Giuseppe Russo Email & Phone Number

Pleasantville, Ny, Us

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Responsible for creating and maintaining models capturing historical asset, fund, and investor-level performance, projecting forward looking operational performance, and determining the optimal fund placement of a prospective investment for funds totaling over $4.5 Billion in AUM. • Created and maintained fund-specific dashboards to summarize current portfolio positioning, historical performance, capacity for additional investment, and forward-looking production and operational performance projections for 20 unique funds and related co-investment vehicles.• Created system to accurately prepare capitals calls for various funding requirements for funds with over 50 investors, each with distinct investment terms. • Reviewed quarterly valuations on over 30 assets and analyzed their impact on waterfall calculations, communicating substantive changes to the portfolio management team and creating a strategy to appropriately inform investors.• Created complex financial models for two funds currently seeking potential investors to raise $1.5 Billion.• Developed a macro automated excel based database capturing over 300 fields of asset and portfolio level data, which was codified into the business’ processes, and generates reports used across various Square Mile platforms.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Responsible for quarterly reporting process for debt and equity Square Mile-sponsored programs totaling over $5 Billion in AUM. • Managed over 100 recurring and ad-hoc supplemental requests for operational and financial information by investors, the consulting community, and other interested external parties.• Coordinated with Investor Relations and the Head of Due Diligence in responding to questionnaires received in connection with marketing and fundraising efforts and assisted in raising over $1.5 Billion in capital commitments.• Conducted analysis to submit over 100 credit investments into the founder’s group of a high-yield commercial real estate debt Index.• Led process to deliver monthly/quarterly estimates, statements, investor letters, capital calls and distribution notices to over 50 institutional and high net worth investors. • Created process alongside accounting, asset management, and related business units to assemble and analyze operational and financial data for required disclosure purposes.

New York, Ny, Us

• Managed both debt and open-ended equity REIT funds totaling over $4 billion in AUM. • Approved property contributions, distributions and expenses for Asset Management teams. • Oversaw cash flow, schedule of real estate investments, LTV and other portfolio reports and calculations for Portfolio Management teams.• Reviewed debt fund accounting and amortization schedules in order to calculate management fees.• Tested, implemented, and rolled out new Yardi accounting system across fund and investment teams.• Implemented Workflow system in order to electronically approve, track and process fund and client activity.• Prepared quarterly and annual financial statements and supporting schedules in accordance with GAAP.• Reviewed and calculated waterfall distributions in accordance with Joint Venture agreements.

New York, New York, Us

• Responsible for month-end close of Programming, Production and Network-Operations.• Prepared journal entries including amortization of prepaid expenses, accruals, reclasses and allocations.• Maintained accuracy of ledger accounts, and analyzed variances (actuals vs. budget/forecast).• Managed around $80 to $100 million of programming amortization on a monthly basis.• Prepared General, Controller and SVP P&L’s.• Performed monthly general ledger reconciliation. • Assisted with Macro and Micro budget and forecasting. • Worked with IT on testing and implementing in-house software system for use by both production companies and internal finance, legal and programming departments.• Reviewed executed contracts for programming. • Acted as a liaison between programming, finance and legal departments.• Worked with external auditors on satisfying inquiries and requests.