Joe Steinman, Ms In Finance Email & Phone Number

Clearwater, Fl, Us

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Act as key representative for the Financial Risk Infrastructure Data Management Organization at Citi, helping to shape the future of the Finance and Risk organizations. Working with Citi reporting teams to improve data quality impacting U.S. and Local Regulatory Reporting, Liquidity Reporting, Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR), and Risk (Basel 2). • Served as delegate for the global Loans Director at project meetings to facilitate the completion of over 100 Data Quality projects, helping to shape the future of the Finance and Risk organizations. • Presented most of the Loans projects to the CFO Attestation Committee, clarifying issues and questions on each project so senior leadership could assess the Regulatory impacts and compensating controls for each project, as required by the Bank Regulators. • Monitored Data Quality through the use of “Scorecard” metrics, and reviewed the Critical Data Elements requested by the reporting teams to ensure the requests adhered to global accounting standards.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Pilot Bank is a full service Florida bank with assets over $361M. The bank provides retail, commercial, and investment services to individuals, businesses, and institutions in the greater Tampa Bay and Lakeland areas.Responsible for Regulatory Reporting, Management Reporting, budgets, and implementing new accounting systems for the bank.  • Produced all schedules of the quarterly Call Report and FR2900, and submitted the results to the Fed. Handled all Fed communications. The schedules were heavily scrutinized by the Federal and State examiners in 2015 and 2016, as well as the external auditors, with no findings noted • Served as finance/ accounting lead in the implementation of the bank’s new operating system [Jack Henry/ Silverlake], including coordinating the implementation of the General Ledger, all Call Report schedules, FR2900, and the Management Reporting System [Profitstar]. • Responsible for the Accounting and Finance reports for the monthly Board Meetings, including graphs, ratios, financial reports, and analytics. Automated all reporting processes, reducing processing time by over 50%. • Responsible for developing the Bank’s budgets and forecasts, and the monthly Management Reports. • Prepared ratios, schedules, cash flows, and analytics for the Asset Liability Management [ALM] meetings. • Responsible for preparing the quarterly Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses [ALLL]. • Assisted the Accounting, Loan, and Deposit Operations groups in resolving General Ledger balancing and suspense exceptions, and processing correcting entries. • Generated numerous data queries [Cognos] for the Call Report, Accounting, Loan and Deposit Operations, the auditors and examiners, FASB analysis, and ALM, always providing reconciliations and checks-and-balances to key proof totals. 

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Active member of the Financial Executives Networking Group [FENG]. • Published two financial articles in the FENG Newsletter distributed worldwide to 48,000 CEO's, Controllers, and Financial Leaders.

Saint Petersburg, Florida

Responsible for the General Ledger accounting, financial reporting, expenses, budgets, and variance/product analysis for two companies overseeing $66 billion in assets. • Managed the Accounting Operations and Invoice Processing functions, in compliance with SOX. • Responsible for oversight of the division's staff and operating expenses, and reporting fluctuations to the Divisional Controller/ CFO and the Corporate Office. • Responsible for all management reporting and budgeting for the division. • Prepared SOX and audit materials for the auditors and partnered with leadership in consistently meeting audit and SEC requirements.  • Developed operational efficiencies by leading teams in automating reporting and accounting processes, including the development of a Hyperion/ Essbase Cube database used extensively for mutual fund reporting, and development of management, financial, expense and budget systems. The automation accelerated most deliverables on the monthly closing schedule by over one week. • Managed an accounting conversion project of a major merger involving $12 billion in mutual fund assets, meeting all SEC reporting and accounting requirements and achieving a seamless process. • Promoted within first year based on outstanding performance in producing daily, monthly, and annual reports for mutual funds. Functions included pricing, transactions for insurance-policy accounting systems and audits.

California, Florida

Owner of a startup company engaged in projects relating to media production. • Served as a contract employee to assist Capitol Records in implementing their new Project Accounting System. Improved automation and accuracy in tracking the financial performance of every past and current recording artist on the company’s roster. • Produced the theme song for a hit TV show in Germany, which also received placements on a compilation album with major artists as well as an exercise film. • Completed accounting contract assignments within public municipalities, construction / property management and equipment leasing.

Los Angeles, California

Leader of major accounting and reporting projects at the corporate headquarters. Approximate project budgets: $1.0 - $4.0 million; 100% success rate. • Planned and led a multi-company General Ledger implementation project, and resolved a critical mainframe application issue, addressing all contingencies. Recognized by the management for team leadership and outstanding results with all key deliverables completed.  • Led a company-wide Bank Operations Project comprised of a 33 member project team, chartered to modify the MICR encoding fields for thousands of daily transactions to improve management reporting and the tracking of metrics across 1,500 banking offices and back office operations. Directed the high-profile weekly team meetings which included participation by the Bank’s executive leadership team. • Served as project lead on the multi-million dollar Bank Merger of two Fortune 500 companies, facilitating the seamless integration of the payroll and benefits systems, general ledgers, organization and mail codes, and various general ledger applications. • Developed a new management reporting system which delivered vital monthly information faster to all managers, thus enabling the executive team to respond more rapidly to significant financial events.  • Managed the GL support team responsible for maintaining the bank’s General Ledgers [Financial Control System-FCS, and Management Science America-MSA], ensuring smooth daily General Ledger processing.

Los Angeles, California

Responsible for preparing the Consolidated Bank Income Statement, Balance Sheet, audit materials, and other schedules utilized for the bank’s published Financials and Regulatory Reporting. • Prepared the high-profile, daily “flash” Balance Sheet report used by the Executive Committee to make major daily decisions on satisfying capital requirements and investing available cash balances. Decisions involved the movement of billions of dollars of cash in a single day. • Automated a number of key manual processes which exponentially increased productivity. This resulted in outstanding marks for employee reviews and frequent promotions.

Master'S Degree, Finance

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration/ Accounting