Simone Aranha

Manager, Financial Instruments

KPMG in Ireland

Simone Aranha is a Manager at KPMG Ireland’s Financial Instruments team. Simone has extensive experience in supporting clients on fair valuations of financial instruments, hedge accounting, IFRS 9, financial risk management and corporate treasury.

Simone has worked with clients across industries such as banking, financial services, insurance as well as corporates, assisting them enhance and implement fair value calculation and risk management models, hedge accounting strategies, financial risk management framework as well as benchmarking of corporate treasury strategy and operations. Her experience covers a wide range of financial risks (interest rates, foreign exchange, and commodities price risk, including electricity price risk) and over the counter (OTC) derivatives including FX forward/option contracts, interest rate/cross-currency/inflation swaps, interest rate futures/bond forwards, commodity swaps/options, power purchase agreements (PPAs).

Simone is supported by an experienced team of professionals with a focus in these areas. 

  • CFA Level II completed

  • Chartered Accountant, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

  • Master in Commerce, Mumbai University

  • Financial Instruments

  • Fair valuations

  • Hedge accounting

  • Financial risk management