Brian Mitchell

• Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders, including customers, vendors, regulators, and community leaders to promote collaboration and long-term success.
• Led cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and client satisfaction.
• Demonstrated proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and build competent teams.
• Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
• Established a culture of continuous improvement, fostering innovation and driving sustainable growth across the organization.
• Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
• Leveraged technology to automate workflows and streamline processes, resulting in increased productivity and cost savings across the organization.
• Monitored key business risks and established risk management procedures.
• Ensured regulatory compliance at all times by implementing robust internal controls systems coupled with proactive monitoring mechanisms.
• Spearheaded organizational restructuring initiatives, streamlining operations and reducing overhead costs.

• Built strong relationships with clients through consistent communication and excellent customer service.
• Responded to customer calls swiftly to resolve issues and answer questions.
• Efficiently managed policy renewals, ensuring timely processing and accurate coverage updates.
• Maintained high standards of customer service by building relationships with clients.
• Educated clients on the importance of adequate insurance coverage, fostering trust and loyalty among the existing client base.
• Cross-sold insurance products to existing clients to reach sales targets.
• Built relationships with clients using active listening and issue resolution to provide excellent service.
• Expanded client base by actively prospecting for new business opportunities and generating referrals.

• Led cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and client satisfaction.
• Demonstrated proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and build competent teams.
• Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.

· Provide relationship management and daily operational coverage for a portfolio of diverse hedge fund prime brokerage clients contributing substantial annual revenues to the firm.

· Cultivate relationships with main decision makers at high profile hedge fund clients responsible for determining wallet share across their Prime Brokerage Service providers.

· Assist client onboarding team with new account relationships being prepared for “go-live” upon launch date. Such responsibilities include: Attend initial meetings with client and onboarding team to understand the client’s expectations. Develop project plan which outlines project scope and deliverables required for a successful implementation.

· Review client margin reporting and related haircuts on positions to ensure the firm is optimizing client excess cash and meeting required reserves for the firm. Work with the risk and margin teams to raise and lower position haircuts depending on the trading activity and client trading strategy.

· Responsible for the operations of various products including equities (domestic/international), options, fixed income (corporate/high yield), FX, credit-default swaps, credit-default index, bank-debt loans and OTC derivatives (equity swaps/forwards/private placements).

· Reconciliation and booking of client income events including dividend and coupon payments as well as corporate action events into Advent Geneva.

· Supervise day-to-day operations of hedge funds, overseeing accounting, financing, reporting and trading issues for clients utilizing a wide variety of investment strategies.

· Support hedge fund administrators in their calculations of daily, monthly and yearly NAV.

· Train and supervise account management staff to handle client queries and own client issues, acting as a point of escalation as needed.

• Completed journal entries, reconciliations, and account analysis to prepare quarterly financial documents and general account management.
• Prepared balance sheets, cash flow reports and income statements.
• Managed payroll data entry and processing for [Number] employees to comply with predetermined company guidelines.
• Provided treasury and cash management by overseeing reconciliation of banking activity, credit card processing, and sales tax returns.
• Worked with outside vendor to assist with the build of an in-house data warehouse necessary for the automation of daily accounting reconciliations, fund exposure reporting, performance reporting, and month-end fund return data for preparation of investor statements.
• Documentation completion related to investor DDQ requests, FINRA forms ADV and PF, new executing broker and vendor agreements, as well as prime broker documents required for local market access trading.

· Prepare, review cash debit/credit exposures across prime brokers and manage cash accordingly to reduce impact of debit/credit spreads.

· Review accuracy of start of day p/l and positions in Eze Castle TC. Adjust for any pricing variances and corporate action events prior to market open for Bridger's traders. Included in this process is a check and resolution of any open trade breaks and fails reflected on the morning prime broker reports.

· Provide trading desk with foreign exchange requests needed to keep currency exposures within specified limits.

· Monitor and process corporate action and proxy voting elections based on front office elections. Provide prime brokers and proxy vendor with required elections and record into Geneva and to fund administrator.

· Monitor intra-day trading and provide the trading desk with accurate and timely responses to questions related to trading compliance, foreign market access, and regulatory disclosures.

· Review stock loan rebate and fully paid rates across all custodians. Negotiate rate adjustment as needed with designated stock loan traders.

· Execute end of day process including Eze TC trade allocation and distribution to prime brokers, Oasys trade matching, calculation and distribution of the day’s performance report package to the front office.

· Prepare month-end pricing valuation and price tolerance support package for the firm’s unlisted, no volume, private equity and private partnership holdings. Valuations are reviewed to ensure they are marked in accordance with the firm’s valuation policy.

· Prepare month-end fund rebalancing documents and journal activity for the prime brokers.

· Sole in-house administrator for $20M private equity fund including booking of activity and managing partner capital commitments and capital distributions.

• Prepare, review cash debit/credit exposures across prime brokers and manage cash accordingly to reduce impact of debit/credit spreads.
• Review accuracy of start of day p/l and positions in Eze Castle TC. Adjust for any pricing variances and corporate action events prior to market open for Bridger's traders. Included in this process is a check and resolution of any open trade breaks and fails reflected on the morning prime broker reports.
• Provide trading desk with foreign exchange requests needed to keep currency exposures within specified limits.
• Monitor and process corporate action and proxy voting elections based on front office elections. Provide prime brokers and proxy vendor with required elections and record into Geneva and to fund administrator.
• Monitor intra-day trading and provide the trading desk with accurate and timely responses to questions related to trading compliance, foreign market access, and regulatory disclosures.
• Review stock loan rebate and fully paid rates across all custodians. Negotiate rate adjustment as needed with designated stock loan traders.
• Execute end of day process including Eze TC trade allocation and distribution to prime brokers, Oasys trade matching, calculation and distribution of the day’s performance report package to the front office.
• Prepare month-end pricing valuation and price tolerance support package for the firm’s unlisted, no volume, private equity and private partnership holdings. Valuations are reviewed to ensure they are marked in accordance with the firm’s valuation policy.
• Prepare month-end fund rebalancing documents and journal activity for the prime brokers.
• Sole in-house administrator for $20M private equity fund including booking of activity and managing partner capital commitments and capital distributions.