Ryan Potter
Clarks Summit, PA 18411
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EXPERIENCE:
Fidelity Investments, Inc. Jersey City, NJ 4/2006 – 7/2011
Risk Analyst
*Partake in daily pre-market Risk meetings to assess futures, upcoming economic reports, earnings, and overall market
expectations
*Closely monitor economic/geopolitical events to assess firm exposure
*Monitor day trading accounts during the trading session to assess the firm risk
*Work closely with Collateral Risk regarding firm margin requirement changes and impact to client accounts
*Approve/reject wire requests
*Approve/reject incoming ACAT transfers
*Accept/reject physical penny stock deposits as seen on reporting summaries and/or via branch calls
*Perform credit checks on new margin accounts and either grant or deny margin privileges
Fidelity Investments, Inc. Jersey City, NJ 5/2005 – 4/2006
Senior Pricing Analyst
*Price wide range of securities in order to ensure accurate portfolio valuation for clients
*Monitor vendor feeds for proper timing and accuracy of pricing files
*Utilize resources such as Bloomberg, Interactive Data, FII, and S&P to research pertinent market data for accurate security
pricing
*Utilize Bloomberg APIs to retrieve important bulk information for pricing
*Deem securities worthless by researching security specific corporate actions and reorganizations.
*Work closely with internal departments to provide support to Trading, Margin, TOA, P&S, and Reorg
*Develop close relations with external pricing and descriptive data vendors
*Process daily, weekly, and monthly exception-pricing for large correspondents
*Engage in special projects to help facilitate manual processes by creating databases and macros
*Authored a new detailed pricing procedure manual
*Answer client inquiries regarding pricing discrepancies, account information, activity, and market valuation
Fiserv Securities Inc. Philadelphia, PA 3/2003 5/2005
Security Master File and Pricing Supervisor
*Managed staff of Security Operations Associates in Security Master File
*Solely responsible for security pricing of all newly established issues, transferred assets, and any un- priced issues on the
database
*Ensured accurate and timely transmissions of pricing and descriptive files
*Maintained sound relationships with external vendors such and Interactive Data and S&P
*Authored pricing procedures and supervisory procedures
*Responsible for approving timecards and vacation allotment
*Worked closely with the Vice President of the department to resolve issues
EDUCATION:
Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 1997-2001
*B.S. Finance and International Business
*Minor in Economics
University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia Spring 2000
*Completed 15 credits to fulfill International Business requirements
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
*Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Internet / Intranet, Reuters,
Bloomberg, Bloomberg API, Streetscape/Thompson
LICENSES
*FINRA Series 7