Michael Powell

Senior Operations Specialist

Letchworth, England, United Kingdom

About

I'm an experienced hedge fund and investment banking operations professional with 14 years’ experience covering middle office operations, sales & trade support, and collateral management. My most recent role was at Coremont, where I was a senior member of the Operations team. On behalf of multiple clients, I was responsible for trade capture, rectifying trade breaks, and trade lifecycle management across a variety of asset classes. I helped launch multiple new clients, ensuring operational processes and procedures were ready for launch date. Prior to Coremont, I was a Senior Analyst with ANZ, providing support to the FX, equity, and rates and credit desks. During this time I improved automated confirmation processing by 30% through onboarding clients onto Omgeo CTM. Competencies: trade confirmation and settlement queries, portfolio reconciliation, client service, enhancing existing processes, OTC derivatives product knowledge, margin call processing and dispute resolution, ISDA/CSA documentation, working with variety of stakeholders.

Experience

  • Operations Analyst - Change & Projects at Squarepoint
    Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

  • Operations Analyst at Portman Square Capital
    Oct 2022 - Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Full-time parenting at Career Break
    Jun 2022 - Oct 2022 · 5 mos

  • Operations Analyst at Coremont LLP
    May 2018 - Jun 2022 · 4 yrs 2 mos

    • Improved trade reconciliations, reduced trade booking errors, and increased trade STP percentage across a variety of instruments including futures, listed options, FX, equities, and fixed income • Liaised with clients, counterparties, and clearers to promptly resolve trade discrepancies • New fund launch, including setup with FX prime brokers, clearers, markitwire, and Omgeo CTM • Completed novation of futures and FX positions between Brevan Howard funds • Set up of new clients to trade exchange traded derivatives, completed trade testing, set up of EGUS agreements, and STP with clearer • Onboarded new traders, ensuring accurate trade capture • Built client relationships • Trained new staff members, provided ongoing support to ensure processes were performed diligently

  • ANZ Banking Group (6 yrs 11 mos)
    • Senior Analyst, Front Office Support
      Oct 2015 - Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      • Provided trade support to the front office across multiple products including FX, equity derivatives, rates and credit. Ensured trade queries were investigated and resolved in a timely manner. • Performed analysis and onboarding of credit clients onto automated confirmation matching system Omgeo CTM, improving automated confirmation processing by 30%. • Successfully trained Front Office Support India in onboarding clients onto Omgeo CTM. • Finalised issuance of index linked notes on behalf of Structured Origination desk, including booking trades, arranging ISIN and counterparty setup. • Developed procedure for the rates and FX funding process.

    • Senior Analyst, OTC Portfolio Reconciliations
      Feb 2013 - Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      • Lead analyst responsible for initial testing and setup of TriResolve within ANZ • Established processes and procedures that allowed the use of TriResolve to move from project to BAU phase • Developed compliance reports to meet Dodd Frank and EMIR reporting obligations • Expanded responsibilities of team from CSA reconciliations to include non-collateral, GMRA, and clearing house reconciliations. Achieved this via testing and analysis of additional trade files • Trained additional employees and facilitated a positive working environment as the team expanded

    • Analyst, Collateral Management
      Apr 2011 - Feb 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

      • Process and manage collateral margin calls using Algo Collateral V5, the ISDA OTC Margining application • Onboard all new margining agreements in accordance with ISDA documentation • Identify portfolio differences and investigate trade issues in Murex and Razor • Perform daily reconciliations and update internal funding calculations • Provide detailed and accurate valuation information to both external and internal customers