Patricia Laccona

Stamford, CT

www.linkedin.com/in/patricia-laccona-184a0510

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Career Summary: Extensive number of years in the financial service industry of impressive success running company operational functions and relationship management leading projects from inception to successful completion, while making/executing sound strategic decisions. Capital Markets, Manager

Treliant, LLC January 2023-Present

Treliant is a multi-industry consulting firm that serves organizations around the globe. We serve financial institutions helping clients in navigating regulatory requirements and on best practices while meeting strategic and operational objectives

Interview project managers who are currently on client site to review operational issues and manual breakdown of processes within the trade entry/recon process to be able to build out business cases

Assist with knowledge and previous experience in operations management of day to day processes including all aspects of operational functions to suggest a better work flow

Worked onsite at Tier 1 bank on the change management team. Managed the business analysts and acted as a liaison across all businesses to keep change management project moving forward. Managed logistics and relationship management across different businesses.

Capital Markets, Manager November 2019-June 2022

FIS Global, Stamford CT

FIS is a global leader in financial services technology, with a focus on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, consulting and outsourcing solution.

Worked across various matrixes to launch a remediation program to improve the client journey.

Interviewed and collaborated with all internal departments as well as clients to better understand their pain points and requests to create a consistent flow for complete transparency.

Created the Business as a Process Service (BPaaS) inventory project. Work with all the business owners across the CM solutions collecting data on client data and products to better understand what the solution offerings are.

Liased with internal commercial lending department and a third-party bank for a possible lift out of their commercial lending arm.

Senior Operations Manager April 2017-November 2019 IndataIPM, Greenwich, CT

Indata is a financial technology firm that provides software and technology services to buy side clients including RIA’s, Hedge Funds, Pension Funds, Asset Managers and Wealth Management firms.

Oversaw the day-to-day reconciliation operations group for all clients.

Assigned to break down and reconfigure various departments in order to make them synergistic. Assuring an improved operational workflow.

Provided training and resources to make sure department is 100% cross trained.

Worked with programmers to streamline and automate processes for efficiency purposes.

Partnered with support desk to ensure we met every client request in a timely manner.

Managed the onboarding of clients who outsourced the back-office reconciliation function to Indata.

Developed and maintained relationships with client and custodians to setup and receive all necessary files for programming into the system. Set up the user logins and passwords with the custodian and schedule all necessary data files for reconciliation purposes.

Diligently met critical daily/monthly deadlines.

Collaborated with clients to meet reporting requirements for client needs. Senior Operations/Relationship Management June 2002-May 2016 SSARIS Advisors, LLC, Wilton, CT

SSARIS had two businesses: Single Hedge Funds and a Hedge Fund of Funds. Operations fully supported both of these businesses.

Oversaw the day-to-day operations for the single Hedge Fund strategies and Hedge Fund of Funds.

Managed the onboarding of SMA’s and single client fund structures.

Managed relationships with clearing brokers, prime brokers, 3rd party administrators and audit firms.

Diligently met critical daily/monthly deadlines.

Collaborated with Investor Relations to meet reporting requirements for client needs.

Coordinated with various departments which included Compliance, IR, trading, IT and FOF team to continually automate the operational processes and streamline the daily functions of operations.

Attended 2-3 conferences a year to for networking purposes and kept current with peers in the industry.

Operations group responsibilities included:

Daily trade breaks. Three-way reconciliation between SSARIS Ops, administrator and broker. All breaks were formally communicated via electronic reports and any necessary follow up with parties to have all breaks resolved top day.

Prepared morning P/L which was then distributed to senior management.

Reviewed, prepared and executed all margin calls.

Monitored excess cash and swept back to bank accounts as necessary.

Reviewed daily cash sheets and approve all cash movements.

Oversaw the month end closing process of 12 Master and Feeder funds, including approving accounting books and records from 3rd party administrator. Once approved, administrators released client statements.

Prepared pro-forma scenarios for the firms marketing materials. Distributed a performance grid to Investor Relations for outside distribution to databases, clients, consultants and potential clients

Collaborated with Compliance and IR by reviewing marketing disclosures to ensure that the language was accurately described what the calculations represented

Reviewed subscription/redemption documents to underlying FOF managers before submission to the underlying manager’s 3rd party administrator

Oversaw allocation spreadsheet for the Portfolio Managers for monthly rebalancing of the portfolios

Instructed any allocation changes to the internal traders and outside managers

Prepared and executed monthly rebalancing of hedges conducted on the multi share class structure

Worked closely with IT to build an ongoing database for multi functions for automation purposes and to eliminate the use of spreadsheets

Created and maintained manuals and best practice documents, eliminating key man risk and any cross-training gaps in the Operations department

Operations Analyst January 1995-March 2002

Ferrell Capital Management, Greenwich, CT (closed)

Oversaw and assisted daily reconciliations of diversified trading accounts, which included tying out cash, open positions, trading P&L, and commissions in various currencies. Positions included regulated and non-regulated futures and options, forward exchange and cash bonds.

Confirmed daily trading activity with clearing brokers to ensure accuracy of trading positions. Calculated daily mark to market open positions and comparison to broker statements. Resolution of discrepancies.

Prepared weekly cash reports for trader allocations and handling of margin calls.

Calculated daily P&L, and prepared reports for management and clients.

Constant correspondence with traders to obtain market color in regards to positions and risk exposure.

Monitored FX balances to minimize foreign exchange exposure.

Member of Investment Committee which meets weekly to discuss and determine trader allocations, research, performance and operations.

Member of Operating Committee which meets monthly to discuss all operational issues of the funds.

Interviewed, hired and trained any new operations analysts.

Liaison between Organizer System and Ferrell Capital to automate trade blotters and clearing firm statements.

Supervised Operations Analyst on a daily basis.

Athena Global Investments 1993-1994 (spinoff from Greenwich Capital Markets) Phibro Energy 1991-1993

Education:

Iona College, New Rochelle, NY, Bachelor of Business Administration, Major in Finance

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