Paul Ji Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

Newport Beach, California, United States

• Successfully ran and managed an international trading desk for a quantitative investment manager working closely with portfolio managers and compliance to deliver and maintain best execution standards • Assumed responsibility for all internal and external reporting requirements and headed the brokerage oversight committee providing detailed audit-ready reporting and trading metrics to key stakeholders • Revamped Excel based reporting to utilize data visualization tools (SQL and PowerBI) to generate on-demand dashboards for trading commissions, fees and transaction cost analysis• Determined ongoing portfolio liquidity risk and market risk factors for portfolio rebalancing

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Roadmap, design, and develop enterprise data solutions for bank-wide reporting tools and interfaces • Provide analytical research and technical expertise to query, combine, and update disparate data sources and services to deliver fully integrated and secure profitability metrics at various divisional levels• Successful technical project management and upgrade from legacy revenue reporting systems to industry-standard profitability application; consistently achieving timeline, testing and sprint goals• Lead cost accounting data teams to optimize colleague data collection and transformation by working with off-shore development teams to find creative solutions for complex banking functions• Create automation and reconciliation tools to expedite data analysis and discovery

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Led all technological updates and integration of new systems, third party tools, and reporting requirements for an international trading desk consisting of 8 traders generating over $30m dollars of commissions on a yearly basis for an investment manager that reached $38 billion AUM• Executed domestic and international trades during live market hours across varying investment strategies and led the firm’s program trading efforts• Successfully collaborated with cross-functional teams including Legal, Compliance, IT, and Portfolio Management to deliver key trading trends, metrics and insights to ensure client success• Created, tracked and reported on pre and post-trade TCA analytics, portfolio liquidity analysis, client and broker commissions, and research goals to the quarterly trading governance committee• Developed the internal commission management and tracking tools to ensure research targets were met

Orange County, California Area

• Developed and maintained an operationally efficient pricing process for 10,000+ securities across 46 daily-valued hedge funds spanning 7 diverse investment strategies• Identified and analyzed operational risks and deficiencies; significantly reduced key risk factors by automating core components of daily operations and instituting remedial processes• Tasked with sole responsibility for all security master creation and maintenance including continual upkeep of simple/complex corporate actions while ensuring data integrity• Promoted an exception-based culture via creation of trade, cash, CFD and futures reconciliation tools

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Participated in general account reconciliation work for UCLA Treasury, Foundation and Finance• Performed monthly investment valuations including cost and open commitment values of investments• Built and maintained an intranet indexing system of all financial reports and statements

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Responsible for technical and data support in regards to computer hardware, software and network issues• Conducted comprehensive data mining for researchers and physicians via SQL Queries and Excel• Created extensive monthly user statistics via excel with information gathered from SQL databases