Tonya Griffith
TRADE SUPPORT & ANALYSIS
Summary
Focused professional with successful career in financial arena highlighted by hands-on experience within trade processing, trade operations and transaction management. Adept in fast-paced work environments demanding increasing responsibility and solid team leadership; consistently utilize well-honed analytical and problem-solving skills enhanced by high-level organizational and planning abilities
Experience
Trade Ops Analyst
Citibank / Jersey City, NJ
Work daily with clients and internal accounting/operations groups to ensure completion of trade processing on a T+0 basis.
- Review and research daily accrual breaks, cash breaks and position breaks for various clients.
- Manage offshore team on daily process of trades into proprietary applications.
- Process daily corporate actions.
- Documentation of operational policies and procedures.
- Perform month end review of cash, position and accruals reconciliations
Trade Settlement Analyst
Citibank / New York, NY
- Administered timely settlement of trades and provides daily cash and position reconciliation efforts between administrator and custodians.
- Efficiently manage positions being used for Securities Lending purposes. Systematically prepare, format and communicate Blocks and/or Allocations to Brokers and Custodian Banks.
- Served as a liaison to Broker/Dealer on behalf of the Investment Manager and ensure timely Settlement of Domestic Equity, Fixed Income and International Equities.
- Investigated and resolve all exceptions with Banks & Brokers at all points during the life cycle of a trade and handle all failed trade follow up and resolution.
- Monitored Oasys, escalate issues to management and confirm settlement details such as cusip/isin, settlement date, quantity, price, net amount and broker DTC number.
- Facilitated borrow requests, sell, match and settle trades for clients such as Calamos, Victory and Dimensional Fund Advisors.
Security Master Specialist (Geneva Data Management Group)
Globeop Financial Services / New York, NY
Security Master Specialist (Geneva Data Management Group)
- Collaborated with Implementation Group to set up new clients with Advent Geneva system access.
- Posted and maintained corporate action events in Kondor and Geneva.
- Obtained coupon/factor updates from Bloomberg and updated accounting systems.
- Assisted Development Group with the automation of monthly mortgage factors and coupons.
- Maintained daily breaks between trading and accounting systems and ensured all client requests were completed in a timely manner.
Geneva System Test User (Development Group)
- Proficiently provided access to new employees and removed old employees from Geneva and OLAP.
- Liaised between Developers and Security Master Team on Geneva issues.
- Tested new Geneva queries and reported all issues to Development Group.
- Adjusted Index Linked Bonds manually in Geneva to match Bloomberg.
Geneva System Test User (Development Group) 2004-2005
- Proficiently provided access to new employees and removed old employees from Geneva and OLAP.
- Liaised between Developers and Security Master Team on Geneva issues.
- Tested new Geneva queries and reported all issues to Development Group.
- Adjusted Index Linked Bonds manually in Geneva to match Bloomberg.
Education
CUNY
