Commercial & Investment Bank, Credit Analytics and Reporting

GS AWM, Private equity real estate portfolio controller, including multifamily, hospitality, industrial, commercial, and development properties. Directly supervise and mentor associates and analysts, offering strategic leadership and expert guidance to ensure optimal performance.

• Head of the corporate accounting team.• Work closely with the President and other department heads set and review company goals and strategies.• Lead financial projections, re-forecasting, strategic planning, and result reviews. • Strategize, develop, and manage financial budgets, ensuring optimal resource allocation and long-term fiscal health of the organization.• Prepare, maintain, and deliver accurate financial reporting. Develop accounting policies and procedures.• Review, analyze and understand management agreements to ensure correct accounting application.• Prepare, reconcile, and post all payroll and benefit related entries for corporate and properties.• Bridge gap between operations and accounting, develop accounting training materials for operational staff.• Coordinate accounting onboarding and offboarding.• Propose and develop procedures to enhance accounting/operations efficiency.• Meet and communicate with clients regarding accounting issues and coordinate client distributions.

• Responsible for 20+ CBRE project management markets across the U.S.• Perform comprehensive reviews of financial projections to support strategic decision-making.• Closes month-end accounting books; prepare JEs; reconciles BS and P&L statement.• Prepare and review financial projections.• Prepare income statements, balance sheets and various other accounting statements or financial reports for PJM markets and management reference for mid to large size customers or markets including reconciliations and variance analysis.• Responsible for complex accounting activities associated with maintaining ledger accounts and for developing financial statements and reports.• Examines financial statements and documents for conformance with accounting requirements and principles.• Read and interpret contracts, legal documents, and other agreements for projects.• Participate in system conversion or enhancements, requiring user acceptance testing, providing feedback to IT programmers, and training other staff members on the new process/system.• Started as Senior Accountant and progressed to Accounting Supervisor

• Prepare the LaSalle Group consolidated financial statement on a quarterly basis as well as investment valuation schedule for 50+ properties and 4 corporate entities.• Design, prepare and develop budgets for 50+ properties, ensuring accurate financial planning and control.• Steer properties’ financial forecasting, financial planning, and evaluation of outcomes.• Perform monthly actual to budget variance analysis, identify root causes of variances, and provide explanations to the owner and investors.• Prepare property seller’s statement, gain calculations, IRR calculation, proration, and liquidation JEs.• Analyze construction properties and perform working capital calculation draw requests to lenders.• Lead properties’ monthly close process which includes review and preparation of monthly accrual schedules, various balance sheet accounts reconciliations, and journals entries.• Prepare financial reporting packages for multiple investors and assist investors in understanding properties’ financials and performance.• Perform covenant calculation and work with multiple lenders to ensure covenant compliance.• Review, analyze and interpret LLC agreements and loan agreements to ensure correct application.• Maintain account trees in accounting system and develop custom financial reports requested by investors.• Review accounting cycle process to identify improvement opportunities and implement proposed changes.• Review property tax returns for each operating entity• Lead year-end property compilation and audit process.