Laughlin Murtagh Email & Phone Number

Dublin

• Daily reconciliation of all traders’ statements in the company. Ensuring all information on the trader’s statement is correct and any issues are investigated and resolved.• Dealing with any queries traders have relating to their statements, product fees, trading systems and other operations.• Liaising with IT, Risk and Accounting departments to ensure smooth operation of all daily activities.

Dublin

• Senior Bond Trade Liaison Officer for a large National Central Bank with high volumes of trading and strict market deadline• Worked in confirmations role of Fixed Income bond trading. Ensured that all trades booked by the front office were manually checked and matched with broker instructions and that any issues were flagged early to ensure that they would match in a timely and efficient manner with a particular emphasis on prioritising trades approaching deadlines• Dealt with any trade capture issues to ensure that trades were exported to Custodian and Fund Accounting systems.• Dealt closely settlement teams and also worked and was fully trained in this area to ensure that trades were settled and fails kept to a minimum.• Dealt regularly with the client’s front office traders and built strong relations here. Also dealt with custodian and brokers on a regular basis.• Where high volumes are projected ensured that any issues with high risk were priortised.• Ensured all scheduled work is completed by agreed deadlines throughout the day and any issues were highlighted to the client• Provided cross training in a highly efficient team environment• Primary support to trading desk in Oslo as well as supporting desks in New York and Hong Kong• Worked with senior management to communicate any service issues and made suggestions were I felt service could be improved further.• Dealt with any ad-hoc requests and issues from brokers, the client and any other internal groups• I was rewarded for my hard work and abilities by receiving an Excellency award from senior management and the major client that I worked for.

Dublin

• Worked as a Hedge Fund administrator in the trade capture section in investment operations group. • Reviewed manually booked trades such as including FX trades and Repos to ensure they were correctly booked• Resolved client & internal trade capture queries efficiently• Communicated with Prime Brokers to resolve any trade capture issues• Resolved Position & Cash reconciliations on a daily basis and ensured they were completed and reported to senior management• Analysed root causes of breaks• Liaised with auditors to answer quires relating to Trade Capture• Assisted manager in dealing with ad-hoc issues and streamlining operational processes to reduce risk and improve efficiency• Proactively participated in cross training.• Adhered to deadlines, communicated delays to manager and ensure work is completed each evening• Where high volumes are projected, flagged any potential service delivery issues as early as possible and assist other team members as directed by the manager.• Ensured all scheduled work is completed by agreed deadlines.

Dublin

Merril Lynch, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland• Worked in the Bond Middle Office group of a large multination financial services company. Liaised with front office traders and settlements groups to ensure that repo bond trades were matched and successfully traded in the market in a timely manner in a high pressure team environment.• Part of a motivated and results focused team, in a high risk, time critical position.• Dealt regularly with counterparties and developed strong communication skills.• Manually instructed trades at regular intervals throughout the day so as to ensure they were matched and settled in the market.• Primary support to bond trading desk in London as well as dealing with trading desks in New York, Toronto and Tokyo • Ensured that daily reconciliation assignment were completed and reported to senior management.• Dealt with ad-hoc issues and requests on a daily basis from markets around the world.• Dealt with numerous in house and external systems such as Repo Front End, Gloss BTM, Recon, Swift, Xtas, Bloomberg, Swift and Euclid as well as being highly efficient in Microsoft word and excel.• Reported regularly to senior management and took an active role in suggesting and implementing initiatives to reduce workflow and increase efficiency.