Mason Peabody

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT
Senior Technical Product Manager / Product Owner
New York, NY | 2021 – Present

Engagements: Morgan Stanley (Private Equity & Brokerage Fund Services), Bank of America Merrill Lynch, CITI Bank, Peabody Solutions Group

Private Markets & Digital Product Ownership

• Gathered and refined business requirements for private equity investor lifecycle workflows, enhancing subscription onboarding, capital calls, distributions, waterfall allocations, and performance reporting.
• Translated complex fund accounting and allocation logic into structured epics, user stories, and detailed acceptance criteria within Jira.
• Partnered with UX and engineering teams to enhance client-facing investor reporting platforms, improving usability, transparency, and data accuracy.
• Defined upstream and downstream system dependencies across IBOR data layers and portfolio accounting systems, ensuring seamless integration with custodial feeds, sub-ledgers, and reporting engines.
• Supported backlog grooming, sprint planning, and prioritization in Agile delivery environments.

Pre-Trade Platform Experience

• Mapped pre-trade investment workflows including portfolio construction, trade intent capture, compliance validation, and OMS routing logic.
• Supported configuration and enhancement of Aladdin and Charles River for trade modeling, compliance rules, and pre-trade validation checks.
• Defined validation logic ensuring trade eligibility, exposure thresholds, and regulatory constraints were embedded into platform workflows.

Post-Trade Platform Experience

• Owned post-trade lifecycle workflows including trade capture, settlement validation, reconciliation, NAV production, and investor allocation processes.
• Designed SQL-based reconciliation queries validating trade, position, and cash data across custodial, general ledger, and warehouse systems.
• Coordinated UAT for capital activity processing and settlement flows, ensuring accuracy of investor reporting outputs prior to production releases.
• Strengthened SOX-aligned control frameworks and audit readiness across post-trade financial reporting systems.

Capital Markets & Regulatory Systems

• Served as product/business owner for municipal credit and structured finance reporting systems.
• Directed Volcker Rule control modernization, mapping trade attributes across OMS, compliance, and reporting systems.
• Communicated risks, dependencies, and delivery timelines to business and technology stakeholders.

LAZARD ASSET MANAGEMENT
Front Office Technical Business Risk Analyst
New York, NY

Pre-Trade & Investment Workflow Integration

• Supported front-office equity and multi-asset portfolio managers within Aladdin and Charles River OMS environments.
• Collected requirements for enhancements to trade entry, pre-trade compliance validation, and exposure monitoring dashboards.
• Collaborated with engineering teams to translate investment workflows into system configuration updates and feature enhancements.

Client-Facing Reporting Support

• Ensured investment data integrity across portfolio accounting and reporting interfaces.

CIBC PRIVATE WEALTH
Middle Office Trade Support

• Supported pre-trade and post-trade workflows for fixed income and multi-asset portfolios.
• Investigated trade breaks and reconciled discrepancies across OMS, custodial, and accounting systems.
• Partnered with technology teams to streamline trade validation and settlement accuracy.

BNY MELLON INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
Portfolio Compliance Analyst

• Maintained pre-trade and post-trade compliance monitoring across institutional portfolios.
• Utilized SQL-based holdings and transaction analysis to investigate breaches.
• Partnered with technology and compliance teams to refine control logic embedded within trading platforms.