Alan Stewart Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Brought in on day one of the project as a key domain expert to deliver a complex system migration between legacy and strategic platforms within the Private Equity division.
• Defined the new Target Operating Model for a diverse user base from investment professionals to back office operational functions based on a thorough understanding of business processes and needs while understanding.
• Primary conduit between end users and multiple technical delivery streams to ensure effective translation, refinement and specification of functional requirements. Projected a clear view of the strategic operating.
• Highly developed communication skills, workshop management and clear documentation ensured effective delivery between different teams.
• Data analysis and complex data migration planning. Data extraction from legacy system (Equitrak), data cleansing, rationalisation and mapping to the Vendor Excel import templates to enable a successful load into the.
• Responsible for test pack creation, test execution management, defect tracking and prioritisation.

Edinburgh

Key Subject Matter Expert on strategic Private Equity integration project. A complex project ultimately tasked with migrating several legacy business models onto a single, strategic platform (eFront) and operating model.Conduit for effective communication between the business users and the remote technical team.Held requirements gathering interviews with.

Edinburgh, City Of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities
• Reconciled cashflows on eFront (AAM system) to TPA cashbooks from present back to 2007.
• To produce a cash reconciliation report to be used by analysts.
• Given high profile piece of work by manager while she was on leave which involved presenting to Client Relationship Director.
• Produce Excel templates to be used to supply quarterly sector to Front Office.
• Entered underlying portfolio company information onto eFront. Achievements

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities
• Responsible for finance and accounting of private equity funds reporting financial figures to investors and to Group Accounting using Hyperion Financial Management.
• Overseeing output from administrators including management profit share, capital statements and financial statements.
• Reviewed valuations of underlying fund investments (40).
• Prepared valuations for co-investments (5), Valuation Committee papers (US and European) and Minutes of Valuation Committee meetings.
• Monitored cash flows of funds and prepared investor transactions at optimum time.

Vienna, Austria

• Responsibilities
• Prepared annual, quarterly and monthly Group consolidated financial statements under IFRS (2009 Turnover: EUR 4,714M).
• Provided external auditors with all documentation and analysis required for year-end audit and quarterly review.
• Fulfilled project management function focusing on various commercial projects of Group.Achievements
• Prepared benchmarking data for strategy department and business units.
• Supplied financial information for inclusion in prospectus for public bond issue.

Luxembourg

• Responsibilities
• Controlled reporting of statistical information to Luxembourg Central Bank.
• Trained staff in preparation of reports.Achievements
• Established and developed communication lines with Luxembourg Central Bank.
• Formed effective working relationships with Fund Accountants.
• Resolved issues surrounding report configuration.

Luxembourg

• Performed Group Accounting role which included agreement of month end inter-company balances and postings to Hyperion Financial Management under IFRS of Paper & Packaging Division (size: USD 2.6 Bn) reporting to the.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Worked in Business Services department preparing monthly, quarterly and annual accounts. Client facing role.

Perth, United Kingdom

Chartered Accountant, Accounting And Finance

Investment Operations Certificate (Ioc)

Ma Honours, Accountancy And Financial Economics

Activities and Societies: Football club, golf and badminton clubs.Accountancy and Financial Economics joint honours