Diego Ramirez Email & Phone Number

Zurich, CH

Newark, New Jersey, US

• Responsible for reconciling and tracking day to day portfolio movement and deviation to fund administrator valuation to account for any potential discrepancies between fund administrator NAV & sub advisor NAV.
• Responsible for training new employees, interns and rotational personnel on day to day tasks and analysis on NAV and any NAV related tasks such as derivatives reconciliations and cash related adjustments in our.
• Created an automation process for my team, this comprised of automating a daily manual task in which we had to book expenses and distributions accounting entries to our portfolios. Worked closely with our technology.
• Assisted in a migration project where four of our daily managed portfolios switched fund administrator platform. This required us to investigate and create new paths in which we can absorb information and tailor it to.
• Responsible for monthly factor calculations on three securities. This process requires data procurement from investment manager and DTC to acquire principal, interest and cash rates to produce a new factor calculation.
• Responsible for reviewing schedule of investment reports required by U.S GAAP, by working closely with internal teams and fund administrator to ensure every requirement complies and is free of errors.

Newark, New Jersey, US

• Responsible for overseeing various portfolios on a daily basis to ensure each portfolio is in line with its corresponding target benchmark.
• Responsible for constructing a derivative reconciliation between our accounting records and the custodian’s records. This process will identify any break that breaches tolerance in which further research will be.
• Exposed to various financial vehicles and derivatives such as: mutual funds, ETFs, stocks, bonds, forward exchange contracts, currency swaps, options, and futures.
• Responsible for resolving processing related quality control exceptions for valid performance based results.
• Responsible for researching any material discrepancies to ensure the accounting data utilized for NAVs, attribution and performance reporting is accurate.
• Assisted in training the summer intern, in which I carefully taught the main focal points of my day to day operations and explained how the overall process of the portfolio oversight takes place.

New York, NY, US

• Responsible for performing a variety of accounting and net asset value (NAV) production functions (including NAV construction and validation, NAV review, dissemination and reporting activities) for more complex.
• Assisted in reviewing data and resolving intricate problems that may arise during the normal daily, weekly or monthly accounting and reporting.
• Regularly worked with client staff to exchange information with respect to cash, accounting, and reporting of daily and monthly client activities and initiatives.
• Responsible for researching and booking outstanding cash reconciliation transactions within my multi-client team.
• Was involved in a team rotation between three different accounting teams, and learned the basket production (non-accounting) process, in a cross role training program.
• Developed a dissemination excel macro to facilitate the daily manual process of sending clients deliverables with reports, and reduced the margin of error by virtually 100%.

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Determined a potential client’s distinct need, and financial situation by setting personal fact finding appointments.
• Examined the extent of a prospects current financial coverage to analyze a long-term goal and financial stability.
• Developed a source of clients by using referrals to build a network, and list of prospects.
• Utilized the Northwestern Mutual CRM system to input and organize clientele data.

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance

Associate’S Degree, Business