Geoffrey Vella

•Ran the business operations for a digital partnership, incl. monthly revenue-share tracking & commission reconciliations.
•Built Excel models to track business cash flows, check payout accuracy, and analyse monthly performance.
•Used data analytics tools and spreadsheets to spot trends.
•Extensive market research & writing, while tracking international regulatory updates for compliance.

•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.

•Owned accounting, reporting, and control processes under IFRS for a €1bn+ HTM/AFS bond portfolio.
•Reconciled GL balances, validated accruals, investigated accounting breaks, and supported balance sheet substantiation for month-end close.
•Prepared inputs for management accounts, Board packs, and ad hoc analysis.
•Coordinated with accounting software vendor on system defects and tested patches.

• Investment research & operations support role within a London-based capital sourcing firm.
• Monitored macroeconomic & sector developments to propose investment themes & initiated contact with hedge fund managers to introduce services.
• Conducted hedge fund firm due diligence & performance-based peer group analysis.
• Aggregated & reported monthly 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 estimate and drivers.
•Compared and reported internal P&L with FO estimates, requesting sign-off for immaterial differences and detailed breakdowns for material differences.

•Promoted to a role using a funding model to project overnight borrowing needs for USD, CAD, and GBP accounts.
•Reconciled opening cash balances and identified relevant operational cash flows, including trades and term funding.
•Instructed and released SWIFT payments.
•Allocated daily overdraft charges and credit interest across trading books.
•Investigated funding -related unreconciled items.

•Promoted to a role confirming USD-denominated Treasury, corporate bond, & repo trade details with counterparties to minimise settlement fails.
•Identified & resolved trade discrepancies using Bloomberg & coordination with traders.
•Monitored U.S. Treasury positions by ISIN to maintain a flat book & verified that corporate bond sales were covered.
•Prepared daily settled trades cash flow reports.

•Operations control role involving daily reconciliations of several securities-related currency accounts to reduce operational & financial reporting risk.
•Promptly investigated & cleared reconciliation breaks by 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 within 4 weeks.

Grade:

Activities and societies:

• 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.

Grade:

•Passed CFA Level I through CFA Institute in 2008.
•Successful completion of the foundational tier of the Chartered Financial Analyst program, establishing deep competency in fixed-income analysis and financial reporting standards.

•Specialised professional development coursework focused on corporate organizational structure, strategic operations, and foundational business management frameworks.