JEFF CHALEM

224-***-**** adrxfp@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/in/jeffchalem

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Dedicated and dynamic Ethics and Compliance Manager acting as a vital support member of BPs Trading Division with a proven history of exceptional organizational strategy, regulatory compliance, finance management, and commercial trading knowledge. Skilled at hiring, training, and leading staff on complex projects across various divisions as well as at improving and/or automating processes and systems. Leader and strategist highly familiar with business development, finance, and risk management with the capability of generating significant improvements in efficiency and strategic direction.

SKILLS

• Risk & Financial Management

• Commercial Trading Controls

• Trading Regulations/Support

• Project Management/Planning

• Business Development Skills

• Hiring, Interviewing, Onboarding

• Training, Coaching, Mentoring

• Options/Commodity Trading

• Strategic & Team Leadership

• Commercial/Regulatory Finance

• Securing Funding & Budgeting

• Reporting & Data Analysis

• System/Process Automation

• Ethics, Compliance, Regulations

• Business Process Management

• Internal Controls & Audits

• Process/Policy Improvements

• Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Written/Verbal Communication

• Detailed Multi-Tasking Expert

• Innovative Problem-Solving

Technical Skills: Scila Order Book Monitoring Compliance Tool, Reporting Software, Microsoft Products PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BP 2019 - Current

Ethics & Compliance Manager – Trading Division Chicago, IL & London, UK

• Primary business consists of trading commodities for oil products such as gasoline and diesel including low carbon trading.

• This role serves as an underlying support function for commercial activities, helping to define scale, innovation, and forward-thinking strategy.

• Developed a thorough project planner to support the ethics and compliance team’s prioritization and organization.

• Delivered compliance support for the company’s transition to more sustainable bio-fuels, helping to coordinate ethics oversight during partnership planning with agricultural companies in pursuit of ethically sound bio-fuel generation.

• Supported 2 separate business lines, adapting exceptionally well to balancing broad responsibilities and demonstrating an aptitude for fast-paced and ever-changing fields like the trading business.

• Advises various business leaders and project managers on all applicable compliance issues their work may encounter.

• Provides essential metrics & KPI data to business leaders showing snapshots of underlying business successes/ failures.

• Partners with IT and HR departments to properly monitor trading staff and business functions to maintain ethical practices, compliance, and confidentiality.

• Key contributor to the marketing and origination business line, supporting operations in Sao Paulo, Rio, Mexico City, Salt Lake City, and Chicago to achieve smooth business development where marketing/promotion is required.

• Performs client facing duties to keep business flowing including media interviews and preparation of PR materials.

• Serves as key point of contact for trading concerns, leading a team of 3 out of a total of 11 personnel in Chicago.

• Thrives as contributor to brainstorming sessions, deriving innovative solutions for various lines of business and generating considerable growth over time.

• Champions automation of reporting tools, effectively streamlining operations and removing the need for individual agents to spend time manually reconciling data for analyses.

• Supports regulatory frameworks and problem resolution by training trading businesses on ethics & compliance tasks.

• Monitors compliance and productivity across the company, teaching underperforming staff how to do tasks correctly.

Senior Finance & Risk Manager 2005 – 2019

• Started as an Analyst for BP before quickly moving up the ranks in recognition of an excellent business acumen.

• Spearheaded commercial finance and risk functions for BPs establishment of the Low Carbon Trading business line, having been appointed to the role by senior leadership after a series of interviews. o Crafted various business structures for BP while unifying them under the low carbon umbrella, traveling between London, Chicago, and Houston to ensure staff had what they needed to achieve this. o Identified and transitioned 30+ highly effective staff to be a founding part of this new division and team.

o Brought fragmented pieces of the division together under a unified vision of growth, hiring and onboarding more staff to expand the possible scope of future business strategies. o Oversaw the transition of control, handing this division off to new management to change job focus.

• As finance & risk manager, gathered information across all teams to establish a priority pecking order for support functions before presenting these findings to management to justify the business case for funding various tasks.

• Owned hiring/interviewing processes including recruitment and onboarding of qualified candidates as well as development of high-performing teams by leveraging consultative communication skills. o Trains other team members on interviewing techniques by having a rotating list of right-hand supporters in charge of explaining job details during initial interviewing rounds. o Directly trains and coaches new hires to increase their understanding of company divisions/subdivisions as well as the vital nature of their specific work.

• Commended for hands-on nature when managing policy and regulatory changes, displaying adaptability.

• Served as key contributor to adapting the company to post-financial collapse regulations like Dodd-Frank by overseeing reporting for this new regulation from the ground up.

• Developed a daily report to collate and present policy compliance data to regulators for final approval. EUREX 2003 - 2005

Market Supervisor Chicago, IL

• Key part of an exchange that provided members with regulatory insights while serving as a trade supervisor in charge of compliance with market regulations, making sure all trading activities adhered to exchange rules.

• Leveraged significant autonomy to proactively streamline communications processes and increase self- regulation.

• Transitioned from business startup activities to focus primarily on being regulator for trade participants in charge of ensuring that traders adhered to rules and policies required for market participation. JFX INC. 1993 - 2003

Options Market Manager Chicago, IL

• Flourished here on the commercial side of trading, actively participating in options as opposed to the more regulatory and support side present in later positions.

• Attained significant understanding of how support and commercial trading staff interact as well as the requirements they both have to meet throughout this highly regulated process.

• Worked closely with regulatory support to redefine how some commercial processes were carried out. EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Leadership Training Certification Program University of Chicago Chicago, IL 2010 Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance DePaul University Chicago, IL 2006 Bachelor of Science (BS), Economics University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 1992

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