MARVINA S. ROBINSON
Brooklyn, New York *****
917-***-**** ********@***.***
Experienced financial professional with superior knowledge and experience
with commodities, derivatives, interest rate products, exotic products and
options. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to
deliver a confident and compelling message in a sales or public speaking
situation, high level of passion and caring about work product, strong
technical skill-set and, experienced in project management and ability to
follow through on goals independently while communicating progress to team
members.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
DEUTSCHE BANK, New York, NY 2013 -Present
P&L Attribution Business Analyst
Fulfill the Business Analysis function within the Federal P&L Attribution
programme to support cross-business review of the P&L attribution policy
implemented and associated process and control functions.
. Responsible for understanding the internal testing standards along with
gathering and analyzing evidence to assess the compliance standards.
. Focusing on ensuring transparent audit trails are in place for
adjustments made to system driven risk based attribution numbers.
. Liaise with clients (Front Office, Operations, Finance and Risk
Management) to obtain, analyze and document the adherence to minimum
standards.
. Work with the various business functions to agree appropriate remediation
tasks and timelines to remove gaps.
. Analyze and identify possible risks and issues that could impact delivery
and either resolve them or escalate as appropriate.
RBS Sempra Commodities, Stamford, CT 2009 - 2012
Physical Power Assistant Vice President
. Analyzed and reconciled settlement data with New York ISO, PJM, ERCOT,
CAISO and third party contracts.
. Invoiced power products for capacity transactions, option premiums,
physical and financial power.
. Performed timely and accurate updates to physical power volumes
associated with power plants and load servicing agreements.
. Prepared FERC reports for ISO quarterly reporting for in house and
external clients.
. Created data analysis of trading volumes, market trends, etc. to support
business decisions.
. Lead Project Manager for unwinding electricity business (Ensured business
objectives and priorities were identified and being addressed, prepare
and maintained detailed project plans, communicated status updates to
CFO including Executive Steering Committee, Tracked and escalated risks
as appropriate, identified and created key metrics for measuring progress
on specific projects, interfaced with partners across other functions
including technology, operations and finance to ensure all deliverables
remain on target).
CITCO FUND SERVICES, New Jersey City, NJ 2006 -2008
Pricing Risk Associate
Assist portfolio managers and traders in analyzing, modeling and pricing
fixed income and equity derivative securities.
. Analyzed the risk exposures of the desk's overall position by performing
portfolio stress test analyses and identify key risk factors to stress.
. Evaluated and reported on the risk profiles of foreign exchange and
appropriate hedging transactions.
. Pricing of multiple derivative instruments (Interest Rate Swaps, Credit
Default Swaps, Heat Rate Options, Equity Derivatives, Caps/Floors).
. Assumed responsibilities for P&L production for various portfolios by
providing commentary on P&L and associated attribution for management
reporting purposes.
. Prepared periodic reports and in-depth analyses of pricing analyses and
impacts from results of back tests of trading and hedging strategies.
. Worked on short/long term modeling projects, which includes enhancing
current models and assisting in creating new models.
CREDIT SUISSE, New York, NY 2004 - 2006
Mortgage Derivatives Trading Assistant
Collaborated with traders in handling various derivatives products (i.e.
Balance Guarantees, Available Funds Caps, Total Rate of Returns, Credit
Default Swaps, CMBS Index Swaps, Constant Maturity Mortgages), which
include marking positions, booking and balancing trader's daily activity in
addition to monitoring and resolving trade issues.
. Updated trading positions with regards to hedges, durations and pricing
methods.
. Booking of trades, maintain positions, validating P&L and prepare ad hoc
reports using the front office systems and Bloomberg.
. Performed daily pricing for Single Name and Index (ABX/CDX) Credit
Default Swaps.
. Determined and provide prepayment/unwind fee calculations for derivative
transactions.
. Created various payment models on amortizing mortgage-backed securities
with multiple tranches.
. Assisted with the development and maintenance of financial models.
Interest Rate Derivatives Product Controller
Produce daily P&L for a number of different interest rate derivatives
(including swaps, swaptions, bond options and caps/floors), provide
detailed explanation by utilizing Greek attributes.
. Explained and validated P&L according to market moves, new trades and
other market influences.
. Managed all marketing and risk provisions on the books to ensure accurate
profit and loss reporting.
. Performed daily price uploads and monthly price testing such as
Correlation and Volatility Skew Testing.
. Collected and reviewed/analyzed derivative valuation statements from
independent market quotes which utilized yield curves, volatility
surfaces and long term interest rates.
AMERADA HESS, New York, NY 2001 -2003
Commodities Analyst
Analyzed and calculated daily margin call, produced P&L detail reports and
reconciled positions for Commodity futures and OTC derivatives.
. Managed daily trade maintenance for gas, energy and weather derivatives.
. Created margin model for the daily margin call, which clearly identified
risk exposure and significantly reduced production time.
. Reported and explained daily changes in profit and loss for gas and
energy desks to senior management
. Communicated with Treasury Department to ensure proper margin call
receipt and payment with broker/dealer.
EDUCATION
Columbia University, New York, NY, Master of Arts, Statistics
(Concentration: Finance)
2004
Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA, Bachelor of Science, Biology
2000 COMPUTER SKILLS
MS Office, MS Access, VBA Programming, SQL, Visio, Bloomberg, TradeWeb,
FinCad, IntexDesktop, YieldBook, S-Plus, FactSet, Maple, Crystal Reports,
Summit, MS Visio.