Mohamed Belkhodja

Managed the treasury operations of multi-billion-dollar portfolios across proprietary investments, mandate-based assets, and ALM strategies. Delivered exceptional financial results through meticulous cash and investment management. • Oversaw daily cash management, forecasting, and resource optimization. • Executed and validated transactions in FX, Money Markets, and Capital Markets for hedging, arbitrage, and investment purposes. • Actively involved in investment decision-making by monitoring, analyzing, and interpreting market news, trends, and financial data to identify opportunities and manage risk. • Increased central banks’ reserves under management through proactive approaches, including identifying new investment opportunities and optimizing portfolio strategies, which directly led to a significant increase in revenues. • Managed Basel III ratios, including Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR), Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR), and CAR, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements. • Revised treasury policies and procedures in collaboration with PwC, ensuring alignment with best market practices and international standards. • Led cross-departmental coordination and supervised a team of three employees.

In my dual role as an end user and Business Analyst for Calypso, alongside my responsibilities as a Senior Dealer, I played a crucial role in the successful implementation and optimization of the Calypso platform. - Configured Calypso’s Front Office modules to support trading activities for financial instruments, including FX and Money Markets. - Customized pricing templates to ensure accurate valuations and real-time trade execution for various financial instruments. - Mapped and integrated market data (e.g., rates, curves, and prices) to meet pricing, valuation, and risk management requirements. - Defined and implemented workflows for the entire trade lifecycle, enabling smooth coordination between Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office operations. - Automated trade workflows to achieve straight-through processing (STP), reducing manual intervention and errors. - Assisted in the migration of trade and position data from legacy platforms to Calypso, ensuring clean, accurate, and consistent data. - Designed, developed, and executed test scenarios and scripts to validate system configurations in Front Office, Cash Management, Static Data, and Counterparty Limits modules. - Conducted functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, and end-to-end validation to ensure system stability, performance, and compliance with business requirements. - Captured UAT results, feedback, and defect logs, ensuring timely resolution and system readiness for production deployment. - Ensured the accuracy and consistency of static data across systems to support seamless trading, valuation, and operational workflows. - Worked with the Risk and Compliance teams to enforce limit rules and comply with regulatory requirements. - Conducted training sessions for my team members to ensure system adoption and effective usage.

• Executed FX transactions, including spot, forward, and swap deals, leveraging electronic trading platforms such as Reuters and Bloomberg to ensure best execution and competitive pricing. • Conducted money market operations, including short-term borrowing and lending in both local and international currencies, to meet funding requirements and optimize portfolios liquidity. • Proactively monitored market trends, analyzing news, economic indicators, and interest rate movements to identify trading opportunities and maximize returns. • Managed real-time cash flow forecasting and daily cash positions for multi-currency portfolios, ensuring adequate liquidity and precise funding allocations. • Maintained and adhered to counterparty limits, ensuring compliance with internal policies and mitigating credit risk exposure during trading activities.

• Managed end-to-end settlement processes for Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income and Money Market instruments, ensuring accuracy and timely execution of financial transactions within strict deadlines. • Executed and monitored SWIFT messaging (MT2XX, MT3XX, MT5XX, MT9XX) to facilitate secure and efficient payment processing, confirmations, and reconciliations for high-value financial operations. • Performed daily and monthly reconciliations of Nostro and Custodian accounts, promptly identifying and resolving discrepancies to maintain data integrity and ensure alignment with counterparties. • Implemented controls and best practices to mitigate operational risks in settlement workflows, ensuring compliance with international standards and institutional policies. • Collaborated with internal departments (Front Office, Compliance, and Risk) and external banking partners to streamline settlement processes and improve operational efficiency.