Highlights:

Skills:Financial Risk Management, Corporate Finance, Catholic Theology

Goal:Alternative investment risk manager with 13 years of corporate experience – 5 years of experience in investment/financial risk management, 4 years of experience in portfolio performance measurement and analysis, and 4 years of experience in IT systems analysis, IT project management and object-oriented programming. Seeking an opportunity to use my professional experience and education to add value to the investment, asset or risk management function of a high-impact organization.

Certification:Financial Risk Manager, since Apr 2011 Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder, since Oct 2018

Investment Risk Manager, APAC Alternative Investments 08/2018 - current
DWS Investments Singapore, , Singapore
Alternative investment risk management
• Implement the Group-wide Risk Management Framework – e.g. liquidity risk management and investment risk analysis – for the Alternative Investment platform in APAC. • As Risk Manager of 1 Real Estate and 2 Sustainable Investment funds, independently assess and document material risks of Alternative Investment transactions in APAC – after reviewing investment memos, financial models, due diligence and valuation reports of the proposed deals – and highlight key risks for discussion during Investment Committee meetings. • Conceptualize and perform fund-level market and liquidity stress/scenario tests for internal reporting and where applicable, for regulatory disclosures – as required by the European Union’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). • Review, challenge and give feedback on periodic valuations of Real Estate assets and Private Equity investments (e.g. onshore wind projects, private company preferred shares and convertible notes) – held by the Real Estate and Sustainable Investment funds respectively. • Prepare investment risk updates/reports for monthly risk forums and quarterly Board meetings.--
Assistant Vice President, Real Estate Investment Risk 04/2014 - 07/2015
CapitaLand Limited, , Singapore
Financial and investment risk analysis.
• Managed 2 Managers and 2 Senior Executives to carry out key functions of the department. • Assisted the department head with business management, e.g. budgeting and recruitment, in addition to the assigned responsibilities I had as a Senior Manager (see below).--
Senior Manager, Real Estate Investment Risk 09/2011 - 03/2014
CapitaLand Limited, , Singapore
Financial and investment risk analysis.
• Identified and quantified risk exposures, and stress-tested financial models of investment proposals that were each worth more than S$20 million in capital commitment, in order to aid Investment Committee’s investment and deal structuring decisions. • Led special focus studies and presented findings to the Board during Risk Committee meetings; completed topics include: CapitaLand’s foreign exchange risk, CapitaLand’s liquidity risk, CapitaLand’s policy and regulatory risk and CapitaLand’s investment / divestment risk. • Led annual computation of the Group and its Subsidiaries’ Weighted-Average Cost of Capital (WACC) and investment hurdle rates, which influence CapitaLand’s investment decisions. • Prepared risk reports for Risk Committee meetings, held every quarter. • Conducted financial risk management training for the Strategic Business Units, every year.--
Senior Risk Analyst 04/2009 - 08/2011
Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, , Singapore
Performance attribution and analysis.
• Produce, review and validate performance and risk reports of GIC’s Total Account portfolio (every quarter) and Public Markets portfolio (every month) for Senior Management and clients. • Produce, review and validate monthly performance and risk monitoring reports for the Natural Resources Group and Marketable Alternatives business offices. • Prepared presentation slides for Senior Management and members of the quarterly Group Investment Committee and Group Executive Committee meetings. • Managed 1 support staff to assist with reporting.--
Risk Analyst 11/2007 - 03/2009
Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, , Singapore
Performance attribution and analysis.
• As coordinator of the organization’s performance attribution system (named “Paradigm”), participated in ongoing projects to enhance the performance and risk reporting capabilities of the system as well as the department. • Set and monitored portfolio performance thresholds – e.g., daily portfolio, benchmark and value-added returns – which impact the accuracy and integrity of the Paradigm system. • Carried out daily operations within Paradigm, in order to update the investment returns of the entire Public Markets portfolio and its underlying asset classes.--

National University of Singapore 07/1999 - 06/2003
, , Singapore
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Computing (Information Systems)
Bachelor of Computing with 2nd Class Honours (Information Systems)