Financial/Expense Management/Accounting• Prepare budget; identify/resolve discrepancies; identify and implement cost saving initiatives; prepare financial package for monthly review with management.• Maintain, analyze and summarize general ledger accounts including accounts receivable, accounts payable, balance sheet reconciliation.• Assist in researching and pricing of gemstones with various dealers.• Document appraisals based on findings by gemologist validating financial data.• Maintain vendor and customer relations.• Work on special projects

Global Expense Controller • Managed expense reporting, forecasting and budgeting for 3 major expense lines – legal, consulting and external services which represented approx. 1/3 of total fixed expenses.• Partnered with Divisional COO/CFOs, respective functional Expense Line Owners, or Supply Management to jointly initiate, strategize, and manage cost reduction projects. • Analyzed and reconciled general ledger accounts during month end financial close; maintained the structure of the general ledger system by controlling the creation of balance sheet accounts and cost centers.• Maintained relationships with Front Office divisions, Legal & Compliance Dept. (LCD), and Finance groups to discuss matter allocation, expense trends, accrual validations and provided month end reporting including significant expenses.• Performed detailed analyses to include variance/trend and initiative performance metrics to gauge results.

• Interfaced with key players in the business and finance integration teams to collect data on a detail basis for staff movement, consulting expenses, investment spending and expense planning.• Completed, updated and tracked on an ongoing basis schedules to project the financial impact of the Synergy savings and the Merger & Integration costs.• Assisted in preparing monthly/quarterly financial reporting for senior management, forecasting, preparing annual budget and special projects; handled remapping of financials to reflect post-merger business rollup.

• Collected global/regional financial data by liaising with regional counterparts in Asia Pacific, EMEA, LatAm and Mexico. Consolidated results and provided analysis to senior management.• Managed the end to end process for settlement transactions and reporting of financials to the General Ledger on a monthly basis: payments; transfer between cost centers; increases/decreases to reserves; setting reserves; approvals; reconciliations and posting of journal entries to the GL.• Reviewed and presented to auditors the quarterly documentation of controls per requirements for Sarbanes-Oxley-404; proactive in implementing new controls to further enhance current process and participated as key player in the revision of existing policies and procedures on an annual basis.• Handled personnel functions: provided leadership, training and direction to staff members; delegated effectively; set expectations and tracked deliverables accordingly; and completed performance reviews. • Established and maintained close working relationships with key players in Global Wealth Management, Legal and Compliance and Financial Control for monthly and quarterly reporting of financials.• Assessed business needs, gathered new requirements, created Business Requirements Documents (BRD) and partnered with Technology group to implement new customizations to existing systems, created project plans to track project tasks on a continuous basis until completion. Created UAT test plans, coordinated testing in the UAT environment and approved rollout to production.

• Managed the preparation and analysis of monthly/quarterly expense and headcount data, and annual budgets and forecasts globally; provided financial support to senior management including reporting of financial results, developing budgets and forecasts and analyzing expense trends against approved budget/forecast.• Worked with direct reports in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America to implement changes and directives.• Prepared monthly financial reports on variance analysis and monitored targeted expenses to determine ways in which to control or reduce.• Managed full range of financial functions including functional transfers, hierarchy, allocations.• Analyzed outside legal expenses for CIB identifying businesses that are under/over budget (scope per annum of $220MM+ in legal fees), acting as liaison with business heads and law firms at year end to facilitate faster payments

• Prepared monthly Outside Legal Expense reports for senior management.• Performed ongoing variance analysis, forecasting, budgeting, headcount reconciliation and expense tracking; managed staff of 6.• Assisted Director on special projects such as documenting process of internal tracking system (Law Manager), fixed-assets allocation, and comparative billing rates for vendors, identifying top billing firms, consolidating legal expenses of all affiliates, restructuring and functional transfers.• Interfaced with Outside Counsel, Business Managers and Citigroup Attorneys to ensure compliance with policies and procedures.