Financial Control Analyst Resume Florham Park, NJ - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

I am an experienced Business Analysis specialist that is committed to innovation and continuous improvement with over seven years of collaborating with IT to establish the technical vision.
Developed and maintained internal financial controls to provide ongoing financial reporting integrity and risk mitigation.
Acted as a liaison between end users and technology team by providing scenarios and documentation review sessions.
Track record of experience working in the areas of Trade Desk, Retirement Services, Trading & Accounting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Office Suite (Access, Excel (Advanced/Macros, Pivot Tables, and VLookups), PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook), SQL, Project, Lotus, SharePoint, Fund/Serv, Confidential Payroll, Morningstar, Rumba, OMNI, Salesforce, Constant Contact, Web Content (Producing), Social Media, Adobe, and Java (Product Life Cycle)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Florham Park, NJ

Financial Control Analyst

Responsibilities:

Served as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the development team through which requirements flow.
Collaborated with technical architects and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
Reviewed daily NAV’s (Net Asset Value) calculations performed by external service provider against broader market indicators and other key areas of daily fund operations to ensure accuracy and compliance with procedures.
Monitored and reviewed Confidential ’S trade desk payouts ($50 million to $500 million) were accurately traded on a daily basis.
Performed quality and control checks on a daily, weekly and quarterly basis to ensure the team operated within defined policies and procedures in line with regulatory and financial security requirements.
Resolved outstanding issues, reviewed mutual fund accruals (over 5,500/equity, swaps, stocks, fixed income and money market) fixed assets including account analysis, schedules and reconciliations.
Improved profitability by 35% through re-designing and implementing web-based applications.
Created and designed duplicate trade finder report to monitor any duplicate trade entries from any analyst, which prevented the company from losing $10 million.
Trained junior to off-shoring personnel and provided updates for weekend disaster recovery releases.

Associate Financial Control Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Collected and interpreted business requirements, and participated in the development and review of processes and procedures, workflow analytics, and reporting.
Assisted in obtaining and identifying the business requirements needed to carry out and improve applicable business processes.
Translated business needs, processes and/or procedures by partnering with applicable experts and business stakeholders to determine and articulate needs.
Partnered with Operations departments and middle office colleagues (traders, external broker dealers, banks, and agents) by researching, resolving, and reconciling cash and share differences.
Directed and managed project development from beginning to end utilizing project management disciplines (SDLC).
Defined project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
Comprehended and developed client portfolios including the pricing, trade capture, trade flows, and reconciliation of all financial products and technology platforms.
Traded funds throughout the trade lifecycle from pricing/trade capture through to settlement and accounting across all major asset classes including equities, fixed income, multi-asset and money market funds.

Reconciliation Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Reviewed, monitored and took action against daily failed reports and daily break items or variances within reconciliation spreadsheets.

Confidential

Document Control Specialist

Responsibilities:

Developed and managed a proactive process that crystallized client documentation in regards to account opening and reconciliation in order to monitor proper archiving.
Processed alternative investment assets in the form of real estate (refinance loans) held by institutional investors or accredited high-net-worth individuals that used those assets to purchase real estate.
Evaluated pre-account openings (ensured account opening documents were complete and accurate before client goes “live”) and post-account openings (ensured all documents, including product agreements, were properly archived and categorized).