Paul Buczynski
Farmingdale,NJ
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Director
Clear Street
New York, NY
09.2022 - Current
- Client Service Relationship Manager for hedge funds, facing off with C-level decision makers, PM's, traders, and Director of Operations
- Daily contact on all interrelated disciplines of prime brokerage: finance, risk, margin, stock lending, and corporate actions
- Provide ongoing input for product development of the Fintech platform related to hedge funds
- Built a net revenue tool across the business to identify top clients, balances, trends, and profitability
- Developed a commission analysis tool
- Cross sold the firm in the areas of derivatives, stock loan, trading capabilities, and repo
- Client onboarding by integrating hedge funds to the Clear Street portal via connectivity for margin, trading, corporate actions, FTP, reporting, and stock loan
Finance
Constellation, part of IQ-EQ, Crestline Summit
New York, NY
10.2019 - 08.2022
- Develop cost savings and create interest earning opportunities by partnering with banks across stock loan, ISDA, and other areas of the financial spectrum with annualized savings of 12bps on $1.3b AUM
- Proactively review margin and financing for accuracy and work with banks to adjust accordingly
- Retooled internal margin model process to launch new hedge fund product
- Evaluate financing set-ups and rate cards to optimize and harmonize across banks
- Review all margin and collateral setups and methodologies to reduce margin and work flows
- Improved middle office processes, trade breaks, and position reconciliations and was able to bring back in house from an outsourced provider resulting in cost savings
- Collaborate with third parties to improve interfaces for margin and financing opportunities
- Expanded the platform capabilities in swaps for international trading and quant
Professional, Prime Brokerage Client Services
Morgan Stanley & Co.
New York, NY
11.2005 - 05.2019
- Involved in all facets of Prime Brokerage, servicing over 50 top tier multi-million dollar global hedge funds, pensions, and endowments
- Managed client relationships that generated over $40 million in revenues for the firm
- Responsible for daily operational aspects by overseeing trade clearing and settlement, financing, house margin, corporate actions, and accounting
- Instrumental in identifying cross selling opportunities within the firm with capital introductions, swaps, stock loan, FX, and execution desks
- Implemented business plans to enhance client/firm relationships and presented consistent updates to senior firm management
- Served as the primary point of contact with all client organizational levels including operations, trading, COO and CFO to insure timely resolution of all inquiries and issues
- Independently responsible for creating efficiencies and reducing risk for firm and clients significantly increasing revenues for both by negotiating financing rates and margin haircuts on a daily basis
- Selected by management to pilot several new technology platforms, specifically cyber security enhancements for the firm's online wires and corporate actions
- Specialized in European and Asian markets as a key support member of the Global Coverage Model
Associate, Prime Brokerage Client Services
Bear Stearns
Brooklyn, NY
04.2003 - 10.2005
Financial Consultant and Investment Associate
Merrill Lynch
Red Bank, NJ
10.1999 - 01.2003
Assistant Broker
CIBC Oppenheimer
New York, NY
04.1998 - 09.1999
Education
Bachelor of Science - Economics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FLTimeline
Director
Clear Street
09.2022 - Current
Finance
Constellation, part of IQ-EQ, Crestline Summit
10.2019 - 08.2022
Professional, Prime Brokerage Client Services
Morgan Stanley & Co.
11.2005 - 05.2019
Associate, Prime Brokerage Client Services
Bear Stearns
04.2003 - 10.2005
Financial Consultant and Investment Associate
Merrill Lynch
10.1999 - 01.2003
Assistant Broker
CIBC Oppenheimer
04.1998 - 09.1999
Bachelor of Science - Economics
Florida State University
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