Michael Han
Brooklyn,NY
Summary
Fixed Income Trade Support Professional with extensive experience within major investment banks. Expert knowledge of trading desk procedures and back office functions, including front office applications such as Aladdin and Bloomberg. Versatile, detailed, and focused in handling high volume in a tight, time-restricted working environment. Successfully led multiple projects involving new system integration, testing, updates, and reporting. Excellent communication skills, and a team player with a proven track record of delivering results.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Director
Morgan Stanley Investment Management
New York, New York
10.2011 - 10.2025
- Developed training programs for existing staff members as well as new hires.
- Served as the main contact with brokers and counterparties for trade discrepancy disputes, as well as TBA pairoffs.
- Maintained positive relationships with key stakeholders by responding promptly to inquiries, requests, and complaints.
- Participated actively in decision making processes at a high level within the organization.
- Identified opportunities for improvement in processes, procedures, systems and services.
- Conducted meetings to lead discussions as subject matter expert on assigned projects.
- Coordinated with the Product Data team to ensure the accuracy of security setups using Bloomberg, and corresponding trade integrity within Aladdin.
- Met with key stakeholders and portfolio managers to address issues and implement solutions.
- Facilitated weekly team meetings to discuss progress and address challenges.
- Worked closely with State Street's back office for trade confirmations, timely settlements, and processing of voluntary and mandatory corporate actions.
Fixed Income - Senior Trade Support Specialist
UBS Investment Bank
Jersey City, New Jersey
11.2004 - 03.2011
- Participated in weekly conference calls with senior management, highlighting potential risk areas to the firm. Reduced aged receivables and payables by over 30% within the first year, while maintaining low tolerance levels going forward.
- Coordinated efforts with the Wealth Management trading desk, the Government, and DTC Clearance to resolve GSCC breaks and trade discrepancies for both Government and Mortgage securities, to ensure timely settlement. Reduced failures by 25% within the past year.
- Produced monthly volume reports detailing month-to-month changes in overall volume, and trend shift analysis.
- Resolved over 200 money differences per week in both in-house trading accounts and retail client accounts. Worked closely with over 100 financial advisors and branch managers across the U.S. To resolve differences in client accounts. I reached out to counterparty dealers to resolve broker-to-broker trades.
- Continued to provide cross-functional support to the MBS Operations Investigations department on an as-needed basis.
Senior Instrument Data Analyst
Barclays Capital
New York, New York
07.2002 - 11.2004
- Introduced, updated, and maintained Asset Control static data relating to capital and equity market instruments utilized throughout the firm.
• Performed reconciliations of Asset Control to downstream systems in order to ensure all internal systems contained current and accurate information across the firm’s vast database of corporate and foreign debt, government debt, mortgage-backed securities, equity, and derivative products.
Input and validated securities in various internal systems, such as Asset Control, Global 1, GEFFE, GOS, ADP, Impact, and Bloomberg.
• Monitored exception reports related to the proper posting of P&L statements, with detailed attention to the integrity of internal security information, such as pool factors and coupons, compared to Bloomberg and DTC.
• Coordinated and executed the announcement and auction of the U.S. Treasury and agency instruments, including bills, notes, FNMAs, inflation-linked notes, and other critical government securities.
• Interfaced with the Trading and Sales desks to launch new IPOs, and research the accuracy of information input into the internal systems.
Trade Support Analyst
Merrill Lynch
Jersey City, New Jersey
08.1999 - 02.2002
- Managed trade confirmations and documentation for timely processing.
- Acted as the primary liaison between Merrill Lynch and external Fixed Income Portfolio Managers to coordinate the essential processing and settlement of trades with the ML Consults programs.
- Performed trade adjustments necessary to maintain and balance large volumes of trades accurately on a daily basis.
- Resolved and closed out money differences on the Oasys system by carefully researching and rectifying trade discrepancies.
Corporate and High Yield Trade Support
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
New York, New York
06.1994 - 06.1999
- Reconciled trading positions break on a daily basis, interfacing with the accounting department to coordinate the proper recording of P&L statements with the trading desk.
- Monitored and evaluated trade blotters to ensure accurate and timely trade transaction documentation.
- Interfaced with the clearing correspondent (Pershing) to facilitate various back-office functions, such as reorganizations and trade issues, both domestic and Euroclear.
Education
BBA - Banking And Finance
Baruch College
New York (City), NY06-1992
Skills
- Trade reconciliation
- Securities management
- Stakeholder engagement
- Process improvement
- Aladdin platform
- Effective communication
- Risk assessment
- Decision making
- Client liaison
- Bloomberg
Certification
Series 7 and 63
Accomplishments
Operations excellence award winner
Timeline
Associate Director
Morgan Stanley Investment Management
10.2011 - 10.2025
Fixed Income - Senior Trade Support Specialist
UBS Investment Bank
11.2004 - 03.2011
Senior Instrument Data Analyst
Barclays Capital
07.2002 - 11.2004
Trade Support Analyst
Merrill Lynch
08.1999 - 02.2002
Corporate and High Yield Trade Support
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
06.1994 - 06.1999
BBA - Banking And Finance
Baruch College