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Lungiswa Lorraine Ngqengqa

Senior Settlements Administrator
Cape Town

Summary

I am a detail-oriented team player with very strong organizational skills. I am able to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Language

Work History

Senior Settlements Administrator

Prescient Fund Services
03.2023 - Current
  • Overseeing, capturing, processing and settlement of all fx trades and International CIS/Fund of fund instructions.
  • Handling and resolving internal and external queries.
  • Drafting of Incident reports.
  • Ensuring that Unconfirmed trades are updated timeous.
  • Ensuring that all new investment accounts are linked on Calastone.
  • Reconciling of all Prescient fx Settlement banking accounts.
  • Attending and contributing in client meetings related to fx & international CIS process.
  • Training team members.
  • Drafting and maintaining process documents for fx's and International CIS investments.
  • Monitoring MT300 and ensuring that all trades have been imported on Eagle.
  • Checking and authorization of Payments (Local & offshore banks)
  • Checking and authorization on Trades on Finswitch /Calastone.
  • Checking and signing Account opening forms.

Settlements Administrator

Prescient Fund Services
06.2018 - 02.2023
  • Facilitating settlement of fx's by:

1.completing Bop Forms

2.Processing payments on Local and offshore banking platforms

3.Loading trades on Eagle.

  • Updating unconfirmed trades.
  • Updating our workbooks (e.g linking funds on Calastone and updating or records).
  • Handling internal & external queries.
  • Ensuring that tasks are closed from the box once task is completed.
  • Reconciling Prescient's fx settlement Banking accounts.
  • Preparing and sending manual International CIS instructions to custodians, loading trade instructions on Calastone and processing payments for investments from the offshore banking accounts.
  • Training co-workers on Fx's & International CIS process.
  • Opening accounts for offshore CIS investment with counterparties.
  • Processing International Equity trades on Omgeo and manually on offshore Bank platform.
  • Liaising with clients, brokers and counterparties to ensure trades settle timeously .

Remediation Officer (Contract)

Nedbank Private Wealth
03.2016 - 12.2017
  •  Create/ load beneficiaries, Trustees and signatories on the system.
  •  File all relevant documents for each client under the correct folder.
  •  Prepare weekly and monthly reports for management.
  •  Lease with the private banker to obtain valid documents from the client for Remediation and FICA purpose.
  •  Managing my inbox as well as co-worker’s inbox while they are on leave to ensure we remain within SLA.
  •  Assisting with various Trust and banking projects within the Remediation team (Private wealth)
  •  Trust audits
  •  Ensuring that all client details correspond in all bank systems e.g CIA, Banking platform, CAMRA, CRP ,etc, if not than fix it.
  •  Ensuring that all the clients that have been identified as high risk that the banker is informed to get necessary documents.
  •  Following up with the bankers and Client Relationship Managers to ensure that all the requested documents have been received from the clients and that system has been updated correctly.

Client Account Manager

Sanlam Trust (Sanlam)
08.2015 - 09.2015
  • Managing team
  • Coordinating and monitoring all claim related activities for the team (New money, monthly payments, ad hoc payments and termination)
  • Ensuring that the team stays within department's SLA
  • Investigate and respond to complex queries / complaints
  • Identify gaps, develop, enhance and make recommendations to improve process and procedures that are relevant to the Trust team
  • Monitor escalations and complaints and implement preventative measures
  • Train, mentor and coach team members
  • Compile management, Board of Trustees and ad hoc reports
  • Assisting with selecting and appointing new team members
  • Assess, prepare and present all extraordinary requests to the management team and Trustees for approval
  • Authorising banking details on the system
  • Authorising and releasing daily EFT payments
  • Checking and authorisation of investment rebalancing
  • Attending management meetings and giving feedback on team performance as well as individual employee performance.

Trust Admin Facilitator/ Trust Officer

Nedbank (Nedgroup Beneficiary Solutions)
06.2012 - 07.2015
  • Inform (educate) beneficiaries regarding their rights
  • Manage problematic beneficiaries Deliver in terms of client expectations
  • Comply with all legislation, regulations and requirements applicable to trust administration
  • Verifying banking details with the banks
  • Authorising banking details loaded on the system by other Trust Officers
  • Determine the financial needs of beneficiaries
  • Consider requests for financial assistance
  • Prepare and present request for financial assistance to the Fund Trustees
  • Process EFT's for adhoc payments, monthly income and termination of trust
  • Check and authorise EFT payments for other Trust officers
  • Invest funds according to beneficiary needs, risk profile and mandate
  • Manage cash flow effectively
  • Ensure all decisions are properly recorded
  • Ensure all trusts are risked profiled and mandated where applicable
  • Dealing and resolving trust queries and complaints (telephonic, email & post/mail)
  • Identify all data changes and update system
  • Check-in all the documents that are sent directly to me by clients on system (TRAC) and load workflow for processing of EFT payment or correspondence
  • Compare the request to trustee instructions and complete the trustee application if relevant
  • Prepare and process Forex payments (BOP form)
  • Assist with projects.

