Financial Analyst Project
Resume:
AMAD-UD-DIN QURESHI
Toronto, Ontario Canada M5J0B1
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EDUCATION
UNIVERISTY OF TORONTO Toronto, Canada
B.B.A Co-op Management, Specialist in Finance January 2010 – May 2013
CGPA: 3.88 out of 4.0, Finance GPA 4.0/4.0; high distinction graduate. Awards:
- University of Toronto Honors (Dean’s List): 2nd, 3rd and 4th Year. (Top 5% students in UTSC)
Vice President, Investment Society of University of Toronto Scarborough
- Increased the revenue of the club from $500 to $2500 through partnerships and sponsorships.
Languages: English (fluent), Mandarin (basic). Technical Skills: Financial Modeling in VBA (DCF model, mortgage calculator), R, STATA, SQL, MS Office (MS Excel including pivot tables and v lookups). ION Solution, Bloomberg TOMS, DSTS, FIS.
CFA Level 3 candidate (2017)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
TD SECURITIES Toronto, Canada
Fixed Income Etrading team that aims to translate business needs into technology initiatives.
Senior Analyst October 2015 –April 2016
Worked with the development team to test and implement non-standard settlement pricing and risk analytics on Bloomberg request for quote tickets.
Migrated Candeal auto quoting functionality from DPL to FIX protocol using ION framework.
Implemented a pre trade risk management system to monitor fat finger and daily gross position limits on US treasuries.
Using Bloomberg TOMS to handle auction of new issued government bonds and rolling benchmarks in the fixed income books.
Assisted front office to change pricing models for Canadian provincial bonds in Bloomberg TOMS and implemented the functionality that allowed them to auto publish their offerings to the external clients.
Extensive use of ION pricing engine to build Canadian GC curves and Euro Dollar curves for benchmark pricing of fixed income instruments.
Gathered requirements to retire legacy DSTS as post trade book of records.
ION TRADING Toronto, Canada
Financial engineering firm that provides fixed income trading solutions to investment banks globally.
Analyst, Client Services June 2013-October 2015
Technical Responsibilities:
Supported algorithmic trading tools that assist rates and credit trading desks to optimize their trading strategies based on best execution.
Troubleshoot production issues by liaising with markets such as Espeed, Tradeweb, Bloomberg and CME.
Client Interaction:
Worked on a consultancy project for a Canadian investment bank to identify platform inefficiencies.
Documented business requirements of the project and assured conformance to the project deadlines.
UNILEVER CANADA Toronto, Canada
Multinational consumer good company specializing in food, beverages, hair care and household items.
Financial Analyst September 2011- April 2012
Engineered a HST/QST forecast model using a multivariate regression model that predicted the future income tax liability of the company up to the accuracy of 90%.
Participated in the acquisition of Alberto Culver Canada worth $3.7 billion by consolidating its balance sheet accounts with the parent entity.
Extensively used financial modeling to monitor volatility of US balance sheet accounts and hedged FX risk using forward contracts.
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP Toronto, Canada
Multinational accounting and advisory firm.
Tax Associate February 2011-April 2011
Filed US and Canadian tax returns for expatriates and corporate clients.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Pricing FX Quanto Options Using Heston’s Model Of Stochastic Volatility January 2013-April 2013
Used stochastic processes to model the joint distribution of EUR/CAD and USD/CAD exchange rate.
Used monte carlo simulations to determine VaR of the portfolio of FX Quanto Options.
EXTRACURRICULAR EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Toronto, Canada
National Investment Banking Competition September 2012-March 2013
Valuation of Wynn Resorts using DCF, comparables and recent transactions models.
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