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Management Project

Location:
Bronx, NY, 10465
Posted:
August 18, 2010

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Astrit Rugovac

**** ******* ***

Bronx, New York 10465

Phone (646) 271 – 4103

E-mail: ********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE: To bring your organization dedication, responsibility, and good work ethic, combined with a desire to utilize my skills

obtained through past experience in operations/trade support in the following areas: Derivative, Equities, Bank Debt and Fixed Income

EMPLOYMENT:

August 2006 – Present Schultze Asset Management, LLC Westchester, New York

Trade Support Associate

Complete daily cash and position reconciliation for equities, bonds and bank debt as well as clear all booking

discrepancies

Member of Pricing Committee with responsibilities including but not limited to, preparing and distributing

reports for monthly Pricing Committee meeting, voting on pricing issues, notifying committee with any

external issues and signing off on final prices

Create daily, weekly and monthly P/L reports for management analysis

Responsible for closing all bank debit loan trades, which includes but not limited to reviewing, creating and

signing off on funding memos, coordinating LSTA distressed and par documents between outside counsel,

counter party and the general partner, confirming global details with agents, preparing documents for

signature and wiring out funds to settle the trades

Integral in the transition to new service providers including outside counsel and administrators

Maintaining, updating and preparing information and documentation posted on ClearPar including but not

limited to allocations between funds, assignment & assumption agreements, pricing memos and

confirmations.

Track and maintain loan activities in order to complete monthly accrual calculations

Price bank debt positions as well as restricted positions by retrieving daily, weekly and monthly pricing from

executing brokers

Retrieve daily borrows from brokers for short trades

Responsible for booking trades, importing and exporting data between front and back office and wiring funds

First ever Presidential award winner at Schultze Asset Management: granted to employees demonstrating

excellent work ethic and dedication

Train, develop and manage new employees

February 2006 – June 2006 HSBC Securities USA New York, New York

Consultant- Operations / Middle Office

Mitigated risk by significantly reducing the number of unconfirmed trades and resolving trade discrepancies with

counterparties

Worked with senior management and front office to reduce booking errors

Performed various functions in the area of interest rate derivatives trade capture/operations

October 2005 – February 2006 Bear Stearns & Co. Brooklyn, New York

Consultant- Derivative Operations

Verified outstanding confirmations for derivative products (Fixed Income, Equities and Credit Default) while

inputting and correcting data for protection against future legal disputes as well as future financial disputes

Helped test and implement new applications.

Worked extensively in several capacities with various product types: including swaps, swaptions, caps/floors,

callable range accruals, FRA’s, etc

August 2004 – October 2005 Credit Suisse First Boston New York, New York

Operations Analyst

Booked trades in various applications for multiple derivative departments and acted as liaison between the

front, middle and back office. Maintained and analyzed daily global outstanding broker confirmation reports

Maintained the integrity of all derivative trades (Credit Default, Fixed Income, Equities, Swaptions,

Emerging Markets), by confirming all data and documentation with our European, Asian, and Australian

offices as well as our counterparties in a timely manner

Reconciled broker confirmations to trading systems. Cleared over 3,000 breaks

EDUCATION:

DeVry Institute of Technology Long Island City, New York November 2001 - June 15, 2004

Bachelor Degree of Business Administration with concentration in Business Information Systems

Business courses in Risk Analysis, Economics, Business Operations, Accounting (Financial and Managerial), Business

Management, Project Management, Marketing



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