This document is a resume for James Carnegie Webster outlining his extensive 15+ year career experience in operations, trade support, and middle office roles primarily focused on equity derivatives, corporate actions, and client services. He has worked at major financial institutions like Royal Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank and has experience with systems like Microsoft Office, CREST GUI, Smartstream, Bloomberg, and Swift.

1. James Carnegie Webster
47B Upper Court Road, Epsom, Surrey KT19 8RE
Telephone: 01372 725594 Mobile: 07801999110
E-mail: londonwebsters@gmail.com
I am a team player with 15 years of operations, trade support and middle-office experience. I have
extensive exposure to the Swaps, Prime brokerage and corporate action fields and would have the
ability to assist clients with necessary support.
SYSTEMS: Microsoft Office CREST GUI
Smartstream In-house Systems
Bloomberg Swift
Reuters
CAREER HISTORY:
Feb’11 to Jan’16 ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, London – Contract
Aug ’13 to Jan’16 Equity Derivatives MO – Retail Flow Investor Products
- Trade/Product validation
- Creation/maintenance of futures, index and equity instruments in
systems
- Processing of knockouts, redemptions and expiries
- New issue approvals
- Daily resets
- Resolution of arising queries from Front office
- Process of 'rolling' futures
- Calculation and processing of coupons, dividends and corporate
actions
- Reconciliation of SWAP positions and resulting cash flows
Mar ’12 to Jul ‘13 Trade Support – Investor Products (Warrants, Notes)
- Liaison with sales team regarding product lifecycle and features
- Primary responsibility for life cycle of product
- Calculation of coupon and redemption of products
- Resolution of arising queries from trade desk, sales, settlements and
cash reconciliation.
Jul ’11 to Feb’12 Novation Project – Client Communications Team
Novation of Equity Derivatives positions between RBS NV and RBS PLC
Liaison with clients, brokers and account managers
Liaise with clients to reconcile trade positions and resolve discrepancies
Maintenance of database
Draft and distribute relevant novation documentation to clients
Feb ’11 – Jun ’11 Trade Support – Delta1, Flow and Hedge Fund desks
Manual pricing of Asian and European bonds
Reconciliation of coupon and dividend postings to swap agreement
Liaison with stock lending
Resolution of queries from front office, stock lending and back office
Ad-hoc equity SWAP resets
May 99 to Dec ‘10 DEUTSCHE BANK, London
July ’09 – Dec ’10 Synthetic Equity – Client Trade Support – Associate
- Monitor trade feeds and files (CFDs)
- Resolution of any queries arising from flagged trades
- Liaison with trade desks, client representatives and brokers

2. - Production of risk reporting for front office
- Booking of trades into front office system
- Setting up and maintenance of Swap trades in front office systems
- Middle office contact and tester for CA booking project
- Actively involved in the training up of staff for migration of role to B’ham
May ’06 - Jun ’08 Global Prime Services – Synthetic Equity – Client Services Rep – Associate
- Day-to-day client support of business unit for assigned clients (Hedge
Funds)
- Confirm swap resets and payments with clients
- Ensure accurate and timely booking of transactions
- Investigate and resolve position, price, dividend, FX and payment
reconciliation breaks
- Produce reports for clients
- Resolve all client issues
- Build and maintain strong relationship with assigned clients
- Contact with Corporate Action, Sales and trading desks to resolve client
queries
Jul ’08 – Jun ’09 Equity Finance – Trade Support
May ’04 – Apr ‘06
- Trading Floor role
- Extensive liaison with traders, Hedge Funds, Client Representatives and
corporate action department on all corporate action matters
- Monitoring & booking of all corporate action trades into front end
systems
- Ad-hoc dealing with Hedge Funds and Client Rep corporate action
queries
- Booking and monitoring of conversions as instructed by desk and clients
Jul ’99 – Apr ’04 UK Corporate Actions – Supervisor
- monitoring and allocation of work to team members
- quantifying stock breaks and nostro items through meeting with
controllers
- signing off corporate actions files following completion by team members
- monitoring forthcoming corporate actions
- all aspects of processing, including:
➢ takeovers
➢ open offers
➢ rights issues
➢ conversions
➢ exercise of warrants
➢ capitalisation issues
➢ schemes of arrangement
➢ capital reorganisations
➢ scrip dividends
- extensive liaison with and assistance to traders, front office and stock
lending divisions
- reconciliation of stock and cash positions prior to and during corporate
action
- resolution of stock and cash breaks
Jan 99 – Feb 99 CONTRACT ASSIGNMENTS, London
01/99 – 02/99 HSBC INVESTMENT BANK Corporate Actions, Backlog Team
06/98 – 12/98 GREENWICH NATWEST Operations Clean-Up Team

3. 08/97 – 04/98 NATWEST MARKETS UK Corporate Actions
Officer
12/96 – 07/97 HENDERSON INVESTORS MANAGEMENT Dividends
Jul 94 – Sep 96 CONSOLIDATED SHARE REGISTRARS, South Africa
Corporate Actions
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Education: MARITZBURG COLLEGE
Matriculation with University Exemption
UNIVERSITY OF PORT ELIZABETH – South Africa
B.Com
Majors: Business Economics Industrial Psychology
Other: Accounting Economics
Commercial Law Company Law
Industrial Law End User Data Processing
Professional
courses: CIMA – Foundation Level
IAQ – Investment Administration Qualification
Supervisory Skills
Introduction to Derivatives