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September 2017

David Navarro Mook davidnavarromook@gmail.com


+352 621 297793
Financial Services Professional 5-11 Avenue Gaston Diderich
L-1420 Luxembourg

Profile
My key strengths today are my quick and autonomous ability to adapt into new environments due to my strong
analytical thinking, technical understanding and communication skills. This is the result of my solid academic and
professional performances, strong work ethic, efficiency driven personal organisation skills and my passion for the
financial service field.

Work Experience

Prudential & Risk Reporting Senior Vice-President at East-West


United Bank S.A. (EWUB)
March 2017 - August 2017

Objectives
The Bank had a significant risk-reporting backlog, which needed to be addressed urgently. My role was
on a first step to prepare the reporting’s and identify prudential regulation application issues to optimise
the capital usage. At the end of the project, I presented a complete Risk Management action plan to
improve/strengthen the Risk function within the Bank in the medium-term.

Tasks
Ensuring the integrity and quality of the regulatory reporting;
Producing monthly and quarterly regulatory reporting’s required by the regulatory body -
COREP, LCR, NSFR, LAREX, AE, ALMM,...;
Contributing to the development of automated reporting production;
Reviewing and challenging processes for the regulatory reporting deliverables in order to
develop controls in place;
Liaising with other departments of the Bank in order to obtain the data required for the
reporting;
Preparing stress test scenarios (Pillar II) and different annual risk reports (e.g. ICAAP,
Recovery Plan);
Answering to the regulatory body’s requests related to the regulatory reporting submitted by
the Bank;
Following regulatory updates that affect the reporting and adapt the process/system mapping
to consider the impacts/changes.

Software Tools
T24 Core Banking System (TEMENOS), OneSumX (FRS/Wolters Kluwer), SOFiE (Six
Payment Systems) and MS Office.
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Finance Manager (CFO) at Allfunds Bank International S.A.


November 2013 - April 2016

Objectives
Insource the accounting function of a newly established bank in Luxembourg, formerly an investment
firm (until April 2014). The Company decided to acquire a bank license and move from an investment
firm into a bank. The main activity of the Bank is the brokerage intermediation of UCI’s.

Tasks
Set-up a new finance department (now 3 people);
Implement and send all the bank reporting’s for a credit institution to the local competent
authority; and as part of a significant banking group (Banco Santander and Intesa Sanpaolo,
joint venture) it falls under the direct supervision of the ECB (SSM);
Maintaining regular written and oral contact with the local competent authorities (CSSF and
BCL) solving punctual issues and newly adopted regulatory requirements;
Preparing financial statements of the Bank (conversion from investment firm into a bank
balance sheet);
Set-up the procedures of the finance department;
Preparing with the assistance of an external tax advisor the corporate tax and VAT
declarations forms of the credit institution.

Software Tools
Olympic Banking System (EQUATION), CPI (accounting system), FRSReportGenerator
(Wolters Kluwer) and MS Office.

Independent Consultant at Financial Services Consulting


May 2010 - March 2013

Setup and project work on a freelance basis for different clients. Please find a more detailed description of
my projects hereafter:

Please see Appendix ››

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Manager at Aon Insurance Managers


May 2009 - April 2010

Objectives
Responsible as Manager for several captive accounts of global operating companies. The scope of the
work included a variety of different domiciliation tasks.

Tasks
Bookkeeping of all company transactions;
Periodical reporting to the group headquarters;
Preparing annual accounts for the companies;
Preparation of “boardpacks”;
Local CAA (“Commissariat aux assurances”) reports and tax declarations.

Software Tools
Internal developed bespoke accounting solution for captives and MS Office

From Assistant to Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers (Lux)


September 2001 - April 2009

Objectives
Classical and steady evolution from audit assistant to managerial positions. Internally I also worked as part
of the risk management team to deal and mitigate ethical and independence issues. Around 30% of the time
spent within the company was dedicated to special jobs (advisory and consulting) for major clients.

Tasks
Audit assignments for different types of industries: UCI’s (mainly UCITS), Management
Companies (Asset Managers), Holdings (mainly Soparfi), Securitisation vehicles and Banks;
Mergers of investment funds;
Give internal trainings to new joiners of the company;
Perform special assignments (e.g. Regulatory and Accounting GAP analyses, OTC
derivatives valuation risk analysis,…).

Software Tools
Bloomberg, Telekurs, Lotus Notes and MS Office

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Education

Master in Business Administration


Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) - Belgium
September 1996 - July 2001

During my studies I spent 6 months at the Universität zu Köln (Germany) as part of the european Erasmus
Program - (September 2000 - March 2001)

Computer Skills
MS Office Equation (Olympic) FRS ReportGenerator Xero

Advanced Intermediate Advanced Advanced

Language Skills
German Spanish French English

Native Native Fluent Fluent

Personal Details
Place of Birth: Münster (Germany)
Date of Birth: 26th of March 1976
Nationality: German/Spanish
Marital Status: Married
Reading finance books, golf, jogging and watching
Hobbies: big sports events

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APPENDIX:
Projects Experience

Project Manager at Capita


May 2012 - March 2013

Objectives
Integrate the Fiduciary client portfolio (60 High Network Risk Companies out of a total of 164
companies) from the former Allied Irish Bank (AIB) into the existing Capita working (hard and soft
filing) platform.

