Spencer Van Zijl
PA, 17055 |
PA, 17055 |
Objective:
A well experienced, highly skilled, strategic and analytical orientated professional, with more than 10 years of stock broking and trading experience including retail and private client securities trading, seeking a proprietary trading position in a dynamic "prop" trading firm or hedge fund.
Skills
• Technically analytical
• Systems orientated
• Risk management
• Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate in a clear and
understandable manner to a diverse clientele.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with management, colleagues and
clients in a purposeful, respectful and conscientious manner.
• Well developed ability to organize inventory, paperwork (prescriptions, daily logs etc.) and
establish systems to streamline and improve workflow.
• Ability to prioritize and analyze problematic work situations and make decisions to
best address problems.
• Worked with several technical, analytical and trade specific software programs, technical
analysis systems and related securities trading software.
• Strong leadership and supervisory skills.
Professional Experience:
• Liaison with clients
• Providing professional opinions on shares, trading of shares on personal and client accounts
• Ensuring that orders are executed correctly according to instruction and/or strategy
• Reporting on transactions once orders have been confirmed.
• Ensuring that all orders are within margin requirements and client account limits.
• Researching of listed companies stock and generating trading ideas.
• Management, supervision of staff
• Facilitating and executing of training clients and client groups.
• Assuring compliance to all relevant rules, regulation and governing bodies
• Compliance to all company protocols
• Managing and controlling expenses, reviewing of sales, trading and brokerage figures.
Employment history
2014 - Present
Faulkner Automotive Group - Nissan - Finance Manager
Faulkner Automotive Group - Subaru - Sales
2016 to Present
Automated/ Robotic FX Trading
Private
A "Fortune 500 company"
Shift Supervisor
2012 to Present
Trader
Quasar Trading, LLC
(Previously Legend Trading, LLC)
Proprietary Trader
2008 to 2012
Stock Broker: BoE Private Clients/ BoE Stockbrokers (Subsidiary of Nedbank Group Ltd. South Africa)
2007 to 2008
CMS: (Consolidated Monetary Services)
Property Portfolio Manager
2004 to 2007
Auction Alliance:
Business Development Manager/Marketing Manager)
2001 to 2003
Secured Investments Trust:
Co Trustee
1998 to 2003
Penta Securities:
Stock Broker – Dealer
1997 to 1998
Mellet Construction
General Manager
Education:
Bachelor of Economics 1997, University of the Free State, South Africa.
Majors: Economics, Business Management and Money & Banking
Certifications
FINRA - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
• Series 56: Proprietary Traders Examination
Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)
• Registered Securities Trader
South African Institute of Financial Markets (SAIFM)
• Equity Market
• Currency Derivatives Market (Trader)
• Futures Market
• Bond Market (Compliance)
References:
• Chris Maree
Consolidated Monetary Services (CMS)
Tel: +27 (0) 51 447 4055
E-mail: chris@metricgroup.net
• Deon Goosen
BoE Regional business development manager
Tel: +27 (0) 12 470 6436
E-mail: deong@boe.co.za
• Donald Rogan
BoE Head of Stockbroking
Tel: +27 (0) 11 295 8546
E-mail: DonaldRo@BoE.co.za
