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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts

Greater Boston Area

• Served as a functional consultant to Citibank and Great West Life, the company’s main North American clients, assisting with functionality related issues and questions.• Actively involved in Great West Life’s migration from CGI’s MPower platform to Multifonds.• Built a Fund of Funds trading platform for Great West Life that calculates their daily trading activity and directly interfaces with the Canadian FundSERV trading system.• In charge of the migration of funds from Linedata's… Show more • Served as a functional consultant to Citibank and Great West Life, the company’s main North American clients, assisting with functionality related issues and questions.• Actively involved in Great West Life’s migration from CGI’s MPower platform to Multifonds.• Built a Fund of Funds trading platform for Great West Life that calculates their daily trading activity and directly interfaces with the Canadian FundSERV trading system.• In charge of the migration of funds from Linedata's MFACT system to the Multifonds platform for Nottingham Investments.• Analyzed and discussed business requirements for new developments. Communicated specifications to the development team. Tested and validated the final development.• Presented, implemented and trained clients on new functionality in the Multifonds fund accounting platform.• Documented bugs in the software and coordinated patch fixes with the development team.• Performed regression testing on new version releases of the Multifonds software.• Participated in a team spanning the whole organization tasked with improving our platform’s performance to meet stringent deadlines. The team managed to reduce the processing time of 248 funds from 90+ minutes to under 10 minutes.• Acted as the main point of contact for Citibank when they were preparing to perform a major upgrade of the Multifonds fund accounting platform, moving from an older version to the current version without any issues.• Re-organized client’s workflows to take advantage of new features available in newer releases. Show less

Greater Boston Area

• Assumed the additional responsibilities of this position while still performing all of the responsibilities previously held as Unit Manager. • Identified as key staff member by client during the planning phases of IBT/State Street merger. • Responsible for the appropriate selection of staff, daily workflow and the managing of resources in order to meet all deliverables. • Monitored all Unit Managers and Managers to ensure all staff members were being developed properly. •… Show more • Assumed the additional responsibilities of this position while still performing all of the responsibilities previously held as Unit Manager. • Identified as key staff member by client during the planning phases of IBT/State Street merger. • Responsible for the appropriate selection of staff, daily workflow and the managing of resources in order to meet all deliverables. • Monitored all Unit Managers and Managers to ensure all staff members were being developed properly. • Maintained relationships with all clients, internal departments and external parties by addressing all issues and concerns in a timely and accurate manner. • Coordinated the group’s 2007 and 2008 quarterly and semi-annual reporting cycles of all fixed income, emerging market and hedge fund products: meeting and exceeding the established reporting deadlines. • During turnover of some key senior staff, acted as the group’s main resource. • Provided technical expertise on the bank’s accounting system for all staff members • Took over the responsibility of the client group’s custody team, noticeably improving the organization and productivity of the staff. • Developed Microsoft Access based applications to improve the custody team’s reporting capabilities. Show less

Greater Boston Area

Greater Boston Area

• Collaborated with another Unit Manager in supervising a team of 20-25 employees including Account Managers, Senior Accountants and Fund Accountants. • Ensured group goals for the year were met as communicated by senior management. • Worked in several bank wide committees such as the IT/BS&D committee to determine the priority given to pending business application initiatives. • Active member of the amortization committee to improve the bank’s systems’ method of amortizing… Show more • Collaborated with another Unit Manager in supervising a team of 20-25 employees including Account Managers, Senior Accountants and Fund Accountants. • Ensured group goals for the year were met as communicated by senior management. • Worked in several bank wide committees such as the IT/BS&D committee to determine the priority given to pending business application initiatives. • Active member of the amortization committee to improve the bank’s systems’ method of amortizing different security types. • Improved existing relationship with the client’s trading operations and reconciliation departments. • Assisted senior management in improving the year-end reporting cycle with both internal and external auditors. • Turned around the performance of the group in this area from being one of the worst performing groups in the bank to one of the best. • Earned high marks from the client, external auditors and internal auditors in their evaluations. Show less

Greater Boston Area

• Supervised a team of 6-8 fund accountants and 2 senior fund accountants. • Prepared annual performance appraisal and delivered formal reviews for all staff members. • Reviewed and approved all daily work. • Ensured that the group met all daily, weekly and monthly reporting deadlines. • Established good working relationship with our client, addressing any need they might have. • Worked with the client on a daily basis, reconciling fund positions and accounts. • In… Show more • Supervised a team of 6-8 fund accountants and 2 senior fund accountants. • Prepared annual performance appraisal and delivered formal reviews for all staff members. • Reviewed and approved all daily work. • Ensured that the group met all daily, weekly and monthly reporting deadlines. • Established good working relationship with our client, addressing any need they might have. • Worked with the client on a daily basis, reconciling fund positions and accounts. • In charge of the month-end and year-end reporting process. Worked with the bank’s fund administration and financial reporting departments to ensure accurate figures. • Prepared all year end internal and external audit packages. Show less

Greater Boston Area

• Assisted the supervisor in managing a group of 4-5 people, as well as working with the fund auditors and financial reporting department. • Checked fund accountants daily work and assisted on processing special security movements such as name changes, stock splits, mergers, exchanges, calls, swaps, futures and options contracts. • Researched and resolve any discrepancies in funds securities and cash positions. • Analyzed and updated current group procedures in order to gain work… Show more • Assisted the supervisor in managing a group of 4-5 people, as well as working with the fund auditors and financial reporting department. • Checked fund accountants daily work and assisted on processing special security movements such as name changes, stock splits, mergers, exchanges, calls, swaps, futures and options contracts. • Researched and resolve any discrepancies in funds securities and cash positions. • Analyzed and updated current group procedures in order to gain work efficiency and reduce exposure to risk. • Created an excel spreadsheet that incorporates the use of Visual Basic and Bloomberg’s API extension, to check the entire Eaton Vance group of fixed income funds’ interest accruals against what Bloomberg indicated we should have accrued. This greatly minimized the possibility of our funds under or over accruing income, which could potentially lead to a NAV reporting error. • Automated various group processes such as daily cash reporting, trade entry and month end reporting using Visual Basic for applications. • Updated, improved and automated the Failing Trades Reporting and Charitable Trust Funds Net Assets reporting processes, reducing them to a 5 minute process each, down from 1 hour. Show less

Greater Boston Area

• Responsible for the processing and pricing of Eaton Vance mutual funds, as well as daily and month end reporting. • Reconciled group’s futures monthly collateral and daily variation margin positions. • Processed the settlement of Eaton Vance funds net subscriptions and redemptions with the transfer agent. • Worked with client to resolve issues regarding trade settlement, interest accruals, asset and cash reconciliation, as well as any other general concern or discrepancy the… Show more • Responsible for the processing and pricing of Eaton Vance mutual funds, as well as daily and month end reporting. • Reconciled group’s futures monthly collateral and daily variation margin positions. • Processed the settlement of Eaton Vance funds net subscriptions and redemptions with the transfer agent. • Worked with client to resolve issues regarding trade settlement, interest accruals, asset and cash reconciliation, as well as any other general concern or discrepancy the client might have. Show less

Ba, Economics

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