I have been involved with the financial markets in excess of 20 years, and my experience covers various areas from life actuarial, group actuarial, actuarial valuations, quantitative analysis, market risk, liquidity risk, trading and management in the interest rate market. For the last 10 years I have been involved in Treasury (i.e. funding, hedging, strategy and arbitrage). My most recent role is that of local head of ALM and Treasurer of BNP Paribas – South Africa. Prior to that I was Treasurer of Credit Agricole Johannesburg until the company pulled out of South Africa. Before entering the banking/trading/ALM realm, I started out with the life industry in the actuarial discipline. My core competencies will include: • Effective business communicator (both written and spoken) • Great level of understanding, experience and analytical ability in the Interest Rate and Forex Market. • Well experienced and technically sound in the products that make up the market, from vanilla money market instruments, to FX Swaps, IRD, Bonds, and the more exotic structured products. • I have a wealth of experience in understanding, applying and monitoring regulatory constraints, as well as good quantitative knowledge. • In my time as Trader / Treasurer, I also constructed my own market and liquidity risk models and applied them effectively over the book I was responsible for. This was not the official models, however, I used these in conjunction with input from the official finance and risk teams to keep ahead of developments. • As ALM convenor and chair, I always nurture a good relationship and between ALM, Finance and Risk in terms of regulatory issues, risk, strategy and management. • In terms of funding and funding constraints, I can provide valuable input to commercial business when it comes to pricing and risk vs. reward. Key achievements: • Always ensured sufficient liquidity, especially after the 2008 crisis. • Managed a balance sheet of circa ZAR 25bn at Credit Agricole and continuously achieved or exceeded budgets. • Built a balance sheet from zero to circa ZAR 15bn in 3 years at BNP Paribas, and achieved or exceeded budgets.