Randell M. Wright
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SUMMARY: Pursuing a challenging position that will utilize my education, skills and knowledge in the field of finance and brokerage operations • Excellent experience in the voluntary, mandatory and fixed income corporate actions exchange process • Established record of high work performance, job proficiency and dedication • Proven record with regards to providing exceptional service to clients and colleagues • Strong academic training and organization skills • Enjoy working as a team member as well as independently • Detail oriented with an ability to accept assignments and deliver desired results.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Employer: UBS Financial Services Inc., Weehawken, NJ 07086
Voluntary Corporate Actions Senior Specialist (07/2006 07/2015)
Responsible for analyzing and processing domestic and international client elections and disbursements for expiring corporate actions such as purchase offers, puts, rights offers, odd-lot tenders, merger elections, warrant exercises, bid offers and conversions from conception to allocation • Corporate actions announcement set-up and dissemination of simplified offer terms to the firm’s front office branch locations and trading desks • Constantly meeting offer expiration deadlines and submitting client elections to the firm’s depositories DTCC, Euroclear and Clearstream • Accurately interpret complex offering materials including, prospectuses, legal documents, letters of transmittal and SWIFT messages from foreign depositories • Comprehend various offer types, regulatory rules and best industry practices as required in order to successfully facilitate client and firm elections • Allocate entitlements received on offer deposits from depositories • Reconcile the firm’s total inventory position, balance fail and loan obligations and account for pending trade activity as they relate to the offer • Manage overall offer deposits and settlement liabilities on the offer expiration date or on the offer protect expiration date as required • Interact with internal and external areas of the firm concerning corporate actions including; dividends, bond redemption, proxy, settlements, cost basis, client reporting and compliance • Involvement with systems development area concerning upgrades, modifications and testing of processing system software • Participation with disaster recovery projects and initiatives • Updating and composing departmental training manuals and operating procedures • Training new personnel with regards to the corporate actions exchange process.
Employer: Merrill Lynch & Co., Jersey City, NJ 07302
Corporate Actions Specialist (07/2000 06/2006)
Responsible for analyzing and processing client elections and disbursements for mandatory and voluntary corporate actions • Daily reconciliation of cash and stock positions resulting from the exchange process to avoid, eliminate and reduce capital charges and mitigate risk to the firm • Frequent interaction with branch offices, financial consultants, traders, information agents and contra brokers regarding information on corporate actions • Verifying information from vendor sources to ensure accuracy in processing.
EDUCATION:
Kean University - Graduated January 1998
1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 07083 B.S. Degree, Business Management
MAJOR COURSEWORK / TRAINING:
Business Management, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Banking and Monetary Policy, Computer Science, FINRA/SEC regulation and compliance.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
PC and Macintosh Operating Systems, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), SharePoint, Internet.