Institution Trader

**August 2020 - Present**

**Structured Product Team leader - Equity Derivatives SSI Securities**
- Structure and successfully launch the very first Market-linked notes for the market in Vietnam.
- Work closely with different teams including:

- Relationship Managers and Capital Markets to generate product ideas.
- Legal team to sort out policy and regulatory obstacles.
- CFO to make sure cashflow goes smoothly and accounting rules are all followed.
- Risk management team for risk review.
- IT team to build up a new trading system for structured products.
- Own the Structured product distribution process including:

- Sales: Track product performance, maturities, call and coupon dates. Provide key updates and monitor the sale of products across different sales teams.
- Hedging: Propose different hedging strategies to control risks on issued notes.

December 2018 - August 2020 Investment Banking & Capital Markets cum Assistant to CFO VNDIRECT Securities

**July 2019 - August 2020**

**Capital Market Sales & Trading - Derivatives Desk**
- Applied knowledge of Equity and Index derivative products to risk management requirements across asset classes.
- Collaborated with various Banking teams, Legal teams and Authorities to accurately price and execute derivatives

transactions.
- Established and developed credible and lasting relationships with clients so as to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality advice and services.
- Worked across multiple products such as ETFs, Bonds, Equities & Derivatives to identify trading, hedging and arbitrage opportunities.

**December 2018 - July 2019**

**Investment Banking Associate**
- Provided analyses on clients, sectors, industry trends as well as market events to generate potential new business

leads.
- Worked closely with internal constituents, solicitors and representatives from other investment firms in the context of

deal execution including equity and debt financings, M&A deals.
- Communicated and debated conclusions with Capital Markets Department to identify investment opportunities (long

and short) from the IB deals.

**December 2018 - August 2020**

**Assistant to CFO**
- Prepared documentation and presentation materials for the CFO to report to the Board of Directors.
- Reviewed business plans and gave feedbacks to Heads of different divisions on behalf of the CFO.
- Acted as the liaison to various internal and external parties (e.g. investors, vendors, contractors, etc.).

**April 2018 - October 2018**

**Investment Banking Associate Green Consulting Group**

**(Vietnam & Singapore)**

**Projects** (completed and in-process):

- 2 ECM deals, one for a Food Processing Company (completed) and the other is for a Mechanical Equipment & Machines

Company (on-going).
- 2 M&A deals (both Sell side), one involves a distressed loan (on-going) and the other is a Medical Device Company (on
- going).

**Main responsibilities**:

- Built and maintained strong relationships with high net-worth investors as well as institutional clients.
- Presented investment opportunities and provided investment advice.
- Liaised with business partners to make sure smooth cash disbursement.
- Took part in building financial models as well as conducting due diligence interviews.
- Led deals and industry research, processed key inputs for investment teasers and investment memorandums.

**August 2017 - March 2018**

**Sales & Wealth Manager AIA (Hong Kong)**
- Broke the record for new managers within 3 weeks of joining the company.
- Became an MDRT (Million Dollar Round Table) member within only 4 months of joining.
- Successfully led one of the Sales teams to hit the target for final quarter of 2017 and built up new business strategies for the next fiscal year.

**September 2016 - July 2018**

**Technical Trader, Blogger and Guest Speaker JP Morgan (London,**

**Hong Kong & Singapore)**
- Followed-up of different markets including FX, Stocks and Commodities to ensure accurate risk taking and provide motivated advisory services.
- Prepared and participated in weekly market analyses, reviewed weekly memos.
- Gave guidance and allocated portfolios to junior traders.
- Wrote and published articles following changing market conditions.
- Took part in conferences as a guest speaker presenting stocks analyses as well as giving reviews of general market trends.

**December 2013 - August 2016**

**Equity & FX Trader Barclays Capital (London)**
- Developed new trading strategies which suited different market structures and fitted different risk:reward ratios.
- Managed trading accounts of different amounts and made over 120% return on the first year joining the trading floor.

**Requirement**:
**LANGUAGES**
- Fluent in English and Vietnamese.
- Conversational skills in Chinese (Mandarin).
- Basic knowledge of German, French and Thai**.**

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