OBJECTIVE:

A self - motivated, diligent individual with over 18 years of experience in Mutual Fund/Portfolio\Financial Accounting, implementation, business analysis, Corporate Action, Administration, Compliance, Internal Audit, Financial Reporting, Performance, Treasury, Mid-and/or back-office operations, system development and IMS (information management solutions). Perform a wide range of specialized functions using independent judgment to complete complex duties. Able to manage time productively, handle multiple projects simultaneously, and perform well under pressure. Dependable and goal oriented with a strong educational background. Meet challenges with persistence and commitment to excellence.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Oaks,PA

Sr. Business Analyst

• Responsible for overnight client daily CRM files and multiple accounting systems data (Investier, Investran and NTAS) files to Investor Insight (KYC) data warehouse.
• Gathered new business requirement/enhancement for Investor Insight Application from the business.
• Analyzed requirements and its impact for data modeling, UI and ETL processes.
• Maintained business documentation and production issue tickets in Confluence and JIRA system.
• Opening new project/production tickets in JIRA and assigning to business analysts, developers and QA team.
• Responsible for analyzing production issues, data validation and reconciliation.
• Verified for FATCA Investor data inflows from Investor Insight application to Comply Exchange Application.
• Uploaded missing FATCA Investor data to Comply Exchange.

Confidential,Menominee Falls, WI

Business System Consultant

• Supported daily compliance and risk reporting for overnight data inflows and outflows to/from accounting systems to Investment Repository Database.
• Responsible for monthly reporting, data integrity and validation of all import jobs completed.
• Involved in defining requirements, functional specifications, enhancement and testing strategies.
• Manage the change management for enhancements, UI testing and communicate effectively with diverse users of the system to convey various change deployment schedules, priorities and project related information.
• Run SQL queries from multiple databases (data warehouse) for research, data integrity, validation and provide adhoc reports to investment, accounting, risk and compliance groups.
• Provided operational support for the month end close activities.

Confidential,Milwaukee,WI

Business Analyst

• Responsible for data inflows and outflows to/from data warehouse, schedules, message streams, exporters and uploaders.
• Maintain code value tables, business calendar, sources, feed and schemas for exporters and client reporting.
• User management, Product Groups, User Roles, User Groups, Eagle STAR fund accounting system, Eagle PACE (Data Warehouse) and support.
• Functional knowledge in fixed income, corporate action, equities, futures, option, derivatives, swaps, mutual fund, and FX.
• Researched on issues related to corporate actions and interacted with custodian and fund accounting teams.
• Configure and schedule daily, monthly and quarterly client reporting/advance reporting for clients AIS Inbox portal.
• Work with rating agencies ( Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and Confidential ) for delivering holdings data as scheduled.
• Involved in setting up new ftp connections for clients.
• Use TOAD to run SQL queries from Eagle PACE (data warehouse) for research and provide adhoc reports to fund administration, fund accounting, compliance and clients.
• Research and resolve reporting issue, securities reference issues in the Eagle STAR/Eagle PACE system.
• Review daily batches for uploaders and exporters, in case if the batch fails, then re-run the batch.
• Interact and conduct quarterly and annually audits.
• Convert mutual fund portfolios from Portia CPORT system to Eagle Star Investment system.
• Participate in internal meetings as well as with vendor, quality assurance and IT department to review current issues, upgrades, and enhancement within the Eagle Star mutual fund accounting system.
• Track and maintain system issues on daily basis in Issue Trak database.

Confidential

Sr. Financial Reporting Specialist

• Reviewed and prepared quarterly, semi-annual and annual consolidated financial statements for hedge funds, joint venture, exchange funds and private equity partnership funds.
• Reviewed and consolidate draft comments for accuracy.
• Prepared quarterly, semi-annual and annul balance sheet, cash flows, financial analysis & highlights.
• Prepared financial statements, including footnotes, for the quarterly reports on Form 10-Q in connection with filings with the SEC.
• Provided support to internal and external auditors’ requests.

Confidential,Boston

Business Analyst /Implementation

• Responsibilities included day-to-day support and trouble shooting of user and application problems within mutual fund accounting software (Multifonds).
• Provided functional and technical expertise within an assigned business area, in the analysis, design, development and implementation of business processes and applications.
• Analyzed business requirements (BRD and FRD) for multifunctional projects to provide the best solution for business needs.
• Manage RFC (Request for Change) projects from start to finish, complying with Oracle internal RFC lifecycle process for significant projects.
• Track all outstanding work through either the production ticket system or the change management model on a weekly basis.
• Interacted with clients in resolving issues related to development, training, user documentation and support.

