HEAD OF EXPENSE MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS• Direct a 38-person subdepartment across Los Angeles, New York, London, Hyderabad• Oversee fast-paced, high-volume expense processing and analysis operations, including corporate fund receivables, internal fund expense allocations, third-party fund expense allocations, credit accounts management, corporate/fund expense reporting and analysis, accounts payable, 1099 reporting, employee reimbursements, vendor management• Responded to SEC exam with no findings. Answered two internal audits with no significant findings• Aligned objectives and bridged communications with Corporate, Fund Accounting, Data Technology, budget owners, Finance department to develop the company’s first real-time, data-fed expense reports, cleaning and integrating data from two data sources, thereby supplying expense visibility on a gross and net basis, and delivering drill-through dashboards• Guided the transformation and significant improvement of stale corporate receivables processes to allow for real-time outstanding balance and aging reports o Optimizes and standardizes various stakeholder operations’ processes around corporate reimbursement and expense postings o Streamlines fund billing and reimbursement procedures, while eliminating common processing errors o Ensures timely receivable settlements and write-offs of fund expenses o Deploys Workday’s out-of-the-box functionality to eliminate over-customized procedures and automate manual processeso Aligns three disparate accounting ledgers, resulting in records reconciliation and error detection• Collaborated with IT, Developers, Fund Accounting to design and launch a custom-built fund expense allocation platform, automating manual allocation processes, reducing errors, improving regulatory compliance, enabling corporate and fund expense reporting through clean data capture, integrating major data sources, capturing audit trail for all allocations, approvals, and support.

Head of Expense Management & Analysis

HEAD OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE • Directed a 17-member Accounts Payable Team, within the Expense Management and Analysis sub-department, distributed across Los Angeles, London, and Hyderabad in executing daily tasks and larger projects.• Oversaw fast-paced and high-volume expense processing, which involved invoice processing and payment, credit account management, employee reimbursements, 1099 reporting, vendor management, as well as compliance with SOX and SOC 1.• Optimized the troubled Accounts Payable organization by offshoring invoice and T&E processing, payments, vendor onboarding and credit accounts management, elevating team leaders, assigning firmwide relationship managers • Recovered a processing backlog of 1,000+ invoices for 44 global corporate entities that resulted from a recent implementation of Workday as the AP processing platformo Assisted in sunsetting a long term legacy system, transitioning the firm onto the new platformo Integrated bank accounts into Workday to automate global vendor and employee payments• Reviewed and cleaned up a database of 3,000+ vendors, retiring dormant vendors and merging vendors with multiple payee accounts.

• Administered the calendar and organized travel arrangements for the head of Fund Accounting and Operations.• Established and chaired an internal administrative assistant committee to transition super-users to Workday, the organization’s new Accounts Payable platform.• Spearheaded the initiative to reconcile global Fund Accounting and Operations headcount distributed across multiple HR databases• Organized and analyzed quarterly budgets for all Fund Accounting and Operations sub-departments.