Work experience
“Once I’d acquired this range of technical and financial skills, I was placed at Credit Suisse London in May 2010 to work in the credit derivatives’ Application Support team. The environment there was dynamic, buzzing and challenging.
The role gave me experience in the following:
• Supporting various trading applications and platforms used in the fixed income department
• Solving problems around profit and loss breaks, data feeds, risk figures and user rights
• Liaising between front office, product control, risk and strategy to deliver two essential tools for post trading data analysis.
• Migration projects, UAT, parallel testing, and regression testing
• Resolving urgent and immediate requests by various users in a vibrant and demanding environment
• Advanced use of EXCEL formulae and VBA
• Team working, time management, communication and problem solving skills were significantly enhanced
• Exposure to the organisational structure of investment banks
• Further understanding of financial processes and terms that affect our economy