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Jordanna Rosine Caleemootoo

Baie Du Tombeau

Summary

Trading professional with robust experience in financial markets, risk management, and strategic decision-making. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results, adaptable to changing market conditions. Skilled in data analysis, portfolio management, and leveraging market trends for optimal outcomes. Respected for reliability, efficiency, and results-driven mindset.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Trader Treasury Management, Financial Markets

The Mauritius Commercial Bank Limited
12.2020 - Current
  • Developing and maintaining consistent bi-lateral relationships with local and international banks to preserve and increase our access to funding
  • Managing all cash management functions including monitoring of cash flow patterns, account funding and placement for all currencies so as to be always liquid whenever required.
  • Evaluating and implementing short-term funding and investment strategies, to ensure liquidity is maintained and to optimize interest cost/benefit
  • Identifying seasonal liquidity trends so as to manage efficiently the Bank’s liquidity requirements
  • Quoting and executing money market transactions to ensure the funding mix and funding cost are in line with the bank’s strategies and liquidity and interest rate risks are within pre-set risks
  • Managing the bank’s liquid asset portfolio within the statutory cash reserve ratio set down by the bank of Mauritius and internal target liquidity assets ratio.
  • Monitoring maturity ladder of Securities
  • Monitoring BOM’s website for any notice of tender and submitting bidding proposal for government securities auctions.
  • Reconciling Nostro balances to identify any discrepancy between EOD of the previous working day and the opening of the present working day.

Client Relationship Specialist, Securities Service

The Mauritius Commercial Bank Limited
01.2016 - 12.2020
  • Acting as the primary point of contact for custody account opening and escalation for systems, operations and any other client related issues and proactively managing the resolution process with frequent updates and measures.
  • Developing and maintaining relationships with clients by promoting and delivering a broad range of products & services with the primary focus on value-added sales
  • Retaining and expanding existing customer relationships
  • Providing service to customers with regards to account information, questions, problems or other requests
  • Facilitating problem resolution with specialized units and responding to customer when necessary
  • Participating in service reviews with local fund managers to ensure customer satisfaction, retention and identification of new business opportunities
  • Assuring compliance with all audit policies and procedures
  • Ensuring good communication line is maintained with other departments within the bank

Operations Officer

Standard Chartered Bank Mauritius
02.2012 - 11.2013
  • Performing all day to day settlement operations of securities and cash, registration, dematerialization, rematerialization of securities, related Forex transactions in clients’ accounts
  • Verifying corporate actions received, reconciling SWIFT MT564 notifications as received from global custodian versus customer positions & confirming the accuracy of corporate actions processing
  • Interacting with clients, brokers, depository for timely settlements
  • Ensuring internal and external reporting requirements, operational risk management, timely regulatory return & billing
  • Acting as a checker role to oversee subordinates’ Net Asset Value calculations and perform investment compliance monitoring to ensure delivery of accurate and timely reports for clients
  • Monitoring reconciliation process for portfolio holdings and cash position
  • Handling client enquiries and instructions
  • Reviewing team members' work and client’s deliverables
  • Ensuring clients instructions are executed promptly and accurately

Credit Analyst

Banque des Mascareignes
10.2011 - 12.2011
  • Gathering and analyzing credit information on current and potential borrowers
  • Assessing the credit worthiness of clients by analyzing financial information such as statements, management accounts and cash flow statements
  • Ensuring that credit exposures are kept in line with the bank’s limit on risk bearing
  • Drawing up recommendations and submitting conclusions to the credit committee for final approval

Senior Securities Officer

Standard Bank (Mauritius) Ltd
01.2009 - 09.2011
  • Interacting with exchanges, regulators, local & International brokers, regional & Global custodians.
  • Establishing SLAs for service provided to customers and ensure that service is maintained at highest level.
  • Coordinating client due diligence visit and service reviews
  • Coordinating new business take-on and provide assistance in assets transfers
  • Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
  • Attending to Operational Risk matters by preparing the monthly RCSA (Risk and Control Self Assessment) and KRIs reports (Key Risk Indicator) for Investor services and reporting same to the Risk Manager.
  • Establishing/ revising processes and procedures to support client’s needs related to new products.
  • Addressing and resolving client operational issues on a timely basis and communicating status and results to client.
  • Supporting clients in opening custody accounts.
  • Processing securities transaction and reporting (NAV).
  • Providing clients with corporate actions announcements – Rights/Bonus issues and dividend payments.
  • Liaising with Global Markets in the procurement and confirmation of Forex deals.
  • Contributing to the profitability by analyzing client’s needs, offering solutions in consultation with other business units (e.g. Global Market, cash management) and identifying potential area for business opportunities.

