Management Office

Summary

Financial services middle office professional with expertise in foreign exchange funding, cash management, US equity, fixed income trade processing and settlement contracts. Able to thrive within continuously changing environments and variables including foreign exchange rates, time zones and country regulations. Proven ability to mitigate company’s risk, minimize global market variables exposure and resolve trade related settlement and processing discrepancies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SHENKMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC., New York, NY 05/2013 - Present

Senior Trade Support Analyst

Provides support to High Yield and Convertibles trading desks, in the following capacities: Trade capture, trade processing, position reconciliations, management reporting, clients’ month-end statements.

•Controls, monitors and resolves all trade fails and discrepancies.

•Delivers trade capture files to various interested parties; i.e. investment advisors, asset managers, accounting and reconciliation teams and clients’ reps.

•Monitors all static data and ensures proper security setup in company’s Book of Record.

•Allocates all end of day transactions to brokers, custodians and front office trading system via Bloomberg.

•Confirms and responds to all margin calls on all collateral positions.

•Allocates trade portfolios to corresponding prime brokers, i.e. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse.

•Maintains a daily record of firm’s cash and collateral positions in domestic and foreign currencies

•Checks and approves all FX spot and forward contracts with corresponding counter-parties.

•Confirms all daily exception transactions with respective brokers over Bloomberg.

•Matches all daily Euroclear settlement trades and funded all the buy side transactions.

•Reconciles all high yield, convertible, equity and bank loans between company’s preparatory systems and STARS Reconciliation Service.

BESSEMER TRUST, New York, NY 07/2008 – 05/2013

Senior Global Custody Analyst

Managed non-US Equity and Fixed income trade settlements. Approved pending trades in the company’s book of record system such as convertible bond, commodity, swap, and option contracts in addition to, fund administration, custody desk procedures, cash management and automation projects.

•Reconciled all non-US currency and security position breaks between firm and its external associated parties such as global custodians, executing brokers, FX traders, and audit teams.

•Verified and approved processing of future commodity contacts with counter parties such as Cargill, Nebraska and others.

•Balanced and financed investment funds on daily basis.

•Monitored, controlled, and alerted trade teams, settlement teams, FX desk on trade risk and exposure in emerging markets.

•Proposed, articulated, and implemented in-house systems automation solutions.

•Generated various in-house control reports on daily basis to assist management in assessing FX currency exposure, control settlement risk in foreign markets, and leverage trading incentives.

MILETUS TRADING & THALES FUND MANAGEMENT, New York, NY 08/2005 – 07/2008

Trade Operations Specialist (Middle Office)

Managed back office US and foreign trade support desk. Processed and settled equity stock trades in domestic and foreign markets.

•Provided operations support to equity algorithms trading desk.

•Converted manual processes into automated Telnet Flex command scripts.

•Reconciled breaks between trading desk and clearing brokers such as average price breaks, OTC breaks, pair-off breaks, and step-out breaks.

•Generated detailed company revenue reports on daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.

•Monitored unconfirmed failing and subject to buy in trades.

•Allocated trade portfolios to the respective accounts as per client instructions.

•Ran allocation files from Oasys system to company’s internal allocation database.

•Interacted on daily basis with traders, clearing brokers, programmers and chief compliant officer.

BANK OF MONTREAL (Harris Nesbitt Corp.), New York, NY 09/2000 – 8/2005

Analyst – Trade Support

Processed and settled US and Canadian equity stock trades in domestic and foreign markets. Executed reorganizational functions such as stock split, name change, stock mergers and resolved trade settlement discrepancies.

•Settled domestic and foreign market equity stock trades.

•Executed final settlement trades via DTC in US market.

•Reviewed daily comparison reports and reconcile discrepancies between front-end system and clearing firms.

•Analyzed business needs and development requirements to automate and deliver process improvements and strengthen points of internal controls.

•Supervised equity transactions from execution through settlement.

•Processed monthly deliverables ensuring that data meet service standards for portfolio managers and client services.

•Participated in staff training minimizing reporting errors, associated risk, and exposure.

CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON, New York, NY 09/1998 – 09/2000

Analyst – Equity & Fixed Income Finance

Executed company pledge releases from trade date to settlement date. Managed security borrows and loan transactions.

•Resolved settlement discrepancies such as trade mismatches, incorrect pricing, DTC eligibility, and amortized bonds.

•Settled physical trades and monitored incoming/outgoing federal wires to and from counter parties.

•Delivered and received final settlement trades and DTC eligible cancel and correct transactions.

EDUCATION

MS, GPA: 3.7/4.0 Business Economics & Statistics

Joseph L. Lubin School of Business, Pace University, New York, NY

BS, Business Management, St. Francis College, New York, NY

SKILLS

Microsoft Office Excel, Word, and Outlook

Geneva, Epic 2.0, Portia, Wall Street Office (WSO), Murex, Claypso, Oasys, MOM, Bear Prime, Deutsche Prime Broker, Bank of America Prime Broker, DTC, Bloomberg, Team, Sophis, Summit, Global Plus, Atlas, CitiDirect, Portia, Geneva

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