Investment Management

LEON BRUSKIN

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

OBJECTIVE: To obtain a job where my work ethics, professional and personal knowledge and experience will be fully utilized

EDUCATION: Baruch College, CUNY, New York, NY

Bachelor of Business Administration, June 2005

Major: Finance and Investments

Minor: Marketing

Morgan Stanley Derivatives Academy

Honors Society: Chi Alpha Epsilon

National Deans List - 2005

EXPERIENCE: Morgan Stanley Investment Management, New York, NY Operations Associate - Derivatives trade support specialist October 2015 – Present

• Support fixed income futures traders, listed equity basket traders and merchant banking traders daily while sitting on the trade floor

• Daily, quarterly and month end rebalancing futures trade settlement and recon- ciliation using CARS

• Review commission breaks for futures daily between the firm and counter parties

• Update the commission rate table in CARs

• Process FX spot, FX forward, FX option, FX NPV and net FX option premiums daily using Chatham Direct and MISYS

• Update NAVs for Merchant Banking and Real Estate Investment funds quarterly

• Process equity, commodity, credit and interest rate SWAPs using Calypso and BlackRock Aladdin

• Reconcile SWAPs settlement differences between the firm and counter parties to ensure proper and timely settlement

• Settle SWAPS payments with counter parties through Calypso

• Process OTC and listed option trades

• Create procedures for various processes

• Participate in the audit process

• Train new team members

• Work with IT on testing software

• Initiated LEAN for the team

Morgan Stanley Investment Management, New York, NY Operations Associate - Referential Data Specialist October 2013 – October 2015

• Daily support for all fixed income and equity traders while sitting on the trade floor

• Set up new securities in Global Securities Database and BlackRock Aladdin security master for equity and fixed income traders

• Look up security information in Bloomberg or on prospectus for set ups

• Securities consist of equities, indices, mutual funds, futures, various fixed in- come instruments and currencies

• Process Corporate Actions on necessary equity securities as part of end of day process

• Wait for all fixed income trades to settle with settlements team and fix any secu- rity set up issues preventing settlement as part of end of day process

• Run Aladdin coupon factor report that compares firm’s trades against counter parties and fix post settlement issues i.e. accrual differences, incorrect set up

• Import bulk trades into BlackRock Aladdin

• Create & run SAP Business Objects Reports daily as needed

• Fix any issues that prevent security set ups from flowing downstream to other systems

• Work on ad hoc requests that come into the group mailbox First Republic Investment Management, New York, NY Operations Associate

October 2011 – October 2013

• Daily reconciliation of over 3,600 portfolios using Advent Rex and APX

• Check trade breaks with the respective trading department

• Maintain price files and check price tolerance daily

• Use the Market Data Manager (MDM) utility to download dividends, missing prices and missing security information

• Maintain the security information file and make updates to all fields that MDM did not find

• Update performance for portfolios, groups and composites as necessary

• Use the APX import/export utility to update cost basis

• Import prices and portfolio positions into Advent Moxy

• Maintain portfolio and symbol translation tables in Dataport

• Update corporate actions through the Advent Corporate Actions (ACA) utility

• Use Bloomberg to look up security information such as historical prices, corporate actions, dividend rates and fixed income pay down information

• Update NAVs for Limited Partnership Funds and enter capital calls and distributions

• Every month end create a spreadsheet showing all foreign holdings in each portfolio with their respective USD value, the foreign security information is taken from APX raw data

• Update foreign exchange rates on APX

• Handle specific requests made in the operations request e-mail inbox

• Submit weekly and monthly reconciliation and no position reports for audit

• Check that manually reconciled accounts were done correctly Weiler Arnow Management Company, New York, NY

Portfolio Administrator

July 2009 – October 2011

• Reconcile 800 accounts with a market value of approximately $600 million against numerous banks and custodians monthly

• Populate the portfolio and security translation tables in Dataport

• Translate rejected files in Axys using the bank/custodian websites and the Inter- active Data interface

• Use the Interactive Data interface to populate missing necessary information in the security master file and price files

• Manipulate the security master file as needed by adding new securities not trad- ed by the custodian and modifying all necessary categories

• Apply all necessary symbol changes through the change symbols utility

• Apply corporate actions in Axys by creating reorganizations as either splits, spin offs or exchanges

• Sell securities against proper tax lots according to the bank/custodian statements

• Confirm and enter all trades initiated manually that are not available for down- load

• Enter descriptions for all incoming and outgoing wires for all accounts

• Make cost adjustment entries monthly to tie to bank statements by either enter- ing the adjustments manually in Axys or importing entries through Microsoft Excel

• Import and export the Axys trade blotter to and from Microsoft Excel as needed

• Maintain daily contact with banks and custodians regarding transactions and/or errors that occurred

• Submit new accounts for download feed eligibility and complete the Direction letter using the ACD Dashboard

• Assist with performance reporting

• Helped implement the electronic storage of bank statements

• Took over the responsibility of organizing the database of bank statements

• Oversee individuals who scan & save all bank statements

• Use windows explorer to archive Advent files

Safdie Investment Services, New York, NY

Consultant

July 2009 – June 2010

• Continued providing support for duties related to my prior position at Safdie Investment Services

Safdie Investment Services, New York, NY

Operations Specialist / Junior Accountant

May 2007 – July 2009

• Sole Advent Axys Administrator

• Manipulate security master file as needed by adding new securities not traded by the custodian, changing security types, adding asset classes, industry groups and sectors, and correcting issue dates, coupon dates, maturity dates and inter- est rates.

• Apply corporate actions in Axys by creating reorganizations as needed as either splits, spin offs or exchanges.

• Import offshore below-the-line price and position files for securities not traded by the custodian into Axys on a daily basis

• Import a spot rate file into Axys on a daily basis to use for foreign currency calculation

• Reconcile client portfolio positions on a daily basis through Axys against the custodian

• Update performance (.prf & .pbf) files through Axys and manually when older performance numbers are needed from other systems or statements

• Run performance reports quarterly or as needed

• Daily monitoring of corporate actions on custodians user interface (Streetscape) in order to notify representatives of any corporate actions and their cutoff dates for their clients and notification to the custodian of clients’ response to the corporate action

• Distribute lump sum NAV redemptions and transfers for mutual funds to each client accordingly

• Use the inventory module in Great Plains to process mutual fund transactions

• Book all mutual fund, wire transactions, and FX trades accounting entries into the Great Plains general ledger.

• Process commission, management and advisory fees through FIBSI

• Perform daily cash bank reconciliation on the customer clearing account for all wires related to mutual fund transactions.

• Create and modify exchange rate, price, position and transaction files on a daily basis for SS&C use

COMPUTER

SKILLS: Proficient in Advent APX, Advent Axys, Advent Rex, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Bloomberg Terminal, BlockRock Aladdin, SAP Business Objects, CARS, Chatham Direct, MISYS, Calypso

LANGUAGES: Fluent in Russian

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