Kara Midgett Email & Phone Number

Clayton, Missouri, United States

• Record bank deposits in QuickBooks, ensuring accurate financial records• Make timely payments to partners and vendors • Review and uploaded commissions• Assist in month-end closing journal entries • Investigate issues arising from Salesforce and Commissions Department integration, ensuring seamless processing • Ensure compliance with GAAP and FINRA

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Managed payroll for all Financial Advisors, ensuring accurate and timely payments.• Collaborated with HR, Operations, and Accounting departments for seamless payroll processing.• Calculated commissions, revenue sharing, and employee reimbursements for FA payroll.• Worked with the best financial advisors and home office staff at Benjamin F. Edwards.• Processed upfront and backend recruiting bonuses including preparation of bonus and loan agreements and amortization tables and calculations. • Worked closely with the branch department to smoothly implement retirement agreements for both buyers and sellers including setting up payments, reductions, look backs, loan repayments, reamortizations, etc.• Processed Payroll portion of new hire on boarding and off boarding terminations and retirements. • Work closely with director of FA training program to properly set up FA trainees, ensure smooth transition to FA, and track progress through the program ensuring hurdles and salaries are on the intended timeline. • Track commission hurdles for all FAs and adjust when necessary. • Monitor IP splits to assure commissions are paid correctly despite transactions being entered before or after the split is completely set up with all accounts. • Monitor advisory fees hit the correct accounts and IPs for all quarters. • Monitor salary contributions are always up to date despite changing splits, IPs, terminations, new hires, transfers, etc. • Worked with team to process direct business to ensure commissions and trails were coded correctly and received timely. • Assisted in training team on recognizing and understanding various types of securities and how to research account information, product information, carrier information, etc.

Greater St. Louis Area

•Reconcile loan system and general ledger for month end•Enter journal entries to reclass cash received to appropriate receivable or revenue accounts•Actively create adjustment entries to correct system errors•Research aged issues in receivable and liability accounts•Assist Financial Advisors with questions about their recruiting loans and bonuses•Represent department as a member of the Employee Advisory Council

Greater St. Louis Area

•Sell securities to accommodate withdrawals or changes to the portfolio model•Process cash and security withdrawals and deposits for DMA brokerage accounts•Answer inquiries from money managers and financial advisors by email and over the phone•Advise Financial Advisors on appropriate options to meet the clients’ needs•Design and create Excel Spreadsheets and Access Databases as needed within the department•Periodically maintain, review, and update the DMA manager database•Actively seek to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and speed of processes within the department•Work to enforce compliance regulations and limit risk to the company, department, and client•Voted Department Advocate of the Month for the ONTAP Program•Awarded Team Member of the Month through Excellence First Program

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Acocunting

Activities and Societies: Beta Alpha Psi, Student Ambassadors

Accounting