Keith Jackson has over 15 years of experience in operations and trade support roles within the financial services industry. He has held senior positions at Citco Fund Services, Select Equity Group, and Swiss Re Financial Products where he performed tasks like reconciling derivative positions, processing trades, researching discrepancies, and managing teams. Jackson has extensive experience with various financial products including equity derivatives, commodities, credit derivatives, and interest rate swaps. He is proficient in many industry software programs and holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Finance.
• Detail-oriented accounting and finance professional with hands-on experience of 5 years in corporate action, performance analysis, fund administration and reporting, reconciliations, custody operations and financial analysis
• Exceptionally organized with the ability to perform multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment, consistently meeting deadlines with accurate and detailed results
• Flexibility to adapt to changing environments, working independently and in a team while managing multiple deliverables
• Working experience of 5 years with all complex financial instruments such as Fixed Income, Debt issuance, Equities, Derivative products and Short term investments.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) for effective interaction with all levels of company management and personnel
• Highly proficient in variety of applications such as Bloomberg, MS Excel, Macros, Word and PowerPoint
• Recognized as a confident, high performing individual demonstrating enthusiasm and initiative
SUMMARY
- Experience 7 years in Financial markets, Investment banking, Market data (Real time, Reference & Time series), Transformation, Business Analysis, UAT testing and Risk management & Reporting. Also exposure to SQL/PLSQL
- Good knowledge on SQL and PLSQL
- Operational activist including Equity, Fixed Income & Derivative pricing, corporate actions, Project management, Risk Analysis and Customer Support activities.
- Self-Motivated, performance oriented approach, cross functional work philosophy and believing in sharing the knowledge, expertise and good relationship.
Cash and Position Reconciliation & Settlement
- Performing custodian position (shares & cash) reconciliation.
End to end successfully completed Transition for two processes.
Well-accomplished, result-oriented professional with in-depth experience in full spectrum of corporate treasury functions allowing organizational growth for the company. Demonstrate unparalleled expertise in structured transactions and foreign exchange, cash management, forecasting and developing new systems and ideas to streamline the operations. Fluent in spoken Japanese.
This is Kushagra Modi. I am from finance domain (7+ years of experience) and wish to work for a financial service institution like yours. I am having an experience in hedge funds, derivatives trading (Options and Futures), commodity pool, research – commodities, currencies, indices & fixed income.
• Detail-oriented accounting and finance professional with hands-on experience of 5 years in corporate action, performance analysis, fund administration and reporting, reconciliations, custody operations and financial analysis
• Exceptionally organized with the ability to perform multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment, consistently meeting deadlines with accurate and detailed results
• Flexibility to adapt to changing environments, working independently and in a team while managing multiple deliverables
• Working experience of 5 years with all complex financial instruments such as Fixed Income, Debt issuance, Equities, Derivative products and Short term investments.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) for effective interaction with all levels of company management and personnel
• Highly proficient in variety of applications such as Bloomberg, MS Excel, Macros, Word and PowerPoint
• Recognized as a confident, high performing individual demonstrating enthusiasm and initiative
SUMMARY
- Experience 7 years in Financial markets, Investment banking, Market data (Real time, Reference & Time series), Transformation, Business Analysis, UAT testing and Risk management & Reporting. Also exposure to SQL/PLSQL
- Good knowledge on SQL and PLSQL
- Operational activist including Equity, Fixed Income & Derivative pricing, corporate actions, Project management, Risk Analysis and Customer Support activities.
- Self-Motivated, performance oriented approach, cross functional work philosophy and believing in sharing the knowledge, expertise and good relationship.
Cash and Position Reconciliation & Settlement
- Performing custodian position (shares & cash) reconciliation.
End to end successfully completed Transition for two processes.
Well-accomplished, result-oriented professional with in-depth experience in full spectrum of corporate treasury functions allowing organizational growth for the company. Demonstrate unparalleled expertise in structured transactions and foreign exchange, cash management, forecasting and developing new systems and ideas to streamline the operations. Fluent in spoken Japanese.
This is Kushagra Modi. I am from finance domain (7+ years of experience) and wish to work for a financial service institution like yours. I am having an experience in hedge funds, derivatives trading (Options and Futures), commodity pool, research – commodities, currencies, indices & fixed income.
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