Robert Gallotta
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SUMMARY
Financial services professional with extensive background in the futures industry and operations processing in regards to Commissions/Brokerage/Exchange fees and regulatory maintenance.
Strong relationships with, FCM’s, Banks and Floor Brokers on all US exchanges.
Systems/Applications - GMI, Rolfe & Nolan, Bloomberg, Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, and Access 2007
WORK HISTORY
Citigroup – New York, NY October 2013 – June 2016
Daily Interest Process
Client account set ups in futures processing system GMI
oBenchmark Rates /Differential BPS/Credit Spreads/Debit Spreads. All Currencies.
Rate Table Update – Manually Print Rates from Bloomberg
oGeneral rates setup and coding for all clients
oBespoke rates setup for top tier clients as required by the business
Client Inquiries & Resolutions
oManually retrieve and forward back interest statements.
oProcess interest adjustments to client accounts following firms policies and procedures
Interest Balance Adjustments – 1mm USD or greater
oReceive point Balance breaks from clearing
oReceive cash adjustments from Margins.
oManually update all accounts in the Interest system.
Monthly Interest Process
Upload Daily Rates 1st Business Day
oRun GMI Interest Calculations for all Clients.
oPlatinum Clients Interest Process - Generate reports for all accounts / currencies
oThis is booked manually after Client Services reviews and approves.
Cost of Money
oSend all adjustments over 1mm USD
Loan Interest
oSend Prelim report last day of month
oSend Final on T+1 – Futures Finance
Firm/Branch Interest - Spreadsheet
o Retrieve Balances from GMI
o Add Loan Interest from Final
RECONCILIATIONS
oReviewed and Resolved Cross Systems Breaks between Stock Bank Accounts and the Futures ledgers. (Payments Receipts)
Barclays Capital/Lehman Brothers – N.Y. and N.J., 1973 -2013
Assistant Vice President Futures Operations (Managed the following)
Floor (Pit) Brokerage process (U.S. Exchanges).
ATOM (Automatic Transfer of Money).
BPS (Brokerage Payments System).
Give in/give out process for U.S. Exchanges. Gains/GPS (Give up payment system).
Resolved all regulatory issue with the CFTC and U.S. Exchanges.
Reviewed large trader and speculative position limits for reporting requirements.
Cash movements across systems and prepared reconciliations between Rolfe & Nolan/ADP.
Physical deliveries of precious metals and maintained inventory at various U.S. Depositories.
Client and Exchange collateral requirements, to meet client and exchange margin calls.
Analyzed new products and exchanges for system requirements in order to maintain accurate balancing and reconciliations with exchanges.
Managed Foreign Exchange Settlements.
Liaised between Future Operation and System Programmers to automate the Operations Control and reconciliations.