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Karolina Ćmikiewicz

Karolina Ćmikiewicz

Wrocław

Summary

I am a motivated Analyst professional with almost 8 years of experience. Experience includes covering margin calls, daily portfolio reconciliation, setting up requirements for macro process automation and acting as manager deputy. Always eager to share my knowledge and experience among the team. During the last 6 months I had a chance to get familiar with Hedge Fund analysis from accountant perspective, I was also responsible for leading the Team.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Analyst, Hedge Fund Accounting

BNY Mellon
09.2023 - Current

- Acting as Lead analyst, preparing tasks allocation for the Team

- Working closely with US Team on process transition to Poland

- Supervising reports prepared by fund accountants

- Preparing daily reconciliation of cash movements, comparing ledger and statement positions manually as well as in reconciliation system

- Booking options, reverse repo, revenues, dividends and other accounting related transactions to ensure positions accuracy

- Preparing monthly cash, position and PNL recons to resolve outstanding breaks

Control & MI Hub Analyst

Credit Suisse
08.2022 - 08.2023

- Preparing daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reports for Collateral Management teams and management

- Working on procedures review

- Setting up requirements for macro processes automation

- Reconciling cash collateral breaks

- New reconciliation system testing

SPV Collateral Management Analyst

Credit Suisse
05.2019 - 07.2022

Promotion to Front & Client Support Specialist 3


- Acting as manager deputy, covering supervisory tasks - payments approvals, 4-eye checks, Client's contacts setup

- Deployment of SPV process from London to Wroclaw

- Following up on security fails

- Booking collateral movements to ensure coverage of exposure

- Reconciling collateral balances on a monthly basis, clearing outstanding breaks

FID Managed Lending Collateral Analyst

Credit Suisse
11.2016 - 04.2019

Promotion to Front & Client Support Specialist 2


- Contributing to successful deployment of FID Managed Lending process from London to Wroclaw

- Daily monitoring of exposure values

- Covering prepays and recalls with bilateral and triparty clients

- Cooperating with internal teams and IT on improving daily reporting to mitigate risk

- Reconciling collateral balances on a monthly basis, clearing outstanding breaks

- Training new joiners on the processes

- Working closely with IT on new collateral system testing and implementation

Repo Collateral Analyst

Credit Suisse
08.2015 - 10.2016


- Processing daily margin calls, collateral movements booking

- Checking daily control reports and clearing outstanding breaks

- Responding to client's queries and requests

- Reconciling portfolio in order to resolve margin call disputes

- Clearing cash breaks and security fails

- Agreeing cash collateral interests on a monthly basis

OTC Collateral Management Intern

Credit Suisse
05.2015 - 07.2015

- Issuing and responding to margin calls

- Cash and security collateral bookings

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

WSiZ "Copernicus"
Wrocław
04.2017

Technician - Pharmacy

TEB Edukacja
Wrocław
06.2013

Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology

University of Technology
Wrocław
01.2013

Skills

  • Strong analytical skills and eye for details - trained by preparing daily portfolio reconciliation
  • Multitasking – while being heavily involved in new collateral system UAT testing, I was required to provide feedback and ideas on the process, covering BAU at the same time
  • Professional approach to work - shown in everyday contact with Clients, Settlements Team, IT and Front Office
  • Improvement-oriented – introducing SPV collateral booking automation which allowed to reduce manual workload among the team

Computer skills

- good command of Microsoft Office™ tools (Word™,   Excel™, Outlook™ and PowerPoint™)

- office equipment operating 

Languages

Polish
Native language
English
Advanced
C1

Timeline

Lead Analyst, Hedge Fund Accounting

BNY Mellon
09.2023 - Current

Control & MI Hub Analyst

Credit Suisse
08.2022 - 08.2023

SPV Collateral Management Analyst

Credit Suisse
05.2019 - 07.2022

FID Managed Lending Collateral Analyst

Credit Suisse
11.2016 - 04.2019

Repo Collateral Analyst

Credit Suisse
08.2015 - 10.2016

OTC Collateral Management Intern

Credit Suisse
05.2015 - 07.2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

WSiZ "Copernicus"

Technician - Pharmacy

TEB Edukacja

Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology

University of Technology
Karolina Ćmikiewicz