Felix Arturo Garduno Castillo

Educational experience

• UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO U.N.A.M

  Bachelor's degree in Accounting

• UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO U.N.A.M

  Diploma in Finance (240 hours)

• UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO U.N.A.M

  Diploma in business administration (276 hours)

• SAINT-PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY

  Russian Language

• SAINT-PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY

  [Paused] Master's degree in International Trading System

Work experience

• UBS Group (Formerly Credit-Suisse).

  Senior Banking Operations Specialist (Expert). Instrument reference data team. — 1 year 9 months More >

  • Release management: Responsible for gathering, analyzing, tracking, testing, and documenting enhancements to be deployed (golden source for instrument reference data). Acting as the primary point of contact between IT and business production, and several downstream systems worldwide.
  • Reference data analysis: Conducting analysis, based on business requirements, of security and company reference data, optimizing data quality. 1st line of defense of data management framework.
  • Client requests: Ensuring timely, complete, and accurate response on reference data for financial instruments (stocks, bonds, derivatives, etc.), querying tools, data distribution, data model explanations and data feed from providers. This encompassed all processes within downstream systems, from trade execution to the settlement process, and extended to risk and regulatory reporting.
  • Business rules: Developing the specifications based on business requirements considering the data sets, providers, restrictions, sanctions, and the set up in the system.
  • Operational Guidance: As a subject matter expert, providing guidance to operating teams, assisting them in navigating through production issues and finding the proper solutions.
  • Data quality checks: Conducting controls, analyzing their specifications in the system to identify data quality gaps between the data recorded, the data sources, and business needs.
  • Data break investigation: Resulting from feeds from multiple data providers such as SIX Financial, Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Fundinfo, internal sources, etc., and identifying the patterns to implement controls.

• Exante LTD Broker

  Reconciliations Specialist — 1 year 8 months More >

  • Execution of daily controls: Performed daily data checks and reconciliations (trade, transactions, cash, and position) to identify discrepancies and issues across the front-to-back investment lifecycle for various products and asset types, including digital assets, and cryptocurrencies on multiple exchanges.
  • Provided trading support to front and middle office (data analysis, reports ad-hoc, breaks, exceptions).
  • Issue investigation and reporting: Investigated, tracked, and resolved trade and data source issues, addressing the findings with counterparties, data providers and stakeholders when needed.
  • Internal client liaison: Collaborated with a broad network of internal clients, including trading desk, developers, product owners, business intelligence, treasury, finance, and client support.
  • Monthly reports: Stamp-duty and Levy fee data figures. Preparation and validation of crypto PnL figures.
  • Process design and testing: Designed and tested processes in collaboration with IT teams to reduce risks associated with manual steps implementing trending technology in an Agile environment.
  • Others: Audit assistance. Issue documenting. Jira and Kanban boards tools. Finding script malfunctions

• Columbus Asesores Independientes (Andbank Mexico)

  Investment operations supervisor. — 6 years 1 month More >

  • Responsible for the in-house system: data displayed and operational workflow. Managed the internal system with day-to-day back and middle office functions, including trade confirmation, trade capture (equity, fixed income, mutual funds, FX, and others), market data updating, and the setup and maintenance of securities, including corporate actions and their validations.
  • Project management: Led a project to implement a new system environment for specific customer-fiduciaries. I moved to another country; remote work was approved based on reliability.
  • Analysis and resolution of operational issues: Investigations throughout the entire trade cycle. Discrepancies involving more than 15 banks. Identifying the root-cause to prevent operational risk.
  • IT team collaboration: Worked closely with IT to enhance and automate processes, including testing prior releases onto production. Software Automate implemented for end of day duties and others.
  • Reconciliation and validation: Oversaw the data accuracy over reconciliation of balances, positions (reducing drastically steps and time), and trades, as well as the validation of corporate actions (coupon payments, dividends, and tax withholdings) to identify and track internal/external errors. Redesigned the valuation and pricing process for private funds in collaboration with Allianz Insurance Co.
  • Investment operations: Managed investments in repurchase agreements on custody platforms, including confirmation and settlement. Also responsible for processing end-of-day/month duties such as daily uploading of valuation prices from official providers.

• UBS Group

  Trade processing specialist. Wealth management team. —  10 months More >

  • Responsible for setting up local/foreign securities. Provided timely and accurate responses to internal client queries related to the set up and trade life cycle. Corporate actions and tax calculations.
  • Provided support for the wealth management system, including trade capture on a-daily-basis, handling trade discrepancies, and conducting post-trade reconciliations to ensure data quality.
  • Reporting: Calculated critical figures such as P&L, NAV, AuMs, monthly fees generated per team, and sending to the headquarters in CH.
  • Acted as a liaison between front & middle office, finance, bankers, and IT regarding the system data.
  • Redesigned workflows to enhance and automate manual processes in alignment with business requirements from the internal stakeholders. Generation of reports based on business requirements.
  • Participated in the development of the wealth management platform (PM1e) with the Swiss IT team

• JP Morgan Chase

  Analyst. Private banking operations —  8 months More >

  • Private banking segment support by performing operational tasks such as executing and tracking cash & asset movements, settlements, mutual fund confirmations with counterparties, processing market data, and monitoring asset transfers between custodians.
  • Project management: Executed small projects aimed at migrating from OPICS to LUMINA systems, including all testing activities prior release.
  • Regulatory reporting: Contributed mapping the data for delivering regulatory reports (mutual funds).
  • Control and compliance: Assumed responsibility for conducting control checks of the account statements, including clean/dirty price calculations, valuations, unit costs, taxes, and dividends.
  • Managed securities setup, corporate actions, and custody control (safekeeping).

• Citigroup - Citibanamex Casa de bolsa

  Analyst. Mutual funds operations — 1 year 5 months More >

  • Valuation and pricing of mutual fund shares (55 mutual funds).
  • Processed daily trades, inflow/outflow transactions, liabilities provisioning, and executed reconciliations within the internal system to ensure quality service and data.
  • Validation of corporate actions: dividends, coupon payments, redemptions, maturities including their tax withholdings. W8-BEN tracking and application. Sending regulatory reports for mutual funds.

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