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Ireland

Providing a full financial planning service to clients including, life assurance and serious illness benefit, pensions, investments, succession planning and commercial insurance.Developing new business and managing existing client relationships.Conducting periodic reviews on existing customer base.Implementing lead generating initiatives and marketing programs.

County Limerick, Ireland

Thinking strategically and creatively to provide solutions and alternative approaches for issues and gaps, in particular for Fund Accounting and other downstream users.Liaising with a Global Team of Consultants to assist in providing solutions to advanced asset coding issues and shortcomings in an efficient and timely manner. Reviewing daily and weekly workloads and allocating out among colleagues on the local Team. Liaising with Managers and Team Leaders on the Global Asset Coding Team to delegate and co-ordinate bulk setup requests out among global locations on receipt of transitions in requests.Chairing monthly conference calls with Representatives from Global Fund Accounting and Corporate Actions Teams. Providing solutions to issues as raised on the calls or further working with my own Global Team to assist in providing solutions.Developed an understanding of Data Vendors including industry trends and how data is sourced into Northern Trust Security Master. Taking ownership of project deliverables and providing regular, timely updates to Management on projects.

County Limerick, Ireland

Provision of Asset Coding service to Traditional & Hedge Fund Accounting and Corporate Action teams. Prompt and efficient turnaround of new set up requests in order to meet SLA’s and tight deadlines.The maintenance and upgrade of Asset Coding automation spreadsheets that facilitate the coding of Assets which use the vendors Bloomberg and/ or IDC.Review and maintenance of Asset Coding procedural documents and cheatsheets. Drafting up of procedural documents for new assets types that are to fall into the remit of the ARD Asset Coding team.Liaising with Fund Accounting representatives on monthly Security Champion meetings. Communicating Fund Accountings concerns and requirements back to the ARD Asset Coding team and ensuring these concerns and requirements are addressed.

County Limerick, Ireland

Strong working knowledge attained of various Fund structures including Stand alone, Umbrealla/ Master Feeder/ Multi Manager/ Multi Class/ Multi Currency Funds. High level of experience attained in the liquidation and creation of new share classes and complex hedging.As part of a parallel team I was involved in the transitioning in of Barclays Funds from BOISS to Northern Trust. Investigation of valuation differences between valuations provided by BOISS and those calculated by Northern Trust as part of parallel process. Setting up of new asset classes and expense lines for the new Funds that transitioned into Northern Trust.Final review of Net Assets Valuations and reporting back to those preparing such valuations on where amendments may be required.Co-ordination of resources to ensure Net Asset Valuation deadlines were not missed.Review and implementation of expense budgets, working closely with Financial Reporting on the preparation of budgets. Preparation of financial statements and other ongoing reporting requirements on a periodic basis.Regular attendance to represent my team at Business Process Analyst meetings. Using the meetings as a forum to discuss system issues as experienced by my Team, in order to find solutions and workarounds. Communication back to my team of solutions and system upgrades and changes as circulated in Business Process Analyst meetings.As part of a Hedge Fund Accounting team my primary responsibility was the accurate and timely preparation of Net Asset Valuations to high standard.Liaising with Clients and providing prompt and accurate responses to their ad hoc queries and working on solutions for their specific requirements with colleagues. Investigation of and reporting back to Clients on differences between their own system generated valuation figures and those provided by Northern Trust.Time management, preparation of staff allocations and delegation of tasks between colleagues as necessitated.

Wexford

The preparation of both indicative and final Net Asset Valuations to pre-determined deadlines. Review and maintenance of cash, stock and fx reconciliations – querying and resolving breaks with the relevant parties.Review of Fund transactions such as security trading, investor activity, cash activity and expense/ income payments. Ensuring income accruals and Corporate Actions are properly accounted for and validated.Completion of manual calculations such as Fund performance fee calculations and expense accruals.NAV impact analysis and the review and justification of price movements including stale/ static prices.Ensuring that ad hoc Client/ Auditor/ Trustee queries and requests are responded to in a timely and efficient manner. Attained the ability to understand and interpret Fund Accounting terminology and legal documentation such as Fund Prospectus, Service Level Agreements and Pricing PoliciesAdherence to internal controls and SLA’s.

Qualified Financial Advisor, Business

Regulations, Life Assurance, Pensions, Investments, Loans

Bachelor'S Degree In Business Studies, Accounting And Finance

Activities and Societies: Member of the Student Union

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