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Nashville, Tn, Us

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Zurich, Ch

- Promoted to Legal Entity Controller June 2019.- Manage and develop a team of three.- Responsible for the accuracy of the books and records for both US GAAP and IFRS, including planning and leading a timely month-end close process, understanding Risk Weighted Assets, collaboration with other finance and operations functions, and reviewing variance commentary for senior management.- Ensure compliance with Key Process Controls.- Supervise the preparation of the annual financial statements and footnotes for external audit. - Prioritize and deliver on multiple tasks simultaneously.- Review account reconciliations and substantiation.- Accountable for specific business functions in the holding company’s FED Y-9C report.- Review of FR-Y-11 reports submitted quarterly to the FED.

Zurich, Ch

- Achievement: Promoted to Director March 2018.- Achievement: Winner of the Q1 2017 Thank You award for leadership, collaboration, risk awareness, and positive attitude, as the Finance team navigated its way through audits and personnel turnover.- Manage a team of two and ensure timely completion of the month-end close.- Lead monthly meetings with controllers of multiple business units to understand the drivers of monthly Income Statement and Balance Sheet.- Perform detailed Income Statement and Balance Sheet variance analysis for senior management.- Optimized the controls around the firm’s FED FR Y-11 reporting by collaborating with the Regulatory Reporting Unit on the definition of each line, created a mapping table, and then reconciled it to the general ledger.- Identified a delinquent control account reconciliation process and took ownership for rectifying and establishing procedures for monthly reconciliation.

New York, Ny, Us

- Achievement: Rebuilt the month-end Balance Sheet file using my knowledge of firm systems, which considerably reduced the time taken to prepare the Balance Sheet and reduced the number of manual adjustments and errors. - Manage the team analyst and oversee the production of the Bank Daily P&L, improved its accuracy and streamlined the attribution process.- Prepare the Balance Sheet at month-end, coordinate variance analysis process, and prepare the quarterly Board / CFO Pack, including meetings with the BU and CFO to review results.- Preparation of year-end Balance Sheet and certain footnotes for annual financial statements and audit. - Coordinated the team’s annual Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) and contributed to the FDICIA documentation for annual attestation.

New York, Ny, Us

- Achievement: Improved reporting of Loan IQ cash reconciliations, documented procedures and successfully deployed process to Glasgow office.- Achievement: Successfully relocated roles to another office location by ensuring that procedures were properly documented, conducted product and systems training, and continued oversight. - Oversee Product Control team preparing the daily Profit and Loss (P&L) involving Vertical risk system to Sub-ledger reconciliations for Bonds, Equities, Credit Default Swaps and Loans, reviewing of attribution ensuring key drivers are in line with business expectations given the risk, reviewing daily commentary, trader estimate v actual P&L, and interact daily with the trading desk.- Oversee the month-end P&L and Balance Sheet substantiation, review reconciliations completed by staff, resolve issues, and escalate key items to senior management.- Responsible for presenting month on month variance commentary to senior management and preparation and presentation of monthly risk and control metrics.- Monthly reporting to Business Unit of Risk Weighted Assets trends. - Consolidated quarterly performance metrics for global business and presented to senior management.- Provide information for external reporting to Regulators and Auditors, regular interaction with IT, Market Risk, Accounting Policy and other key finance groups.- Ad hoc project work for Volcker disclosures, Loan IQ system upgrade, Loan IQ Multi CCY, Cancel / Corrects, and cash usage.

New York, Ny, Us

- Achievement: Coordinated global project pertaining to accounting policy change to treat loans on a Settlement Date basis, interacted between departments and regions to determine information needs, compiled Business Requirements document for Operations and IT, proposed solutions and worked with IT to implement the change. Coordinated global testing, thoroughly tested results and ensured that good communication was maintained at all times.- Involved in a new IT Reporting Project that aimed to improve reporting on different business unit’s uses of firm capital, trained and supported other testers for cash products, performed quality assurance to ensure ongoing integrity of data, prepared monthly Balance Sheet reports for the Business Unit based on the new reporting system. Led testing for Loans phase of project and worked closely with design team to define data requirements. Identified gaps in the data requirements and helped close the gaps. Determined how the new system should be tested to ensure that data was accurate.

New York, Ny, Us

- Achievement: Improved the control process for Loans Balance Sheet, providing substantiation to senior management for all SEC lines.- Achievement: Streamlined daily reconciliation process for Bonds and Equity products and successfully deployed the process to Glasgow.- Achievement: Worked with IT to develop reports to improve processes and controls and create time savings for month-end reconciliations. - Prepared daily profit and loss reconciliations by product for the Distressed Debt and Loans trading desk for Bonds, Equities, Credit Default Swaps and Loans, liaising with traders and operations to resolve breaks.- Produced daily commentary on P&L movements, including analyzing P&L attribution and ensuring key drivers were in line with business expectations. - Prepared monthly GL vs Reported revenue reconciliations and Balance Sheet Substantiation.- Responsible for global implementation of accounting policy change to unsettled loans trades.

New York, Ny, Us

- Substantiation of month end Balance Sheet for Loans product, investigating and resolving differences- Reviewed Balance Sheet reconciliations for products deployed to Glasgow-Presentation of month end pack to Corporate Credit CFO to facilitate Balance Sheet sign-off, providing commentary for material movements.

New York, Ny, Us

- Achievement: Facilitated the Functionalization of the Corporate Credit Balance Sheet into the BCG Balance Sheet team.- Achievement: Planned and successfully deployed Corporate Credit Balance Sheet substantiation process to Glasgow.- Achievement: Created queries in Access to automate and improve P&L reconciliation process.- Responsible for Daily Profit and Loss reconciliation for bonds and CDS, reconciling Risk systems to Accounting systems, liaising with Operations and Traders Assistants to resolve breaks, and liaising with Traders to agree daily P&L.- Weekly Balance Sheet analysis and reporting, providing commentary for movements.- Substantiation of month end Balance Sheet by Asset Class across multiple legal entities & currencies.- Presentation of month end pack to Corporate Credit CFO to facilitate Balance Sheet sign-off, providing commentary for material movements.

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Chartered Management Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Cost And Management Accounting

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