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New York, New York, United States

Serves as the main point of contact on multiple client relationships, independently on-boards new clients and participates in cross team projects. Focuses on traditional middle office responsibilities, such as trade closing, valuations, and cash break resolution. Takes ownership of customized client requests, actively engages in internal development initiative. Maintains loan product knowledge to input, review, analyze and process syndicated bank loan portfolios.Selected Contributions:• Utilizes credit agreements, funding memos and Bloomberg Terminals to set up new loan facilities in HedgeServ’s proprietary database system.• Monitors and processes all corporate actions provided by agent banks, such as, pay-downs, draw-downs, commitment reductions, interest rate changes and conversions. Obtains updated loan and contract details through direct interaction with the Agent Bank or client. • Extensive experience collaborating within a diverse international team, providing support to clients across different time zones, while consistently meeting quarter and month end deadlines.• Reviews trade confirmations, assignment agreements, and participation docs to ensure accuracy of client trades• Ensures accuracy of buy and sell trades by referencing client documentation in ClearPar and related systems. This includes the following trades: (LSTA, LMA, PAR, distressed, primary, secondary, and total return swaps)

New Castle County, Delaware, United States

Engages in timely research of cash, position, payable/receivable, and other reconciliation breaks using proprietary software and Microsoft Office programs. Organizes, prepares and stores evidence to support the proposed matching of reconciliation breaks for further review. Selected Contributions:• Obtains approvals for break clearances while maintaining quality and efficiency during the matching process. • Identifies root causes of breaks and further develops on opportunities to improve automated break matching procedures in the future.• Investigates ad hoc queries related to cash breaks using Vlookup and Pivot tables in Excel• Creates and maintains Macros in excel for ease of data sorting and presentation• Identifies risks and issues during the break investigation process in order to escalate them to the proper team leads.• Completes regular metrics reporting to senior management by developing Macros to save time and increase efficiency

Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States

- Assists in various administrative activities including but not limited to: multiple tracking efforts, calendaring, communication with stakeholders, certification process owner, process set up and archiving.- Conducts research, handling information requests and performing clerical functions, while providing high-level administrative support by, preparing reports, memos, and other documents.- Files and retrieves corporate documents, and records. Analyzes incoming memos, submissions, and reports to determine their significance and plan their distribution.

Wilmington, De

• Creates and distributes reports detailing shareholder activity• Validates and authorizes large trade notices to Portfolio Managers, including entry and removal of estimates into a dashboard for Portfolio Management and Risk review• Monitors daily cash flows for offshore Money Markets to ensure accuracy of reporting to Portfolio Management based in the U.S.• Reviews prospectuses associated with new fund launches and annual prospectus updates to ensure operations and transfer agent data is accurately represented• Coordinates regulatory mailings and special shareholder communications with specific transfer agents and mail houses• Resolves day to day operational queries, issues and incidents relating to the transfer agent functions• Reviews financial statements (annual/semi-annual), and transfer agent related data• Maintains and updates written procedures

Malvern, Pa

• Calculates and maintains cost basis information for client holdings using proprietary software programs in accordance with Internal Revenue Service regulations and established Vanguard legal requirements.• Analyzes historical records and information provided by clients and other investment firms in order to reconstruct and verify the accuracy of cost basis information.• Assesses corporate actions and determines the resulting cost basis implications. Validates systematically generated output to ensure accuracy and makes adjustments when disparities occur.• Audits the accuracy of completed cost basis calculations and provides coaching and feedback to associates in order to continuously improve department quality metrics.Communicates with clients and internal business partners to provide updates on the status of their requests and/or solicit additional information through composing written correspondence and outcalls.• Communicates with internal and external clients to assist with problem identification and acts as a subject matter expert to provide insight into cost basis related issues. This includes staffing a department hotline and responding to inquiries related to client cases.• Analyzes processes and workflows for potential efficiency enhancements. Makes recommendations to management and Crew Empowerment representatives and participates in action steps required to implement process improvements.• Participates in periodic audits of statements, tax forms, and software elevations to ensure accuracy of information and system functionality. Associates are expected to elevate inconsistencies to appropriate parties for investigation and resolution.

North Wales

Applied the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) to the analysis of client provided gross receipts from both C and S type corporation clients to calculate fair market values and retained information in appropriate databases. Determined the current value of clients business based on initial stock calculations.Selected Contributions:• Documented and maintained information pertaining to employee benefit plans needed to prepare annual reports (form 5500).• Provided up to date knowledge of the organization’s retirement plan policies and procedures.• Obtained an understanding of various products offered by Benetrends such as Rainmaker, banking, rollover contributions, compliance, fair market values, and participant testing. • Conducted an inter-departmental training seminar on how to calculate fair market values to foster a working relationship between internal departments in an effort to provide efficient, and seamless opportunities and service to our clients.

Master'S Degree, Global History

Bachelor'S Degree, Professional Studies

Economics, Business Geographical Information Systems, and Applied Ethics concentration