Trade Operations Assistant

HSBC – Offshore Banking Unit
04.2008 - 12.2008
  • Setting accurate daily trade parameters for the Trading desk by:
  • - Cross checking trade bookings with deal tickets and confirmations received from brokers
  • - Updating trade positions on a mark- to- market basis and evaluating the capital structures of listed companies in the portfolio
  • Resolving failing trades with equity derivatives traders and custodian
  • Monitoring daily futures stock and Index limits and calculating margin amount deposited with custodian
  • Meeting reporting requirements of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
  • Filtering trade positions to ensure compliance with relevant stock exchanges and company secretary as per takeover rules and regulations of SEBI
  • Preparing Equity linked note return to highlight stocks held and valued over USD2M as of month end
  • Reconciling cash balance held with custodians
  • Reconciling traders’ zero strike call options with that of custodian

HSBC – Credit Administration Department
03.2008 - 04.2008
  • Preparing facility offer letter
  • Maintenance of loan tracking system
  • Disbursing loan.

Credit Risk Analyst

HSBC – Credit & Risk Dept
10.2007 - 03.2008
  • Monitoring credit approval and risk management processes (Checking compliance to Area Lending guidelines and covenants)
  • Performing financial analysis
  • Monitoring economic conditions through industry reviews and benchmarking of key indicators
  • Preparing credit recovery statistic report.

Nostro Supervisor

HSBC – Financial Control Department
01.2004 - 09.2007
  • Ensuring that all Nostro accounts (cash and ledger statements) are accurately captured and reconciled
  • Assisting the reconciliation clerk to follow-up on the outstanding and high risk transactions.
  • Ensuring timely submission of monthly reports for all Nostro accounts to the Financial Controller and the CEO
  • Submitting monthly regulatory returns to the Bank of Mauritius
  • Preparing & submitting fortnightly withholding tax return on interest to Mauritius Revenue Authority.

Education

Bachelor of Commerce - Risk Management

University of South Africa
Pretoria
01.2006

Skills

  • International computer driving licence (Microsoft package) - UNISA
  • Refinitiv Workspace, Refinitiv FX Trading, Bloomberg, Calypso, Crystal report, Side Reporting Smart stream Reconciliation system, Omega, AS-400, SAP, Branchpower, NCS

Certification

  • Year 2010 – Connemara Consulting – Johannesburg South Africa Global Leadership Course – Team Leader Programme
  • Year 2018 – Chartered Institute for securities & Investment: Introduction to Securities & Investment (International)

References

Upon request

Hobbies and Interests

I enjoy traveling.

Timeline

Trader Treasury Management, Financial Markets

The Mauritius Commercial Bank Limited
12.2020 - Current

Client Relationship Specialist, Securities Service

The Mauritius Commercial Bank Limited
01.2016 - 12.2020

Operations Officer

Standard Chartered Bank Mauritius
02.2012 - 11.2013

Credit Analyst

Banque des Mascareignes
10.2011 - 12.2011

Senior Securities Officer

Standard Bank (Mauritius) Ltd
01.2009 - 09.2011

Trade Operations Assistant

HSBC – Offshore Banking Unit
04.2008 - 12.2008

HSBC – Credit Administration Department
03.2008 - 04.2008

Credit Risk Analyst

HSBC – Credit & Risk Dept
10.2007 - 03.2008

Nostro Supervisor

HSBC – Financial Control Department
01.2004 - 09.2007

Bachelor of Commerce - Risk Management

University of South Africa

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