Edward Bennett is seeking a career applying his 6 years of financial experience to environmentally sustainable projects. He has worked in operations and finance roles for several large financial institutions in Brussels. He holds a BA in Business Management from Brighton University and is trilingual in French, English, and Spanish. He also spent over 2 years traveling internationally on breaks from work.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
EDWARD BENNETT
Career goal:
With 6 years' experience in the financial sector, my ambition is now to marry the knowledge I have
gained and apply it more specifically to cover finance and funding linked to environmentally
sustainable projects. Bilingual, adaptable, creative and decisive, I am a team player and quick learner,
teamed with excellent social skills, who responds enthusiastically to any challenge.
Personal details:
Full name:
Date of birth:
Place of birth:
Nationality:
Mr. Edward Eric King Bennett
13th
August 1986
Brussels, Belgium
British / French / Australian
Address: 4 Avenue Bel Air, 1180 Uccle,
Brussels, Belgium
Mobile: +32 474 886 122
E-mail: edben13@hotmail.com
Work Experience:
08/2015 – 12/2016
06/2013 – 07/2015
International Travel
Career break traveling eastwards from Latvia to Cuba, taking up challenges
such as being self sufficient whilst adhering to a strict budget and coping in
novel and unfamiliar situations. Volunteering in an NGO and various farms,
learning about multi cultural differences and the diverse ways of living.
ING Financial Markets – Brussels, Belgium
Team Coordinator (Operations Specialist) – Equity and
Commodity Derivatives Trade Processing
Responsible for a team of 6. Main tasks included: preparing monthly
planning to ensure fair dispatch of tasks and keeping any operational risk
under control, presenting our daily dashboards, providing training
schedules, acting as the first escalation contact with our stakeholders,
coordinating and participating in conference calls, taking audit points,
bringing solutions to improve the team´s working standards, scheduling
the yearly review of procedures and providing support to the Team Leader
on yearly evaluations. Added to this was the handling of Commodity and
OTC Equity Derivatives trades and all tasks related to their efficient
processing.
09/2012 – 06/2013 ING Financial Markets – Brussels, Belgium
Operations Officer – Exchange Traded Derivatives
Handling Listed Derivatives trade breaks through daily reconciliation
reports produced by our Control team, initiating margin call payments at
market closure upon Collateral´s instruction to cover all daily trades,
liaising with internal and external stakeholders worldwide.
12/2011 – 09/2012 ING Financial Markets – Brussels, Belgium
Operations Officer (Interim) – Equity and Commodity
Derivatives Trade Processing
Monitoring OTC Equity Option trades inputted by traders, validating
payments and drafting ISDA trade confirmations for the counter parties.
Producing SOPs, double checking the fixing of equity baskets, trade
reconciliations, answering internal and external stakeholder inquiries and
discussing problem solving issues.
10/2010 – 09/2011 ENI International Finance S.A. – Brussels, Belgium

2. Treasury Operations Officer
Focusing to meet the short and medium/long-term financial requirements
and the management of liquidity for foreign-based companies from ENI.
Analysing, monitoring, controlling and processing various operations
(currency swaps, outrights, spots, commercial papers, loans & deposits)
throughout their life cycles.
08/2010 - 10/2010 WWF European Policy Office – Brussels, Belgium
Communications Internship
Experience working in an NGO Communications department: working on a
project to improve relationships between WWF EU and the media, i.e.
updating the media database, drafting press releases and articles and
pitching stories to journalists.
08/2008 – 08/2009 EUROCLEAR Bank – Brussels, Belgium
Operations Specialist - Corporate Actions - Investment
Funds department
Main responsibilities involved contacting transfer agents and depository
banks to retrieve and transmit information to clients about general
meetings, merger and hedge fund events. Prioritizing, improving
processes, presenting Lean dashboards and liaising with clients in English
and French.
10/2006 – 12/2006 EUPHONY – Brighton, United Kingdom
Sales Internship
Proposing competitive phone call packages via cold calling, whilst using
and developing my communication skills and sales techniques.
Education:
02/2013 - 03/2013
09/2005 - 06/2008
09/1992 - 08/2005
Derivatives Master class – ING Financial Markets
BA Honours in Business Management with Finance at Brighton University (UK)
European School I, Brussels, Belgium: European Baccalaureate
Other:
08/2015 – 12/2016
09/2009 - 07/2010
Career break traveling through Eastern Europe, Russia, Central and South
East Asia, Oceania, South and Central America
Gap year traveling through South East Asia, Oceania and South America
Languages & Computer skills:
Computer :
Languages :
Excellent skills in Lotus Notes, Outlook, Mail Chimp, Documentum, Siebel,
CTMS (Instructions processing), Citrix, Sophis Risque, Calypso, LID, SWIFT
Messaging (IRM), Bloomberg (Stats Info search) HBS (ENI Home Banking
System), Reuters (Kondor K+TP & Trade Access), Microsoft Office (Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, Access).
French – mother tongue (fluent written and spoken)
English – father tongue (fluent written and spoken)
Spanish - excellent speaking/comprehension skills and written average
General Interests:
Reading news in The Guardian, Economist and FT, Sports (squash, tennis, football, volleyball, skiing,
climbing, trekking and diving), philosophy, social and volunteer work.