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Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Led the operational growth of a quantitative startup investment firm. Design of all operational, accounting, compliance, IT, and HR processes to ensure accuracy and operational efficiency. Chief back office software architect and engineer. Achievements include:OPERATIONS • Led middle office for all developed and emerging markets• Firm’s trading procedures: pre-trade analysis, cash forecasting, best execution, & compliance• Operational risk program for compliance with investment guidelines, regulations, & best practices• Built compliance program, code of ethics, & 206(4)7 audit with external CCO• Launched European UCITS fund; designed custom transition to neutralize market exposure• Operational due diligence program to evaluate firm's controlsACCOUNTING• Month-end close processes for company and investments, including financial controls and procedures• Financial models and processes (FP&A) to ensure financial accuracy, operational efficiency, compliance, & solvency• Oversaw all financial operations, HR and payroll, and A/R and A/PDATA / SOFTWARE• Led architecture and engineering of all back-office software systems to automate most operational procedures (SQL, Python, Pandas, OOP) • Goal to enable a small yet robust team to scale• Engineered highly robust data ETL pipelines to centralizing all file mgmt, investment & holdings data, performance, security master• Automated file loader to systematically locate files; read, clean, and normalize data; insert data into proprietary SQL database; two databases and >250 external files processed daily• Extensive Python library: email reporting engine, FTP, job scheduling, web scraping, investment code• Email parsing engine in AWS to locate, read, and process emails/attachments• Reporting platform for monitoring & alerting: portfolio events, cash balances, compliance triggers• Fully automated security master database at the core of the firm’s compliance and reporting functions

CFO and Risk Manager responsible for analyzing and maintaining portfolio risk reporting as well as company and hedge fund accounting for a $250mm multi-strategy high-yield debt hedge fund manager. Responsible for trade recordkeeping, daily PnL calculations, risk reporting, and investor reporting. Achievements include:• Led the firm’s monthly risk meeting including the maintenance, development, and presentation of the firm’s risk model and reporting; full Excel-based automation of the firm’s risk reporting and quarterly factsheet.• Oversight of all investor allocations, including full replication and systematic comparison to the fund administrator.

Boston, Ma, Us

Data analytics and engineering for all web traffic into any product detail. Detailed revenue analysis overseen up to the CEO. Achievements include:• Co-led investigation tracing multi-million dollar shifts in revenue and consumer behavior at the CEO level.• Uncover new operational KPIs to ensure constant improvement without sacrificing past business quality.• Developed enhanced profit attribution model to monitor e-commerce checkout process.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Managed middle/back office operations for top-tier hedge fund manager. Database design and engineering, financial modeling, and project management. Expertise in financial derivatives, new asset classes, and complex investment accounting. Achievements include:• Developed cash management strategy globally, reducing error on scenario analysis from 10-15% to within 1-2%• Led operational risk analysis for all new asset types and global regions to scale the firm’s agility for new business• Automated year-end US GAAP statements and audit process to more accurately produce highly complex financials• Built extensive collateral-tracking system as foundation for all treasury ops, risk management, and scenario analysis• Created valuation models of unlisted companies, complex securities, and derivatives; 30% of firm AUM• Created the firm’s first custom profit attribution system to identify specific sources of gains/losses for key strategies• Analyzed PNL models to uncover past profit centers, missed profit opportunities, and areas for future improvement; reduce manual PNL review time by over 50%• Architected a unique rules-based reconciliation software to simultaneously reconcile activity, positions, and cash (C#)• Designed process and software to programmatically review legal derivative contracts (over 100 contracts/month)

Bachelor Of The Arts, Summa Cum Laude, Economics, Mathematics

Associate Of Arts, With Distinction