed VaR, Scenario Analysis, Liquidity Profile, Limit Utilization

Jul 2007 – Feb 2015

Statoil UK (Structured And Flexibility Trading Department)

Senior Analyst (Flexibility Trading) Nov 2013 – Mar 2015

Analytical Skills

Provided oversight on measuring, managing and pricing risk.

Reviewed and challenged new structured products and provided insight on pricing risk on such products to sales team and traders.

Mentored and trained junior analysts within the team

Managed key interfaces in the London office

Support Junior analyst Teams' performance and development discussions

Forecast and analyse historical trends for natural gas contracts and derivatives (such as options and futures).

Responsible of Back Test existing pricing models and suggest improvements

Assist in Pricing models and evaluation of new trading strategies

Responsible for model parameters estimation and forecast using historical data.

Conduct statistical analysis for pricing

Interact with key stakeholders in marketing, Finance and other operations to ensure consistency in sale activities within Statoil.

Contribute to the development of a SQL/C++ based Risk validation library which is used for building prototype models within the Statoil.

Statoil UK (Economic Analyst Department)

Senior Economic Analyst Apr 2012 – Nov 2013

Analytical Skills

Provide decision support for investment decisions in Statoil’s marketing, transactions and asset development.

Played a key role in Statoil’s Portfolio analysis, reporting and Impairment valuations using discounted cash flows, decision tree and option valuation methods.

Support sales managers and negotiators to price gas sales and value long term gas and oil flexible.

Validate and analysed large datasets from ERTM systems (built on SQL and C++)

Contribute to the development of a SQL/C++ based Risk validation library which is used for building prototype models within the Statoil.

Managed and Implemented different market risk and pricing models and projects

Statoil UK (Trading & Risk management Department)

Senior Risk Analyst Jul 2007 – Apr 2012

Analytical Skills

Detailed analysis and reporting of Gas, power and other products P&L.

Timely daily and monthly commentary on P&L attribution.

VAR production and Mandates follows and Back testing and Stress testing analysis

Assist in risk process improvement and efficiency projects.

Validate and analysed large datasets from ERTM systems (built on SQL and C++)

Contribute to the development of a SQL/C++ based Risk validation library which is used for building prototype models within the Statoil.

Jan 2007 – Jun 2007

International Power (Trading & Risk management Department)

Trading Assistant and Settlement Analyst

The Global Trading department is responsible for the merchant trading operations across IPR, including hedging and proprietary trading activity for value optimisation.

Ensure trades are booked accurately by traders as per trader blotters, Term sheet and sales ticket

Validate broker confirmations and carry out reconciliation to enable payment within timescales and resolve any nostro breaks

Aug 2006 – Jan 2007

London Clearing House, London, UK

Bond Analyst (EquityClear and RepoClear)

LCH.Clearnet is the leading independent Central Counterparty clearing house in Europe, serving major international exchanges and platforms.

Business, Data and cash Management Skills (/Teamwork)

Managed bond deliveries at specified settlement agent accounts and reconciliation with ATS and ensure that settlement fails are minimised and appropriate reconciliation’s bond delivery position are completed,

Repo margining and Coupon processing/payment

Liaised with clearing agents to ensure member positions and bond deliveries are reconciled

Oct 2005 – Jul 2006

UBS Investment Bank, London, UK.

FIRC Control Assistant Analyst and Euroclear Settlement Specialist

UBS Investment Bank is a premier investment banking and securities firm.

Client Services and Reconciliation Skills (/Teamwork)

Collate and produce high quality investment data, analysis and reports for senior managers and front office staff using advanced features of MS Excel such as Pivot tables, Vlookups.

Liaise with counterparties, clients and front office over the telephone to resolve settlement queries and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner to ensure trades settled on Value date and eliminate the risk on unmatched trades.

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