Andrew Lefkowitz Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, US

New York, New York, US

• Head of Operations, US
• Subject Matter Expert in all operational processes relating to supporting a Digital Asset Market Making trading business including exception management related to reconciliations with the trading desk, banks, and other.
• Determined daily funding requirements for settlement date positions, NOP reporting, and Digital Asset inventory management ensuring all risk limits were within threshold for On Demand Liquidity (ODL) trade flows
• Maintained and strengthened relationships with vendor partners across exchanges (ex. Binance, Bitso and Kraken), custody relationship (Coinbase Prime), FX provides (Macquarie) and infrastructure vendors (Fireblocks and.

New York, New York, US

• Vice President, BC&E Expense Management, Brokerage Negotiations, Securities Division (2018–2022)
• Saved $155m in cost optimization in 3 years. Led and managed the Brokerage Negotiations team globally. Managed BC&E (Brokerage, Clearance, and Exchange) expenses, including developing reduction strategies/negotiations.
• Managed a global team of 4 responsible for BC&E expenses, including reporting, estimates, analysis, and query management
• Negotiated the street’s best brokerage rates, tracking for a 2021 $20m save; saved ~$12.5m in 2020 and ~$8m in 2019. Negotiations resulted in ~$12.5m across 100+ negotiations, 6 asset classes, and 23 desks averaging a.
• Executed a $20mm savings opportunity brokerage negotiations strategy. Partnered with various IRP, FX, EQD and Credit Desks
• Worked with Volex to internalize ~50% of purchasing volumes for volatility rates futures trades through GS Agency Futures desk. Saved ~$500k in Q1 2021 in external brokerage costs

New York, New York, US

Associate, Derivatives Clearing Services (DCS) Middle Office, Operations (2016 – 2018)-Provided clearing services for the Interest Rate Swaps and Credit Default Swaps business ($100m), with a team of 8-Led the onboarding of all new clients (~40 per month, each with multiple funds), ensuring a seamless process for trades to proceed immediately. Map clients.

New York, New York, US

• Business Management
• Facilitated and streamlined the industrialization of information between Goldman and its 88 relationship banks, in a consolidated, firmwide automated format. Fully implemented, from inception to completion, three major.
• Led a staff of two interns, in New York and London, to assist with the completion and development of daily assignments
• Assisted the team in building a platform for accessing and storing critical documents across global team members to mitigate risk and increase business resiliency, cost effectiveness and efficiencyRelationship Management
• Prepared, updated and reconciled existing relationship documents for Bank Relations Team on custodial banks, including all credit, risk, stock analyses and business summaries
• Liaised with contacts across the Americas, EMEA and Asia to reconcile our Letter of Credit portfolio, as part of the quarterly SOX Risk and Control Self-Assessments

• Forecasted the earnings potential of newly created and potential business ventures via multi-faceted strategic planning
• Saved the company ~$100k through specific modeling and financial forecasting indicating the impact that the economic slowdown would have on the potential new locations causing the company to reevaluate such projects
• Traveled to various construction sites to evaluate and forecast the project development, reporting directly to the CEO
• Analyzed and reported all financial data and project development information at weekly analysis meetings, attended by all Senior Management Executives including the CEO, CMO and VP of Finance

• Rotation of responsibilities throughout each department directly reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Marketing Officer
• Prepared detailed weekly cash flow statements, product comparative spreadsheets, daily banking reconciliation statements and corporate expense records, including all salary expenditures and commission reports
• Extensively researched and performed industry comparatives, including focus group management, on a new hair rejuvenation product, ultimately resulting in the naming and marketing of product
• Developed the method and script for cold-calling used by the entire sales team for all calls conducted and managed weekly Sales Rallies

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance And Economics

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General