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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Manage and develop internal centers of excellence model for loan settlement teams across investment operation offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Mumbai for syndicated, direct lending, and private bank debt.• Oversee and collaborate with service providers in loan closing and servicing teams in New York and Mumbai. • Interact with multiple layers of management teams and cross-communications amongst firm stakeholders to optimize internal processes and vendor deliverables.• Manage strategic partnerships with accounting teams, fund administrators, and custodian/trustees for all portfolio-specific activity and issues. • Resolve trade flow exceptions, review aged trades, lead broker calls, and oversee end of day processes.• Monitor settlement related cash and position break resolution. Provide root cause analysis for weekly review and tracking with service provider.• Report KPIs for loan trade volume, settlement times, aged status, and booking errors.• Maintain SOPs and oversee the training of new team members. Partner with HR and internal teams to hire strategic roles and intern/summer co-ops.• Identify areas for process improvement and standardization for across different business lines. • Complete special projects with internal stakeholders such as in-kind transfers, warehouse closings and liquidations, and new OMS feature rollouts.• Actively participate on LSTA buyside calls, stay current on new industry guidelines and vendor product features.

Los Angeles, California, Us

• Manage settlement and servicing teams in investment operations for syndicated and private bank debt.• Act as liaison for traders, credit analysts, investment compliance, and internal teams in operations.• Onboard new accounts in internal and vendor systems for loan trading, settlement, and servicing.• Provide reporting and oversight on settlement issues, special projects like CLO warehouse and liquidation. • Track bank debt amendments, restructures with front office. Ensure the accurate processing of credit events in internal systems and vendor systems. • Prepare data table and footnote commentary on investor letters for direct lending loans on a quarterly basis.• Work closely with client reporting, performance attribution, pricing, and reconciliation teams to resolve discrepancies daily.• Reconcile contract details for loan rollovers, P&I, and month-end accruals.• Conduct research for cash/position/market value reconciliation exceptions.• Complete annual SOC1 audit requests.• Raise report and system enhancement requests, participate in acceptance testing, and provide sign-off for loan related projects.

London, Gb

• Provide operational support to asset managers engaged in Fixed Income, Mortgage, Credit, Distressed, Long/Short, Emerging markets, and Fund of Funds investment strategies.• Serve and effectively coordinate as liaison between clients, prime brokers/counterparties, trustees, and custodians.• Manage settlement teams supporting middle and back office for the following products: equity, fixed income, swaps, bank debt, futures, commodities, options, and FX.• Maintain cash and trade projections for client portfolios representing over 50 billion in assets.• Facilitate the daily process of trade allocation, confirmation, contract agreement, and settlement.• Address and research cash / position / market value reconciliation exceptions.• Conduct accrual discrepancy resolution for quarter-end NAV reporting requirements.• Prepare monthly statistics for comparison to current market standards to help identify improvement areas.• Oversee, review tasks and deliverables prepared by staff members.• Train and monitor the progress of settlement teams in Mumbai, New York, and Los Angeles.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

• Provide custodian and fund administration services to onshore and offshore hedge fund partnerships, fund of hedge funds, and private equity portfolios representing over 5.2 billion USD in assets.• Manage monthly reporting of net asset valuations and document custody servicing for clients contributing up to 72% of total revenue for fund of hedge fund services.• Onboard new clients and ensure seamless custodian transition of underlying assets. Setup fund activity reporting worksheets, and build billing models according to each fund’s governing LPA.• Consolidate revenue projections for management. Investigate discrepancies and provide commentary in monthly accrual reports for billing forecasting.• Prepare ad hoc portfolio, performance and fee reports as requested by hedge fund manager and investors.• Assist in special projects such as key performance metrics reporting and cost savings analysis.• Coordinate periodic internal and external audit reviews across various fund services groups.• Delegate the transition of document custody servicing to more cost effective centers offshore as per KPI results.• Consult and mentor client services administrators by supporting direct reports with resources and guidance.• Optimize client relationships while acting as liaison for general partners, investors and fund administrators.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

• Oversee and support operational functions for CDO portfolios representing over 3.8 billion USD in structured credit assets.• Facilitate corporate trustee services for collateralized debt obligation portfolios comprised of ABS, MBS commercial paper, and syndicated loans. • Manage clients and act as the primary point of contact for issuers, underwriters, custodians, and investors.• Reconcile fund collections and interest projections for monthly compliance and quarterly note valuation reports.• Compute and evaluate collateral profile tests, collateral quality tests, and concentration limitations.• Analyze hypothetical trade performance for overall portfolio impact with regards to asset purchases and sells.• Research daily breaks between trustee and portfolio management extracts and resolve position discrepancies to ensure accuracy of cash flow projections. • Troubleshoot and improve on existing distribution models according to specifics of each indenture.• Correspond with collateral managers, legal counsel, investors, and operations contacts daily; ensure timely information flow in special projects such as acceleration and liquidation.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Corporate financial analysis in selling and general adminstration.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Provide primary financial support for internal business areas within the Countrywide subsidiary, Balboa Insurance Company.• Responsible for budgeting/forecasting, establishing financial targets, evaluating historic and existing trends, performing model enhancements, and creating strategic plans.• Develop annual operating plan and quarterly financial highlight presentations for executive management.• Consolidate revenue projections for management. Investigate discrepancies and provide commentary in monthly accrual reports for billing forecasting.• Perform monthly expense research and accrual reconciliation, along with explanations for variance analysis.• Administer special development projects and analysis as needed. Projects involving evaluation of relocation expenses by cost center, and overhead expense analysis.