Experienced, knowledgeable and diligent Financial professional focused on developing and streamlining procedures and finding innovative, cost-effective solutions with 10 years of extensive broad experience.
Highlights
Proficient in Microsoft Office: Excel, PowerPoint, Word
ICE Client Managed monthly Financial Reconciliation for the Immigration Customs Enforcement Bureau (ICE), to include general journal entry postings of accruals, advances and expenses.
Prepared exception/elimination reports for trading partner errors/materialities for internal controls.
Performed corrective entries in the Federal Financial Management System (FFMS) for TP mismatches.
Consulted and created Business Process Improvement (BPI) items to increase client efficiency in the work stream.
Ensured the ICE component balances were reported timely during the TIER (Treasury Information Executive Repository) periods.
Drafted Standard Operations Procedures (SOP) as requested by Federal OFM ICE management and personnel.
Analyzed financial statements and trial balances daily to ensure accurate day end tie outs.
Investigated abnormal balances and financial analytics daily for discrepancies, was able to decrease errors by the metric rate of 30% per month upon submission of correcting SGL general journal entries.
Knowledge of USSGL, Federal Accounting, Financial Management processing and Federal Financial Reporting.
Familiarized with Federal accounting systems such as FFMS & the DHS Analysis Tool.
Created reports and analysis spreadsheets by crafting pivot tables and excel worksheets to accurately report financials.
Led/trained newly on-boarded staff and junior personnel on the DHS financial work stream, systems, processes and procedures.
Developed briefing materials and graphical presentations for all levels of government personnel.
Prepared and reviewed operational reports and schedules to ensure accuracy and efficiency.
Analyzed internal processes and recommended procedural or policy changes to improve operations.
Responsible for meeting daily, monthly and quarterly deadlines to meet the needs of the client.
Monitored material impacts on (USSGL) general ledgers proprietary and budgetary accounts, OMB A-136 Financial Reporting Requirements, OMB Audit Preparation, and TIER reporting.
Assisted in development of supporting tools for newly designed procedures to evaluate root causes and facilitate gap analysis research.
Knowledge and understanding federal appropriation and obligation process.
Ensured that all guidelines were met and were upheld by DHS, Audit and Internal Controls standards.
Exercised audit remediation tactics such as SGL account clean up and corrective entries to balance material balances.
Reconciled cash Fund Balance with Treasury (FBWT), accounts receivable, accounts payable, and other general ledger accounts.
Assisted in year end deliverables that resulted in the first clean audit in DHS-ICE history (2013).
Fund Accountant, 2007 - 11/2011 State Street Bank & Trust Company Charles Schwab Client – City, STATE,
Produced and verified daily financial statements for Net Asset Value (NAV) pricing.
Organized and posted daily dividend balances as well as monthly dividend re-investment adjustments.
Researched discrepancies with associated client account to ensure financial accuracy.
Monitored daily general ledger activity and met frequent trade deadlines throughout the day.
Engaged in daily pricing and reconciliation of mutual of mutual funds.
Familiarized with systems such as Bloomberg, NAV Alert, Navigate, MCH and Excel.
Organized and analyzed daily Expense Reports for day end tie-out.
Posted daily entries on expense worksheet and monitored expense activity.
Daily management of investment Bonds, Equities, International and Fund of Funds.
Ran daily macros and reports for the team and cleared all outstanding variances.
Prepared daily, weekly, and monthly fund valuations according to GAAP standards.
Monitored and adjusted daily yields on SEC Yields impacting various Bonds.
Trained and guided less experienced subordinates on day to day work.
Responsible for day end pricing valuations for equities, internationals and fund of funds.
Entered daily dividend distributions as well as monthly reinvestments in the system.
Researched trade activity daily, including all exceptions.
Exposure to the custody accounting side of several different types of mutual funds Evaluated AM and PM Trade Summary and researched and NAV impacts out of tolerance.
Corrected any failed trade discrepancies, and contacted Investment Manager (IM) for outstanding trade inquiries.
Account Specialist Transfer Agent, 06/2005 - 09/2006 Boston Financial Data Services – City, STATE,
Processed new accounts, investments, wire transfers, redemptions, exchanges, maintenances, and 401K certificate deposits/withdrawals.
Reviewed account histories and handled research requests.
Participated in day one and day two quality review of transactions processed.
Trained and guided less experienced personnel & worked on special projects as they were assigned.
Researched information and fund solutions to pending items and discrepancies.
Reviewed all transactions prior to processing, checked for necessary legal requirements and determined if further clarification of shareholder request is required.
Completed forms, prepared daily/monthly reports, maintained logs, account records and performed archiving duties as necessary.
Researched and resolved routine processing problems as needed, communicated daily with senior specialist and manager regarding the status of work processed for the day.
Responded to clients, shareholders and/or broker/dealer via telephone and written correspondence in accordance with quality and productivity standards.
Education
Master of Science: Leadership, Expected in May 2011 - Northeastern University - Boston, MA GPA: GPA: 3.8/4.0 Summa Cum Sum Laude
*Sigma Epsilon Rho Honor Society
Leadership GPA: 3.8/4.0 Summa Cum Sum Laude
*Sigma Epsilon Rho Honor Society
Bachelor of Science: Business Administration, Expected in May 2005 - American international college - Springfield, MA GPA: Business Administration
Languages
Bilingual - English and Haitian Kreyol
Affiliations
Member of the Greater Washington Urban League - Young Professionals Organization (Volunteer)
*Past Executive Board Member of the Urban League Eastern Massachusetts Young Professionals Organization
Skills
Accounting, accounting systems, accounts payable, accounts receivable, accruals, Balance, Bloomberg, Bonds, Business Process Improvement, Oral, Client, clients, Decision Making, Bilingual - English, Equities, Expense Reports, financials, Financial, Financial Management, Financial Reporting, Financial Reporting Requirements, financial statements, forms, Funds, general ledger, general ledger accounts, government, investments, legal, macros, materials, Excel, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Word, Organizing, personnel, pivot tables, presentations, pricing, Problem Solving, processes, Project Management, quality, reporting, research, Risk Management & Assessment, SOP, spreadsheets, Strategic, Teamwork, telephone, Treasury, written, Written Communication
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