Russell Chidyausiku

I lead internal Audit teams that cover Westpac Group Treasury and the Institutional Banking divisions and provide Audit coverage on all the Risk Frameworks that apply to these divisions e.g. Credit risk/Market risk/Liquidity

 Pilot project implementing Value-Chain Process, Risk & Controls mapping across various Business Units.  Identifying Risks and evaluating the adequacy of Controls/ITGC in key value-chain Processes and Systems.

IBM AI Engineering Professional  IBM Applied AI Professional Certificate  IBM Python for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Certificate  IBM Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Certificate

 Review and Uplift of Group Operational Risk Frameworks, Standards and Procedures  Review & Challenge the implementation of the Operational Risk Framework across BU’s and global locations.

Conducting Quantitative Risk Assessments (QRA workshops) for Economic Capital across BU’s.  Responsible for Line 2 Ops Risk & Compliance oversight on the ORMF/CRMF for Treasury & XVA.

As Head of Risk Management for both the Exchange and Clearing-House, my mandate covered all risk types, Market volatility, Counterparty Credit, Operational Risk and Enterprise Risk Management. I was part of the core

CERTIFIED FINANCIAL RISK MANAGER

 I produced an Independent Expert’s Report identifying Regulatory Compliance and Operational Risk failures in a multi-million dollar lawsuit against a major Swiss brokerage and banking group and their selling partners.

 Producing daily securities pricing, portfolio valuations and monthly investment performance reports for the Board of Directors of four Australian superannuation companies each with multi-Billion-dollar investment portfolios.

 SERIES 55 - NASDAQ MARKET-MAKER  SERIES 65 - FINANCIAL ADVISOR  SERIES 7 – STOCKBROKER  SERIES 63 - STATE SECURITIES AGENT

I advised institutional traders on Trade and Strategy automation, pre- and post-trade risk analytics, strategy backtesting, algorithm writing, arbitrage strategy automation, program trading, basket and pairs-trading.  Risk Analytics - Assisted clients with Portfolio variance analysis, stress-testing, hedging and VAR risk metrics.

Masters in Quantitative Finance with specialization in Investments and Risk Management, plus a post-graduate certificate in Advanced Risk Management

 Nasdaq Market maker & Options agency Trader;  Execution of Proprietary trades and client order-flows; Position and P/L management  Fundamental and Technical analysis of Nasdaq stocks