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Boston, Massachusetts

• Administer a risk management and regulatory reporting certification to ensure compliance of information assets with financial industry regulations and best practices.
• Facilitate completion of over 250 questionnaires which measure compliance with the main principles of data aggregation and reporting for the tools and applications critical to risk metric generation and reporting.
• Organize and execute an expert review process of collected responses and evidence against corporate and regulatory requirements to identify potential gaps or risks.
• Engage with business, technology, and data owners to define remediation plans for risks identified and to monitor progress of remediation efforts.
• Communicate certification findings and progress of subsequent remediation efforts to relevant stakeholders and local and corporate executives.

Boston, Massachusetts

• Completed user acceptance testing for the implementation of a new mortgage portfolio system.
• Coordinated a testing team in executing validations and documenting of technical processes while facilitating parallel end user testing by business owners of the new application.
• Defined test plans to validate the implementation of the new technology and to verify its integration into three finance and risk repositories.
• Managed change development, incident remediation, and stakeholder communications and expectations.

Boston, Massachusetts

• Implemented new applications and strategies to validate and improve data quality, consistency, and management protocols.
• Developed and tested upgrades of data warehouse systems through the definition and execution of test plans and SQL scripts to prove reliability of the systems for regulatory and management reporting.
• Collaborated with architecture teams to redefine functional and technical lineages and update data transformations to ensure data consistency throughout the organization.
• Automated existing business and accounting processes and led a reconciliation assessment to validate the results.

Boston, Massachusetts

• Created and maintained financial models and projections for prospective and current investments and processed capital calls, distributions, and other financial transactions pertaining to client investments.
• Analyzed historical and expected performance of investments in private equity, real estate, and hedge fund markets.
• Prepared client portfolio reports and documentation for regulatory filings, audits, or tax preparation.

Boston, Massachusetts

• Managed financial planning, tax preparation, and communications for over 60 corporate and individual clients.
• Developed a quality control project and procedures to ensure efficiency and correctness of protocols for handling advanced tax matters and to identify key issues for improvement efforts in future years.
• Researched advanced tax issues and changes in legislation and drafted tax memoranda to provide clients and colleagues with guidance regarding prospective or unclear tax matters.
• Prepared corporate and personal financial statements and tax returns and developed estate plans for high net worth families and individuals.

West Chester, Pennsylvania

Bachelor Of Science Degree, Business Administration, Finance & Accounting

Bachelor Of Science Degree