beBee background
Home
>
Professionals
>
Hitchin
Lee Wightwick

Social


About Lee Wightwick:

Looking for opportunities in Finance, Banking and Risk Management

Experience

Managing Director

TACTICAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS (Jan 19 – Apr 18)

  • Launched a new E-commerce retail business with annual revenues exceeding $1million USD.
  • Partnering with manufacturers, brand owners and wholesale suppliers to effectively market and increase their retail sales volume on online marketplaces, including Amazon and Walmart.
  • Responsible for business strategy, managing daily operations, staff, logistics, cashflow management and sales targets.

 

Business Analyst – Business Risk and Control Management – Cross Product Services and BSM

HSBC, London (Mar 15 – Dec 18)

  • Responsible for creating the framework for a robust daily control model across the Cross Product Services Ops function. 
  • Partnering with Line Management to continually improve operational risk control processes and mitigate risk in business operating models.
  • Delivering a control monitoring and metrics programme. Allowing Line management to have effective oversight and monitoring of daily, weekly and monthly KRI, KPI and KCI targets. Resulting in the reduction of operational incidents and losses.
  • Performing risk assessments, testing and ensuring global adherence to key global targets and risk parameters.
  • Developed and co-ordinated a globally aligned reporting and governance programme across all core operations hubs, facilitating key monthly risk management meetings between Risk and Control, Line Managers and the Global Business Leads.
  • Responsible for global co-ordination of audit reviews across the Cross Product and BSM operations teams. 
  • Implemented training and development to establish a culture of risk awareness and an understanding of key risk and control principles.
  • Manage relationships and co-ordinate/leverage other teams including Business Risk and Control Ops, Operations Line teams, Front Office and Internal Audit.

 

Collateral and Inventory Management Senior Analyst 

 

CREDIT SUISSE, London (Jan 13 – May 14)

 

  • Active management of OTC collateral inventory in line with FO strategic Guidance.
  • Streamline reporting requirements.
  • Improved analysis of ‘Cheapest to deliver’ opportunities.
  • Expansion of Front Office day-to-day strategy. Ensure all securities are sourced via Collateral Optimisation desk to seek out opportunities to utilise unencumbered assets.

 

 

 

Cash Management Senior Analyst

 

CREDIT SUISSE, London (May 10 – Jan 13)           

 

  • Daily interaction and liaison with the Global, Emerging Market Desk and other key customers across FAO.
  • High level analysis of all major Global and Emerging market currencies in projected funding requirements.
  • Daily monitoring and high level analysis and reconciliation of nostro balances.
  • Intraday monitoring of real-time cash positions, optimising cash liquidity and control.
  • Able to embed safe working practices operationally designed to reduce future risks.
  • Interaction and relationship building with agent banks.
  • Responsible for accurate and timely bookings of Money Market and FX deals in back office systems.
  • Close working relationship with senior stakeholders across different locations.
  • Responsible for streamlining the transition process of funding USD tom next accounts domiciled in Singapore to an Overnight process. This rapidly increased the accuracy of funding through allowing clearer reconciliation against agent bank positions, resulting in a significant saving through the complete reduction of overdraft costs and the maximised potential of opportunity costs.
  • Created new business relationships with agent bank treasury desks to allow the use of back valued money market trades to reduce the spread costs on idol balances. This resulted in a significant saving of over 100k GBP for the year.
  • Involved with mentoring future interns and attending open evenings at University Open days.

