Sean Manning

Experience

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  Goldman Sachs

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2014

  Called upon by senior leadership to execute and complete multiple corporate strategic initiatives including:Order Management System (OMS) bypass and automation – Collaborated with technology and FIX connectivity teams on concept, design, and implementation of a system adaptation, enabling existing OMS to receive trading instructions via FIX and automatically transmit to Execution Management System (EMS) for trading. Task complexity was evidenced by absorption of instructions including Max Participation Rate, Benchmark, Trading Urgency and Relative Price Limits for time and volume orders and was scalable across entire client base.Implementation of identical OMS on supplementary sales server for Load Balance on heavy volume trading events: Strategized with technology team, from concept to execution, the refurbishment of an additional OMS, replicating daily functionality to ensure trade flow was load balanced without overloading sales servers. Resulted in timeliness of trade reporting and efficiency in booking, while mitigating system latency and effective coordination of trade flow on large rebalance events such as month end, SPX quarterly and Russell rebalance.Streamlining and simplification of global Execution Management System/Broker Onboarding: Worked with technology, compliance, legal and operations teams to onboard local brokers in Mexico, Chile and Peru as a trade routing destination. Eliminated paper tickets, centralized all trading in the Americas while retiring disparate legacy systems. Technology was scalable for whole trading floor. Show less Provided strategic daily direction for a team of 4 middle office professionals in operational coverage of Macro Sales client base across global markets. Supervised all aspects of operations and served as desk liaison for US and International program trading sales, trade support, client middle office, compliance, legal, technology, controllers, credit and other internal divisions. Performed daily commission, profitability and attribution reconciliations. Built strong stakeholder relationships and personally managed operations for top equity institutional clients.Introduced improvements to workflow processing enhancing efficiency, and improving timeliness and straight through processing.Identified and managed potential risk, and implemented best practices; instituted appropriate reporting measures to successfully mitigate risk for New York, Tokyo and London offices.Joined forces with technology team to ensure FIX connectivity and onboarding setup for Macro Sales client base; conducted quality assurance to verify that all documentation was in place; authorized initial trading.Confirmed and posted trade reporting to client upon execution of orders; created bespoke execution reports based on client specifications; set up Indication of Interest (IOI) report, automation and distribution to clients; circulated report data for daily domestic and international flow. Show less

  • Project Manager - Macro Sales Trading Desk

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2014

  • Primary Operations Administrator - Macro Sales Trading Desk

    Jan 2000 - Jan 2012
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  Goldman Sachs

  Mar 2014 - Jul 2019

  Vice President Macro Sales Global Portfolio Trading

  Primary relationship manager and provider of execution coverage across macro sales product suite for global equity activity, servicing institutional clients in the Americas, London and Asia. Coordinate error trade processing, ensuring proper trade out, reconciliation, and assignment of profit and loss. Tasked with risk mitigation on all open orders, assuring trades are properly routed in accordance with market cut-offs.Build annual personal sales attribution, currently ranging from $7.0M - $10.0M/year; traded over 3.5K baskets in fiscal year 2017, ranking #2 of 9 with notional value in excess of $21.0B.Selected as primary coverage for major complex client that requested propagation of FX rates via Financial Information Exchange (FIX) from an internal Order Management System not supported as part of the suite of products; collaborated with technology department on a systemic upgrade to successfully fulfill client demand and accomplish straight through processing. Show less

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  JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  Oct 2020 - now

  Vice President Business Control Manager Volatility Trading