Eric Askins, Cfa, Fmva® Email & Phone Number

California, United States

San Francisco, California, Us

• Delivered monthly and yearly trial balances for a non-profit having an 9-figure annual runrate cryptocurrency donation revenue, in accordance with ASC 606.• Categorized and reconciled over 1,600 bank transactions for a $10m ARR client in under 2weeks and delivered financial statements that were required for VC fundraising rounds.• Identified cryptocurrency wallet address and blockchain activity valued at $850,000/month,for COGS and gross margin financial reporting• Performed four years of historical cleanup for two clients, including bank and crypto balancereconciliation, and crypto P/L reporting in accordance with FASB ASU 2023-08.• Migrated a client's billing system from BILL to Stripe, addressing a $100k collections shortfalland reducing operating costs by 10% in 2 months through recurring subscriptions.

- Ran Monthly payroll for employees and contractors, both US based and international- Managed of the entire Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable process: sending/receiving invoices, cash reconciliation, aging reports- Performed month-end close for two sets of books, including the consultancy and the parent company- Create and maintain company budget, with reported burn rate and runway

New York, Ny, Us

- Wrote business requirements in 1 month for new index launches, establishing a single source of truth across multiple teams, and decreased delays in the index model build process.- Created process flowcharts and documentation of 5 business processes, improving the completion time of sprint tickets by 10%.- Collaborated with business partners to standardize methodological definitions of data inputs of existing and new products for roughly 80% of the client base over 3 months- Served as scrum master for index model development, ran 10 sprints that delivered over 15 new index launches and methodology changes in 6 months

New York, Ny, Us

● Saved average of 30 product hours per month by realigning daily production activities to formally establish services; services included transferring input data to the data management team in order to drive desired Production Shared Services objectives and processes● Automate manual, high-risk operations, leading to time savings of 10 analyst-hours per month; activities include email delivery of index values to customers, market holiday checks and preparation for real time calculation sessions in advance● Automate index restatement detection and analysis, resulting in average cost savings of 40 hours per month; guide business strategy to detect post-publication changes to index composition and valuation, as well as the policy threshold for restatement considerations● Pioneered the adoption of a consolidated monitoring cycle that put over 80 production cycles into a single view, leading to reduction in visible steps by over 95% and improving clarity on automated workflows for users● Partner cross-functionally with Research, Product Management, and IT teams to understand product requirements and translate methodology into business requirements for developers and engineers

New York, Ny, Us

● Introduced China mainland shares into the Emerging Markets index in June 2018, leading to an increase in Assets Under Management (AUM) for Emerging Markets indexes. This was achieved through drafting specifications to create appropriate indexes and implementing them into daily production workflows and clients’ product files● Partnered with major client to streamline understanding of how to perform return calculations with a dataset that represented next day starting portfolio holdings; enabled adoption of new files into client’s system● Partnered with operations analysts and production managers to meet and exceed quality, cost savings, and content delivery KPIs; conducted root cause analysis to investigate incidents and identify areas for process improvements● Managed execution of new production releases, including product launches, updates to existing code for index rebalances, methodology changes, system fixes, and new product onboarding. Drove change management initiatives such as the creation of the Real Estate GICS sector in 2016 and the move of Pakistan in 2017 from Frontier Market to Emerging Market status● Mapped over 50,000 benchmarks to unique methodology stacks within 6 months to ensure compliance with European Union Benchmark Regulations (EUBMR)● Achieved cost savings goals of zero increase in running production costs for a unique return calculation with a new input data set; saved analyst labor by establishing automatic detection and validation of the input data● Directed 2 operations team members and implemented GICS Structure changes; trained and mentored team on assuring quality of specifications and setup

New York, Ny, Us

● Increased availability of 400 ETP-licensed real time indexes by integrating a separate workflow for content creation and upload, reducing the likelihood of incidents blocking real time availability. Improving availability was critical in continuing growth of indexes used for exchange-traded products● Improved delivery time of MSCI web index levels for the world production cycle by 15 minutes by realigning workflow dependencies in the system to operational requirements● Trained and mentored total of 6 new index production team members to run real time and end of day operations, while maintaining guidance to broader team of 5 members● Launched new products and index creations by developing Quality and Momentum Factor indexes in the database, running calculations, assessing data quality, implementing into new product, and preparing for production delivery. Factor indexes were a strategic initiative for the firm as the idea of an expanded set of style factors explaining portfolio returns began to take hold● Improved production efficiency and streamlined systems● Ensured data quality by leading the specification, testing and deployment of system safeguards to prevent overwrite of official historical and current index data which would avoid a major data correction● Leveraged calculation expertise to generate a missing historical return time series using new inputs and official return data

New York, Ny, Us

● Managed production operations and client query case distribution; resolved 5-10 complex queries daily● Developed, tested and released the divisor methodology for MSCI´s real time system● Created 20+ of Value and Risk Weighted Factor indexes in production● Launched over 250 new indexes for the Factor Module, which included scoping and programming.

New York, Ny, Us

● Developed and distributed high-quality Daily Real Time and End of Day Index Calculations● Oversaw custom index request pricing, specifications, creation, and delivery

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics And Business

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