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Alvaro Nieto Silva

Summary

Capital Markets and project management professional with experience in FX, derivatives and fix income trading. Strong track-record of computational skills, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and project management. Creative, driven and self-reliant with keen business sense and demonstrated ability to thrive in fast-paced, deadline-oriented environments. Interested in financial markets, trading, programming and blockchain.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Project Manager

seconder
2022.06 - Current
  • Demonstrated strong leadership skills by effectively managing and motivating multi-disciplinary project teams
  • Budgets, including tracking expenditures, identifying variances, and implementing corrective actions to stay within budget
  • Developed and maintained detailed project plans and schedules to track progress and ensure timely completion of projects
  • Conducted in-depth analysis of technology portfolios to identify areas of improvement, including assessing risk, identifying cost savings opportunities, and recommending changes to optimize performance.
  • Developed and led multi-disciplinary team to redefine problems and reach solutions based on different perspectives.

Senior Treasury Analyst

Glovo
2021.12 - 2022.06
  • Manage the portfolio of FX exposures and transactional risks, and hedge exposures in accordance with group policy.
  • Review all group investments (Money Market funds, deposits, etc.), day-to-day cash position and cash flows & cash flow forecasting.
  • Optimize our cash usage, manage investments and provide support when raising new debt.
  • Drive all projects that require interactions with other teams and be the Treasury PoC for projects driven by other teams and impacting treasury.
  • Collaborated with traders, quantitative analysts, and IT professionals to design and implement trading algorithms, ensuring compliance with trading regulations and risk management policies.
  • Communicated with bank members and auditors on accuracy and timeliness of financial reports.

Treasury Analyst

Credicorp Capital
2018.08 - 2021.09
  • Managed all group investments (Money Market funds, deposits, FX investments, derivatives), day-to-day cash position, and cash flows & cash flow forecasting. USD 16.5 BN in assets managed or guarded by clients during 2020
  • Communicated with bank members and auditors on accuracy and timeliness of financial reports.
  • Handled cash flow, debit and interest schedules and bank accounts.
  • Mitigated risk by implementing internal controls and safeguards for revenues and expenditures.
  • Analyzed financial patterns and made accurate predictions.

Metrics Analyst

Scotiabank
2017.08 - 2018.08

• Developed new processes and tools to improve the performance and effectiveness of the project management delivery.
• Delivered accurate project expectations to Product managers, project team members, upper management and other stakeholders in a clear and concise way.
• Applied in-depth knowledge of project management concepts, practices and procedures such as agile methods to achieve objectives.
• Coordinated strategies to balance the elements of time, cost, quality, scope, risk and resources.

Forex and Derivatives Intern

Fondo de Pensiones Colfondos S.A
2016.12 - 2017.06
  • Created and implemented strategic trading approaches.
  • Collaborated senior traders in supervising risk, liquidity and neutralizing exposure.
  • Developed market research by constructing statistical models for building trading strategies.
  • Programmed quantitative models for making investment decisions.
  • Priced products such as Interest and Cross Currency Swaps, Forwards, among others.
  • Provided trading desk with market updates and public research.

Education

Master of Science - Finance

ESADE Business School
Barcelona, Spain
01.2022

Bachelor of Economics - Economics

Universidad De Los Andes
Bogotá, Colombia
03.2018

Skills

  • STATA (Advanced), R (Intermediate), Python (Advanced), VBA (Advanced),Microsoft Excel (Advanced), Microsoft Access (Basic) , Power BI (Intermediate).
  • Market research.
  • Foreign Currency.
  • Treasury Bonds.
  • Project Management.

Languages

Spanish
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Engineering Project Manager

seconder
2022.06 - Current

Senior Treasury Analyst

Glovo
2021.12 - 2022.06

Treasury Analyst

Credicorp Capital
2018.08 - 2021.09

Metrics Analyst

Scotiabank
2017.08 - 2018.08

Forex and Derivatives Intern

Fondo de Pensiones Colfondos S.A
2016.12 - 2017.06

Master of Science - Finance

ESADE Business School

Bachelor of Economics - Economics

Universidad De Los Andes
Alvaro Nieto Silva