Dawn Oswald Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca

Los Angeles, Ca

West Los Angeles, Ca

• Responsible for daily pricing and review of multiple fixed income sectors• Conduct pricing challenge process with third-party pricing vendors• Balance deadline-driven daily production tasks while leading various initiatives• Create weekly and ad hoc reports for portfolio managers and analysts• Responsible for assessing the operational impacts of the SEC’s liquidity proposal• Deliver periodic presentations to the Fair Valuation Committee and other internal committees• Responsible for conducting third-party pricing and liquidity vendor assessments• Responsible for training fixed income pricing associates and updating training materials• Led initiative to create a valuation escalation playbook to help manage pricing issues• Serve as a resource for the department’s business continuity initiative

Irvine, Ca

• Identified and researched fair valuation issues, solicited valuation recommendations from investment analysts and traders, and summarized and presented valuation proposals to senior management who comprise the Fair Valuation Committee• Allocated and reviewed daily production work • Demonstrated the ability to fully understand and recreate complex valuation models • Facilitated calls and delivered periodic presentations to the Fair Valuation Committee• Led the department’s business continuity initiative • Trained new associates and cross trained pricing associates on fair value tasks• Balanced deadline-driven daily production tasks while leading various projects• Performed quarterly liquidity testing of the mutual funds• Assigned ASC820 levels to funds' holdings• Created a database to electronically store fair value documentation, track critical dates and automate monthly analyst notifications

Los Angeles, Ca

• Prepared and reviewed time-critical pricing functions on a daily basis, which required gathering and verifying information from various systems and sources in a fast-paced and high-volume environment• Completed complex corporate action and fair value pricing functions• Trained new associates and updated training materials • Created a reference database to house training materials• Acted as vendor liaison for pricing team to resolve ad hoc issues and implement updates

Brea, Ca

• Administrator of Business Continuity (BC) database and communications resource• Developed and maintained processes for electronically accessing BC information and for electronically communicating information to top management during an event• Designed and developed reports and databases to document information to be used in BC plans, exercises and events• Coordinated a large scale BC exercise and communication exercises• Conducted training sessions, designed training materials and provided support/training to BC associates in Europe and Asia• Reviewed external vendors’ BC plans and programs and responded to internal and external customer inquiries and requests related to BC plans and programs

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Prepared and analyzed insurance companies’ data using various database tools and catastrophe risk computer models• Prepared analyses, reports and presentations for clients, brokers and reinsurance markets to communicate findings in a clear and concise manner• Provided necessary support for brokers in the reinsurance placement process• ARe (Associate in Reinsurance) Designation from the American Institute CPCU

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics And Management