1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Name Mark Longmore, Address 20 Faraday Road, Welling, Kent, DA16 2ET. Email,
mark.longmore@live.co.uk Home Telephone 020 8 3010453, Mobile – 07502375322
PROFILE
I am a reliable, punctual, flexible, conscientious, efficient and enthusiastic person, with good
numeracy skills and work well to deadlines and am always willing to learn new tasks. I am a good
team player as well as being able to work on tasks individually. I am excellent working in high
pressure situations. Besides 17 years banking experience I also have two years managerial
experience in retail, which involved liaising with all levels of management as well as with customers.
I also spent one year in Australia and during my time in Sydney worked within the Banking Industry.
WORK EXPERIENCE
July 2011 to Date – RBC Investor and Treasury Services
I am currently working for the Trade Order Management team (TOMs) Asset Management within the
UK Fund Services Investment Operations Department.
I am responsible for accurate and timely trade matching processing and settlement of Equities, Fixed
Income including CD’s and CP’s and FX transactions. I currently manage all trades for seven different
clients covering approximately 500 funds in total managing trade volumes on average of 15,000 a
month, across Euroclear, CREST, DTC and all other domestic markets.
I oversee the capture, matching and pre settlement stages of these transactions, liaising with third
parties including Client, Broker and Prime Broker/Custodians, the Recs, Derivatives and Corporate
Actions teams. I am also required to amend any SWIFT instructions that have been sent out to
custodians with incorrect SSI’s.
My day to day role predominantly involves matching trades via OMGEO CTM and then following the
trade process through to settlement by liaising with Brokers and Custodians as well as our various
clients to ensure that trades settle in a timely manner. Failed and unmatched trade reporting to our
clients is also a daily requirement.
I am also responsible for maintaining and updating our static data as well as investigating and
resolving stock and cash reconciliations, Fund Accounting and cash processing
The systems I currently use are Salerio, Milvus and Multifonds (fund accounting system using the
“four eyes” principle), as well as OMGEO CTM, OMGEO ALERT, Bloomberg, Co-Funds, IFDS Websites
as well as Custodians weblinks and I use all Windows programs. I am a good communicator and have
good teamwork and flexibility skills. These are essential for this role as well as constantly working
to tight deadlines and being able to prioritize my workload efficiently.
July 2009 to July 2011 – Vindex Security Systems
Worked as a general assistant with regards to the installation and maintenance of security cameras,
door access control and emergency break glass operation.
August 2008 to November 2008 - Ellerston Capital Hedge Fund (Sydney Australia) - Three
month contract
- Duties were to confirm and settle all our daily trades across all markets (Australian, NZ, Asia-Pac,
UK, US and European.
- Required to complete daily failed and unmatched trade reports to ensure timely settlement.
- Keeping to tight market deadlines was essential for this role.
- Extensive liaison with executing brokers and Prime Brokers Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
2. - Booking and settlement of Indian Futures
June 2008 to August 2008 - RBC Dexia Investment Services (Sydney Australia) – 6 week
Contract role
- Day to day responsibilities included the processing of margin calls and movements.
- Client reporting involving importing files and cash forecasting.
- Booking the purchases and sales of Futures products for our client Goldman Sachs.
- Daily settlement, reconciliation, posting of interest accruals and money market transactions within
our custodian system (HiPort).
- Working to very tight early morning deadlines as it was vital for our client to receive their daily
information/data before they commenced trading.
September 2001 to June 2008 - State Street Investment Management Solutions
Position: Trade Liaison Administrator (Settlements) Senior Associate
Five years with State Street IMSE Limited working in the Back Office.
-Extensive liaison with Internal Ops Depts, Brokers, Custodians and Asset Management Clients
(Scottish Widows, Swiss Life Belgium, Investec AM, and AXA Global Investments) to ensure timely
settlement of FOP and DVP Equity (75%), fixed income(20%) and unit trust trades (5%) and resolve
all booking and settlement issues across all domestic markets (UK, US, Canada, European Domestic,
Emerging Markets such as Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, South Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri
Lanka. As well as CREST, Euroclear/Clearstream and DTC.
- Pre-matching and management of all failing and unmatched trades, for over 800 funds for the above
clients.
- Agree trades, arrange credit approval for FOP trades, and PSA documentation with agents and
clients for Russian Domestic settlements.
- Cash and Stock reconciliation resolution.
- Issuing and resolving interest claims.
- Instructing payments,
- Client reporting and the use of Bloomberg and Reuters.
- Monitoring Stock and Cash positions to ensure availability of pending deliveries
- Custodian Liaison regarding Stock Lending, Partials and Net offs.
- Arrange update of Static Data for clients SSI’s to ensure STP.
- Escalation of trade problems to Management
- Use of ALERT settlement Instruction system.
- Basic knowledge of Oasys confirmation system.
- Six month secondment on Transaction Capture to understand the processing of Market and Non-
Market input and the timely release of trade instructions into all markets.
- Processing equity, fixed income instruments along with mortgage back securities, derivatives and
unit trusts, forward and spot FX’s, client requested cash movements and ad-hoc movements.
In my final year I was selected to work as part of a new reconciliation investigations team recently
introduced into the operations set up. This involved reconciling cash and stock between our back
office record keeping system and our custodian’s external and internal systems Paladign, MCH, IBS
and Hogan.
Aug. 1998-2001 - Bank of America – Treasury Services / Accounts Group
Position: Back Office-Senior Clerical/Interest Specialist
- I joined the accounting group where I worked as a Senior Interest Specialist. I was responsible for
setting all customer Interest rates along with product rates. The use of spreadsheets and Reuters was
required for this.
- During my 3 years within the Bank, I covered all areas within the department including account
openings/closures and maintenance, ledger and general ledger, suspense and holdovers
(reprocessing/distribution of transactions which haven’t gone through overnight), profit and loss
reports.
3. - My positions required me to liaise with all areas of the bank.
Feb. 1998- Aug. 1998 - CSO (De Beers): Trainee Diamond sorter
Sept. 1995- Feb.1998 - CWS Ltd Retail: Part-time work whilst studying for A-Levels; one year as a
management trainee and fourteen months as a department manager
EDUCATION
September 1995 to June 1996 - Croydon College
September 1993 to June 1995 - Bexleyheath Secondary School
September 1988 to June 1993 - Welling Secondary School
QUALIFICATIONS
Certificate in Retail Management - Pass
HNC - Distribution Studies - Pass
A-S-Level Mathematics - D
A-Level Physics - E
GNVQ Business Level 2 - Merit
Foreign Language at Work (FLAW) (French) - Pass
GCSE’s :-
Science (dual cert) - B,B Business Studies - C
Mathematics - C (higher level) French - D
English Literature - C Geography - E
English Language - C Music - E
Hobbies:- Reading, fishing, swimming, darts, travelling and watching all types of sport and
socialising. I also manage and captain a local pool league team
References available on request