PAULO AZEVEDOForest Hill, London SE23

Mobile: 07985 227 520 Email: paza_2000@yahoo.com https://uk.linkedin.com/in/pauloazevedo2015

An experienced Fund Accountant progressed to migration/transitions roles with Citi and HSBC. Clear understanding of migration/implementation procedures and a strong background of Fund Accounting in terms of producing NAVs, take ons, setup of new clients in systems: offering leadership, commitment & relationship building skills gained in Financial Services alongside being a fast learner.

Voluntary Services Lewisham (VSL) June 2015 – December 2015 Volunteer Driver

• Transport isolated and vulnerable residents of Lewisham Borough to attend medical appointments, social groups, private appointments and visits to friends and family.

HSBC - Global Banking and Markets (Canary Wharf, London) January 2015 – May 2015Migration Manager - Fund Implementation

Supporting business growth by execution of fund migrations activities for new business wins.

Managing and supporting the on-going change activities for existing clients including Fund launches, mergers, closures, in-specie transfers and custody and operational transitions.

Testing and conducting of migration activities including upload and Operational support post Migration/Transitions

Ensuring that mapping to all systems were in place for delivery requirements to the HSS methodology and operational processes to support a successful end to end Migration/Transition.

Liaising with all internal and external parties to ensure readiness for successful related business flows before sign off, these included KYC, AML, Custody, Legal and all Operational departments by the way of maintaining the procedures and check list up to date.

Regular conference calls with all parties (internal and external) for updates,status and resolution of any queries arisen during the project.

Review of current procedures to absorb and lessons to be learn, change and implementation where applicable.

Maintaining HSBC internal controls, standards including timely implementation of internal and external audit points relevant to internal Compliance and external Regulators.

Daily reconciliation of cash and stock post migrations and fund closures. Highlight and investigate and breaks and liaising with relevant departments if

required to clear any breaks within set up deadlines, and escalation of any issues.

Voluntary Services Lewisham (VSL) November 2014 – December 2014 Volunteer Driver

• Transport isolated and vulnerable residents of Lewisham Borough to attend medical appointments, social groups, private appointments and visits to friends and family.

CITI BANK N.A. (Edinburgh) February 2014 - March 2014 Migration Analyst/Fund Accountant

• Part of the Fund Accounting migration workstream within the project team focused on on-boarding a new client to Citi Fund Accounting platform.

• Responsible for the migration, analysis, review, and delivery of all migration requirements of individual funds onto Citi platforms.

• Parallel running with client before going live.• Daily reconciliation of TB’s investigation and resolve any issues within 24 hours.• Production of documentation of assigned work to support delivery, and escalation

of any issues for a complete audit trail.Sabbatical March 2013 – February 2014

STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY June 2009 – March 2013

Client Services Representative, Senior Associate (Function outsourced to State Street Office in Cape Town, South Africa in March 2013)

• With the conclusion of the M2E (Migration to Enterprise) project to replace the old AXA legacy platform to the new State Street one, I resumed my supervisory role in the fund accounting team.

• Led and trained a team of 6 to embrace and understand the new platform after a decade of using the old AXA IM legacy system.

• Introduced new procedures to maximise the team output and reduce the occurrence of manual errors.

• Co-ordinated the monthly tasks to achieve pre-set deadlines ensuring that agreed SLA deliverables were accurately met, and keep KPI’s green.

• Produced and validated accurate, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual NAV reports for multiple asset classes in multicurrency funds.

• Ensured that the check and resolving of cash reconciliations report received by the Cash Team was maintained by the team.

• Liaised with both internal and external parties in order to resolve any queries, including Audit, cash and stock.

• Worked closely with the Client Reporting Team ensuring consistency and accuracy of reporting packs.

• With the new system in place, I created new spreadsheets using vlookups that saved the team valuable time and brought human error to a minimum.

• Deputised for the Team Manager in the checking and validation of all reports for accuracy before delivery to the client.

• Updated procedures to reflect any new changes to processes or client requirements.

• Assisted the Team Manager with take ons , in-species, implementation of new procedures and other project requests.

• Trained, oversaw the transition and oversight duties.

Project Analyst November 2007 – June 2009f

• Ensured the delivery of M2E project for Fund Accounting Services for all product types for AXA legacy business in line with both business and Client expectations (transition from the old AXA legacy system – Hiportfolio – to State Street MCH system). This included:

- Writing test scripts and testing. - Parallel running before going live.

- Regular conference calls with developers and client before and during conversion finalise finalise any teething issues arising post conversion. - Writing and assisting the developers in the creation of bespoke reports for Pension Fund TrusteesTrustees• Maintained high levels of service in the delivery of Fund Accounting/Client

Reporting Services.• Executed testing to ensure that the business requirements were captured in line

with the project milestones.• Escalation of any issues for a complete audit trail and documented procedures for

production environment before going live.

Fund Accountant Supervisor – Segregated Funds Team March 2005 – November 2007

(Promoted to Supervisor/Senior Associate in April 2005)• Liaised with both internal and external parties in order to resolve any queries,

including Audit, cash and stock.• Produced and validated accurate, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual NAV

reports for multiple asset classes in multicurrencies funds.• Daily check of cash reconciliations report received by the Cash Team.• Deputised for the Team Manager in the checking and validation of all reports for

accuracy before delivery to the client.• Updated procedures to reflect any new changes to processes or clients.• Assisted the Team Manager with take ons, implementation of new procedures and

other project requests from various teams.• Responsible for the training of junior staff.

AXA UK INVESTMENT MANAGERS December 2000 - March 2005 Fund Accountant Segregated Funds Team (Outsourced to State Street March 2005)

Investment Income Administrator – Market Facing Team January 2000 – December 2000

LEGAL & GENERAL INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT February 1998 - January 2000 RecReconciliations & Cash Team Administrator

ABN AMRO BANK, London November 1997 - February 1998 Reconciliations/ Investigations Clerk

BANCO PORTUGUES DO ATLANTICO SA, London July 1996 - November 1997 Operational Administration Assistant/Cashier

FURTHER AND OTHER FULL DETAILS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.

INTERESTS Cycling, travelling, sports and cooking.

LANGUAGES English (fluent), Portuguese (fluent) SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE Access MCH Factset Hiportfolio

Bloomberg Multifonds TLMQuasarChase Reporter SQL ICON

Windows

Exshare IMS InfoView Exshare QUALIFICATIONS 9 O Levels (GCSE Equivalent) 1983-1989: Escola Secundaria, Monte de Caparica, Portugal 2 ACCA Level One Passes