Christopher Jensen Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

Proprietor of accounting and tax consultant for small businesses and individuals providing tax support, controller functions (close, payroll), FP&A and M&A support.

Greater Boston Area

• Finance Director, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) IT & Operations departments:
• Developed strategic plans, budgets, forecasts & quarterly business reviews
• Investment Management finance Recovery and Resolution Planning (RRP) lead included legal entity restructuring, capitalization, finance and accounting policies; building a cost methodology for shared services.
• Developed business cases for a multi-year cost reduction plan
• Participated in due diligence of major technology company acquisition
• Workday Subject Matter Expert for Finance

Greater Boston Area

• Ensured timely delivery of financial statements and regulatory reporting and interacted with regulators (FINRA, CME, SEC) and internal and external auditors of SSGM LLC. Instituted a restructured control environment.
• Business partner for head of Global Markets providing insights on P/L outlooks; led development of strategic plans and budgets. Identified areas underperforming that led to restructurings
• Analyzed and implemented new business lines, products and acquisitions. This included improving control environment to enable business expansion, including building GL interfaces.
• Led finance support for all regulatory inquiries and investigations, in partnership with Legal and Compliance
• Developed into corporate subject matter expert on hierarchy and expense allocations

Greater Boston Area

• Oversaw team responsible for Middle Office (static data, collateral); Settlements and GL recons
• Transitioned debt postings from manual process to system automated GL postings
• Established multiple security companies in conjunction with tax department
• Expanded from a single US site to 5 global investment locations, and operationalized responses to global financial crisis issues including:
• Federal Reserve Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility and the Commercial Paper Funding Facility
• Recording and settlement for FDIC TLGP issuances as well as US Treasury TARP

Greater Boston Area

Su[ervisor the Portfolio Operations team responsible for trade processing and settlements for all Treasury products. Oversaw the completion of relevant general ledger reconciliations. Instituted new controls for ensuring compliance with accounting requirements. Led the IBT/State Street Treasury merger team

Greater Philadelphia Area

Director of Financial Reporting for GMAC Mortgage: supervised staff to provide all financial reporting, including submissions for S-4 to form ResCap as SEC registrant. Oversaw monthly close and consolidation and associated reporting including stand-alone audits of financial statements produced. Managed accounting for all Treasury functions and payroll and.

Risk Management Analyst in Chase Home Finance providing oversight of mortgage related interest rate risk assets and hedging strategies and ensured operating procedures complied with technical literature. Reviewed securitization documents for GAAP compliance and corresponding beneficial interest accounting. Coordinated hedging strategies with.

After internship and first year as auditor in assurance practice, joined the Regulatory Consulting Practice. Conducted comprehensive control evaluations of clients' internal control structures; prepared and reviewed SEC filings and correspondence for court filings.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Accounting