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Guillaume Hercot

Bio

I am the Director of Equity Finance Trading for EMEA at UBS, where I specialize in inventory management and balance sheet optimization. Throughout my career at UBS, I have traded a wide range of equity finance products across both APAC and EMEA markets, including index swaps, futures, and ETFs. I hold a Master’s degree in Finance from Imperial College Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Statistics from McGill University.

Work Experience

Director, Equity Finance Trading EMEA at UBS

Mar 2024 – Present

Associate Director, Equity Finance Trading EMEA at UBS

May 2022 – Feb 2024

European Equity Finance Inventory Management team (blue chips + sectors + MSCI Europe series)

Associate Director, Equity Finance Trading APAC at UBS

Mar 2021 – Apr 2022

Analyst, Equity Finance Trading APAC at UBS

Jan 2018 – Feb 2021

APAC Graduate Talent Program (GTP) within the Greater China Equity Finance Inventory Management team, with a focus on HK • Priced equity index swaps for UBS' clients, traded futures, forwards, ETFs and single stock swaps as balance sheet optimization products as well as restricted currencies FX Spot, Forwards and Swaps as hedges for exposures • Traded events such as corporate actions, dividends, index rebalances and futures rolls • Monitored the QFII Management activity, mostly involved in cash management and Money Market Fund investments • Built and continuously enhanced a tool to automate the P&L computation

Summer Analyst, Equities Sales & Trading at UBS

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017

9-week summer program within the Equities team of the Global Markets division • Rotated on the Structured Product Sales, Flow Derivatives Sales and Electronic Trading desks • Constructed a pitch book of hybrid products; presented these strategies to my supervisors who delivered them to institutional clients • Ran a virtual trading portfolio throughout the internship, trading across all asset classes, based on both macroeconomic data and in-depth stock analysis • Pitched single stocks and derivative strategies both individually and as part of a group • Prepared and presented the morning market wraps to the team; covered equities, fixed income, FX and commodities Received full-time offer (first intern to receive cross-region return offer)

Summer Analyst, Equities at Tikehau Capital

May 2014 – Jul 2014

• Conducted an in-depth analysis of the daily market exposure of Tikehau's portfolio • Imported from and updated data to Tikehau's portfolio, calculated prices and performed technical analyses to assess positions; presented results and recommendations to my supervisor who implemented them • Developed databases tracking major events related to new potential investment targets

Education

FullStack Developer, Web Development at Le Wagon

2017 – 2017

Attended Le Wagon Paris (Batch #101). 9-week intensive coding bootcamp learning HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript ES6, SQL, git, GitHub, Heroku and Ruby on Rails. Designed, Implemented and Shipped to production a clone of AirBnB and a Rails prototype of Omakase.

Master's Degree, Finance at Imperial Business School

2016 – 2017

Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics & Statistics, Economics at McGill University

2012 – 2016

Study Abroad Program, General Course, Statistics, Finance, Econometrics at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

2014 – 2015

High School, French Scientific Baccalaureate, International Option at Ecole Jeannine Manuel

2005 – 2012