Charlize Singh
White Plains,NY
Summary
Finance manager with 18 years of experience in Rate, Credit and FX with strong analytical skills and extensive knowledge of the financial industry including trade flow front to back, driving cost savings, change management, productivity and profitability through exceptional decision making and affective risk management.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
VP Head of NA Rates Trade Support
Morgan Stanley
New York, NY
11.2021 - Current
- Manage Rates Trade Assistants teams covering Swaps, Options, Structured Notes, Emerging Markets, Inflation and TRS BAU
- Support trading and sales in helping to ensure trade bookings are captured accurately in risk systems, prompt affirmation and confirmation with the counterparty, adhoc queries and post execution breaks which includes trade flow, confirmations, settlements, clearing, finance, reconciliations and reporting
- Supervise Reg W, Volcker, Trace, CPM, Credit, UMR reporting and exceptions management
- Participate in New Product Approvals, Trader Mandates and Product Review Group with key stakeholders
- Create and maintain procedure documents and controls for BAU, audit and compliance; heatmap of tasks to track training and key personnel dependencies, checklist of tasks and control sheet showing inventory of all existing control reports
- Participate in initiatives projects coordinating with the Global Rates team, technology, project managers and front office to review and make recommendations for workflow automation increasing STP
- Utilize talent development to attract, motive and retain productive, engaged employees in order to create a high performing, sustainable organization that meets it's strategic and operational goals
VP Manager, MO Rates Trade Assistants
Bank Of America
New York, NY
05.2019 - 10.2021
- Managed US Swaps Trade Assistants team BAU and escalations while providing leadership, support, guidance and mentoring for career development
- Supported trading and sales in helping to manage risk, trade capture, adhoc queries and post execution breaks which includes trade flow, confirmations, settlements, clearing, finance, reconciliations and reporting
- Created and maintained procedure documents for audit and compliance, activity base costing FTE for processes capturing trade cost, heatmap of tasks to track training and key personnel dependencies, daily task tracker, control sheet showing an inventory of all existing control reports and mapped workflows highlighting inefficiencies
- Participated in Operational Excellence initiatives project which includes coordinating with the global rates team, technology, project managers and key stakeholders to review existing operations construct and make recommendations for workflow automation
- Helped to test new trade risk blotter UI, reviewing all releases, keeping track of all issues, making user suggestions, coordinating with tech and the business to ensure smooth transition from the prior spreadsheet version to the UI
- IBOR transition project SME representing the Global FICC Trade Control team and all lines of businesses in the Americas
Client Experience Lead, Support & Onboarding
NEX Traiana
New York, NY
10.2016 - 05.2019
- Managed day-to-day BAU tasks for Traiana global clients across 25 applications for Support and Onboarding teams covering swaps, equities and FX
- Performed post high severity incident analysis with risk and management teams helping to set up alerting, enhancing current process and working with IT to make changes
- Collaborated with members of the replatforming team to set specifications and functionality for developers to incorporate into new platform
- Analyzed and resolve technology-based issues across all asset classes for client trade flows and communicated solutions to international clients
- Acquired basic SQL and transport protocol knowledge, including MQ, FTP, sFTP, and FIX formatted in XML, CSV, FIX, TRML and SWIFT
- Recognized and provided incident management for all connection failures on FIX Sessions, MQ, sFTP/FTP and email by checking back end logs and working with clients
Middle Office Associate Consultant
Natixis Global Asset Management CIB Americas
New York, NY
03.2016 - 10.2016
- Performed trade reconciliations, tradebreak resolution and STP improvement for corporate bonds, treasuries, repos, FX cash and options, cash and derivative equities, swaps and futures between 15 systems
Trade Support Associate Consultant
Soros Fund Management LLC
New York, NY
06.2014 - 01.2015
- Monitored trade flow and T+0 platforms to ensure all trades are recognized and matched on a daily basis for equities, fixed income, FX, listed equity options and equity swaps
- Booked, cancel and correct trades in trade processing system
Derivatives Trade Assistant
PIMCO
Newport Beach, CA
06.2010 - 03.2014
- Booked and confirmed trades across numerous funds for CDS, rates, commodity, and equity swaps covering 20 traders
- Collaborated with brokers and exchanges to help build out and improve ICE and CME clearing processes
- Migrated Rates and CDX products on the CME and ICE decreasing counterparty risk
- Organized and led the processing of single name and index HY credit events
- Helped to test and build out single name muni, CMBX, commodities and other derivatives
- Trained operations personnel on CDS, rates, commodities and equity responsibilities, policies and procedures
- Implemented processes for CDS clearing to improve efficiency and coverage, in- turn reducing the amount of deemed trades
Derivatives Confirmation Associate
PIMCO
Newport Beach, CA
01.2009 - 01.2010
- Tested and implemented BRL's, bond options, inflation swaps, LCDS, ELCDS, CDS on ABS, CMBS, RMBS, MCDX, TRX, CDS on municipal bonds and internal transitions for electronic confirmation
- Worked with brokers to accurately confirm CDS and Rates OTC derivative swaps on DTCC
- Implemented similar process flows for rates and CDS to improve efficiency and coverage, and enhance cross training
Derivatives Confirmation Associate
Citadel Solutions
Chicago, IL
09.2007 - 07.2009
- Worked with brokers to accurately confirm CDS, rates, TRS OTC derivative swaps and their related options on DTCC and paper
- Tested and implemented swaptions, straddles, OIS, TRS, FRA, caps, floors and inflation swaps for electronic confirmation
- Trained and managed analysts and interns on responsibilities, policies and procedures
- Efficiently back loaded all CDS eligible trades to the DTCC Warehouse
- Actively participated in weekly industry calls for OTC CDS, IRS and TRSderivatives
Aviation Storekeeper Second Class
US Navy
Bremerton, WA
08.1997 - 08.2001
- Managed logistics for Navy aircraft and carrier parts
Education
Bachelor of Arts Degree - Double major in Economics and Political Science minor in Theatre
Bernard M. Baruch College
New York, NY2007
Timeline
VP Head of NA Rates Trade Support
Morgan Stanley
11.2021 - Current
VP Manager, MO Rates Trade Assistants
Bank Of America
05.2019 - 10.2021
Client Experience Lead, Support & Onboarding
NEX Traiana
10.2016 - 05.2019
Middle Office Associate Consultant
Natixis Global Asset Management CIB Americas
03.2016 - 10.2016
Trade Support Associate Consultant
Soros Fund Management LLC
06.2014 - 01.2015
Derivatives Trade Assistant
PIMCO
06.2010 - 03.2014
Derivatives Confirmation Associate
PIMCO
01.2009 - 01.2010
Derivatives Confirmation Associate
Citadel Solutions
09.2007 - 07.2009
Aviation Storekeeper Second Class
US Navy
08.1997 - 08.2001
Bachelor of Arts Degree - Double major in Economics and Political Science minor in Theatre
Bernard M. Baruch College