John C. Panicali, CPA

718-***-****

PROFESSIONAL

EXPERIENCE:

Societe Generale, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Accountant: December 2010 – March 2011

• Facilitated the execution of confidentiality agreements in order to provide financial reports to clients.

• Coordinated the distribution of FOCUS Monthly Reports, and Audited Financial Statements to certain investors upon request.

• Prepared monthly intercompany balance reconciliations by researching and obtaining confirmations from SG's global affiliates. Significant variances were explained in detail and justified to management on a biweekly basis.

• Posted monthly journal entries into PeopleSoft Expense and Beta systems in order to record operating expenses for the entity.

• Reconciled selected manual general ledger account balances on a monthly basis with external and internal supporting documentation.

Citi Private Equity Services, New York, NY

Senior Accountant: September 2007 – December 2010

• Performed client-based accounting services for limited partnerships comprised of private equity funds of funds whose investors included individuals and institutional entities.

• Supervised associates in the preparation of quarterly work-papers, trial balances, preferred return schedules, and client-requested financial information.

• Prepared trial balances based on daily cash activity and broke out transactions based on fund contribution and distribution notices.

• Downloaded and organized demographic data and created mail merges for the purpose of generating quarterly partners’ capital account statements.

• Updated and maintained Excel schedules to keep track of fund accruals, net asset values, and year-to-date cash activity.

• Worked with on-line software to record journal entries and ran reports such as trial balances to tie to Excel work-papers.

• Interacted with auditors and underlying fund managers to ensure timely and accurate financial information.

Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., New York, NY

Senior Accountant: February 2005 – September 2007

• Tracked daily cash activity for limited partnerships comprised of private equity funds of funds whose primary investors were institutional entities.

• Prepared quarterly work-papers, investor relations templates, and partners’ capital account statements, as well as annual audited financial statements.

• Prepared Excel schedules to keep track of fund accruals, net asset values, year-to-date cash activity, and chunk call status (used to record Limited Partner and General Partner funding and draw-downs of reserves).

• Worked with Investran software to record journal entries and ran customized reports such as schedules of investments, remaining commitment analyses, and contribution/distribution activity.

• Interacted with auditors, cash managers, and underlying fund managers to ensure the most accurate and efficient processing of financial information.

• Prepared loan reconciliation schedules comparing firm’s and managed funds’ records of borrowing and payback information.

Rockefeller Group International, Inc., New York, NY

(owned by Mitsubishi Estate Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan)

Senior Accountant: September 2003 – February 2005

• Combined the operating results of the company’s real estate, brokerage, telecommunications, business centers, and financial services divisions at the corporate level.

• Prepared consolidated statements of net income, cash flows, and changes in stockholders’ equity on a monthly basis.

• Prepared written memos highlighting operating results versus budget, schedules of future debt payments, goodwill, intangible assets, other comprehensive income, inter-company eliminations, and discontinued operations.

• Organized and maintained monthly activity reports and trial balances for the company’s pension and incentive savings plans.

• Prepared annual consolidated financial statements including required disclosures, supporting schedules, and footnotes for the company’s main operations as well as for the pension and incentive savings plans.

• Communicated and interacted with the company’s various departments, including internal audit, tax, budgeting, treasury, and human resources, and with outside administrators of retirement benefits.

• Provided financial information and supporting schedules on a quarterly basis in conformity with bank compliance requirements and international accounting standards.

McGladrey & Pullen LLP, New York, NY

(previously American Express Tax & Business Services, Inc., New York, NY)

(affiliated with Goldstein Golub Kessler LLP, New York, NY)

Auditing Staff: November 1999 – June 2003

• Planned, coordinated and executed audit engagements for investment limited partnerships, funds of funds and offshore funds with equity ranging from $2 million to $400 million. Clients included Malta Hedge Fund, L.P., SuNOVA Partners, L.P., SuNOVA Offshore, Ltd., BBR Safe Harbor, L.P., BBR Safe Harbor, Ltd. and others.

• Generated partnership economic and tax allocations, as well as individual partner Schedule K-1’s and audited capital letters.

• Prepared audited financial statements including required disclosures and hot issue letters.

• Prepared tax returns for limited partnerships and limited liability companies.

• Responsibilities included assembling workpapers, testing investment valuations, and reconciling differences in year-end audits.

• Accumulated client information, prepared workpapers, and carried out audit procedures on an interim basis.

EDUCATION: Pace University; New York, New York

Bachelor of Business Administration, June 1999

Major: Public Accounting, QPA: 3.71

HONORS/ President’s Scholarship; Beta Alpha Psi; Dean's List graduate, magna cum laude

AWARDS: Certified Public Accountant ("CPA"), licensed in New York

COMPUTER Software: GoSystem Audit, GoSystem Tax, Advent Partner,

SKILLS: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Outlook, Investran, PeopleSoft General Ledger,

PeopleSoft Expense, Lotus Notes, BETA, Business Objects

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