ALEXANDER HOBBS
North Hollywood,CA
Summary
CAPITAL MARKETS- CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER / OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Dynamic and results-oriented executive with a robust financial background, serving as the Chief Operating Officer in the capital markets sector. Proven track record in managing strategic business development initiatives, with a focus on enhancing operational efficiency, cost reduction, and adeptly navigating regulatory and organizational changes.
Instrumental in defining, establishing, and implementing operational protocols for the day-to-day activities of sophisticated traders. Demonstrated ability to influence profit and loss (P&L) growth through organizational optimization and the strategic deployment of digital solutions.
Hired, trained and lead several teams as Operations Manager, recognized as a natural leader, known for thoughtfulness, decisiveness, and empathy. Passionate about process improvement and collaboration with other departments, with a proven ability to lead teams toward common goals.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Strategic Advisor
Hobbs Consulting Corp
Los Angeles, CA
03.2023 - Current
- Successfully launched and managed Hobbs Consulting Corp, providing comprehensive advisory services to investment banks, offering strategic insights and solutions to enhance operational efficiency, navigate regulatory challenges, and drive sustainable growth.
Director, Trading Business Manager
Societe Generale
New York, NY
10.2016 - 12.2022
- Supervised, managed and influenced projects and initiatives to develop, optimize and protect the equity derivatives department comprising 40+ traders and an annual budgeted P&L of 400M USD.
- Digital Transformation: Realized the bank's vision to move to workflows that offer transparency and straight through processing (STP) on trades and client interactions from price request to booking, risk management and controls in order to scale activities
- Established and enforced policies, rules, and operating frameworks governing trades and client solution offerings in Equity Derivatives products that include investment, financing, and risk management solutions
- Operating Excellence: Consistently achieve world-class efficiency, holding the entire trading platform to account, identifying disruptions in day to day activities and implementing solutions to streamline processes.
- Regulation & Control: Represent the business and implement recommendations from external regulators, adroitly responding to ad hoc queries and leading preparation efforts for inspections and reviews
- Subject Matter Expert to advance projects to decommission IT systems, increase business efficiency and optimize resources (reducing costs 2-5M USD per year on average)
- Point of entry for the Trading desks for any internal questions (operational, IT, compliance, legal, audit, external vendors etc...)
Director, Head of Global Equity Flow Middle Office
Societe Generale
New York, NY
01.2008 - 10.2016
- Lead, motivated and coached a team of 25+ individuals including 4 mid-level managers supporting all Equity trading desks including Financing, Quantitative Market Making, Volatility, Cash Execution and Investment Solutions desk providing book and position management, risks and P&L analysis; recruited and trained over 60 people in the course of my time as manager
- Sponsored initiatives from Operations department to automate operational processes to reduce manual work, risk and costs
- Subject Matter Expert and key decision maker in all business initiatives to enter new markets, transact in new products or protect the bank by aligning procedures to new rules and regulations (i.e Dodd Frank, Volcker, FINRA regulations, shortened US settlement cycle etc..)
- Actively involved in integrating new Prime Brokerage Business in the context of a key merger between our firm and Newedge, leading financial company in PB offering
VP, Operations Specialist
SOCIETE GENERALE
Paris, France
01.2001 - 09.2007
- Booking and Control of Trading Operations, P&L and Risk analysis, management of life cycle of equity derivatives, assistance to Front Office on multiple ad-hoc queries everyday
- Developed tactical VBA tools used by Trading for position management, reporting, risk analysis
Education
Master of International Finance -
SKEMA BUSINESS SCHOOL
Bachelor’s Degree - Business Management
UMIST – Manchester School of Management
Skills
- Strategic Planning & Project Management
- Creativity and Innovation
- Business Leadership
- Interpersonal Skills and Public Speaking
- Staff Management
- Process Improvement
Languages
Certification
- FINRA Series 7, 63, 99 and 24
Timeline
Strategic Advisor
Hobbs Consulting Corp
03.2023 - Current
Director, Trading Business Manager
Societe Generale
10.2016 - 12.2022
Director, Head of Global Equity Flow Middle Office
Societe Generale
01.2008 - 10.2016
VP, Operations Specialist
SOCIETE GENERALE
01.2001 - 09.2007
Master of International Finance -
SKEMA BUSINESS SCHOOL
Bachelor’s Degree - Business Management
UMIST – Manchester School of Management