RENE SALAZAR
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Experienced financial professional with knowledge in various areas of
trading operations ranging from but not limited to, bank debt operations,
fixed income operations, trade breaks, settlements, trade clearance, DTC,
Pershing and client services account management.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
. Experienced in bank debt trade operations, settlements, clearance,
interest calculation, PIK's.
. Solid knowledge of Excel.
. Knowledge and experience working with trading cycles from inception to
settlement and funding.
. Funding memo and trade confirmation auditing.
. Very comfortable working in a high-paced team environment or being a
self-starter.
. Knowledgeable in Bloomberg, familiar with DTC, Pershing, borrows,
notices, buy-ins, and NetEx account management system.
. Quick learning, friendly, eager, headstrong, motivated looking for an
opportunity to rise to the challenge.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
5/2007
MAJOR: FINANCE
NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY
JERSEY CITY, NJ
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
. Bank Debt Trade Operations
. Trade ticket calculations P&L, reconciliations, settlements and
clearance
. BLOOMBERG Trading Platform
. NetEx and NetEx 360 Trade Management System
. Fixed income and Euroclear trading operations settlement.
. Interest calculations, PIKS, Delayed Compensation calculations.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BROADPOINT.GLEACHER SECURITIES GROUP
3/2010-6/2010
Debt Capital Markets Trade Operations (Temporary Assignment)
Roseland, NJ
Gleacher & Company is a public company (NASDAQ: GLCH) with over 300
employees headquartered in New York City with offices in Atlanta, Arizona,
Boston, Chicago, Florida, Greenwich, Los Angeles, New Jersey, San Francisco
and Texas.
. Daily trade confirmation using Bloomberg to confirm details of trades
executed.
. Confirmed trade details with respective clients, obtained allocations
and allocated accordingly.
. Trade ticket calculation of P&L, worked with notices, accrued interest
calculations.
. Trade breaks, trade reconciliation, and trade settlement, buy-ins,
borrows, and failed trade reconciliation.
. Setting up new accounts, managing existing accounts obtaining F1-SA
for new trading accounts.
. Working with Pershing and DTC in order to resolve daily trade fails
and have trades settle timely.
. Obtaining borrows, preventing buy-ins, on failing trades by contacting
Pershing and DTC.
. Diminishing the amount of trades DK'd, by contacting Prime Brokers,
client's back office and cages.
. Assisting traders with fungibility of bonds by contacting the clearing
broker DTC and Pershing.
. Daily trading reconciliation of Failing Receivables and Deliveries.
CBIZ K.A.
6/2008-10/2009
Financial Data Analyst
East Windsor, NJ
Publicly traded company that provides an array of services to various
industries ranging from payroll to legal services and many other consulting
roles across the U.S.
. Handled secure financial data from various healthcare clients in
Access, Excel format; analyzed trends, and reported results based on
the client's needs or per the contract's requisites with each client
respectively.
. Promoted to project manager for a special project concerning securing
patient data, transferring current method from Access databases, to an
internet based database that would enable all sites to have access to
secure patient data at once.
. In charge of designing interface, producing custom instructional
protocol for all users, in order to have all executives, managers, and
reps use the new database to its full successful capacity.
. Promoted to head and develop a new pharmaceutical branch of the
company. Project was to develop a new service that will allow us not
only to assist patient with insurance but also with low-cost
prescription coverage.
. Maneuvered, filtered and developed large amounts of financial data
using Excel, Access, and some SQL, in order to produce reports, using
pivot tables, v-lookups, formulas and graphs.
ClearPar LLC
5/2007-6/2008
Bank Debt Trade Operations
Valley Cottage, NY A company that allows its clients
to settle trades by providing an integrated, collaborative, real-time
environment for buyers and sellers to create, review, approve, and execute
trades and syndication documents, such as, trade confirmations, assignment
and acceptance agreements, net-off letters, multilateral agreements and
funding memoranda.
. As a part of the Goldman Sachs trading and settlements team, was in
charge of daily trade operations by acting as a liaison between all
parties involved in the trade in order to secure a settlement date.
. Provided important information to all parties involved in the trade by
calculating and verifying delayed compensation, PIK, or break cost,
interest accruals, interest calculations, tranche interests and
balances.
. As a result of merit, I was promoted to assist Merrill Lynch,
BlackRock and Bank of America counterparties with daily trade
operations, adding to my current portfolio of Goldman Sachs trades.
. Successfully engaged and produced verifiable positive results from all
clients and often received positive feedback from counterparty
managers and traders.
. Promoted to assist all clients with distressed trade settlements,
clearance and reconciliations.
. Daily trade management of outstanding trade portfolio through emails,
phone, fax, and manual correspondence to keep the client informed of
the status of each trade and tentative settlement date, accrued
interest, PIK payments, tranche balances or simply maintain positive
client relationships by keeping the client informed of the trade at
each step of the trade from execution to settlement and lastly
providing funding memoranda with delayed compensation calculation and
any other calculation needed would be included.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
. Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Bloomberg,
NetEx, NetEx 360.
. Intermediate level SQL
References are available upon request.