 

Cash Management Analyst

 

SOCIETE GENERALE, London (Sep 07 – Dec 09)

 

 

  • Determine and calculate daily cash funding forecasts for each nostro account in order to ensure both cash liquidity requirements and cash optimisation.
  • Supervision of other team members to ensure that all daily funding deadlines have been met and take overall responsibility for all funding decisions and ad hoc events on a daily basis.
  • Calculate and effect nostro transfer requirements within strict funding and payment cut off times.
  • Reconcile and investigate any funding process discrepancies allocating any funding errors to the relevant error codes.
  • Ensure all MT202 and MT210 cash instructions for Money Market deals and nostro transfers are sent accurately through swift alliance.
  • Formatting of ad hoc manual payment requests for MT202 and MT103’s to high level.
  • Investigation and reconciliation of cash management nostro reconciliation breaks/issues.
  • Identify, Investigate and where appropriate generate interest claims.
  • Manage FX netting and settlement process.
  • Provided the Cash Management team with PPP documentation aid around daily funding procedures and FX.
  • Redesigned an efficient new daily cash management funding procedure by implementing the use of same day funding models as opposed to tom next. This allowed for an improved funding forecast of same day settlement cycles, reducing monthly nostro interest costs. This has been achieved by the use of closer overnight MM spreads and much improved settlement forecasts, allowing greater accuracy in calculating funding requirements for each nostro account.

 

 

BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, Brentwood

 

Cash Management Analyst (Jul 06 – Jul 07)                        

 

  • Cash management – ability to prioritise workload and manage my time successfully to process daily accounts. In this role I have developed excellent accuracy to detail.
  • Cash reconciliation – investigate and problem solve.
  • Administration – maintaining clear and precise records of transactions.
  • Liaising with clients, banks and trustees – in particular, Royal Bank of Scotland Collective Investments and Barclays Open Investments.
  • Managing queries from both internal and external clients.
  • Calculate funding requirements.
  • Initiating payments.
  • Reviewing and maintaining procedures.
  • Created standardised form to minimise breaches and payment errors.
  • Identified a cost saving opportunity by suggesting a better way to making high volume commission payments which resulted in a saving in bank fees. The idea of this was to reduce the overall number of chaps payments made on a daily basis to the same account numbers, by creating a netted payment service. The average number of commission payments ranged on a daily basis from 2-4 extra payments per day, creating a saving of £40 - £80 per day.

Education

EDUCATION

Jun 07                                IAQ exams – An introduction to Investment – Pass                                                                   

 

2003 – 2006                     LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY, Loughborough

 

Process Technology and Business Management BSc (Hons) 2:2                                  

 

2001 – 2003                     COOPERS COBORN SIXTH FORM SCHOOL, Upminster

 

A Levels: Physical Education (B) Mathematics (D) Chemistry (E)

AS Levels: Physics (D)

 

1996 – 2001                     GABLE HALL SCHOOL, Stanford-le-Hope

 

Ten GSCE’s, (A* - C) including Maths (A), Science (A) and English (A)

Professionals from different sectors near Hitchin, North Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire

Other users who are called Lee

Jobs near Hitchin, North Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire

  • Salvo

    Materials Manager

    Found in: Indeed UK C2 - 2 weeks ago


    Salvo Waltham Cross, United Kingdom £30,000 - £50,000 per year

    Join Salvo, a leading Italian food wholesaler based in Cheshunt, as our Night Shift Warehouse Manager · Schedule: Sunday to Thursday, 8pm - 6am · Salary: up to £40,000 per annum · Role Highlights: · Lead and develop a dynamic team through training and motivation. · Ensure efficie ...

  • Purple Dove Childcare Recruitment

    Childcare Workers

    Found in: Indeed UK C2 - 1 week ago


    Purple Dove Childcare Recruitment Beaconsfield, United Kingdom Full time £18,000 - £25,000 per year

    QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR THESE ROLES: A Childcare Qualification at Level 2 or above · We are looking to recruit Level 2 or Level 3 Qualified Nursery Nurses looking to join a supportive, energetic team who are passionate about the early years sector. This may be the perfect ...

  • Build Recruitment

    Quantity Surveyor Manager

    Found in: Whatjobs GB C2 - 1 week ago


    Build Recruitment Cambridge, United Kingdom Permanent, Full time £45,000 - £65,000 per year

    One of the largest construction and real estate consultancies in the UK is currently searching for an Associate to join their Cost Management department in Cambridge. · Clients will be both public and private sector, with various asset classes including Heritage, Education, Retai ...