Rizwan Hussain Resume

Nena House, 77-79 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3HU 1st December 08 – 18th August 09
As an Operations Analyst I ensured the high standards of operations within Australian and Asia based hedge fund and investment banks. I was required to be highly organized, carry out cash management, handle trade settlements, account reconciliation, FX processing, trade input and verification. This position involved daily interaction with custodian’s, client services, front office and senior fund managers by email and phone.
 Daily contact with fund managers, front office and custodians in Australia and Asia based clients.
 Monitoring cash positions across all managed funds.
 Ensuring accurate subscriptions and redemptions are entered into the accounting systems.
 Daily updating of accounting system to reconciliation system has correctly been executed.
 Daily reconciliations of accounts are carried out and monitored.
 Ensuring timely execution of FX’s are carried out.
 Investigating and resolving trade discrepancies and other issues relating to fund portfolios.
 Weekly client meetings with senior managers.
 Daily use of Bloomberg to check trade prices, FX rates and market news.

Legg Mason International Equities Limited Portfolio Analyst
9th Floor, 10 Exchange Square, Primrose Street, EC2A 2EN 14th November 07 – 07th November 08
As a Portfolio Analyst I am responsible for various activities within the organisation and playing a key supporting role of the Emerging Markets Equities multi currency accounts. This role required a combination of analytical work supporting the various business areas, the review of cash management projections across all accounts, FX processing as well as the day-to-day liaison with the London Front Office.
Responsibilities and Experience:
 On a daily basis monitor cash positions liaising with Fund Managers to ensure no overdrafts occur and all trades have been covered.
 Day-to-day liaising with Fund Managers, Legg Mason Technology Services (LMTS) Stamford, Brokers and Custodians. Ensuring relations are maintained at all levels.
 Assisting in the resolution of cash exceptions, which may occur between Legg Mason International Equities records and the Custodians records using Smartstream.
 Processing daily FX’s in an accurate and timely manner.
 Assisting in the daily pricing function performed by Legg Mason Technology Services.
 Creating manual payment faxes and carrying out call backs on payments.



 Accurately entering daily subscriptions, redemption and checking fund information in Portia.
 Assisting our US team with Fund of Funds.
 Managing contract notes for front office.
 Using Bloomberg daily to check company profiles, pricing, FX rates and financial news.
 Weekly reconciliations on funds to verify all positions are correct and all breaks are investigated.
 Instructing custodians to execute fund specific instructions.
 Working closely with front office to ensure all operational issues are covered.
 Working with compliance to ensure all trades and funds are within the FSA regulation and address any potential issues quickly.
 Creating reports for client services to ensure they have the most accurate information to hand.
 New account openings are correctly and fully functioning before any trades are executed.
 Ensuring all cash account details are correct.
 Price amendments of trades and commissions.
 Keeping up to date list of registrars of securities and assets which the funds may handle.
 Weekly operations calls and custodian calls to discuss any issues which may need to be addressed and to check performance within Legg Mason.
 Providing a quick response to collateral calls as and when they arrive from a range of counterparties.

 IT Skills – proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), SunGuard, Bloomberg, Portia, Salerio, Client Link, Smartstream, FX Connect, Euroclear and Citrix.
 Quantative and Qualitative Skills – achieved via hands-on experience and structured learning. I am comfortable and indeed inquisitive on subjects that are inclined towards numeracy and involve problem solving.
 Leadership Skills – Whilst at university, I had campaigned and was elected as the NUS Ethnic Minority Officer. A natural leader, I adopt to dynamic situations well.
 Communications and interpersonal skills – Extremely versatile and am comfortable in working with individuals from a hybrid environment. Relations managements is an essential skill as I liaise with many different levels of an organization.
 My analytical ability has allowed me to complete many of my duties with reconciliations to the high specification of my clients with tight deadlines, as it requires great attention to detail and problem solving skills too.
 Adaptability, I always look for successful methods to adapt to my surrounding environments professionally, which I have regularly practiced when new obstacles have arisen within my working environment such as the Lehman Brothers recent bankruptcy required myself and my team to react quickly to check positions of funds and impacts the bankruptcy may have on the funds whilst providing solutions.
 Team working, has always been a key to gaining optimum results in a team environment which I have demonstrated at Legg Mason when working with all areas of the business such as Operations, HR, Accounts and Front Office to get the required results.

Fluent in English as a first language Also fluent in speaking Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi.

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
University of Westminster BA (Hons) Business Management with Urban Development
2002 – 2007 (Majoring in Business) 2:2
Modules: Below are some of the modules that I studied.

 Economics  Information Systems for Business
 Human Resource Economics  Principles of Marketing
 International Business Strategy  Organisational Behaviour
 Managing Business Organisation  Modelling Business Data
 Project Management  Managerial Decision Making
Epping Forest College (2001 – 2002) A- Level Business Studies
Leyton Sixth Form College (1999 – 2001) A- Level Computing and Physical Education
Leytonstone School (1994 – 1999) Passed 9 GCSEs including A-C grades in English and Mathematics

 Passionate about City of London and its cultures & traditions.
 A penchant for learning about Financial Sector/Investment Banking.
 Like risk sports – Boxing, trekking and caving.
 An advocate for charity voluntarism - member of the ChildLine the anti bullying organisation.
 Member of key Policy think-tanks - Fabians Society, SERA & Chatham House
 Enjoy topical discussions & debates encompassing a range of current affairs issues.
 An inheritant bias towards continues learning – as reflected in my plan to study for my SII & IAQ.
 I am a regular climber for the Climbing Club, which also allows me to make charitable climbs with others.