Objective
Highly motivated and resourceful professional seeking an opportunity in a
fast paced financial environment.
Professional Experience
BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN, New York, NY 2005 -
Present
Foreign Exchange, Emerging Markets Senior Specialist
. F/X Trading Desk Operations support during the Asian and London hours,
responsible for Spot, Forward and Swap trade entries.
. Resolving and correcting trade and P/L position discrepancy breaks before
end of the currency trading session.
. Liaise with Tokyo & London sales desk, and our Trading Desk to ensure
emerging market trades are executed before currency cutoff time. These
trades are on behalf of custody clients, and money managers holding multi-
currency positions with several global sub-custodians.
. Daily Interaction with wide a range of global sub-custodians,
investigating, and resolving client account currency shortages, and
balance inquiries. Also any confirmation or settlement related issues.
. Responsible for ensuring accurate settlement and confirmation of Foreign
Exchange trades executed through various platforms such as MISYS, FXALL,
CLS, GTSS, SWIFT, CHIPS, FEDWIRE and OFAC.
. Initiated manual swift payments on a daily basis via MT202.
. Manually generated and released hourly email confirmation reports for our
Japanese clientele.
. Work with all departments within FX Operations to ensure accurate and
timely workflow, and proper escalation of issues between the different
shifts.
. Established credibility and confidence in each client interaction to
ensure the highest level of customer service.
CITIGROUP, New York, NY
2002 - 2005
Foreign Exchange Corporate Unit, Senior Service Representative, (2003
-2005)
. Served as primary contact between sales team and corporate clients to
resolve all outstanding issues, and act as an extension of the sales team
by providing an enhanced customer service experience.
. Responsible for confirmations and settlements of all Foreign Exchange
Spot, Forwards and Option activities.
. Properly confirmed all trades and ensured payments settled prior to close
of business.
. Performed daily reporting of errors and exceptions.
Money Market Service Desk Officer, Asset Management Group (2002 - 2003)
. Assisted in managing one of the largest Money Market fund account (daily
avg. flow btw. $2 - $4 billion)
. Provided bilingual account-fund management level services to
international clientele throughout Latin America.
. Coordinated daily money estimates between the institutional clients and
monetary funds custodial banks (located in Boston, Toronto and Dublin)
for domestic and offshore funds.
. Monitored the daily inflows and outflows of funds for our portfolio
managers; served as liaison between institutional sales force (Asset
Management, Private Banking Group, and E-Commerce) in addition to our
portfolio managers.
MORGAN STANLEY, New York, NY
2000 - 2002
Mutual Funds Trade Representative
. Amended all trade errors for selling, buying and exchanges of mutual
funds; processed profits and losses reports on a daily basis.
. Interacted with brokers and sales assistants to balance out client
accounts and meet their investment objectives; analyzed, reconciled
debits and credits to clients and in-house accounts.
Education
BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, New York, NY
1993
Associates Degree in Business Administration
Skills
Systems: Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook), Lotus Notes, Citi Networks, GTSS,
FXALL, Reuters, Misys. Native Spanish speaker, reading and writing.