Alberto Gonzalez Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Work with sales team to assist in demonstrating data warehouse, security master and order management solutions to potential clients• Create dashboards based on datapoints mostly pertaining to the investment advisor, fund of funds, hedge fund and asset manager market business• Strategize with sales team as to the best approach with client discovery and subsequent calls• Work on proof of concepts based on client data • Assist in implementation projects across departments with existing clients

London, England, Gb

Worked with sales team in a technical capacity to assist with client presentations dealing with our reconciliations solutions. Provided advice and support when needed by sales group to close sales. • Responded to client related RFIs and RFPs• Work directly with product managers and developers to keep current on up to date functional and feature improvements to solution • Conducted training sessions for clients after closing of sale

New York, Ny, Us

Managed all the post-trade processes involved with fixed income products and created efficiencies where needed to make the day-to- day tasks more controlled, while reducing risk. Oversaw the daily processing of repo margins, wire entries, and open repo trade reconciliation. Managed the daily capture, confirmations and fails for fixed income trades. Processed daily corporate actions for equity and fixed income securities. • Daily futures commission merchant (FCM) cash reconciliations.• Settled US Treasuries (UST) in Bank of New York – Broker Dealer Clearance (BONY BDC). • Monitored failed trades that had not been delivered or received between brokers for settlement. Accomplishments • Inherited a manual corporate action process and was instrumental in selecting a vendor for software that could be modified to fit the firm’s needs. Streamlining led the corporate action process to be automated and offered more control to mitigate risks. • Outsourced the repo margin process to a third-party vendor which allowed for putting in controls and enhancements to the daily process that included checks by supervisors in New York to monitor throughout the day and a final summary report for review.

New York, Ny, Us

Subject Matter Expert on trade confirmations, corporate action processing, and cash/position reconciliation.• Reconciled daily Depository Trust Company (DTC), Fed, Euroclear, and local market trade breaks across equities and bonds; reconciled options, foreign exchange trades (FX), and futures; handled position and cash reconciliations.• Processed Lehman Brothers and Iceland bankruptcy trade claims for review by a Trustee to decide whether or not to pay out cash or securities to the claimants. • Processed corporate actions and proxy votes for securitized and listed companies. • Provided daily pricing for end-of-day close prices for listed securities and P&L reports to Portfolio Managers on the floor. • Completed Prime Broker documentation and internal set-up for new accounts. • Mentored junior members of the operations team through job shadowing, daily coaching, and Q&A. Accomplishments• Tasked with learning to on-board new cash and positions reconciliations to the Electra Open Staars software. Added 10 Prime Brokers within 90 days to the new system for reconciliation through the use of broker files; reduced the average time of reconciliation from 1 hour to 15 minutes. • The corporate action process for equities was disorganized. Streamlined the process into MS Excel, and implemented checks to have the final P&L numbers verified by two parties before being entered into the systems, which reduced the number of errors. The steps were implemented into the training program for team members.

Processed fixed income, asset-backed security (ABS), residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS), commercial mortgage-backed security (CMBS), convertibles, repurchase agreements, foreign exchanges, and future trades for multi-strategy hedge funds and separately managed accounts. Handled daily position and cash reconciliations across various prime brokers and custodians dealing with $12BN in assets. Managed and trained a staff of six Associates. Responsible for monthly option expirations, daily assignments, futures trade allocations and related communications, and reporting of weekly capital usage by the fund.• Handled the entering and unwinding of interest rate swaps (IRS), credit default swaps (CDS), and total return swaps (TRS) trades. • Processed bank debt trades on ClearPar. • Managed Mortgage Backed Securities, to be announced (MBS TBA) 48hr pool notification and allocation. • Set-up futures accounts, give-up agreements, multiple execution counterparties, custodians, and markets for trading during new fund set-ups. • Instituted operational efficiencies to reduce workload.Accomplishments • Assisted the Technology Department with the development of a web-based and Excel application to reduce the daily work load as the front end systems are processed in-house. - Provided input on enhancements to front-end trade entry system that helps increase the accuracy of daily trades - Helped institute a daily checklist for operations that helped reduce risk and provided a framework for new employees to follow. - Helped institute a corporate actions process that including tracking, in Excel.

New York, Ny, Us

Ensured all aspects of operations for clients are completed, transactions were processed on time, and proactively resolved exceptions. Single point of contact for the team. Processed fixed income, repos, wires, reorganizations, and foreign exchange trades. • Reconciled cash and positions on a daily basis. • Handled customer service relations and questions with hedge funds; increased communication, ensured that emails were responded to in a timely fashion, and created a separate mailbox that was color coded to the responsible employee to generate better client relations. • Advised clients of settlements process to reduce fails. Accomplishments • The office was affected by the 2003 blackout in the Northeast. Ensured that client’s financial transactions were processed and reconciled during this stressful situation; recruited to work for Drake Capital, a main client. Associate – International & Domestic Settlements (12/01 – 12/02) • Settled repo and long-term cash transfers that dealt with fixed income bonds within international and domestic markets.• Enhanced the reporting of settlements, pair-offs, and high-risk trades by having all the data imported into an organized report in Excel, which assisted with pre-confirming the trades to help eliminate settlement risk. • Reduced fails to lessen client exposure by contacting relevant counterparts the day the trade failed to reconfirm details; followed up daily if the trade continued to fail.

New York, Ny, Us

Account Administrator, Global Custody •Responsible for managing customer service functions dealing with global custody accounts•Managed conversion of ordinary shares to ADRs for clients•Created spreadsheets to expedite conversions and securities transfers •Suggested improvements to online system to help clients

New York, Ny, Us

Relationship Manager, Retail Banking •Responsible for managing bank accounts•Acquired new customers through direct marketing•Handled wire transfers and ACH issues•Ensured customer satisfaction resulting in increased number of customer referrals. •Provided feedback for the development and implementation of a teller referral program