PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Sr. Financial Planning Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed analysis of financial key performance indicators (KPI), making predictions and advising the business partners by telling the story backed by the numbers including commentary on variance for budget owners.
• Performed regular monthly closing including accrual, amortization, intercompany transfers, reporting of financial performance, cash flow reporting, FTE analysis and data reconciliation for a global company.
• Served as financial business partner to the organization and business decision support for executive leadership n changing key drivers and trends business requirements for LT forecast and budgeting business models.
• Analyzed reviewed reconciled and consolidated submitted financial data as a part of each monthly close cycle.
• Provided weekly sales and expense data to management to make business decisions regarding productivity, planning support for new business and as value add business decision support
• Build and maintained business tool models to help management to make decisions also prepared ad hoc analysis as needed to support business objectives and support annual budget and monthly forecast updates.
• Served as a subject matter expert (SME) by providing in - depth analysis, monthly financial highlights including accuracy of financial results performance reporting scorecard decks and metrics driver s reports.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Sr. Financial Planning Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated in month - end close, preparing journal entry account reconciliation, variance analysis, providing business units with financial commentary and financial trends for month end results.
• Responsible for financial /statistical modeling to ability work with large amount of data from various source and provided management with business reporting and dashboard needs.
• Utilized Hyperion Essbase to drill down activities and provided financial analysis on income statement, balance sheet items, and researched responses to inquiries from management and supporting units.
• Maintained business partner relationship with corporate executives on behalf of FP&A to facilitate effective information and shared planning process made monthly calls to functional controllers for follow up.
• Owned all aspects of corporate forecast, monthly reporting, financial planning operating expenses and capital expenses quarterly adjusted EBITDA.
• Done UA Testing of Oracle general ledger structure, cost center maintenance, chart of accounts hierarchiescontributed to reengineer the reporting structure including system integration and implementation.
• Reconciled inter-company accounts, managed capital accruals pre-paid accounts and fixed assets capitalization for a global company.

Confidential, Wellesley, MA

Sr. Accountant / Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Delivered accurate and timely financial information, analyzing and reporting activities using Oracle ledger system and Hyperion Essbase for US GAAP, IFRS and NAIC Statutory accounting basis.
• Prepared supporting investment schedules for the NAIC reporting requirement, including AVR and IMR calculations, general interrogatories, impairment, assets, liability, analyzed AUM, IBNR, surplus, statement of income, cash flow and special deposits for seven legal entities and three separate accounts.
• Filed timely and accurate statutory quarterly and annual statements, as well as all related filing of supplemental reports and financial statement analysis.
• Developed deep understanding of accounting policies, systems and controls to ensure the accuracy of the reported financial information and consistency with governing accounting and legal rules, pronouncements and regulations of global risk management compliance. (i.e. Basel III, OFAC Compliance, Dodd - Frank Act & SSAP)

Confidential, Boston, MA

Sr. Accountant / Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Executed the month - end close process by posting general ledger journal entries in accordance with GAAP & NAIC statutory reporting, including impairment calculations.
• Compiled and input monthly and quarterly investment journal entries for statutory GAAP, prepared supporting schedules for statutory fillings, and reconciled custodian holding balances.
• On a monthly and quarterly basis, prepared and reviewed reconciliations and schedules and analyzed other than temporary impairment (OTTI) analysis for investments activity to suggest impairment recommendations.
• Prepared financial statements according to SOP 98 -1 Capitalization rules for deferring technology cost and ORI.
• Provided the analysis needed for customized benchmark solutions and forecasting of investment revenue characteristics, various attributes including product growth, premiums, tax and return.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Sr. Accountant / Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Accountable to ensure the accuracy of all financial information relating to Canadian GAAP, US GAAP and NAIC - Statutory basis legal entity reporting using Oracle ledger system and Hyperion Essbase.
• Ensured that there were adequate accounting model procedures and controls in place to extract financial information by interacting and communicating with various business unit partners.
• Reconciled separate accounts to general ledger and researched and resolved issues with business units.
• Maintained security lending, overnight short term investment, reinsurance exposures, derivatives contracts reserves, accrued expenses, premium, tax accounting.
• Responsible for the analysis of financial results, cash-flow, separate account review verification in balance sheet, auditing of financial statements and 10Q, 10K and NAIC footnotes for Investments and SEC reporting rule / requirements relevant to insurance industry.
• Contributed to quarterly analytics review package and dashboards to each product and market, system upgrades, changes in reporting requirements and corporate driven initiatives.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Sr. Accountant / Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the timely and accurate preparation of statutory financial statements including Schedule D, monthly, quarterly and annually as required by NAIC format and regulatory agencies.
• Partnered with department heads to develop and design strategic goals, objectives, budgets, forecastsPerformed financial modeling to facilitate investment decisions and profitability analysis.
• Analyzed investment activity to suggest impairment recommendations to management, worked in a fast paced, challenging and collaborative team environment with multiple and competing priorities.
• Coordinated year - end audit functions with back-up schedules and investment work papers for DOI examinations.
• Assisted with the implementation of internal controls and detailed specifications for a new business processes were employed to ensure compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Function as key business partner with trading, portfolio management, risk management, security lending operations, corporate treasury, reinsurance operation, collateral management and cash management.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the monthly reporting posting of all journal entries, inter - company transactions, Inter-company elimination entries and analysis of various expense centers; also performed all monthly closing procedures.
• Maintained a strong working knowledge of GAAP in areas lease, fixed assets, and financial statement disclosures.
• Prepared reconciliation schedules for all balance sheet and profit and loss accounts to assist auditors.
• Performed special projects to improve efficiency, effectiveness and accuracy of financial reporting, and testing; reengineer transaction processing, implemented new applications and upgraded of existing applications.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Fund Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as liaison to the investment team, trading desk, trade settlement, cash forecasting, cash & share reconciliations, collateral movements, corporate actions, AUM calculations and general ledger reconciliations.
• Ensured that trades were in compliance with the investment mandates and restrictions and filled all financial reporting surveys, recommended fund income and gain distributions.
• Reviewed board materials, financial reporting changes and other policies and procedures of funds, participated in the resolution of client issues, fund expense analyses and recommended adjustments.