1. Keith Jackson
333 W Trade Street
Charlotte NC, 28202
704-900-9458
Jacksonkeith2015@yahoo.com
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
2. • 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