Astrid Ridgway
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Capital Markets Ops at finmid | Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner (CSM/CSPO)
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Capital Markets Operations ManagerFinmidAug 2025 - Current (1 year 3 months)- OOperations ManagerApr 2024 - Jul 2025 (1 year 4 months)Lumkani is a South African social enterprise which seeks to address the challenge of fires in urban informal settlements and townships in South Africa and across the globe. Lumkani uses innovative early-warning systems with low-cost inclusive insurance products to provide safety and financial security to their clients. Highlights include: - Reporting to COO, overseeing the finance, payments and HR functions - Restructured teams for growth and workflow optimisation - Delivered enhanced premium payment allocation system to improve accuracy, and enable internal data warehousing for reporting and insights - Developed an employee benefit scheme - Successfully facilitated Y/E financial audit Show less
- Funding Operations ManagerProdigy FinanceAug 2021 - Mar 2024 (2 years 8 months)Promoted. Highlights include: - Reported to CFO - Developed a new, high performing business team. - Managed third party selection and delivered process frameworks for a new debt deal and structure. - Delivered subsequent phases of a proprietary optimisation tool to match business needs. - Provided ongoing team support and facilitated key discussions.
- Senior Capital Markets AnalystProdigy FinanceJan 2020 - Jul 2021 (1 year 7 months)Promoted. Highlights include: - Delivered operations and reporting framework for a new private debt deal. - Managed execution phase of a public ABS. - Delivered regulatory reporting framework (UK/EU) to ensure compliance across all active deals. - Delivered improved version(s) of a proprietary optimisation tool to match business needs. - Executed and lead funding operations and reporting, and provided new deal support.
- Capital Markets AnalystProdigy FinanceAug 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 5 months)Promoted. Highlights include: - Delivered subsequent phase(s) of bond reporting system to automate required quarterly reporting. - Delivered online investor portal to enable investors’ easy access to highly requested information, and to meet regulatory requirements. - Delivered operational process frameworks to boost efficiency and team & company-wide understanding. - Executed bond issuances, structured debt deal support & analytics, and associated operations in key periods to ensure prompt funding availability. Show less
- Investor Operations AdministratorProdigy FinanceMar 2017 - Jul 2018 (1 year 5 months)Employed full-time in the Investor Team post-internship. Highlights include: - Delivered initial phase of reporting system to enable automated monthly reporting and secure data storage & management. - Delivered pricing tool to enable more efficient pricing for bond trade and settlements. - Executed bond issuances and associated operations in key periods to ensure prompt funding availability. - Executed investor onboarding and compliance.
- Graduate ProgrammeProdigy FinanceJun 2016 - Feb 2017 (9 months)Employed as a Graduate Intern in Operations, with projects across other business teams. Highlights include: - Consistent “top-of-the-leaderboard” solve rate of customer queries in Operations, while maintaining a customer satisfaction score of over 95%. - Delivered a process rebuild with the Investor Team to optimise a key workstream. - Implemented customer insight reporting with Strategy and Credit Risk teams to enhance understanding of customer behavior and facilitate decision making. Show less
- Advanced Micro- and Macro- Economics TutorUniversity of Cape TownFeb 2016 - Jun 2016 (5 months)
- AAssistant to BuyersDec 2011 - Jan 2012 (2 months)
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- Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management [HONS]University of Cape TownJan 2015 - Jan 2016 (1 year 1 month)
- bachelor, Bachelor's Degree, Economics and FinanceUniversity of Cape TownJan 2012 - Jan 2015 (3 years 1 month)