1. Timothy Brandon Hills
Hurstland Park
16 Furze Close
Horley
Surrey
RH6 9SL
() 07956 452 936
() timhills1973@gmail.com
Profile
A very presentable Team Leader with twenty one year’s operational and managerial experience in the
retail/private client sector. Very good all round knowledge in every aspect of trade settlement. Effective
communicator with a confident, can-do attitude. Able to accept responsibility and exercise initiative
delivering positive results. Strong organisational, investigative skills, numerate and accurate. Excellent
people skills, balancing a healthy sense of humour with the due respect required to take his staff with him
and deliver results.
Career History
Feb 2015 - Present Fidelity Worldwide Investment - Senior Settlements Analyst
Prime responsibility to manage all Equity trades through the settlement lifecycle.
To ensure all issues are escalated as necessary.
Ensure that all functions are executed in accordance with procedures and controls that minimise
and mitigate Operational / Financial and Reputational risk.
CRD – Charles River
Monitor and resolve any mismatched trades at Block and Allocation level, taking ownership and
either accepting or rejecting Broker values.
Escalating any urgent issues to the Trading Desk.
Chasing Brokers on unmatched or mismatched orders.
Ensure Broker SSI’s are received in correct format to enable STP of instruction to custodian
Bank.
Processing orders that fall into the Manual Match Tab by requesting and matching to Manual
Confirmations.
Ensure all Blocks and Allocations are matched prior to valuation points.
Requesting Broker mapping set up. To ensure Broker is CTM eligible and added with correct
Broker BIC or CTM ID.
New Security set up’s and requesting specific changes i.e. add or remove Stamp marker.
Resending orders into CTM from CRD.
Raising and assisting to resolve any NACKed orders.
Omgeo CTM
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Monitor and resolve any mismatch/exception orders, either at Block or Allocation level.
View Broker SSI’s to confirm they are correctly populated to allow correct instruction to be sent to
Custodian Bank.
Force match orders where required.
Omgeo ALERT
View Fund SSI’s by entering Access Code and selecting required Country/Market
Request updates or amendments to standing SSI’s.
Obtain and pass on Market specific information to Brokers. For example Registration BIC/Name
for Spanish trades settling in Iberclear.
To ensure all trades executed by Fidelity Worldwide Investment trading desks based in London and
Hong Kong are captured in the relevant ISFA systems.
To ensure all are confirmed externally with the executing broker.
To ensure that trade instructions are transmitted to Custodian Banks accurately & in a timely fashion.
To investigate & resolve discrepancies between FIL / Brokers & Custodians.
To research and resolve failed trades and interest claims.
Investigate and resolve all Nostro and Stock reconciliation breaks in a timely manner.
To complete trade related exception processing.
To ensure all daily controls are completed that enable the correct generation of the daily NAVs.
To assist in various projects as required by participating in the successful development, testing &
implementation.
July 2011 – Feb 2015 AJ Bell Securities – Market Settlements Team Leader
Responsibility and oversight for all Settlement systems, process, controls and procedures. Implementing positive
change to either minimise or mitigate operational/Financial loss and protect the firm from reputational risk. Ensuring
prompt (T+1) Transaction reporting to the FCA. Producing satisfactory monthly MI for the Management team.
 Crest Checking – to include investigation and resolution of unmatched and failing Equity and Fixed Income
trades
 Crest Settlement and settlement reconciliation
 CMA reconciliation
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 Address any Crest related issues/updates
 Residual Settlements
 SDRT/Stamp reconciliation/reclaim/unpaid payments to the HMRC
 Monitoring of all failing trades (Crest/Overseas and Cofunds)
 Daily validation & sign off of all transaction reporting submitted through the Crest system
 Check and release any manual transaction reporting exceptions via UnaVista (ARM-Approved Reporting
Mechanism)
 Crest CAP, monitor and raise if required to cover next working days settlement.
 Check and release all DVP/RVP Overseas instructions before submitting to BBH (Global Custodian)
 Overseas stock dematerialisation into various markets (DTC - using DRS or DWAC, Canada, ASX – valid
SRN)
 Check and authorise calculation for GBP transfer to/from Global custodian
 Review and sign off Overseas failed and pending trades reports
 Authorise Cross border deliveries
 Check & release all FOP delivery or receive instructions
 Maintain and oversee timely turnaround of trade rebookings
 Check and sign off Probate valuations
 Oversee and ensure all reconciliation (Cash and Stock) items are fixed within five working days. If reliant on
a third party ensure reason(s) are fully documented on report.
