MARSHA S.

LINDSAY
16 Henry St 3rd Fl.
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
(201) 290-7732
ml10f8a8a@westpost.net
EDUCATION
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Masters in Finance Graduation January 2011
Undergraduate: Graduated May 2009 Magna Cum Laude
Albert Dorman Honors College, BS in Business; Conc. in Finance and International
Business
Study Abroad: Hong Kong University Fall 2008
PROFESSIONAL
Prudential Financial Newark, NJ
Fixed Income Management Operations Rotational Training Program
Investment Associate
Operating Risk 11/10-Present
*Ensure that all functions have appropriate and effective controls around their
business processes
*Anticipate potential risk from new products, process, and regulations.
*Identify, communicate, and mitigate business risks by monitoring control issues
and action plan status; increasing risk awareness; and communicating with corpo
rate counterparts as appropriate
*Act as business liaison on all matters relating to Internal and external audits
*Assist in the implementation and write up of the operational risk framework
*Perform quality control testing of business processes
*Manage various projects and policy that are essential to Prudential Fixed Incom
e
Trade Operations 02/10-11/10
*Verbally and electronically confirmed domestic long/short term trades, Tri-part
y Repo's, interest rates and credit default swaps with counterparties
*Ensured proper delivery of trade information to custodian banks, accounting age
nts, broker/dealers and other downstream areas
*Communicated trade discrepancies to the trading desk to prevent trades from fai
ling
*Resolved trade discrepancies with the trading desk, broker/dealers and/or clien
ts to ensure trade timely settlement
*Proactively managed settlement of trades through usage of TradeSuite or other e
quivalent platform prior to settlement date
*Prepared daily and monthly management information reports
*Completed the Tri-Party Collateral Reports daily that ensures that all Collater
al are received for the overnight REPO's
*Completed the Net money report to ensure that the custodian banks receive all t
rade tickets
*Ran and completed trade suite S report, S-1 report, and S-2 report
*Verified the accuracy of DTC confirms by validating how Prudential trades were
executed
*Trained new staff
Custody Operation 07/09-02/10
*Provided PFIM Portfolio Managers with the daily investable cash balance
*Gathered cash flows from various sources and forecast to the Trade desk
*Input failing trade information for actual/contractual accounts
*Responded in a timely manner to all inquiries from the trade desk and other bus
iness partner
*Researched and resolved any cash differences between our Aladdin system and the
custodian
*Communicated daily with custodian banks to compare and validate account transac
tions and activity reflected in our Aladdin system versus the custodian bank sta
tement.
*Prepared daily and monthly management information reports:
o Ran auto-publish report and analyze to compare various trends
o Created and sent out the segregated collateral reports for mutual fund
*Ensured that all custody positions in Prudential Aladdin's trade system have be
en verified and confirmed with the official books and records maintained by the
Prudential Investment Accounting Group or the custodian bank.
*Worked on various projects presenting improvements/suggestions to upper managem
ents - projects to improve the fail process within Prudential Fixed Income
Accomplishments
Created a excel file that map settlement instructions by broker, product and des
k and was able to automatically default settlement instructions. As a result, it
improved the confirmation process and subsequently reduced the amount of domest
ic fails.
Enhanced the Tri-Party collateral process by requesting that the custodian banks
send collateral reports to the team via emails instead of by faxes. This saved
the company significant time on gathering reports and enhancing efficiency by 25
%.
Created a database with Microsoft access to find out if the trade suite process
currently in place was working as expected - this database confirmed its effecti
veness in extensively reducing the risk of trade sales discrepancies and mitigat
ing potential damages, enabling greater reliance by management.
INTERNSHIPS
Prudential Financial
Summer Intern - Performance Reporting Group 06/08 - 08/08
*Conducted financial research and developed a presentation on the credit crisis
for the Performance Reporting group
*Reconciled portfolios to ensure GIPS compliance for the company's annual audit
and entered cash flow for combined portfolios
*Reviewed returns for reasonability and prepared monthly packages that are SEC c
ompliant
*Used Bloomberg and Aladdin to obtain information on Securities and Portfolios
LEADERSHIP
Young Alumni Steering Committee(YAC), Member
Management Leaders of Tomorrow (MLT), Career Preparation Fellow
Society for Advancement of Management (SAM), Executive Board Member
Goldman Sachs Undergraduate Diversity Summit, Participant
Albert Dorman Honors College Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Program, Mentor
Caribbean Student Organization (Caribso), Community Service Chair
SKILLS
MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Excel, Access) Omgeo TradeSuite, Al
addin, Bloomberg
AWARDS
Beta Gamma Sigma, Phi Eta Sigma, Academic Achievement Award, Ford/UNCF Corporate
Scholar, Leadership Award, SOM Community Service Award, National Honors Spanish
Society, Blue and Gold Scholarship, Daniel J. Carroll '65 '70 Scholarship, Robe
rt Schwarzwalder Scholarship, Simionescu Scholarship Grant, Excellence Award, Be
st All-Rounder Member of SAM, Joseph Bailey Scholarship, Albert Dorman Honors Sc
holarship, and Peg and Clyde Staley Scholarship