Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Maintenance of trade settlements process and wire transfers including daily future margin calculations, confirming buy/sell fixed income trades, and collateral delivery. Reputation for identifying and implementing process improvements to reduce trade cycle time. Strong client and broker relationship skills. Known for high detail orientation, team-player, and follow through.
• Validated domestic and global trades for all fixed income derivative instruments: CDS/Futures, FX, CMBS Swaps/Options to ensure trades can be booked properly on trade date. • Reconciled and confirmed trades with brokers/dealers and process daily futures margin movement before deadline. • Processed CDS quarterly coupon payment rolls and Credit Events to ensure counterparties acknowledged due dates and payments. • Prepared and authorized custodian to deliver over $1M of wire transfers per month to brokers. • Improved controllership of wire payments process by converting repetitive to non-repetitive wires reducing cycle time to minutes vs. hours. • Oversight and reconciliation of collateral deliveries for accounting to process efficiently on time. • Designed, tested, and implemented new process for swap confirmation reducing cycle time to minutes vs. days.
-• Captured and validated execution of domestic fixed income trades: Municipals/Corporate/EM/US Treasury bonds to ensure minimal discrepancies/issues. • Maintained accuracy of portfolio positions within trading and analytical systems for auditing purposes. • Researched and resolved trading, accounting, and custody issues within a time frame to ease the trading flow. • Tested and implemented process improvements working directly with IT leading to better and productive trading systems. • Reconciled positions with agents and custodian banks to produce consistent and updated reports ensuring no confusions or errors across counterparties. • Worked with custodians, agents, trustees, and portfolio managers to execute settlement processes ensuring accurately and timely settlement of trades.
• Analyzed and compiled relevant facts for legal issues leading to clients’ ease of continuing filing applications. • Maintained system for timely filing status of Visa/H1B extensions and petitions providing an up-to-date of client’s status. • Informed clients’ status periodically and related matters to eliminate no overdue charges. • Updated legal databases, prepared correspondence, and managed multiple phone lines for a smooth efficient process.