Consultant Resume
Professional Profile
Experienced and versatile financial services auditor and consultant. Accustomed to fast-paced, high-demand work environments. Strong organizational and interpersonal skills. Responsible and diligent with keen abilities to interact with customers, clients and staff members at various levels.
IT Skills
SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Hyperion, Microsoft Office, Engagement Manager, GoAudit, Great Plains
Career Highlights
- Assisted in transitioning accounting group to a new general ledger system.
- Prepared and reviewed monthly journal entries and worked on monthly accruals and bank reconciliations.
- Documented monthly procedures for General Ledger group and assisted in review of yearly financial statements.
- Completed cash and general ledger reconciliations and assisted in daily net capital and the weekly reserve computation.
- Prepared monthly closes, cash and bank reconciliations and prepared and assisted in the filing of annual 10K.
- Researched accounting issues and wrote reports on those findings for the assistant controller.
- Compiled invoices for auditors and assisted in the daily net capital and the weekly reserve computation.
- Ensured employees completed required training courses.
- Performed audits of hedge funds and broker/dealer companies and hedge funds.
- Met with managers and partners to discuss budgets and budget variances.
- Reviewed operating budgets periodically and analyzed trends affecting department’s budget needs.
- Attended management meetings to verify analysis reports and prepared a list of monthly accruals for all departments.
- Gathered and analyzed balances and variances for weekly Customer Reserve computation in compliance with SEC Rule 15c3-3.
- Prepared and analyzed the monthly Operational Net Capital computation in compliance with SEC Rule 15c3-1.
- Researched and analyzed variances in bank overdrafts, money market transactions, dividends, firm trading range and fails.
- Prepared various schedules including debt obligation, fund changes, troubled debt etc. that kept the department informed of important changes that impacted the financial statement process.
- Prepared financial statements and SEC filings (NSARS, prospectuses & SAIs, proxys, etc.) for a variety of funds (i.e. domestic, international, balanced, asset allocation, etc.)
- Prepared audit documents, financial statements, related footnote disclosures and various special reports, such as internal control reports that identified weaknesses in internal controls and recommended corrective actions.
- Performed audit procedures specific to SEC companies, including regulatory filings and quarterly reviews.
- Audited Broker/Dealer and Asset Management Companies i.e. Fidelity Investments, Keystone Financial, Bank Boston.
Employment History
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Senior Accountant, Confidential
Consultant, ConfidentialConsultant, Confidential Consultant, ConfidentialSenior Auditor, Confidential
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Senior Auditor, Confidential
Consultant, Confidential
Senior Analyst, ConfidentialSenior Regulatory Analyst, ConfidentialFinancial Reporting Analyst, ConfidentialAuditor, Confidential
Education
Master in Business Administration
Bachelor in Business Administration - Accounting Concentration
