CV

1. PAULO AZEVEDO
Forest Hill, London SE23
Mobile: 07985 227 520 Email: paza_2000@yahoo.com
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/pauloazevedo2015
An experienced Fund Accountant progressed to migration/transitions roles with Citi and HSBC. Clear
understanding of migration/implementation procedures and a strong background of Fund Accounting
in terms of producing NAVs, take ons, setup of new clients in systems: offering leadership,
commitment & relationship building skills gained in Financial Services alongside being a fast learner.
Voluntary Services Lewisham (VSL) June 2015 – December 2015
Volunteer Driver
• Transport isolated and vulnerable residents of Lewisham Borough to attend medical
appointments, social groups, private appointments and visits to friends and family.
HSBC - Global Banking and Markets (Canary Wharf, London) January 2015 – May 2015
Migration Manager - Fund Implementation
 Supporting business growth by execution of fund migrations activities for new business
wins.
 Managing and supporting the on-going change activities for existing clients including Fund
launches, mergers, closures, in-specie transfers and custody and operational transitions.
 Testing and conducting of migration activities including upload and Operational support
post Migration/Transitions
 Ensuring that mapping to all systems were in place for delivery requirements to the HSS
methodology and operational processes to support a successful end to end
Migration/Transition.
 Liaising with all internal and external parties to ensure readiness for successful related
business flows before sign off, these included KYC, AML, Custody, Legal and all Operational
departments by the way of maintaining the procedures and check list up to date.
 Regular conference calls with all parties (internal and external) for updates,status and
resolution of any queries arisen during the project.
 Review of current procedures to absorb and lessons to be learn, change and
implementation where applicable.
 Maintaining HSBC internal controls, standards including timely implementation of internal
and external audit points relevant to internal Compliance and external Regulators.
 Daily reconciliation of cash and stock post migrations and fund closures.
 Highlight and investigate and breaks and liaising with relevant departments if required to
clear any breaks within set up deadlines, and escalation of any issues.
Voluntary Services Lewisham (VSL) November 2014 – December 2014
Volunteer Driver
• Transport isolated and vulnerable residents of Lewisham Borough to attend medical
appointments, social groups, private appointments and visits to friends and family.
CITI BANK N.A. (Edinburgh) February 2014 - March 2014
Migration Analyst/Fund Accountant
• Part of the Fund Accounting migration workstream within the project team focused on on-
boarding a new client to Citi Fund Accounting platform.
• Responsible for the migration, analysis, review, and delivery of all migration requirements of
individual funds onto Citi platforms.
• Parallel running with client before going live.

2. • Daily reconciliation of TB’s investigation and resolve any issues within 24 hours.
• Production of documentation of assigned work to support delivery, and escalation of any
issues for a complete audit trail.
Sabbatical March 2013 – February 2014
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPA NY June 2009 – March 2013
Client Services Representative, Senior Associate
(Function outsourced to State Street Office in Cape Town, South Africa in March 2013)
• With the conclusion of the M2E (Migration to Enterprise) project to replace the old AXA legacy
platform to the new State Street one, I resumed my supervisory role in the fund accounting
team.
• Led and trained a team of 6 to embrace and understand the new platform after a decade of
using the old AXA IM legacy system.
• Introduced new procedures to maximise the team output and reduce the occurrence of
manual errors.
• Co-ordinated the monthly tasks to achieve pre-set deadlines ensuring that agreed SLA
deliverables were accurately met, and keep KPI’s green.
• Produced and validated accurate, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual NAV reports for
multiple asset classes in multicurrency funds.
• Ensured that the check and resolving of cash reconciliations report received by the Cash
Team was maintained by the team.
• Liaised with both internal and external parties in order to resolve any queries, including Audit,
cash and stock.
• Worked closely with the Client Reporting Team ensuring consistency and accuracy of
reporting packs.
• With the new system in place, I created new spreadsheets using vlookups that saved the
team valuable time and brought human error to a minimum.
• Deputised for the Team Manager in the checking and validation of all reports for accuracy
before delivery to the client.
• Updated procedures to reflect any new changes to processes or client requirements.
• Assisted the Team Manager with take ons , in-species, implementation of new procedures
and other project requests.
• Trained, oversaw the transition and oversight duties.
Project Analyst November 2007 – June 2009
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• Ensured the delivery of M2E project for Fund Accounting Services for all product types for
AXA legacy business in line with both business and Client expectations (transition from the
old AXA legacy system – Hiportfolio – to State Street MCH system). This included:
- Writing test scripts and testing.
- Parallel running before going live.
- Regular conference calls with developers and client before and during conversion
finalise finalise any teething issues arising post conversion.
- Writing and assisting the developers in the creation of bespoke reports for Pension Fund
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• Maintained high levels of service in the delivery of Fund Accounting/Client Reporting Services.
• Executed testing to ensure that the business requirements were captured in line with the
project milestones.
• Escalation of any issues for a complete audit trail and documented procedures for production
environment before going live.
Fund Accountant Supervisor – Segregated Funds Team March 2005 – November 2007
(Promoted to Supervisor/Senior Associate in April 2005)
• Liaised with both internal and external parties in order to resolve any queries, including Audit,
cash and stock.

3. • Produced and validated accurate, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual NAV reports for
multiple asset classes in multicurrencies funds.
• Daily check of cash reconciliations report received by the Cash Team.
• Deputised for the Team Manager in the checking and validation of all reports for accuracy
before delivery to the client.
• Updated procedures to reflect any new changes to processes or clients.
• Assisted the Team Manager with take ons, implementation of new procedures and other
project requests from various teams.
• Responsible for the training of junior staff.
AXA UK INVESTMENT MANAGERS December 2000 - March 2005
Fund Accountant Segregated Funds Team
(Outsourced to State Street March 2005)
Investment Income Administrator – Market Facing Team January 2000 – December 2000
LEGAL & GENERAL INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT February 1998 - January 2000
RecReconciliations & Cash Team Administrator
ABN AMRO BANK, London November 1997 - February 1998
Reconciliations/ Investigations Clerk
BANCO PORTUGUES DO ATLANTICO SA, London July 1996 - November 1997
Operational Administration Assistant/Cashier
FURTHER AND OTHER FULL DETAILS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.
INTERESTS Cycling, travelling, sports and cooking.
LANGUA GES English (fluent), Portuguese (fluent)
SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE Access MCH Factset Hiportfolio
Bloomberg Multifonds TLM Quasar
Chase Reporter SQL ICON Windows
Exshare IMS InfoView Exshare
QUALIFICA TIONS 9 O Levels (GCSE Equivalent)
1983-1989: Escola Secundaria, Monte de Caparica, Portugal
2 ACCA Level One Passes