Financial Analyst Resume
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Chicago, IL
SUMMARY:
- Accounting professional with over ten years of experience in the financial services industry.
- Experience in financial, management and regulatory reporting, analysis and reconciliations.
- Strengths include accuracy, efficiency, attention to detail, strong analytical, organizational and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and as a team member.
- Self - motivated and able to prioritize assignments and multi-task, within restricted time constraints, without sacrificing accuracy.
- Strong personal computer and communication skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- Microsoft Excel, Word, Lotus Notes, XACT/XNET, Hyperion Essbase, Financial Analysis Portal,
- View Direct (Mainframe), Financial Data Manager, Cartesis Magnitude, Webfocus
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Financial Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Assisted management reporting by preparing monthly Customer Segment Reporting for North America.
- Submitted Customer Segment Reporting results to the Head Office in Amsterdam via Cartesis Magnitude.
- Prepared and filed various daily and weekly regulatory reports with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago for two legal entities, LaSalle Bank N.A. and LaSalle Bank Midwest N.A., by compiling data from four different systems.
- Analyzed weekly fluctuations in the regulatory reports and communicated variance explanations to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on a timely basis.
- Compiled and submitted monthly Department of Labor statistical surveys.
- Ran ad-hoc reports for analysis, reporting and documentation using various Financial Applications such as Essbase, Mainframe, Financial Analysis Portal, Financial Data Manager, and Webfocus.
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Accounting Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Compiled data from several different systems and data received manually throughout the corporation and prepared consolidated financial statements, footnotes to financial statements, and other financial statistics tables reported in the SEC Form 10-Q, 10-K and in the Annual Report.
- Contributed to a timely and accurate completion of the Corporation’s Earnings Release and the Annual Report.
- Calculated the Risk Based Capital Ratios for The Northern Trust Company and Northern Trust Corporation and prepared the Risk Based Capital management reports.
- Reconciled to the general ledger or the consolidation report various custom reports utilized in the preparation of the SEC and regulatory reporting schedules. Resolved and explained all differences.
- Acted as an accounting liaison between the Corporate Accounting department and various subsidiaries regarding a successful resolution of various accounting and regulatory reporting issues.
- Implemented various process improvements to streamline manual processes and to prepare financial and regulatory reports more efficiently and accurately.
- Involved in Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) documentation of financial footnotes and of month-end closing processes.
- Trained new employees on various accounting responsibilities.
- Prepared timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual reports filed with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, such as the Call Report, Y-9C, Country Exposure, BC/BL, Y-6 and others adhering to strict deadlines.
- Developed procedures for the preparation of various regulatory reports.
- Analyzed information received from foreign and domestic subsidiaries, for accuracy and completeness, used in the preparation of financial and regulatory reporting and the closing of the books.
- Reviewed work performed by other analysts.
- Performed consolidated month-end closings for the corporation including 73 foreign and domestic subs.
- Prepared and processed accruals and reconciled various general ledger accounts on a monthly basis.
Confidential
Fiduciary Tax Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Prepared seasonal tax products, which included preparation and review of annual income tax statements.
- Reviewed, reconciled and balanced daily exception reports and transaction journals.
- Analyzed and categorized clients’ investment transactions.
- Prepared nonseasonal tax products including amortization/accretion schedules and cost information on new and existing accounts.
- Performed account reviews which included tax codes, sales schedules, etc. to facilitate year end processing.
- Monitored tax cost by lots and calculated tax-cost on sales using various cost methods.