Equity Derivatives Trade Support
Resume:
Keith Jackson
Charlotte NC, *8202
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Citco Fund Services, Charlotte, NC October 2009 – Present
Senior Operations Derivatives Analyst
Worked directly with Soros Fund Management trading desk and trade support teams in resolving breaks over a variety of financial products including equity derivatives, commodity futures, OTC options, credit derivatives, weather derivatives, interest rate swaps, swaptions
Heavily involved in month end process including position reconciliation, corporate actions processing, verifying chasing and term sheets
Created and maintained all derivatives and exotic options in the security database as well assisting Soros Fund Management in setting up OTC derivative instruments in their security data base
Research and liaise with internal support areas including Product control, Risk and P&L
Verifying OTC derivative trades versus counterparty confirmations and trade matching platforms
Work closely with the internal and Soros derivatives risk product control team to research and resolve end of the day cost to market discrepancies
Analyze intraday discrepancies for equity, treasury and currency futures
Confirm and book trades including listed options, OTC options, CDS, equity forwards, equity futures, treasury futures
Work closely with all support areas including product control, accounting, risk and finance to research and resolve P&L discrepancies
Created and maintained trade file upload and file feed maintenance
Established and manage a trade support team of 9 in our Manila office
Select Equity Group, New York, NY March 2008 – January 2009
Portfolio Administration – Trade Support
Maintain accurate reconciliation of equity derivatives including listed options OTC positions, including plain vanilla, binary options, currency options, constant maturity swap options
Work closely with the finance support area to research and resolve valuation discrepancies pertaining to CDS’, Equity swaps, Currency options, and Constant Maturity swaps
Responsible for ensuring that spreads are accurate for end of the day CDS valuation
Confirm and book all international trades, FX executions, structured deals
Ensure cash flows settlement for OTC options, Equity swaps and CDS’
Retrieve and review OTC termsheets and confirmations
Swiss Re Financial Products, New York, NY June 2004 – March 2008
Middle Office Equity Derivatives and Structured Products – AVP Trade and Operations Support
Support the Equity Derivatives trading desk including Long/Short, Index Arbitrage, Statistical Arbitrage, Convertible Arbitrage, Credit Distressed, and Volatility desks
Maintain accurate reconciliation of all equity derivatives including exchange-traded funds, listed and OTC trades, including plain vanilla, exotic Asian and barrier options
Book and confirm all invoices and payments for OTCs and exchange traded funds
Process creation baskets on exchange traded fund indices
Processing daily and monthly trades as required - redemptions, subscriptions and wire transfers
Verifying stock loan rebates with prime brokers including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch
Manage a team of four that heavily involves reconciling, analyzing, and resolving daily cash differences between the firm trading system and prime brokers
Work directly with the index arbitrage, convertible bond, credit distressed, volatility trading desk to research and resolve all trading discrepancies
Build and maintain corporate action process for domestic and foreign securities involving non-standard splits, stock dividends, acquisitions and mergers
Responsible for managing the reconciliation of all equity derivatives including equity swaps and calculating financing for the interest leg and performance for the equity leg
Liaise between equity derivatives traders, compliance department and executing brokers for special projects, including new prime broker relationships and new trading strategies
Create procedures for exercised or expired all listed and OTC options
Responsible for creating and maintaining static data, including security set up and volatility curve set up
Heavily support project managers with implementing new equity derivative trading systems by moving positions via ACAT, configuring static for securities and created quality controls checks to ensure all positions were migrated properly
Lord Abbett Asset Management, Jersey city, NJ October 2000 – June 2004
Trade Support – TA and Operations Associate
Responsible for accurate reconciliation for over 5,000 equity and municipal bond accounts
Directly communicated with clients regarding portfolio performance and transaction history
Worked with traders and clients to rebalance accounts according to the portfolio model
Responsible for pricing TBA securities issued by Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae
Worked closely with portfolio manager on P&L performance for Large Cap and Mid Cap portfolio models
EXPERIENCE WHILE IN COLLEGE:
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY June 1997 – August 1997
June 1998 – August 1998
Internship - Operations
Assisted senior bankers in providing monthly performance reporting for clients
Responsible for providing settlement reports for middle office support
EDUCATION:
The State University at Buffalo College
Bachelor of Arts Economics and Finance, June 2000
*Worked part-time while attending college
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Proficient in Excel, Bloomberg, Deutsche Global Prime, Bank of America Prime, Murex, APL, Calypso, Advent Axys, Moxy, Geneva, AEXEO, Smartstream, Traiana
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