Confidential, Boston

Sr. Fund Administrator

• Worked on Morgan Stanley Institutional fund of hedge fund (1940 act), MS Insurance dedicated fund of hedge fund (non-1940 act), Confidential real estate funds.
• Prepared daily, monthly and quarterly compliance for MS Hedge funds using PPM (private placement memorandum) matrix in accordance with IRS and SEC requirements.
• Prepared shareholder reports (schedule of investments, statement of assets and liabilities, statement of operations, statement of changes in net assets, statement of cash flows, financial highlights and notes to financial statements) in accordance with GAAP, SEC and regulation S-X checklists under Investment company act of 1940 and the securities act of 1933.
• Prepared monthly highlight estimates/actual for limited partner and general partner as per their alternative strategy allocation distributions.
• Prepared quarterly, semi-annual and annual financial statements.
• Coordinated all deliverables and activities of the group and ensured client satisfaction with all deliverables. Interacted with clients and fund accounting for inquiries.
• Prepared N-SAR, form N-Q and 24f-2 filings and submitted to SEC using EDGAR application.
• Performed expense analysis, prospectus compliance and prepared mutual fund surveys.
• Reviewed daily accounting information for accuracy and tolerance of price, yield, distributions and prospectus compliance.
• Used GCOM database for POI and statements.
• Submitted financial statements on Form N-CSR of the Sarbines Oxley Act of 2002 required under Sections of 302 and 906.
• Received Anti-Money Laundering awareness training 2005 and got exposure to Bank Secrecy Act, US Patriot Act and privacy.

Confidential,Boston

Sr. Fund Accountant

• Checked net asset value for 40 Act funds, Hedge Funds, Commingled funds, Common trust funds, Money market funds and reviewed the checklist to make sure that all steps have been performed accurately.
• Investigated financial problems and developed practical solutions according to generally accepted methods.
• Analyzed income, dividend, corporate actions and interest.
• Checked fund NAV’s for accuracy on daily basis and send reports to NASDAQ and BISYS.
• Reviewed SEC yield analysis on daily basis to check the performance of security.
• Financial knowledge in fixed income, equities, futures, option, derivatives, swaps, mutual fund, corporate actions and FX.
• Assemble and ensure the integrity of monthly performance data for portfolios.
• Produce weekly asset and cash performance reports for senior management.
• Conducted SAS 70 annually audit and provide assistance to auditors to get the audit done.
• Involved in special projects in developing and documenting operations policies and new procedures.
• Supervised 4 fund accountants and held lead responsibilities including training of new employees and consultants.
• Interacted with counterparties, custodian and clients to get resolve issues.
• Used Confidential, IDC and Sun Guard Data System to upload reports for research purpose.
• Involved in special projects (ACES and EMS) in developing and documenting operations policies and new procedures.
• Received Service Star award in May 2003 and July 2003 in recognition of outstanding leadership and supporting the firm's values of integrity and innovation.

Confidential,New York

Consultant

• Prepared daily P&L for trading groups and management. Worked directly with traders to prepare reports, settled discrepancies and provided analysis around daily results, reconciled ledger balances.
• Input realized and unrealized data from different reports to Excel spreadsheets.
• Used PeopleSoft application to upload reports and reconciled with phase3 system. Prepared commission schedules for traders.
• Prepared FX realized and FX unrealized spreadsheets. Used FX rates to calculate P& L. Researched and resolved all discrepancies.
• Handled special requests, reports and inquires.

Confidential,New York

Consultant

• Converted AMS accounts to Invest One Wins system. Brought accounts up to date and compared units & cost on Wins to match AMS report, market value & accrued income. Reconciled cash & holdings report to match AMS system.
• Worked in Global Investor Service mutual fund department. Responsibilities included portfolio review like Chase 401 K, Retirement plan, Investment portfolios, Unit trust portfolios and life style funds.
• Checked daily trade date and cash proof activity reports, income review, sweeping, locking accounts, pricing review and calculated daily NAV for portfolios.
• Compared prior month’s and current month’s FSR and reconciled statement of assets and liabilities, statement of unrealized gains and losses and statement of purchase and sales transactions.
• Balanced various funds to ensure that shares and units are in accordance with our client’s portfolio with the use of Invest One and Titan system.
• Processed trades from clients and their advisors. Reconciled month end statements with the manager’s statement and resolved the issues.