Louis Castro has over 20 years of experience in financial operations, including accounting, reconciliation, trade processing, and global support. He has worked for several large banks such as Doral Bank, Bank of New York Mellon, HSBC, and Morgan Stanley. Castro has strong skills in Microsoft Office, financial systems such as SWIFT, CHIPS, and FEDS, and accounting/reconciliation processes.

1. LOUIS A. CASTRO
Cell No. 646-209-7588
New York NYC 10009-5612
Email Address: louis96castro1@aol.com
SUMMARY
As a Financial, Banking Global support professional front, middle, back office,
trade process, general ledger, reconciliation's, and global operations process.
Excellent experience with commissions, payments, reconciliation, brokers,
allocation of trades, trade input, settlements, confirmations, day to day
investigations. Straight through processing, SSI's, Global FX, MM, Hedge or
Mutual Funds, Securities, Interest Rate Swaps, Fixed income, Derivative, Capital
Markets, Equities products.
SKILLS
MS WORD, EXCEL, SWIFT, CHIPS, FEDS, Windows, WordPerfect, dbase, BASIC, MIDAS,
AMS, Wall Street Data Base, Reuters, Deal Input, UNIX ST400, Micros, Bloomberg,
Access, PowerPoint, IntelliMatch and IntelliTracs, PEGA, Portfolio Management
System, ALERT, CORE02, MERVA, Kapiti, Monarque, Doc Tracker, BART, CALYPSO,
SPECTRUM, UNIX SHELL
Flexible to work evenings (1st shift, 2nd shift, 3rd shift) or Out-of- town.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
02/2012 – Present
DORAL BANK NY, New York
Accounting Clerk III
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include the accurate completion of financial statements,
performing reconcilements on GL accounts, profit/loss.
Performing reconcilement on holdings, accruals, trades, payments, and cash
balances
Researching and responding to customer inquiries
Data entry to general ledger
Processing accounting entries
Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.
Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
Performs a variety of tasks. May lead and direct the work of others.
Update SSI's-Standard Settlement Instructions, profit and loss, cash flow, as
well as money market and foreign exchange positions.
Confirm, FX process / Settlements to SWIFT,CHIPS, FEDS, STP monitoring and FX
options, FX swaps, Currency Swaps and maintain an audit trail.
Investigate and Analyzed problems; resolved reconciliation open items and
investigations within 72 hours.
09/2008 – 02/2012
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, New York
Accounting Clerk III
Responsibilities:
Responsible for accurate completion of financial statements
Performing reconcilement on holdings, accruals, global trades, MM, FX, Brokers,
SWIFT, CHIPS, FEDS payments, confirmations and cash balances
Researching and responding to customer inquiries
Data entry to general ledger
Processing accounting entries
Researching global payments, and various accounting reconciliation's
03/2007 – 09/2008
HSBC BANK USA, New York & New Jersey

2. Reconciliation & Audit Request Specialist
Responsibilities:
Day to day balancing of numerous Cash Recons on daily basis in INTELLIMATCH.
Interact with Front, Middle and back office, Settlements, Fixed Income,
securities, FX, FXO, MM, PM, DPG daily to resolve breaks balancing of numerous
Monthly Cash Recons, Extensive reconciling of Euro/US cash accounts. Daily
balancing of several stock record position accounts. Monthly INTELLIMATCH
balancing of several position custody recons. Daily monitoring of suspense
holding accounts INTELLIMATCH.
Daily Incoming Audit requests from all major Auditors;
(DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP, ERNST & YOUNG LLP, KPMG LLP and PWHCOOPERS) Avoid
duplication of requests arrive via fax, post, email and interoffice mail. Log
requests on the Audit Confirm Log. Include date received, date for which data is
requested, products being considered, and note data trail, i.e. forwarding to
another party Identify client entities. Find acronyms in AIM, TREATS, CALYPSO or
SUMMIT; once the products and Acronyms are identify, work with Front and Middle
office in creating the MTM statement reports. Follow up if a response doesn't
come in a timely manner requesting the MTM statement process of FX, FXO, MM, and
PM, DPG. Look on HSBC net, run COGNOS statement reports, look up trades in
TREATS, CALYPSO and SUMMIT and check MUREX downloads in Excel and WORD
spreadsheets. *NEW* - run MTM statement reports on SUMMIT and CALYPSO, for
clients who are not set up on HSBC net Mark to market statement reports will
deliver as follow via fax, post, email, interoffice, or as requested by client,
in multiple formats. Log completion of audit request on the Audit Confirm Log,
Include date completed.
09/2004 - 03/2007
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, NYC
Senior back office Operations support
Responsibilities:
As a back office: Real time, confirmations date/value, sending documents, auto
matching for confirmations, litigations, payment flow, swift, chips, feds,
accounting, reconciliation s, auto matching. Working within the Equity, Fixed
Income, Derivatives products, and front-to-back trade flow. Coordinate the
implementation of systems release for applications within Financial, Banking
business unit s front, middle and back office trade flow and liaison with the
IT developers on day-to-day operations and QA testing of commissions, payments,
reconciliation, brokers, allocation of trades, trade input in global FX, MM,
settlements, Swift, CHIPS, FEDS, Capital Market, Fixed Income, and Derivatives
products. Compile QA testing specs and provide a new issues and functionality
for release into production.
02/2003 - 09/2004
HSBC, New York & New Jersey
Business Analyst Support Specialist
Responsibilities:
Support Global Treasury Trades Services, Also developed high-level feature sets,
detailed use cases and systems specification for trading applications for the
Global Trading Desks. Write business specifications and Liaison between business
users, developers, infrastructure technicians and quality assurance testers in
support of application troubleshooting, project, enhancement efforts.
Development integration of business requirements for all projects across all
work streams Front, middle and back office. (SDLC, Reference data, MIS, Data
Capture, GL, Testing, Reconciliation, Clearance and Settlement, Statements,
Infrastructure and Corporate Reporting). Create detailed test plans and test
cases for the testing of the new solution, including plans for parallel testing.
Document the detailed requirements for the proposed solution and work with all
groups to obtain consensus and approvals.
01/2000 - 01/2003
National Australia Bank, New York
Treasury Operations Analyst
Responsibilities:
Maintenance of the daily settlements and P&L calculation, Income and Risk Report

3. involving up-to-date financial activities, liquidity gap, foreign exchange and
Interest Rate Swaps, Derivatives positions, mark-to-market of securities and
Derivatives portfolio, and implementation of valuation models. Confirming
payments, weekly reconciliation of brokers, allocations of trades, as well as
data input in global FX, MM ops, MBS, Credit derivatives, Capital Market,
Options, Commercial loans, Swift, CHIPS, and FEDS. Compiled rates for
Spot/Forward statements mark-to-market and revaluation. Involve in
reconciliation and investigations. Expertise with Alert, Euro clear Governments,
DTC, Bonds, MIDAS, Montran, Kapiti, IQ Financial Systems, Access.
EDUCATION
Hunter College (CUNY), New York Economics
A I B (American Institute of Banking), New York City
Certificate Program -International Banking, Policies, and Procedures
Fluent in Spanish-Advanced