Sean Smyth Email & Phone Number

United States

Berwyn, Pa

Research, analyze, and direct trading operations and teams. Assess a broad range of potential investment risks, conduct statistical and regression analyses, perceive trends and insights, and translate complexities into sound investment decisions. Manage vendor relations for portfolio management and portfolio administration systems. Collaborate on cross-functional initiatives with all areas of the organization—Investments, Portfolio, Management, Trading, Compliance, and Operations. • Created a company-wide portfolio risk management process to provide optimal ex-ante risk return profile based on expected alpha of fundamentally derived analyst price targets.• Established the firm’s liquidity risk management processes and reporting structure.• Created a quantitative data analysis process for investment analyst decisions and recommendations.

Served as co-portfolio manager for a quantitative large cap value portfolio, including buy-sell decision risk management, factor research, and back testing. Collaborated with portfolio management teams to implement investment ideas, identify liquidity opportunities, minimize transaction costs, and decrease basis points per transaction on average. Designed and maintained the operational workflow framework for an institutional investment advisor. Led the selection, implementation, and training of portfolio management, trading, compliance, and accounting systems. Collaborated with the Chief Compliance Officer on projects and risk monitoring. Consistent on-time, on-budget project performance. Formalized operational control protocols and reporting for performance standards, client experience, and operational and trading efficiency. • Analyzed and identified excessive trading as the core cause of product underperformance; collaborated with the CIO and investment team to reduce the frequency and change the timing of trading, improving performance from the 75th to 25th percentile.• Assisted in the development of scalable risk mitigation processes and procedures for disaster recovery, trade allocation, GIPS performance standards, client onboarding and offboarding, broker selection, voting policy, and reporting after NorthPointe Capital spin-off from a larger firm.

Led 7-person team managing 20 domestic and international leveraged long and short index funds benchmarked to S&P, Russell, and MSCI Indices. Traded domestic and international equities, equity index and commodity futures, OTC derivatives, US Treasury futures, and FX contracts.• Led the selection and cross-functional implementation on an order management system in conjunction with Compliance, Investments, Trading, Operations and vendors, improving efficiency and reducing error rate from 2% to <.5%.

EQUITY TRADER (2001 to 2005)—Executed program and block trades for a quantitatively managed large cap value and statistical arbitrage hedge fund as well as a variety of mutual fund and hedge fund products. Trading approximately $10 Million in capital on a daily basis.• Promoted from Manager of Trade Operations to Equity Trader. MANAGER TRADING OPERATIONS (2000 to 2001)—Managed the team that ensured allocation and settlement of up to 5,000 transactions daily. • Transitioned the Operations Department from manual processing to an automated environment and supported the implementation of an order management system.

Reviewed and analyzed third party accounting records for various portfolio transactions, including FX contracts, futures, total return swaps, and other derivative products. Prepared month-end portfolio reports for client presentations, consultant communications, and website content updates.

Wilmington, Delaware

Promoted from Mutual Fund Accountant to Senior Fund Accountant to Supervisor within three years.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Accounting

Postgraduate Degree, Data Science

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