Trust Signatory

Fairheads Benefit Services (Pty) Ltd
05.2010 - 05.2012
  • Competently verify documentation / decision is compliant
  • Rebalancing investments
  • Monthly, quarterly and annual reports to the fund trustees
  • Check if data is correct / implementation accurate
  • Check if payee / bank details correct
  • Check if payment / allocated amounts is correct
  • Check if beneficiary selected is correct
  • Check that payment falls within correct financial parameters and approved guidelines
  • Check that correspondence / sms is correct
  • Check correct allocation of Investments
  • Check complex /complicated correspondence
  • Update / delete diaries or follow up where applicable
  • Authorise payments / tasks / job cards / letters
  • Generate/release payments files / authorise investments for Financial Control
  • Assist with telephone queries
  • Assist with walk in clients if need be
  • Assist with follow-up on clients if need be
  • Assist with projects when required
  • Assist with urgent requests.

Trust Compliance Assessor

Fairheads Benefit Services (Pty) Ltd
11.2009 - 04.2010
  • Identify all data changes
  • Verifies the authenticity of the request
  • Compares the request to the financial parameters and approved guidelines
  • Compare the request to trustee instructions and complete the trustee application if relevant
  • Identify the diaries or job cards to be loaded
  • Confirm that the bank details are on our system
  • Make a decision as to who should be paid, the transaction amount and indicate the conditions attached to the payment
  • Indicate what must be included in the letter or sms
  • Indicate the wishes / notes to be put on the system.

Trust Checker

Fairheads Benefit Services (Pty) Ltd
03.2009 - 10.2009
  • Checking of: Source documents for: Accuracy and completeness, Agreement between Deed of Settlement and Resolution, Compliance with terms and conditions of the Trust Deed
  • Data loaded
  • Correspondence to Trustees, guardians, beneficiaries
  • Providing Trust information and functioning
  • Authorisation of bank details
  • Assistance with staff queries
  • Scanfile checking
  • Signs off diary follow ups
  • Co-ordinate and check monthly Trust register reporting requirements
  • Attend team meetings giving feedback on issues such as: Performance, Training, Bottlenecks and turnaround times.

Senior Trust Administrator

Fairheads Benefit Services (Pty) Ltd
03.2006 - 02.2009
  • Preparation and process of income payments, income related queries
  • Ongoing communication and monitoring via correspondence
  • Educating custodians and beneficiaries with regard to possible options in respect of us paying for school fees, uniform, etc.

Intern Human Resources Management

Independent Newspapers
04.2004 - 06.2004
  • Answering calls (SWB)
  • Telephone Screening
  • Filing, faxing, photocopying
  • Preparing training room
  • Taking messages
  • Setting appointments
  • Helping ex-employees with their provident fund claims
  • Writing regret letters to unsuccessful applicants.

Education

Cambridge College

National Diploma Human Resources Management - undefined

Cape Peninsula University Of Technology

National Certificate - Financial Markets & Instruments

Full View Financial Services
Johannesburg, South Africa
04.2001 -

Skills

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First Names

Lungiswa Lorraine

Physical Address

Unit 30, Dorchester Place, Dorchester Drive, Parklands,7441

Telephone Contacts

0632765634, 0824383508

Professional Confidential References

Nedbank Referral :Gayle Theys, Operations Manager (Nedbank) 0214166013 / 0836402600


Fairheads Referral: HR Contact (Rhonda Theys) 021 410 7800. Company prefers giving written referrals. I have a copy of the referral letter if required.


Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 11/19/80
  • Driving License: code 08 or B

Timeline

Senior Settlements Administrator

Prescient Fund Services
03.2023 - Current

Settlements Administrator

Prescient Fund Services
06.2018 - 02.2023

Remediation Officer (Contract)

Nedbank Private Wealth
03.2016 - 12.2017

Client Account Manager

Sanlam Trust (Sanlam)
08.2015 - 09.2015

Trust Admin Facilitator/ Trust Officer

Nedbank (Nedgroup Beneficiary Solutions)
06.2012 - 07.2015

Trust Signatory

Fairheads Benefit Services (Pty) Ltd
05.2010 - 05.2012

Trust Compliance Assessor

Fairheads Benefit Services (Pty) Ltd
11.2009 - 04.2010

Trust Checker

Fairheads Benefit Services (Pty) Ltd
03.2009 - 10.2009

Senior Trust Administrator

Fairheads Benefit Services (Pty) Ltd
03.2006 - 02.2009

Intern Human Resources Management

Independent Newspapers
04.2004 - 06.2004

National Certificate - Financial Markets & Instruments

Full View Financial Services
04.2001 -

Cambridge College

National Diploma Human Resources Management - undefined

Cape Peninsula University Of Technology
Lungiswa Lorraine NgqengqaSenior Settlements Administrator