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• Maintenance of reinsurance accounts and collection of letters of credit or trust funds from reinsurers.
• Collection of facultative claims recoveries, as well reconciling, aging and following up on overdue items.
• Preparation of Facultative premium reconciliations on a monthly basis and resolving discrepancies via direct communication with underwriters and/or clients.
• Preparation and reconciliation of the claims sub-ledger to the general ledger.
• Development of various reports for budgeting and expense analysis using COGNOS
• Provision of various training and work process documentation to coworkers and new employees

Toronto, Canada Area

• Preparation of general ledger reconciliations, aging component items and follow-up for timely clearance of outstanding reconciling items with applicable departments.
• Preparation and posting monthly journal entries with detailed cross-referencing and maintenance of general ledger including quarterly conversion process.
• Preparation of detailed working papers and supporting schedules for annual reporting to OSFI
• Preparation of monthly testing to ensure computer interfaces to SAP is performing accurately.
• Preparation of Stats Canada and other ad-hoc reports for internal or external sources as required.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Provision of control, analysis, processing and recording of Treaty accounts into Omega (In-house reinsurance system) for direct client and broker accounts as per the terms of the contract
• Inputting and processing, billing and settlements of accounts for Retrocessionnaires
• Performance of premium and commission adjustments
• Preparation of Facultative reconciliations on monthly basis and resolve differences.
• Preparation of working papers for premiums, commissions and claims for Property and Casualty (P&C2) on a quarterly and annual basis.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Preparation of the company’s entire financial statements on a monthly basis.
• Preparation of Property and Casualty (P&C2) reports on a quarterly and annual basis
• Completion of the Test of Adequacy on a monthly basis
• Reconciliation of reinsurance accounts and collection of outstanding balances
• Provision of variance analysis of expense and balance sheet accounts versus budget.
• Preparation of expense budgeting and forecasting

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Accounting And Information Technology, Honours

Achieved a Bachelor of Applied Business Administration in Accounting and Information Technology in May 2012

Certificate, Accounting/Information Tech

Graduated from the Accounting and Information Technology Program with Honours in November 2010

Financial Management Co-Op Program

Courses included: Intermediate Accounting, Cost Accounting, Economics, Corporate Finance, Accounting Information Systems, Quantitative.