SAMMANI AMERASINGHE
Senior Investment Operations Analyst
New Zealand
Summary
Experienced senior investment operations analyst with a passion for fund management, investment, and banking. Over 3 years at New Zealand Super Fund, I’ve excelled in investment and asset management. Nominated for CFO awards and won multiple recognition award for my work. In roles like investment analyst at AIA and fund administrator at HSBC, I’ve refined quantitative skills and deepened market knowledge. A postgraduate degree in banking and finance from Massey University and hands-on equity analysis at Bloomberg augment my expertise. Seeking a challenging role to leverage my strengths in investments and drive success in fund management.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Investment Operations Analyst
New Zealand Super Fund
Auckland, AUK
08.2023 - Current
- Continuously improve Investment Operations' processes by identifying areas for improvement and implementing changes.
- Complete allocated and ad hoc project work by working independently and as part of a team, and meeting deadlines.
- Implentation of workflow tools, conduct UAT testing and provide user support on Service Now.
- Streamline and automate processes using Power BI creation and implementation.
- Lead the Collateral Management Reporting migration project.
- Completed a secondment with custodian Northern Trust.
- Lead the Risk register review project.
- Investigate and resolve exceptions by identifying the root cause of the issue and taking corrective action.
- Ensure the accuracy and availability of tools for daily controls and oversight of the portfolio by regularly testing and validating tools, and working with IT to resolve any issues.
- Liaise with key service providers by communicating effectively and building strong relationships.
INVESTMENT ADMINISTRATION OFFICER
AIA NEW ZEALAND, SOVEREIGN ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED
Auckland
01.2018 - Current
- This role has given me great exposure to the process flows of investment transactions and transition work, I have been involved in projects such as the investment governance framework implementation, external and group internal audit, company rebranding and swift portal implementation etc
- Key Responsibilities
- This role involves ensuring the investment reporting system is updated with all investment data including security static data and registry flows
- Providing back office support to all investment portfolios of Sovereign
- Processing instructions for asset/ fund certificate trading, carrying out security market valuations (including benchmarking/indexing)
- Corporate actions, trade processing and settlement, FX hedging and treasury management
- Ensuring the system is up to date and accurate for the middle office team to begin portfolio analysis/hedging and the unit pricing team to calculate portfolio unit prices (fund of funds level)
- Stock, cash reconciliations and investigations on queries by external and internal parties
- Ensuring risk and compliance standards are met
- Reason for move
- Lack of growth opportunities within the team.
TRADE FINANCE SPECIALIST
NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK
Auckland
08.2017 - 12.2017
- This role involves processing of many trade financing products, Highly quantitative role
- Managing internal relationships and reporting of daily work
- Providing excellent customer service and developing the skills needed to understand the need of clients and the risks associated to them
- Ensuring timely and accurate processing & turnaround of trade documentation relating to Letters of credit, trade finance & import collections to ensure the achievement of SLA’s
- EXPEREINCE
BLOOMBERG LEARNING, MASSEY UNIVERSITY
North Shore, Auckland
02.2017 - 07.2017
- As a Bloomberg champion nominated by the university I underwent advanced training sessions held by Bloomberg specialists and delivered training sessions weekly to University students
- This is an Offsite internship with Bloomberg
- Sessions covered varied weekly and included topics such as Futures Basics, Fixed Income and Forex Advance sessions etc
- This role provided me extra insights into advance investment analysis
- This is a training and development role which involved transfer of specific terminal skills to other Bloomberg enthusiasts.
ACCOUNTS AND ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT
EATCOOL PTY LTD
Auckland
11.2016 - 03.2017
- I started my position as an intern and secured a part-time employment, assisting the accountant while carrying out daily administration tasks
- My role involved daily book keeping, invoicing and other information needed to carry out Payroll fortnightly
- I performed many administrative tasks and acted as a central point for key communications for technical issues with products between clients and head office technical team based in Australia
- This is an overall administrative and client interacting role.
FUND ADMINISTRATOR
HSBC SECURITIES SERVICES
Colombo
01.2015 - 07.2016
- The Role involved understanding and processing complex securities transactions for the UK Investor Jurisdiction
- Key Responsibilities
- Processing of derivative contracts for investments, such as futures contracts, options contracts, over the counter products etc
- Booking and settling of trades, complex query handling
- Communicating with clients, collaborating with employees in other teams and other business partners
- Key Achievements
- During the year of work, I handled multiple job roles in a critical stage of the trade processing team, due to staff shortage
- I was highlighted for achieving end of day team sign offs on time with the most minimal trade errors during my stay
Education
Bachelor of Science - Banking and Finance
Monash University
01.2011 - 1 2014
Postgraduate Diploma - Banking and Finance
Massey University
01.2016 - 1 2017
Skills
Reconciliations and investigations
Stakeholder management
Strong communication skills
Ability to work under pressure and demanding deadlinesExcellent knowledge in investments and asset management
Software knowledge, such as SWIFT, ICON, ITF, Bloomberg Terminal, Reuters, Simcorp Dimension, NZ ClearIndustry analysis experience
Strategic planning
Business process mapping
Project Management
Business analysis
Workflow Optimisation
Microsoft Office Suite
Operations management
Timeline
Senior Investment Operations Analyst
New Zealand Super Fund
08.2023 - Current
INVESTMENT ADMINISTRATION OFFICER
AIA NEW ZEALAND, SOVEREIGN ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED
01.2018 - Current
TRADE FINANCE SPECIALIST
NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK
08.2017 - 12.2017
BLOOMBERG LEARNING, MASSEY UNIVERSITY
02.2017 - 07.2017
ACCOUNTS AND ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT
EATCOOL PTY LTD
11.2016 - 03.2017
Postgraduate Diploma - Banking and Finance
Massey University
01.2016 - 1 2017
FUND ADMINISTRATOR
HSBC SECURITIES SERVICES
01.2015 - 07.2016
Bachelor of Science - Banking and Finance
Monash University
01.2011 - 1 2014