MITCHELL WATTS
ad0eum@r.postjobfree.com
Phone: 513-***-****
Jersey City, NJ 07310
SUMMARY
• Experienced Trader with a focus on agency execution trading, market neutral trading and financial accounting. Skilled in creating trading strategies, identifying market discrepancies, and monitoring algorithms that generate up to $50 million in daily volume. Strong communication and analytical skills that are used for interacting with clients, investors and management. WORK EXPERIENCE
Floating Point Group - Trader June 2022 – Current
Agency Execution Trading
• Communicate with clients to create an optimal trading strategy that minimizes market impact and beats TWAP/VWAP benchmarks over the duration of the trade.
• Actively monitor trading algorithms that run 24/7, optimize parameters, and provide daily performance reports.
• Identify best sources of liquidity across multiple centralized and decentralized exchanges for trades up to $500 million.
Market Neutral Trading
• Analyze yield enhancement strategies for clients’ idle assets that have no directional market view.
• Work with various foundations to minimize price discrepancy between centralized and native decentralized markets through arbitrage.
• Increase liquidity through standard market making as well as implementing mean reversion strategies.
Accounting
• Create financial models with all sources of FPG revenue.
• Discover trends of asset/client dependence and forecast how this will affect future cash flows.
• Present this data monthly to management and investors. Paycor June 2021 – September 2021
Junior Tax Associate
• Effectively identify the root cause of tax notices clients receive- identify how the issue occurred and how to prevent it from occurring in the future.
• Prepare and distribute correspondence to tax agencies documenting the root cause of the issue and include any supporting documentation the agency will need to close out the issue.
• Communicate with and assist clients in resolving issues related to payroll taxes and agency tax filings.
EDUCATION/CAMPUS INVOLVEMENT
Miami University August 2018 – May 2022
Bachelor of Arts, Major in Economics, Minor in Finance
• Relevant Courses: Intermediate Microeconomic and Macroeconomic Theory, Money and Banking, Financial Accounting, Monetary Theory and Policy, Financial Crises and Recessions, Economic Data and Models.
Sigma Chi Fraternity February 2020 – May 2021
Sergeant of Arms, Risk Committee
• Oversee all events alongside the Risk Manager and the rest of the Risk Committee to ensure safety of our members and guests.
• Proactively create safety protocol for upcoming events.