David Eldridge Email & Phone Number

I’m a Senior Investment Accounting and Finance specialist with extensive experience in accounting, financial reporting, and tax compliance. I have expertise in performing asset holdings and cash reconciliations, investment research on multiple asset classes and preparing financial statements and tax reports. I have delivered on projects including leading the reconciliations and reporting function by overseeing accurate day-to-day recording of trades, income and expense payment processing and tax calculations.𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞:✓ 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: Performed holdings and cash account reconciliations for 8,000+ portfolios across multiple client services on the Praemium Virtual Managed Account (VMA) platform. Extensive experience in identifying and resolving exceptions, data integrity breaches, breaks, corporate actions and calculating distributions and unit pricing.✓ 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: Managed the financial consolidation process across over 3,000+ client accounts and $13+billion of FUM. Identified accounting issues, such as calculation of CGT, distributions, income tax components, and reported on key issues arising in relation to consolidation of the Group and Holding Company. ✓ 𝐓𝐚𝐱 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: Prepared financial statements for tax and statutory reporting purposes, including income tax preparation for individuals, companies and trusts. Lodged BAS for all clients on a monthly and quarterly basis. ✓ 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: Prepared quarterly and annual financial statements for high-net-worth clients, including verification of accounting entries, general ledger balances with loan and depreciation schedules, calculated debtors and creditors outstanding balances and matched incomes, expenses, and profit/loss.I hold a Diploma of Chartered Accounting (CA) from Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand (CA ANZ) and I’m currently undertaking the CFA program.