Farhan Ullah Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Georgia, United States

Remote - Atlanta

Greater Atlanta Area

Georgia DIS manages several of Georgia States funds including Teachers Retirement System and Employees Retirement Systems - Role involved a significant amount of PE investment accounting.• Review quarterly Private Equity valuations received from GPs and reconcile to DIS records.• Review and enter Private Equity capital call and distribution transactions and reconcile with bank monthly.• Set up Private Equity funds in system and liaison with PE investment team as well as bank for records.• Prepare and review daily cash entries and reconciliations for all portfolio funds; review and distribute RORs.• Assist with month close processes - review and validate month-end trial balance, rate of returns, bank and position reconciliations, and prepare monthly management reporting packages.• Assist auditors with annual audit by preparing confirmations, audit schedules and addressing inquiries.• Help prepare various schedules and reports for Annual financial reporting package in accordance to GASB.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for quarterly and annual fund reporting with notes for several consolidated funds and aggregators.• Prepared capital calls and distribution memos for investors.• In charge of treasury function overlooking several hundred bank accounts.• Prepared ad-hoc reports for senior management summarizing portfolio performances.• Assist auditors with requested reports and reconciliations.• Assist deal team with valuations of portfolio companies and reconciling to fund records.• Responsible for Unfunded Rec, Investment Schedules, Income and Expense allocations on investor by investor basis and prepare Capital Account Statements.• Lead team with implementation and data conversion to new accounting software.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Short term contract role focusing on preparation for annual audit. Role ends 18th Sept.• Analyze and prepare reconciliations/schedules for several balance sheet accounts including but not limited to Parking, Fitness control/clearing and other benefits accounts, other payables and receivables, Employee advances, prepaid expenditures, e.t.c.• Prepare yearly payroll reconciliation for current and prior fiscal year to investigate and reconcile differences within the payroll balance sheet accounts.• Co-ordinate with staff at all levels to investigate differences in advance receivables and other receivables accounts.• Prepare journal entries to fix issues within accounts.• Helped out A/P staff during high load times by reviewing expense reports and invoices for errors and entering them into the system.

51 Madison Ave., New York

• Maintain fixed asset binders and schedules (for all offices), prepare monthly depreciation entries and perform account analysis on them on a quarterly basis.• Prepare various monthly accrual entries (loan interest, shareholder/board meeting expenses, legal expenses, bad debt, rent expense, etc.).• Prepare bank reconciliations for the main account and enter numerous related journal entries (bank charges, ADP adj., etc.).• Responsible for Payroll deduction and adjustment entries for all US offices, FSA (Flexible spending account) postings on biweekly basis, FSA analysis at quarter end.• Handle complete accounting and payroll services for London, Shanghai and Beijing offices as well as associated inter-company entries.• Perform a variety of quarterly group/individual account analysis for various US and foreign offices including A/P, A/R analysis requiring to work with those departments. This includes comparison to projected amounts and variance analysis.• Perform financial systems internal audit and prepare report for London office.• Created a model of 5-year forecast for Net Revenue and PBBT (+ related charts for NR/PBBT per employee).• Helped CFO with research regarding AMEX and VISA employee credit card plans.• Timesheet postings, re-classes, etc. for foreign offices. Daily Cash and Payroll schedules for US offices.• Analyze VAT/HST exchange accounts for NZ, UK, Moscow, and Canada offices.• Create weekly summary reports, time utilization reports, billing/labor concentration reports.• Assist with year-end external Audit by preparing schedules, lead-sheets and bank/legal confirmations.

Toronto, Ontario

• Prepare tax returns for individuals and small businesses.• Prepare journal entries and various reconciliations in Excel and Quickbooks.• Assist Manager with various ad-hoc tasks as required.