Portfolio Accountant Resume/CV

              

Portfolio Accountant Resume/CV

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Experienced Business Professional with more than 20 years related to developing the General Ledger Accounting and Portfolio Accounting processes for trading firms.

A strategic thinker and experienced manager with a Business background yet highly Technical Savvy.  A track record of planning, strategizing and executing company’s business plans to achieve specified goals and equally skilled to effectively manage day-to-day challenges.

Professionally served firms in the Investment Management and Financial Services domains with a compounded experience in Business Development, Sales/Pre Sales, Project Management, Business Consulting, Team Building/Management, Professional Services Management, Account Management, Software Development, System Analysis etc. around technologies of Order Management Systems, Order Routing, FIX Engines, Asset/Portfolio/Fund Management Solutions and Market Feed Systems.

CAREER SUMMARY

Sparta Technologies
Dubai, UAE
Senior Manager
Served nearly two years.

• Determined internal training program to certify new employees on Advent products.
• Developed project requirements through data gathering efforts.
• Document reporting requirements for off site developers.
• Integrate Portfolio Accounting process with separate General Ledger accounting for various clients (Insurance, Banking and Investment Managers).

Siscom
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Manager Business Systems Consulting
Served approximately five and a half years.

• Developed the Investment Management Solutions team at SISCOM responsible for Pre-Sales, Implementation, Support and Project Management (Advent APX, Moxy, Tradex etc.)
• Certified Consultant on Advent’s APX and Moxy.
• Project Management of Portfolio Management Solution implementations at Investment firms throughout Saudi Arabia including JADWA Investments, Public Pension Agency, KSB Capital, ANB Invest and Al-Khabeer.
• Financial skill development across business functions for Technical members of the team.
• Extensively involved in doing presentations, demonstrations, preparing response to RFIs/RFPs.

Self Employed
Houston, Texas USA
Contract Project Manager
Served one year.

• Acted as project manager to implement Advent Axys and Moxy for a SEC Registered Investment Advisor.
• Coordinated data conversion, implementation and training for the investment accounting and trading system across throughout the firm.
• Redeveloped the trade process to enhance the firm’s trade policy compliance with Moxy.
• Trained Investment Advisors on investment performance topics to enhance client communication opportunities.

Empresa Technology Group
Houston, Texas USA
Manager/Analyst Investment Accounting Group
Served seven years.

• Managed a team of accountants which served as an outsourced investment accounting department for a two billion dollar investment program.
• The portfolio was roughly 60% fixed income (including Treasury, MBS, CMO, Convertible and Corporate) and 40% equity/mutual funds with holdings at over 200 trustee banks.
• Our group consolidated and calculated the IRR and TWR for portfolios and composites covering various strategies and benchmarks.
• Developed a database that dynamically integrates external data sources into formatted data that Axys can post without rekeying data.

Koch Industries
Wichita, Kansas USA
Energy Trade Analyst
Served just over one year.

• Provide refined products traders with position reporting on a deal by deal basis, ensure accurate mark-to-market methodology is reflected on position reports, risk assessment and segregation of the individual risk bits, decision making support, and profitability analysis.
• Facilitated pricing issues and the settlement of physical contracts, swaps and options.
• System testing of swap contracts while transitioning trading book to new accounting structure.
• Coordinated contract administration, systems consulting, and inventory reconciliation issues. 

INVESCO Funds Group
Denver, Colorado USA
Compliance Associate
Served just over one year.

• Research and monitor mutual fund holdings for compliance with Statement of Additional Information and SEC regulations.
• Audit legal files for compliance with state Blue Sky regulations.  Preparation of local 13G and 13F disclosure reports for SEC.
• Communicate compliance requirements to departments throughout INVESCO ensuring the investments followed the communicated guidelines.

INVESCO Funds Group
Denver, Colorado USA
Portfolio Accountant
Served one and half years.

• Calculate NAV of mutual funds with an inflexible daily NASDAQ reporting deadline.
• Project and monitor cash requirements for redemptions, transfers and the purchase of short term investments.
• Calculate the daily interest income for a variety of fixed income investments.
• Work with custodian bank on issues related to corporate actions and the reconciliation of foreign tax withholding issues.

ACADEMICS

• University of Colorado at Denver, Denver CO. Graduated with Masters of Science in Accounting, December 1997.
• December 1997. University of Reading, Reading UK. Graduated with MSc International Securities, Investment and Banking, July 1997.
• Arizona State University, Tempe AZ. Graduated with Bachelor of Science with an Accounting major, May 1993.

CERTIFICATIONS & TRAININGS

• Certified Consultant on Advent Moxy, by Advent EMEA in 2011
• Certified Consultant on Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX) by Advent EMEA in 2007
• Pass Colorado CPA Exam 1994
• Conviser Duffy CPA Review Course 1993