 MI - Month End reports for Finance, Compliance and Directors
 Conduct regular Team appraisals and set objectives
 Chair weekly Team meetings
 Carry out monthly routine 1-2-1 meetings with Team members
 Participation in Team Leader meetings
Feb 2008 – June 2011 Walker Crips Stockbrokers - Global Settlements Supervisor
Held Line Management responsibility’s which included:
 Reporting directly to the Operations Director
 Delegating appropriate work to a team of employees
 Conduct regular staff appraisals
 Compile weekly and monthly MI reports for the Board of Directors
 Maintain/update key procedure documents utilising Microsoft Office applications and ensure that any new
procedures where correctly documented
Financial Settlements:
 Held overall responsibility for all aspects of Crest, Overseas (including Euroclear, Clearstream, DTC, CDS,
plus numerous other Markets) and Residual Settlements
 Excellent knowledge of both the European and Global settlements markets
 Involved in daily participant Crest checking
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 Performance reviews of all settling trades
 Conduct reconciliations and keep relevant Journals updated
 Investigate and resolve any failing trades, which involved extensive communication with associates, clients
and other counterparties
 Overseas certificate dematerialisation
 Responsible for re-registering and delivery of certificates
 Contract trade input
 Providing cover for Corporate Actions during holiday periods
Oct 2003 - Feb 2008 Tim Hills Dairies Ltd
Self Employed
 To deliver a 1st class service to circa 700 customers in line with the Company mission statement
 Demonstrate excellent Business Management Skills including finance/accounting, marketing and
promotions, stock control and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction
 Adhere to appropriate health and hygiene regulations
 Continue to grow the annual business turnover, which stood at £120,000
July 2000 - Sept 2003 Walker Crips Weddle Beck Plc - Settlements Supervisor
Held Line Management duties which included:
 Reporting directly to the Operations Director
 Delegating appropriate work to a team of employees
 Conduct regular staff appraisals
 Compile weekly and monthly reports for the Board of Directors
 Maintain/update key procedure documents utilising Microsoft Office applications and ensure that any new
procedures where correctly documented
Financial Settlements:
 Held overall responsibility for all aspects of Crest, Overseas (including Euroclear, Clearstream, DTC, CDS,
plus numerous other Markets) and Residual Settlements
 Excellent knowledge of both the European and Global settlements markets
 Involved in daily participant Crest checking
 Performance reviews of all settling trades
 Conduct reconciliations and keep relevant Journals updated
 Investigate and resolve any failing trades, which involved extensive communication with associates, clients
and other counterparties
 Overseas certificate dematerialisation
 Responsible for re-registering and delivery of certificates
 Contract trade input
 Providing cover for Corporate Actions during holiday periods
 Additional responsibilities included dealing with all sales and purchases
 Providing cover for Corporate Actions during holiday periods
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Reason for Leaving: Personal family reasons
Aug 1990 - July 2000 Lloyds TSB Stockbrokers
Feb 1991 – Jul 2000 Settlements Supervisor
 Bought and sold transfers, which included preparing, delivering and re-registering share certificates
 Registering relevant legal documentation
 Extensive private client contact regarding settlement performance & queries
 Took the lead for ‘Trouble shooting’
 Arranged Stock Withdrawals (STW)
 Given role of ‘Senior Supervisor’ for Nominee Duties
 Handled all Transfers and resolution of any queries relating to Nominees
 Conducted weekly reconciliations of the Company’s CREST depots
 Prepared Unit Trust reconciliations on an ad-hoc basis
 Coordinated Free of payment & against payment transfers in & out CREST DEL’S (broker to broker)
Aug 1990 – Feb 1991 Messenger
 General messenger duties
 Printing and dispatching approximately four thousand customer contracts daily
 Delivering and receiving bearer bonds across the City
 Collecting and dispatching ‘Broker Blues’
Education 1986 - 1990
The Warwick School
Noke Drive
Redhill
Surrey
RH1 4AD
8 GCSE’s including Math’s and English
Professional Qualification
CISI – Investment Operations Certificate (IOC)
Systems & Packages
 Figaro
 UnaVista
 4i-Core
 Crest GUI
 BBH WorldView
 HSBC Net
 MY State Street
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 BONY Workbench
 Euclid (Euroclear)
 Interactive Data
 Computershare Investor Centre Australia
 Piranha (Dresdner FOREX)
 Further Web based products / Internet
 Fiscal
 SWIFT
 Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook & PowerPoint
 Charles River
 SWIFT
 Omgeo CTM
 Omgeo ALERT
 Enterprise
 FailStation
 HLDB40
Interests
 Spending quality time with my wife, three children and three stepdaughters
 Football (playing and watching)
 Riding my road bike
 Tennis
 Golf
 Squash
 Current affairs
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7. Timothy Brandon Hills
 BONY Workbench
 Euclid (Euroclear)
 Interactive Data
 Computershare Investor Centre Australia
 Piranha (Dresdner FOREX)
 Further Web based products / Internet
 Fiscal
 SWIFT
 Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook & PowerPoint
 Charles River
 SWIFT
 Omgeo CTM
 Omgeo ALERT
 Enterprise
 FailStation
 HLDB40
Interests
 Spending quality time with my wife, three children and three stepdaughters
 Football (playing and watching)
 Riding my road bike
 Tennis
 Golf
 Squash
 Current affairs
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