Tasks
Set-up of the Integration & Merger process: Checklist of Accounting, Taxation and Legal
Corporate requirements for each legal entity;
Test the developed approach and optimizing it on an on-going basis for the team-members;
Organising and planning the work of a team of 10 people (average number of people
working on the project);
Detect and solve problems of the pre-merger time, to highlight the potential risk areas to the
Capita board members;
Preparing F/S of some of the integrated companies.

Software Tools
Bob 50, Worksite, MS Dynamics, NoClone and MS Office.

Consultant at G.I.T.S.
December 2011 - March 2012

Objectives
Review and scrutiny of the information to be provided to the CSSF by G.I.T.S (Global IT Services)
including the setting-up of a control panel to monitor the information and the different steps to follow
during the year in relation to documentation to be prepared to be compliant with Circulars and Laws
issued by the CSSF for Support PFS.

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Tasks
Scrutiny of the Circulars and Laws issued by the CSSF for Support PFS and applicable to
the company;
Scrutiny of the current internal controls in place;
To specify key controls that should be adhered and outline the processes and controls
employed by G.I.T.S;
To define a conceptual framework from which detailed checklists for individual tasks should
be followed;
Coordinate and relieve information between administrative team and operational teams;
Plan and coordinate the monitoring of this new internal policy according to the resources
available and priorities defined by the operational and administrative teams.

Software Tools
Intranet based solutions on MS Office, Lotus Notes and Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. 5.

Consultant at FRS
April 2011 - October 2011

Objectives
Setting-up a Human Resources Performance Management questionnaire for Financial Resources
Solutions (FRS) which identifies the different personalities within the organisation, their technical
competencies and their capacity to evaluate different types of classical working situations. Individual
evaluations submitted for each assessed employee (= external consultants) based on questionnaires
results and individual interview sessions.

Tasks
Define scope of technical competencies and key personality aspects to be evaluated in order
to better define the professional profile of each external consultant within the firm;
Preparation of technical questionnaires in the following fields: Banking, Investment
Management, Risk Management, Financial Analysis and Accounting;
Preparation of Myers Briggs Type Indicator questionnaires;
Review of online results for both types of questionnaires;
Face to face interview discussion with each external consultant, to discuss and evaluate
different business situations asked in the previous online assessments;
Final evaluation and discussion with each external consultant to discuss strengths and
weaknesses from an external point of view;
Final discussion with Human Resources team about each individual external consultant with
the objective of increasing the potential and added value of external consultant for future
consulting jobs.

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Software Tools
SurveyGold, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5, SugarSync Manager, Access and MS Office.

Consultant at Blueybay Funds Management and


ManagementPlus
October 2010 - March 2011

Objectives
Setting-up the Accounting, Financial Reporting, Cash Flow and Risk Management Process for
ManagementPlus Luxembourg S.A. and BlueBay Funds Management Company Luxembourg S.A.

Tasks
Ensure an adequate modelling of the major risk factors;
Ensuring the operational data flows from the securities system to the risk management
software, as well as the data warehouse;
Development and maintenance of financial risk reporting and initiation of corrective
measures in case of implausible results;
Evaluation of possible alternative risk management software systems;
Data processing for risk reporting to senior management;
Further development and description of risk management processes.

Software Tools
Xero (Cloud Accounting System), MFTA (TA System BBH), STAR (Fund Accounting
System BBH), MS Office.

Business Analyst at Alceda Fund Management


September 2010

Objectives
Perform a final report for the Board of Directors of the Management Company, with the objective of
comparing and analysing the pros/cons of the key Virtual Data Room (VDR Security Clouding) vendors
on the current market.

Tasks
Pre-selection of the major vendors on the VDR market;
Selecting the 3 most cost-efficient solutions for the Asset Manager;
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Live testing of the 3 most effective solutions and discussing with the technical and
commercial staff on the vendor side;
Delivering final decision-making report for the Board to implement one of the proposed
solutions.

Software Tools
Vendor Applications tested (Brainloop, V-Rooms & DRS), MS Office.

Project Manager at State Street Bank


June 2010 - August 2010

Objectives
Responsible to review and improve the efficiency of the billing cycle of the Bank. Additionally, I was
responsible to integrate new merged clients (30% of additional revenues) in the existing Fund Services
receivables processes.

Tasks
Prepare data migration plans including migration risk, milestones, quality and business sign-
off details;
Manage assigned risks and monitor potential impacts as part of the data migration plan;
Perform source system data analysis in order to manage source to target data mapping;
Perform migration and testing of static data and transaction data from one system to another;
Perform data migration audit, reconciliation and exception reporting;
Manage cross-program data assurance for physical data items in source and target systems.

Software Tools
Sun, MCH, MIG 21, MS Office.

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