• Prepared and presented all Hard to Value Fixed Income and Equity securities held in the funds to the Valuation Committee on a daily basis.• Assisted the team in designing and creating the Custodian Inbox in the EPM system, leading to a centralization of all backup and eliminating paper documentation. Further assisted in testing and design of new modules, which interfaced with vendor websites to retrieve daily pricing data.• Trained new colleagues remotely in both San Antonio, Pune, and Nashville as processes were moved to those teams.• Worked to insure we correctly identified the illiquid securities per SEC 22(e)(4) in our portfolios on a monthly basis for review by the Valuation Committee.• Validated internal control reports pertaining to ASC 820 levels (FAS 157 leveling) on a periodic basis.

• Reviewed, analyzed, and oversaw the Multi Manager Asset Strategy portfolio to ensure that the variances were in line and to escalate to the sub-managers of the funds for any valuation issue.• Tested a new pricing system, Enterprise Pricing Master, which eventually replaced the older Best Pricing system. • Recognized with a REACH award, which recognizes innovation and leadership in technology.• Worked on the Custodian file, which is a list of internal fixed income and hard to value securities sent to the custodians daily with a hard SLA.• Provided backup for internal and external audit requests.

• Ran and completed daily unpriced reports and resolved all unpriced securities, excluding derivatives.• Prepared documentation for all items sent to custodians.

• Ran and completed daily unpriced reports and resolved all unpriced securities, excluding derivatives.• Wrote procedures for daily and weekly processes to aid in documenting workflow.

• Recovered, reconstructed and reconciled accounting transactions.• Researched and prepared numerous reports consolidating information from Bloomberg, Edgar, LexisNexis, and other information sources.s.

HR Block Tax Offices - Multiple offices in BrooklynResponsible for providing tax expertise and service to clients.

Responsible for updating performance and assets under management for numerous funds (70-120 funds) on a weekly and monthly basis; liased with fund administrators and banks to assist accountants in calculating proper strike prices for funds.

Performed numerous forensic accounting functions to assist in preparing Statement of Financial Assets for REFCO bankruptcy including categorizing over 12,000 Proofs of Claim into appropriate categories, analyzing and parsing unorganized electronic ledger data of 30,000 into more useful MS Excel data files, and validating client ledger data with third party electronic data using MS Access.

Reconciled cash and capital accounts and on a daily, monthly, and quarterly basis; updated security, quantity, commission, and trade/settle dates of up to 500 trades daily; tested and ensured smooth upgrades to the accounting systems; and maintained the accounting database.

Reconciled cash to bank balances for Domestic and Foreign Equity Mutual Funds.Verified and processed corporate actions to calculate new NAV numbers on a timely basis to be published in major news papers.