SUMMARY:

Financial Analysis*Relational ship Management*GAAP Confidential *Fund of Funds*Hybrids Product Management*Client onboarding*Training/coaching Corporate actions*Derivative products

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Roseland, New Jersey

Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Cash Reconciliations, Trade processing, Corporate actions, Calculation of Management fees, Incentive fees, clawbacks. Attention to detail.
• Created a system to identify errors on fund calculations, which allowed for identification of staff in need of extra training, significantly reducing errors.
• Identified funds that were eligible for Hedge Tek and moved them into that process creating less manual work and a higher efficiency with electronic tracking.
• Analyzed bottleneck in delivery time for several large funds. Identified missing and delayed info and created process to deliver information and calculations on time.
• Participated in the Citi Roseland Training committee that has been responsible for setting up of the training curriculum for the entire Confidential operations in the US. Provided CPE credit lectures to Managers and senior staff on the pricing, valuation and behavior of derivative securities such as equity swaps, credit default swaps, futures and forwards, Pass through Mortgage Backed Securities and Collateralized Mortgage Obligations.
• Currently handling an Offshore team of 60 accountants in India. Successfully restructured the team into three functionalized teams. One for Pricing, one for GAV work and one for taking on Feeder funds and other processes. The pricing team now does pricing for all Fund of Funds. The Feeder and NAV process teams have taken on work on all Feeders, HedgeTek allocation work on about 50 funds, K - 1 processing and Financial reporting for some funds.
• The restructuring of the offshore team has helped us increase capacity by 15%, helping us take on more funds and activities without adding to the headcount.
• Helped the offshore teams to map out their processes and get the accesses required for them to do the Cash and portfolio reconciliations on a daily or weekly basis instead of doing the whole work at the end of the month.
• Helped setup Benchmarks and Performance metrics for each team. This helped us decide how much capacity we had to take on existing and new Funds and add new staff when the capacity limit was reached. With the updating of issue logs and weekly reviews of Key Performance Indicators, we are able to help the team identify training issues and reduce error rates in all the client engagements.
• Have helped turn around difficult client relationships by motivating the team to anticipate client needs, respond to issues quickly and take ownership of the relationship. Have the ability to organize PIC calls with clients

Account Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 3 Fund Accountants, responsible for accounting, reporting and audit of 3 Clients with assets of approx $ 104 Mill with investments in Long/short equities, fixed income, distressed debt, CDS, Futures, Forwards and repos.
• Successfully completed the reconciliation and clean-up of a convertible debt arbitrage strategy that had been in arrears for 4 months.
• Responsible for the training of Fund Accountants and helping them in the completion of their packages including allocations, new fund set up and reconciling bank and position reconciliations.
• Was involved in the setting up and running of macros to reconcile trade, positions and bank accounts which helped reduce the NAV month end from four weeks to three.

Supervisor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managing a team of 5 Fund Accountants, responsible for financial analysis, valuation, management, control, accounting and regulatory compliance of 25 mutual and pool fund with investments equities, bonds and derivatives.
• Trained employees on systems issues and on ways to improve their efficiencies. Help accountants understand valuation concepts of various corporate actions such as mergers, spin offs etc. and derivatives such as swaps, options, futures and forwards.
• Lead the efforts to successfully automate processes for trades and pricing, resulting in higher efficiencies and fewer errors. Setup macros and spreadsheets in Excel to improve reconciliation for custody holdings and bank accounts.

Team Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supervised a team of 7 Fund Accountants, responsible for ensuring proper accounting of all Funds including resolution of day-to-day issues.
• Involved in special projects such as Mergers, conversions, and asset transfers, Processing Corporate Actions and prepare financial reports and Income and Capital Gains distributions.
• Have successfully resolved critical client issues through proactive communication and ensured an outstanding level of customer service.

Finance Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Financial management, Administration, Accounting, Audit and Reporting for Confidential.
• Headed a department of 10 Accountants and support staff.
• Improved the Balance sheet and reduced bad debts by introducing superior credit control processes over Government and private customers. Improved profitability by introducing inventory control processes.