SUMMARY:

• A highly trusted, goal - oriented Finance Professional with 10 years of experience whose confidence, perseverance and vision promote success.
• Unique ability to partner with clients to ensure complete satisfaction.
• Knowledgeable and experienced analyst/manager able to organize complex projects, define priorities and accomplish tasks accurately in pressure situations.
• Self-motivated, assertive, timely, professional, organized, accurate and efficient.

CORE SKILLS:

• Portfolio Account/Asset Management Client Relations/Retention Investment Strategies
• Financial Modeling/Forecasting Business Partnerships Business Planning
• Stock /Fund Trading Capital Market Research/Analysis Problem Solving
• Team Development Financial Reporting Regulatory Assurance
• Project Management High-Level Transaction Management Accounting

EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND:

Confidential, Baltimore, MD 

Deputy Chief

• Management of the City’s investment portfolio ensuring the investment policy is strictly adhered to, and that City funds are invested in a prudent manner that seeks safety of principal along with maximization of investment return.
• Responsible for the day-to-day cash management of City funds ensuring all expenditures are paid accurately, on time, and that excess cash balances are properly invested.
• Play critical role in the bond issuance process of new City debt and refunding of existing debt.
• Manage existing debt, ensuring principal and interest payments are made on a timely basis.
• Evaluate loan requests seeking City support for projects that enhance the local community and promote strong economic growth.
• Form and foster relationships with internal partners, the City's investment brokers, financial advisors, legal consultants, local business leaders, bond underwriters, community leaders and other stakeholders.

Senior Financial Analyst 

• Effectively administer Synthetic GIC contracts, performing financial analysis, contract review, and contract administration.
• Thoroughly perform underwriting analysis, reviewing contract characteristics, portfolio statistics, cash flow analysis, and demographic analysis.
• Accurately perform transaction processing and account maintenance.
• Ensure accurate contract crediting rate resets and financial transactions result in correct book value.
• Thoroughly analyze transactions and portfolio data.
• Review contract portfolios holdings for compliance standards and exception analysis.
• Review contract data with a focus on risk mitigation.
• Collect and analyze monthly and quarterly portfolio performance data from Investment Managers.
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with Investment Managers.

Analyst

• Effectively handle the settlement of OTC derivatives trades, post-booking of credit default swaps and interest rate swaps.
• Carefully verify trades are booked correctly with correct interest rates, fees, cash flow amounts and other security attributes.
• Thoroughly research and prepare comprehensive reports and analysis.
• Develop strong business partnerships with trader assistants and other investment professionals to resolve issues and develop processes to improve the settlement process.
• Draw on extensive experience in finance to conduct research on subjects such cash flow discrepancy resolution, compliance, and reconciliation.
• Thoroughly research and identify settlement issues, resolve fails, and control risk, additionally correct routine accounting and reporting problems.
• Accurately post daily credit and debit entries to ledger accounts ensuring full regulatory compliance.
• Promptly submit wire requests with intermediary banks, ensuring accuracy and the highest degree of due diligence.
• Utilize financial skills to apply appropriate corporate financial policies while performing my job functions.
• Train and coach new employees on department policies and procedures on an on-going basis.

Portfolio Accountant

• Effectively managed 35 domestic and international accounts with assets in excess of $50M each, ensuring accuracy and completeness of transactions and holdings. Securities held in account load included fixed income products, stocks, options, credit and interest rate swaps and foreign exchange positions.
• Skillfully reviewed and maintained data for client accounts through accounting, record keeping, reporting, auditing and reconciliation, consistently meeting all customer needs and regulatory expectations.
• Accurately accounted for TRP customer assets with the highest degree of accuracy and integrity.
• Proactively identified and resolved any discrepancies as part of a checks and balance process to reduce financial risks and avoid not meeting all customer and regulatory expectations.
• Continually pitched in assisting other associates with workflow forecasting to ensure proper coverage of account workload.
• Energetically developed professional working partnerships with traders and other investment personnel to resolve issues and develop processes to improve the portfolio accounting and settlement processes.
• Lent expertise for settlement of credit default swaps and interest rate swaps ensuring accuracy in interest payments, cash flows, security details.
• Carefully monitored futures accounts to ensure proper accounting, margin account requirements were met, and adequate collateral was pledged.
• Diligently posted transactions including security trades, subscriptions, redemptions, foreign exchange and adjustments.
• Took initiative to review client accounts to verify security holdings and trades matched corresponding bank holdings.
• Hand selected to take the lead on projects aimed at increasing productivity and reducing risks.
• Profitably managed cash in account load ensuring it was properly accounted for and invested in suitable short-term securities.

Supervisor

• Selected talent, effectively led, developed and coached a team of 14 representatives that consistently met department quality and productivity standards by enhancing skill sets and retaining associates.
• Accountable and held team to account for ensuring proper procedures were established and followed to protect shareowner information and shareowner investments.
• Successfully lead business projects involving workflow analysis, system enhancements and policy/procedure improvements that increased department quality, productivity and efficiencies.
• Adeptly managed workflow by prioritizing all work items and assigning to individual skill sets within the team to ensure NASD pricing guidelines were met and shareholder transactions were completed within the designated timeframe.
• Attentively developed and monitored key metrics to measure department performance in regards to quality and productivity.
• Constantly took initiative to improve department performance, including system enhancements, process and procedures improvements, and development of training programs.
• Conscientiously monitored workflow to ensure daily workloads were completed by team accurately and on time.

Quality Specialist

• Provided immediate and accurate feedback to representatives regarding errors in line with the established policies.
• Key contributor in assisting with new hire training, developing outlines and manuals, scheduling and conducting training classes, participating on other quality-related tasks and coaching associates.
• Conducted quality review of retail accounts, brokerage accounts, asset transfers, retirement transaction requests, advisory and correspondence

Owner/Operator

Responsibilities:

• Created realistic business plan, established corporation, opened and successfully operated profitable franchise.
• Professionally performed all personnel functions including hiring, training, supervising and motivating employees.
• Skillfully managed inventory and staffing implementing best practices cost controls.
• Expertly prepared financial statements and forecasts, and developed marketing strategies to achieve business goals.