Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
With over 17 years of experience at the National Bank of Romania, I oversee international reserves management, monetary policy implementation, and government securities operations. My work includes managing middle office risk and back office operations, contributing to the financial stability of the institution. A skilled professional in risk management, banking, and portfolio management, I am committed to delivering the KPI’s. Collaborating closely with key stakeholders, I support the development of robust financial frameworks to drive efficiency and continuous improvement.
Management of international reserves, monetary policy implementation operations (including FX interventions) and of the primary market for government securities; Management of middle office/risk division related to the foreign currency reserves administration; Management of the back office division, in charge of the NBR’s back office operations and of the Ministry of public finance foreign currency payments (NBR is agent for the MoF); Successfully teamed with the Ministry of public finance to implement complex criteria for developing government securities secondary market; Project director for the implementation of a Straight through process system (“Wall Street Suite”) that includes all front office operations (including the monetary policy implementation ones), middle and back office, accounting and SWIFT messages; Romanian representative in the Market Operations Committee (and its subcommittee Monitoring Working Group) at the European Central Bank; Member of several technical committees at the NBR, including Monetary policy, Investment and Euro adoption ones; Part of the NBR’s team involved with the IMF, World Bank and European commission program for Romania.
Helping the Director in the management of international reserves, monetary policy implementation operations (including FX interventions) and of the primary market for government securities; Helping the Director in the management of back office division (in charge of the NBR’s back office operations and of the Ministry of public finance foreign currency payments - NBR is agent for the MoF); Helping the Director in the management of middle office/risk division related to the foreign currency reserves administration; Deputy project director for the implementation of a Straight through process system (“Wall Street Suite”) that includes all front office operations (including the monetary policy implementation ones), middle and back office, accounting and SWIFT messages; Romanian representative in the Monitoring Working Group at the European Central Bank; Alternate member of several technical committees at the NBR, including Monetary policy, Investment and Euro adoption ones, member of the Investment one; Part of the NBR’s team involved with the IMF, World Bank and European commission program for Romania.
Advising the Director and the deputy director.
Optimizing the operating costs and EBITDA in view of enhancing the divestment outcome.
Drafted the restructuring plan; Optimized the supply flow; Created a business plan for enhancing the flow of waste management and the cash flow of the company; Initiated meetings with Private equity funds.
Responsible with deal sourcing in Romania and Bulgaria; Secretary of the Investment Committee; Board Member of the Romanian investment, Certasig Asigurare-Reasigurare S.A., a general (non-life) insurance company.
Since 2001 Country Treasurer, in charge of the bank liquidity, managing clients’ and own’ s bank flows/positions in FX, MM, Government securities and related derivatives; Member (chairman for some periods) of ALCO, member of the Executive Committee and of the Compliance Committee; Part of the team dealing with internal and external auditors; As a proactive primary dealer contributed to the development of government securities secondary market; Own trading portfolio in above mentioned treasury products; Dealt the first derivative product FCY/RON in the local market; Contributed actively to developing the local derivatives market; Excellent financial results, exceeding yearly the budget; Implemented a new Transfer Pricing mechanism. VP since 2001 until October 2005, since then Director; 1996-1988 Dealer 1998-2001 Chief dealer