Philip Blake, Mba Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

One Madison Avenue, New York, Ny 10010

• Oversaw migration of settlement obligations twice. Examined business review documents to ensure processes settlement vendor would satisfy business needs and that vendor operations were within Service Level Agreement (SLA), and documented errors. • Guided Vendor Trade Settlement teams to the lowest number of errors documented during tenure, lowering dollar value losses and operational error events with no financial impact. • Led and completed project to have trade date and available cash sent to Portfolio Management by 7AM to enable traders to invest cash as early as possible, creating higher returns for clients. • Setup over 50 new SMA, CS Sponsored funds and CLO accounts including document acquisition and review - tax, formation, review of Investment Management Agreement for operational functionality; and setups for internal systems, middle office vendor, oversight of ClearPar and VTS setup, LendAmend and ISS proxy voting.• Continued resolution of month end fund pricing exceptions for bank loans, bonds, and equities.• Supported middle market lending activity of Park View Business Development Company including, funding of loans, tracking cash flows, ensuring system was updated for receipt of principal repayments.• Delivered corporate action responses for solicitation of instructions from Front Office, conveyed elections to custodians and ensured custodians processed instructions correctly, avoiding costly errors.• Worked with front office, loan settlement team, compliance, fund administrators, custodians / trustees, and agent banks to correctly process front office bank loan restructure elections.• Migrated several tasks to an Offshore Administrative Vendor resulting in the Middle Office team being able to complete assigned tasks sooner, to take on more tasks, and increased engagement in more strategic projects further enhancing the Middle Office team value to the firm. This reduced the need to staff more and expensive onshore headcount.

Brooklyn, Ny

Greater New York City Area

• Implemented a robust bank loan information system, WSO, for 8 bank loan accounts allowing first time attainment of comprehensive loan data, as well as more effective holdings management.• Redesigned systems to maintain loan position integrity resulting in fewer differences, greater efficiency in resolution of differences and reports management was able to absorb more easily.• Remotely trained offshore team in product specifics and transferred performance of bank loan position integrity workflows to them, assisting in reducing costs associated with the tasks, realizing its global footprint objectives, and completing the task with minimal cost. • Developed an internal bank loan support knowledge base reducing respective operating risks while increasing the capacity to safely trade bank loans.• Served as a panelist for The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) during discussions on swap trade documentation execution and bank loan trade operations supporting the reputation of the firm as a leader in its field.• Frequently consulted with colleagues to train them on bank loans, structured finance vehicles the firm set up and other areas of knowledge reducing business continuity risk by spreading a vast personal knowledge base across a wider group of professionals.• Assisted development of bank loan position confirmation process for annual fund audits enabling consistently complete annual fund audits in a satisfactory manner with zero reputation risk.• Frequently asked by the firm to support alternative products such as emerging market loans, OPIC bonds, construction loans and bank loan TRS with minimal support.• Enabled team to develop expertise in related areas of knowledge enhancing their ability to complete their core functions more effectively while expanding their skillsets.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance, General

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Business Finance And Administration

Nys Real Estate Salesperson License, Real Estate