Foreign Exchange And Fx Options Middle Office Support Resume
Stamford, ConnecticuT
SUMMARY:
Middle office specialist with over 20 years of foreign exchange, fx option, and prime brokerage experience. Results driven and clients oriented individual who works well as a team player. Experience working in fast paced environments, and have developed and implemented operational controls to add value for the firms.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
- Risk management
- Client relationship management
- Operational development / enhancement
- Reporting / compliancy
- Team leadership
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Stamford, Connecticut
Foreign Exchange and Fx Options Middle Office Support
Responsibilities:
- Compile data and generate daily / monthly trading statistic reports for management.
- Provide support for trading, corporate sale desks vs internal and external parties.
- Perform daily risk management tasks such as end of day checklist, trades matching report, and monitor positions for corporate sales desks.
- Research and resolve all FX, options, MM, futures, and NDF related queries.
- Ensure new corporate accounts are set up and maintained properly.
- Update and maintain cross NDF fixing schedule for EM trading desk.
- Assist in trade allocations for deals vs corporate and institutional clients.
- Lead monthly meetings with other support teams to discuss various issues and concerns raised.
- Create write ups for various fx process and revise existing procedures to increase efficiency.
- Monitor trades’ status and resolve deal discrepancies to ensure the trades are given up seamlessly.
- Collaborate with other support teams to improve the existing PB procedures for efficiency purpose.
- Perform daily internal checks for risk management purpose and generate reports for client’s needs.
Confidential, New York, New York
FX / Arbitrage Operations Support
Responsibilities:
- Provided middle and back office support for the arbitrage trading group in areas such as position reconciliations, deal bookings, and funding related issues.
- Maintained and reconciled EFPs. Acted as liaison between traders, sale desk, finex settlement, and floor broker regarding EFP related issues.
- Updated daily ccy markout tables for p&l reporting purpose.
- Assisted corporate service group in trade allocations and novation amendments vs corporate clients.
- Acted as liaison between trading, sale desks and risk management groups.
- Provided timely replies for queries sent by other fx support groups.
- Provided support for fx spot and forward desks vs brokers, financial institutions, and other internal trading desks.
- Verified details of all reuters trades done by spot and forward desks.
- Maintained firm’s integrity by upholding credit and compliance guidelines vs new and existing clients.
- Confirmed and maintained give up deals via reuters, harmony system, and emails.
- Acted as liaison between sale desk and other financial institutions regarding give up related issues.
- Allocated give in deals vs clients.
- Booked and maintained vanilla / exotic option deals via MS access program.
Confidential, New York, New York
Forward rate arbitrage support
Responsibilities:
- Provided general support for forward rate arbitrage trading desk.
- Calculated and executed daily funding requirements to cover realized P/L positions.
- Maintained very extensive interest and basis swaps and implemented new process to calculate p&l for such products using access program.
- Built yield curves and provided daily p&l reporting to portfolio management.
- Acted as liaison between traders, customers, and brokers.
- Maintained and updated customers’ database for risk and credit exposure.
- Confirmed option, spot, phlx, imm, and hedges trades with financial institutions, corporate clients, traders, and brokers.
- Checked trade details on traders’ blotters sent from various locations)
- Reconciled general ledger accounts on a daily basis.
- Maintained cash balances of all brokers involving phlx.
- Verified all outgoing payments and reuters conversations to ensure accuracy.
- Monitored all margin customer accounts on a daily basis.
- Prepared monthly auditing reports for both the federal regulators and internal controllers.
Confidential, New York, New York
Foreign Exchange support / position clerk
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for maintaining the daily positions and liquidity of all currencies, both fx spot and forward.
- Reconciled nostro accounts for all currencies on a daily basis.
- Confirmed foreign exchange deals with other financial institutions and corporate clients.
Confidential, New York, New York
Foreign Exchange support
Responsibilities:
- Assisted foreign exchange traders in reconciling their positions.
- Prepared daily p/l report for the fx department management.
- Verified and corresponded all incoming telexes and swift messages.
- Confirmed and booked FX, FRA, IRS, and MM deals via IBM’s as400 system.
- Verified broker confirmations, reuters, and telexes against deals to ensure accuracy.