RYAN WARD Arlington, VA. ad2zx2@r.postjobfree.com 240-***-****

EXPERIENCE .

StateStreet July 2022 - Present

Senior Associate: Asset owner private markets; Alternative Investments

● Direct ownership and responsibility for servicing of clients of varying sizes and complexities.

● Respond to and participate in client discussions encompassing performance methodology and calculations, reporting and other analytical products and tools.

● Understand client reporting needs and make recommendations on best practice of technology.

● Monitor client deliverables / metrics and maintain documentation on scope of service, contacts and timeframes. Improve upon and report actual results.

● Communicate, manage, execute and monitor change management within allocation according to clients needs (new funds-aggregations-indices-investment structure,Accounting settlement structure etc.).

● Liaison between internal cash, custody, and accounting teams with external partners, compliance, and Clients in order to facilitate timely settlement of time-sensitive deliverables.

● Perform daily, monthly, and quarterly reconciliation and reporting for clients with primary market assets in excess of 100B$~

Morgan Stanley January 2021 - June 2022

Analyst ; Mandatory Corporate Actions

● Responsible for coordinating with North American and Latin American counterparties to ensure timely settlement of proceeds paid from Corporate Action Events

● Trained incoming team members on policy and procedures for a variety of di erent reconciliation and settlement operations performed on the team. Managed processes and oversaw work performed by junior analysts.

● Managed and created complex stock loan contracts on xed income and equity products using multiple intercompany booking model

● Reduced overall rm risk, working directly across teams with diverse stakeholders, including Sales & Trading and external position holders to coordinate reconciliation of position de cits.

● Researched root cause of breaks across systems, teams, and processes; contributed to the creation and implementation of new policies created to streamline settlement.

● Assisted in testing the rm's newly launched reconciliation and settlement platform.

● Processed distribution events for rm and client stakeholders and reconciled trade fails, stock loans, and other settlement related issues, becoming the team's subject matter expert on Stock Loan transaction settlement.

● Experience booking charges for fail accounts and reconciliation settlement through DTCC’s RAD platform; responsible for daily volumes in excess of $10MM

● Fostered working relationships with external counterparties; worked to streamline and document the settlement process in periods of peak capital markets activity.

● Tasked with creating wire transactions to settle with external counterparties, including international wires and payments to custodian banks. Learned to operate e ectively and accurately in a strict, high-stakes regulatory environment.

EDUCATION

University of Maryland, College Park Economics B.A. College Park, MD Dec 2020

Skills: Risk Management, Settlement

research, knowledge and experience with

standardized reconciliation practices in the

US, DTCC/RAD reconciliation/ Stock Loan

contra party adjustments, Proficiency in excel

with an emphasis on data analysis to

investigate risk/aged exceptions.

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