JOHN P. MIGNONE
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EDUCATION
BARUCH COLLEGE – ZICKLIN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS • Masters of Science – Finance • New York, New York • June 2013
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE • Bachelor of Science- Finance • Providence, Rhode Island • May 2002
EXPERIENCE
GOLDMAN SACHS • Associate – Regulatory Reporting • Jersey City, New Jersey
May 2012- Present
• Member of a six-person regulatory reporting team responsible for all trade and investment threshold analysis and broker-
dealer disclosures.
• Research regulations and firm policies for all beneficial ownership with all trading and investment banking queries.
• Analyze individual companies’ 10-K and other financial disclosures for business and industry specific regulations.
• Evaluate regulatory/civil complaints, draft language and file regulatory disclosures of all U.S. registered broker-dealers.
Associate – Global Compliance Employee Services
March 2011- May 2012
• Researched and applied pay to play laws and internal policy to vet employee political contributions.
• Liaised with employees to apply regulations and firm policies pertaining but not limited to private investments and outside
interests.
• Maintained and coordinated with divisional compliance the SEC 206(4)-5 Investment Advisor and MSRB G-37 Municipal
Finance Professional lists.
MORGAN STANLEY • Associate- Domestic/International Equities – Execution Trader/ Trading Assistant • New York, New York
September 2007- November 2010
• Traded the international ADR/ORD swap cross-book with IDBs to achieve best client execution and cost savings ($10
million cost savings for clients, year-over-year from 2008-2010).
• Provided comprehensive market research of products transacted (i.e. futures, equities and options in the US, Europe,
LATAM, Asia).
• Located and negotiated borrow fees to cover short positions and convert stock when there are arbitrage opportunities.
• Coordinated with stock loan, depository banks, compliance and IDBs to meet and realize all arbitrage opportunities.
• Executed FX transactions to hedge currency exposure and facilitate ADR/ORD conversion trades.
• Reconciled all foreign/domestic equities traded by the desk. Monitor positions and P/L for the aforementioned equity
products.
• Liaised with Morgan Stanley’s Equity/Cash trading desk for all issues including mitigating risk.
• Project managed new business initiatives for trading desk and coordinate testing/ production of new products.
GFI GROUP INC. (Recruited by former Manager at Sanford C. Bernstein) • Vice President of Middle Office • New York, New York
September 2006- August 2007/ October 2005- May 2006
• Managed ten-middle office trading assistants covering multiple trading desks. Project managed testing and
implementation new trading OMS system Royal Blue Fidessa for entire trading floor.
• Research and reconciled daily, monthly and yearly positions and P/L for U.S Equities desk. Negotiated with vendor and
prime broker on new product costs and implementations.
J.L. BERKOWITZ L.P. (Recruited by former Trader at Sanford C. Bernstein) • Trader/Research Assistant • New York, New York
May 2006- September 2006
• Traded, researched and risk managed equity/option trading desk positions for long/short strategy hedge fund.
SANFORD C. BERNSTEIN- Subsidiary of Alliance Capital • Trade Support - U.S. Equities • New York, New York
October 2003- October 2005
• Researched and resolved position, trade, and money discrepancies post trade date for U.S. and European equity desks.
PALOMA PARTNERS MANAGEMENT COMPANY • Operations Analyst - Reconciliation and Control • Greenwich, Connecticut
December 2002- May 2003
• Identified, analyzed and disclosed position and cash break discrepancies for multiple hedge funds.
CREDENTIALS, SKILLS AND MEMBERSHIPS
• FINRA 7 & 63
• Significant experience using Bloomberg, Reuters, ILX, Visio, Instinet, NYFIX, Brass, EZ Castle, E*Trade Click Trader,
Capital IQ, FactSet, OATS/ACT/TRACE,and Fidessa.
• Member of the American Finance Association- The Finance Journal and Association of Financial Professionals
• Member of the New York State Saint Andrews Society
Junior Westchester Member 2004-2006
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Committee representative for grant recipients 2009-Present
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