Jim Zinaman Email & Phone Number

NewGold Search (newgoldsearch.com), recruits and places finance, accounting, and information technology professionals throughout the New York Tri-State Area on a full-time, contract-to-hire, interim, and project basis, particularly senior accounting, tax, audit, financial analysis, and project management candidates. We also recruit for various administrative and operational roles. We would enjoy reaching out to any of your colleagues in transition that you feel could benefit from our recruitment services. Many clients have referred friends and family members to us, especially during a challenging economic period. The firm’s principals, Jeff Newman and Bruce Goldstein, are CPA’s with Big 4 public accounting and large corporation backgrounds. They have a combined experience of more than fifty years as highly successful recruiters and recruitment firm managers. I have helped place finance and accounting executives during the past eight years after twenty years at Goldman Sachs in the areas of investment advisory, financial analysis, system implementation, broker-dealer operations, and hedge fund relationship management. For over a decade, through times of economic expansion or contraction, our company has established a reputation for fostering long-term relationships with small, medium-sized, and large clients and with candidates who are the right technical and interpersonal fit for our clients’ needs.

A recruiter who placed senior finance, accounting, process improvement, and systems implementation professionals on a project or interim basis. Many of these professionals were candidates whom clients hired for an initial evaluation period as consultants and then converted to full-time employ. Their responsibilities ranged from those of senior analysts and senior accountants to CFOs and directors of finance, audit, tax, credit, operations, logistics, risk management, and business systems project management.

Helped develop a budget vs actual approach and system by which program directors and development staff could track projected donations against funds actually received on a monthly basis.Introduced the Y to the Goldman Sachs charitable funding organization.

Global Securities Lending – Vice President 1994-2005• Advised large hedge funds on the availability of lendable securities and the relative merits of third-party portfolio accounting systems. • Devised and managed a yearly nine-month training program for 40 securities lending sales traders.• Marketed the advantage of a direct securities lending relationship with Goldman Sachs to regional brokers in U.S. and Canada and established $3 billion in balances with 30 new trading counterparties, increasing annual net interest revenues by $7.5 million.• Revamped exclusive lender portfolio assessment Excel spreadsheet system that guided bids on $100 million of securities inventory.• Created and then directed changing team of technologists and traders in using sector analysis spreadsheet tool demanded by clients.• Monitored borrow and loan balances with regional brokers to assure that the appetite for hard-to-borrow securities did not exceed established credit lines—such supervision helped the firm avoid the multiple-million-dollar losses experienced by other brokerage houses in the GenesisIntermedia lending scandal of 2002.Prime Brokerage – Vice President 1989-1994• Sold Goldman Sachs custodial and account reporting services to global hedge funds, resulting in incremental balances of $1 billion and annual net interest revenues of $10 million.• Trained margin control and trade processing account representatives for expanding global clients in the optimal application of customer service, particularly regarding issues for which there was no established procedure.Equity Capital Markets and Corporate Finance – Associate 1985-1989• Designed, implemented, and managed a word processing and market data system on a DEC Minivax for global equities underwriting and an Oracle database management information system for investment banking.• Created Excel spreadsheet that compared the costs to issuers of Goldman Sachs and competitor convertible bond products.

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