Ryan Finnson, Cpa, Cma Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Direct and lead two simultaneous priorities including fund administration activities and corporate strategic initiatives. Responsible for a wide array of fund structures and asset types, including accuracy and timeliness of daily net asset values for mutual funds, institutional segregated funds, and incubator funds. As a strategist, work closely with senior staff to develop, implement, and monitor service performance standards. Aligning people, processes, and technology to create a simple, scalable, efficient platform for growth. Actively involved to ensure appropriate controls and checks are in place to achieve consistently superior results. Maintain collaborative relationships with clients to exceed expectations, quickly resolve issues, and actively seek to recognize and seize new opportunities.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Directed all aspects of MGI Canada’s fund administration, implementation, and daily operation functions. Supervise the Centralized and Client Implementation teams by assigning, directing, and evaluating team activities including day to day client account reconciliation, capital call administration; client onboarding, sub-advisor change implementation. Develop and foster relationships and manage service quality with external parties including service providers for Middle Office, Transfer Agency and Fund Accounting, Software vendors, Clients, Client custodians, Sub-advisors. Work closely with managers to align people, technology, and workflows to achieve processing efficiencies, accuracy, and cost reduction.

London, Canada Area

Direct 3 teams responsible for a broad range of functions, including accounting, valuations, financial and client reporting, treasury, performance measurement and management, information technology, and database maintenance supporting AGF Management Limited and its subsidiaries, worth over $30 billion in assets under management. Oversee employee management from hiring, training, compensation, performance evaluation, career development to work distribution, and project management. Key Contributions include:• Led the development of new pricing and valuation processes for 80 institutional, pooled and segregated funds. Utilizing SQL, VBA, and Bloomberg to streamline the process while developing enhanced controls. As a result, we were able to reduce number of full time equivalent employees required in the process by two and redistributed their efforts to other areas of the company.• Played a leading role in the creation and launch of 7 exchange traded funds (ETFs), allowing AGF to enter the Canadian ETF market for the first time. Coordinated with the Investment Management team on the structure of the new investment vehicle, then implemented and coordinated with brokers, internal departments, administrators, custodians, and external service providers. The successful launch led to an additional $245 million in assets under management. • Achieved the removal and replacement proprietary legacy systems with more integrated and dynamic systems including our client management system. Worked with industry leaders, service providers and internal departments to identify and implement industry best practices. Reduced software and servicing costs while better establishing ourselves for future growth and integration across departments and companies.

Directed key operational processes for over 120 funds worth more than $30 billion in assets under management. Processes include accounting, pricing and valuations, variance analysis, month-end and year-end closing, reconciliations, financial reporting, cash management, performance measurement, risk measurement, database maintenance, and business continuity planning for a wide range of investments products, strategies and structures. Managed team operations from hiring, training, performance evaluation, compensation, career development and conflict resolution of 10 direct reports as well as work distribution, project management and supervision of daily relationships with internal and external parties. Supervised and approved semi-annual financial statements for 11 pooled funds, monthly client specific reporting, and internal corporate reporting.Key contributions include:•Developed the investment finance department as part of our strategic initiatives, building a team from 2 accountants to a team of 10 diverse individuals in order to successfully scale operations to handle over 120 funds. Hands on leadership cultivated a culture of high performance and fostered a proactive environment of innovation. •Coordinated with the Investment Management team on the implementation and structuring of new investment funds including coordinating with clients, internal departments, fund administrators, transfer agents, custodians, brokers and external service providers, successfully launching 11 derivative based sub-advisory funds worth over $700 million in assets.•Successfully implemented Bloomberg AIM, seamlessly integrating the portfolio management, trading and operations platform into our current operations. Streamlining our front, middle and back-office process flows while enhancing data feeds for pricing, trading, and corporate actions. •Organized with Internal and External Auditors, Governance and Compliance on ISAE 3402 and GIPS audits.

London, Canada Area

Directed the execution of fund accounting and valuation activities including timely and accurate net assets values, yields, distributions, benchmark and variance analysis, month-end and year-end closing, reconciliations, trade life cycle, cash and collateral management for over 50 pooled, institutional and segregated funds. Prepared and reviewed reports including working papers for semi-annual financial statements, client specific reports, and internal corporate reports. Key contributions include: •Played a leading role in the implementation of a new investment management platform. Centralized fund accounting, valuations, portfolio management, fund performance, client and financial reporting activities for $30 billion of assets under management. Resolved complex integration issues while designing business processes and ensured modernized controls were in place to mitigate risk factors identified during the process. •Automated asset and bank reconciliations, cash projections and cash management functions by utilizing VBA solutions, effectively supporting over 50 funds with greater efficiency and accuracy.•Collaborated with Senior Management and Investment Management teams to develop and implement key initiatives including cash projection analysis, asset allocation tools for $6 billion in assets under management and straight through processing of equity options and currency hedging for 14 derivative enhanced funds.•Developed and implemented new investment operation procedures, controls and system enhancements ensuring compliance with internal and external guidelines, policies and regulations while utilizing the industry’s best practices.

London, Canada Area

•Researched and analyzed financial and investment information: company profiles, yields, stock and bond prices and other investment information to provide advice to clients on investment selection.•Calculated adjusted cost bases and tax consequences and advantages for equity compensation plans and retirement plans.

London, Canada Area

•Answered client questions regarding their retirement program. (Group RSP, Pension, Profit Sharing)•Prepared and processed investment transactions and rebalanced accounts.

Honours Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science And Business Administration

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