MICHELLE Y. PEART
** ******** **. ? Franklin Park, NJ 08823 ? 732-***-**** ? *******@***.***
SUMMARY
An experienced and highly organized financial services professional with 20
years of institutional client service management, corporate actions
processing, project management, securities lending operations, relationship
management and profitability analysis experience.
Strengths include: Effectively Managing High Net Worth Accounts, Ability to
Troubleshoot and Successfully Resolve Client Issues, Managing High
Performance Teams, Open to Learn New Products/ Accepting New
Responsibilities.
EXPERIENCE
Best Buy, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
Competitive Specialist 6/2009 -
Present
Provide market analysis and performance analysis of National and Regional
Consumer Electronic competitors
Update company in house web applications with current competitor market
information
Analyze, compare, and formulate market data for Best Buy Corporate.
Perform weekly pricing comparisons.
Intelligence gathering of National and Regional retail competitors
Project Initiatives include development of automated mobile pricing system.
Monitor pricing and competitive strategies
Cultivate relationships within National and Regional competitors
Actively listen and interpret the needs of clients to formulate appropriate
recommendations and identify new areas in which Best Buy can provide value-
added services
Ensure delivery of scoped deliverables meet quality and time expectations
Present recommendations to clients and actively manage client response to
hone recommendations into viable solutions.
Plan and deliver communications to client stakeholders, and internal team
members.
Provide weekly, monthly, and quarterly Analysis to Best Buy districts and
territories for evaluation.
Best Buy, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey
Part Time Sales Consultant 11/2007 -
6/2009
Provided customers with their complete household needs
Specialized in the sales of consumer electronics and Appliances
Accurately perform system processing and customer transitions (i.e.
deliveries, register)
Developed relationships to enhance customer loyalty
Troubleshoot and resolve customer issues
Effectively maintain team environment
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY 7/2003 - 11/2008
Team Leader/Asset Servicing Analyst
Effectively managed and successfully developed a high performing team of 5
administrators
Designed and implemented processes to automate and improve the corporate
actions process
Actively participated in the decision making processes for internal and
external client issues
Proactively and successfully resolved complex trading, pricing, and asset
issues
Provided high levels of service for internal and external clients
Identified and assessed possible risks and cash/stock discrepancies for all
corporate events
Successfully managed the transition process for new high yield fixed income
accounts
Managed the parallel testing of the proprietary system
Participate in system processing and enhancements
Organized and distributed documentation for all corporate events
Expedited accurate and timely payments to client accounts (separate and
omnibus )
Managed annual audits (i.e. Sarbanes Oxley)
Provided monthly risk reports to senior management
Deutsche Bank, Harborside, New Jersey 7/2002
- 7/2003
International Securities Lending Consultant
Managed correspondence for all international securities lending activity
Processed monthly rebates, premium payments and corporate actions
Created monthly comparative analysis of client billing information
Assisted with daily negotiations and execution of securities lending
transactions
Successfully processed daily client settlement confirmations
Established and maintained relationships with key lending contacts
Executed collateral transactions for international equities
Processed Frank Russell third party lending swaps
Interacted with borrowers to ensure proper pricing of borrowed securities
Performed daily reconciliation of cash to avoid exposure on lending
positions
JP Morgan Chase, Brooklyn, NY 7/2001 -
12/2001
Assistant Treasurer/Business Analyst Global Investor Svcs
Prepared quarterly P&L statements, and profitability reports for senior
management
Conducted in depth client profitability research and comparative analyses
Conducted monthly client profitability status meetings with sales and
relationship management
Maintained database with historical and current data on all client
profitability details
Promoted the importance of the new deal analysis system to track client
profitability on a regular basis
Successfully created revenue and expense assumptions for institutional
sales deals
Worked with systems users and programmers to define system specifications,
and prepare documented test scenarios
Worked with various groups who provided data to support the deal analysis
system to ensure accuracy and data integrity
The Bank of New York, NY 1/1993 - 7/2001
Assistant Treasurer/Junior Relationship Manager
Managed relationships for global pension funds and investment managers
Supervised a service team and operational group to enhance client
performance, and overall earnings potential
Executed daily muti-currency cash management transactions and balanced
nightly with investment vehicles, including securities lending
Performed the reconciliation process for international and domestic
securities processing (i.e. fixed income, equities, indexes, and funds)
Ensured monthly deliverables, (i.e. reporting) and expectations of the
administrative team were being met
Resolved and reconciled daily security and cash discrepancies with DTC, Fed
PTC and funds transfer
Advised, instructed and executed corporate action payments
Set-up client market profiles with agent banks, and filing required legal
documentation with country
Processed and disseminated monthly client management fees to key processing
areas
Supported the RFP process by gathering data and material for presentations
Managed a global project that developed a multi-currency processing system
which supports U.S and Non-U.S. trade settlement.
BEA Associates, New York, NY 1/1990 - 1/1993
Corporate Action Specialist
Successfully managed all aspects of corporate action processing, analysis
and reporting
Conducted daily client account reconciliation with custodians.
EDUCATION
BBA, Business Administration & Computer Science
Baruch College
AA, Political Science
Manhattan Community College
LICENSES
NJ Real Estate License
SKILLS
Microsoft Word, Power Point, Access, Excel