Nicholas Boone
Greenville,SC
Summary
Accomplished Senior Associate in Oversight Management at Parametric Portfolio Associates, leveraging expertise in risk management and cross-functional collaboration. Spearheaded process improvements, enhancing system controls and operational efficiency. Excelled in data analysis and client communication, achieving significant advancements in account management and procedural integrity.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Associate - Oversight Management
Parametric Portfolio Associates
01.2023 - 05.2024
- Subject matter expert and resource for both internal and external business partners for Retail Managed and Direct Indexing Accounts.
- Led and participated in trending and process improvement meetings related to the onboarding, quality review, and portfolio management of newly incepted accounts, cash activities, account changes, and account closes.
- Reviewed operational risk events identified by internal and external audit, analyzing root causes of control breakdowns, and assisting management in developing remediation plans.
- Innovated process improvements such as creating a network of procedural guides, training material, and informational resources to reinforce the integrity of the system of controls across the Client Service and Operations departments.
- Participated in the testing, risk assessment, and rollout of automated processes designed to streamline the inception of new accounts to increase economies of scale.
Associate - Oversight Management
Parametric Portfolio Associates
07.2021 - 12.2022
- Performed quality assurance audits on newly incepting accounts, account activities, and closing accounts to ensure trading accuracy between Account Onboarding and Portfolio Management teams.
- Reconciled bulk update client requests with the firm’s trading applications by utilizing Excel and SQL to extract client data and perform VLookups and Pivot Tables.
- Created and ran Excel macros to ensure any missing client requests were submitted to the Oversight team in a timely manner to mitigate trade error risk.
- Collaborated with a large team of 15 Oversight Associates to ensure all client requests were quality reviewed and processed to the Portfolio management team in a fast-paced environment in order to meet the daily trading deadline.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Financial Management
Clemson University
Clemson, SC12-2020
Skills
- Risk Management
- Attention to detail
- Excellent time and organizational skills
- Team leadership
- Data analysis
- Interpersonal and client communication
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Microsoft Office
- SQL
- Tableau
- Confluence
Accomplishments
- Department-wide recognition and celebration for the creation of a new network of Oversight and Onboarding training material, procedural guides, and over 50 new account set-up pages tailored to each custodian's nuances and preferences.
- Recognition from upper-management for the demonstration and subject matter expertise of the Oversight process to new and existing high-valued clients.
- Recognized for maintaining over a 99% account quality-assurance accuracy rate for 2022 & 2023.
Timeline
Senior Associate - Oversight Management
Parametric Portfolio Associates
01.2023 - 05.2024
Associate - Oversight Management
Parametric Portfolio Associates
07.2021 - 12.2022
Bachelor of Science - Financial Management
Clemson University
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