Steven Jacob Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

• Facilitating and executing equity/option trades on behalf of registered Investment Advisors for Dominion Securities
• Acting as a gatekeeper by warning Investment Advisors if market conditions (timing, liquidity, volatility, economic or geopolitical news) may be against the client’s best interest at the time.
• Work orders at my discretion giving volume and spread, both manually and with quantitative models. Utilize dealers and traders to source liquidity/best price.
• Advising Investment Advisors on equity selection and market strategy upon request.
• Quantify and mitigate risk.
• Maintain and develop internal reporting documents.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Provide primary trading Support for Institutional Trading desk, primarily Fidessa.
• Level One support and liaison between Business unit/Traders and Technology for CASH Equities Application & Algorithmic electronic trading related issues.
• Monitoring and management of the trading applications.
• Act as Primary Lead on outages - managing communication, conference bridges and problem management through to resolution; tracking of postmortems, bug fixes, enhancements etc.
• Contact exchange to resolve connectivity problems; issues with receiving rejects on orders, cancels or amends; getting Outs/Cancellations on stuck orders or any other trade related issues.
• Troubleshoot & fix booking & reporting related breaks identified by operations and/or front-office control.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Gatekeeper of Fidessa and GBOI applications, which are RBC’s front and back office trading systems, ensuring all users have appropriate access levels, providing constant surveillance and taking action on any.
• Assist US Agency Traders by routing/cancelling orders with various US Brokers when necessary.
• Work effectively in a high stress trading floor environment by directly supporting all equity traders (Institutional, Retail, and Pro) in resolving all rejected/failing trades.
• Effectively assist in the migration of FIX clients onto a new in house back office trading application (GBOI) as part of a “GBOI Migration Team”, granting appropriate accesses, setting client trading defaults, as well.
• Play a key role in a migration of RBC Capital Markets’ European OMS’ back office handling into GBOI, ensuring all static data is extracted and mapped correctly, as well as providing validation in a Development, UAT.
• Identify inefficiencies within trading applications, escalate and co-ordinate with development teams to streamline functions that will minimize manual intervention during automated processes.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Analyzed all US Equity trades for Capital Markets and Dominion Securities on T+1 to ensure that the CDS (Canadian Depository for Securities Limited) corresponds with the NSCC (National Securities Clearing Corporation).
• Investigated the cause of differences through correspondence with New York and Canadian Traders, making any necessary adjustments to trader’s inventories and/or clients accounts.
• Assisted in the constant improvement of the US Equity Clearing process to create a more effective daily reconciliation and reduce the amount of daily trade breaks that occur.
• Accustomed to high level of regulation and compliance involved with the capital markets sector.
• Cross-trained to cover duties of Options Clearing desk.

Goodman School Of Business - Honours Bachelor Of Business Administration (Hbba), Concentration In Finance

Activities and Societies: •Brock Finance Investment Group (club), Sector Manager - Participated in weekly group discussion to evaluate.

Education record

Education record

US Licensing Courses