Geoffrey Vella

• Ran the business operations for a digital partnership, handling monthly revenue-share tracking & multi-currency commission reconciliations. • Built and maintained Excel models to track business cash flows, check payout accuracy, and analyse monthly performance numbers. • Used data analytics tools and spreadsheets to spot trends, check data integrity, and fix network reporting breaks. • Did extensive market research & writing, while tracking international regulatory updates to keep the platform compliant.

• Prepared Excel-based cash flow models and credit memoranda supporting syndicated loan investment recommendations for Investment Committee (IC) approval. • Monitored portfolio exposures via monthly management accounts analysis, identifying early signs of credit deterioration and recommending internal watchlist classifications. • Supported team quarterly portfolio risk reviews of credit exposures.

• Supported daily financial operations by executing accounting, reporting, & control processes under IFRS for a €1bn+ investment-grade HTM/AFS bond portfolio. • Executed GL reconciliations, validated accruals, investigated accounting breaks, & supported balance sheet substantiation for month-end close in Finacle Treasury and Finacle Core. • Prepared inputs for management accounts, Board packs, and management analysis. • Reported accounting system issues and tested patches, & supported control improvements.

• Provided internal investment research and operations support within a London-based capital sourcing firm. • Monitored macroeconomic and sector developments to propose investment themes and initiated contact with hedge fund managers to introduce services. • Conducted comprehensive hedge fund firm due diligence and performance-based peer group variance analysis. • Aggregated, verified, and reported monthly financial KPIs for onboarded hedge funds to investors.

• Validated pre-trial balance Bloomberg price feeds, dividends and corporate actions including stock splits. • Produced daily trial balance and P&L attribution for 3 equity derivative portfolios, providing initial P&L estimates and key performance drivers. • Reconciled internal P&L against Front Office estimates, requesting sign-off for immaterial differences and securing detailed breakdowns to resolve material variances.

• Utilised internal funding models to project overnight borrowing requirements for multi-currency USD, CAD, and GBP accounts. • Reconciled opening cash balances and identified operational cash flows, including active trades and term funding. • Instructed and released institutional SWIFT payments. • Allocated daily overdraft charges and credit interest across individual trading books. • Investigated and resolved funding-related unreconciled items and accounting breaks.

• Provided execution-level trade settlements, confirming USD-denominated U.S. Treasury, corporate bond, and repo trade details to minimise settlement fails. • Identified and resolved trade discrepancies using Bloomberg and coordination with traders. • Monitored U.S. Treasury positions by ISIN to maintain a flat book and verify that corporate bond sales were covered, escalating long or short positions arising from late trade bookings to the repo trader. • Prepared daily trade settlement cash flow reports.

• Executed daily reconciliations of multiple securities-related currency accounts to mitigate operational and financial reporting risk. • Promptly investigated and cleared reconciliation breaks while engaging with internal and external stakeholders to reduce aged breaks. • Led a successful cost-saving migration of a legacy reconciliations system from London to Toronto by documenting workflows and training colleagues within a 4-week timeline.

Completed this degree via the official OBU-ACCA partnership track on a part-time basis alongside ongoing professional commitments. Successfully prepared a comprehensive Research and Analysis Project (RAP) comparing and evaluating the financial performance of two regional European airlines.