Senior financial accounting manager for several strategic client relationships. Managed several accounting teams that provided daily, monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting.Primary responsibilities:• Prepared detailed financial statements for corporate and public defined benefit and defined contribution plans, personal trusts, partnerships, endowments and foundations.• Analyzed transactions and significant changes to key general ledger accounts to determine impacts on balance sheet and income statements.• Prepared quarterly and annual federal and state tax filings including 5500, 990/990T, K1 and 1099.• Reviewed all activity and transactions supporting the financial statements to ensure conformity with GAAP, IFRS and other internal and external accounting policies and procedures.• Conducted ongoing reviews and self-testing of all internal controls to ensure compliance with SOX 404.• Maintained a multi-basis cost accounting of all assets to support GAAP, tax and statutory reporting.• Supported internal operational reviews to ensure a successful Type II SAS 70 / SSAE 16 report.• Provided timely reporting to support FAS 157 fair value balance sheet reporting and level 3 roll forward report and supporting FAS 132R disclosures.Accomplishments:• Redesigned, streamlined and automated investment accounting operations that reduced the month end reporting cycle by 50%.• Leveraged LEAN and Six Sigma methodologies as part of continuous improvement efforts that consistently resulted in cost savings of 10% each year.• Managed a project to transition a number of daily and monthly accounting operations to an offshore joint venture resulting in a 25% annualized cost savings.• Simplified reporting of key risk indicators for managers that resulted in a significant reduction in operating losses each year.• Led project to build custom daily reporting to support derivatives exposure and collateral values for an asset manager client.

Client service and financial accounting manager for a multi-national client relationship with over $120B in assets under administration. • Performed daily reconciliation of key general ledger accounts and took action to reduce aged exceptions.• Oversaw all aspects of the monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting cycles and consistently delivered timely and accurate reporting to clients.• Calculated expense ratios and posted adjusting entries daily to monitor variance to budgets.• Led a project team that streamlined operational effectiveness resulting in 50% reduction in the number of cash exceptions reported daily.• Streamlined the process for daily cash sweep leveraging a multi-layer process that allowed investment manager to trade more effectively and earlier in the day.