Project Management

LAURAINE S. MACCOW

*** ******** ****** #24-973-***-****

Bloomfield, NJ 07003 *******@***.***

Summary

Accounting Professional with extensive experience in the financial services

industry. Highly analytical, a strong independent contributor and team

player with a demonstrated ability to multitask, achieve results, and meet

challenging deadlines. Detail oriented with outstanding interpersonal and

communication skills. Effectively interacts with all corporate divisions.

Professional Experience

COMMERZBANK, New York, NY

Consultant: Business Unit Control 02/2013 - 08/2013

Worked closely with IT Finance to automate the daily P&L reports for all

businesses to a centrally saved drive and assisted with the testing of an

enhanced balance sheet report that will provide more accurate sub-ledger

data for Risk and Balance Sheet substantiation reporting.

Accomplishments:

. Business Unit Controllers have used the automated file to prepare

daily P&L, resulting in over 25% reduction time spent to meet the

11:00 am deadline

. Assisted with the sub-ledger vs. Oracle general ledger testing for FX

Forwards / Equity Investment and Call Deposit trade types for a new

Structured Capital Markets currency transaction

. Created work file by legal entities, IBS portfolio, portfolio, profit

cost center and functional unit in order for Structured Capital

Markets controller to document the Summit to back office book process

Consultant: Business Unit Control 11/2011 - 11/2012

Performed pre and post Oracle Business Intelligence testing for Finance

from version 11 to version 12 for over 200 P&L and Balance Sheet general

ledger accounts.

Accomplishments:

. Worked closely with IT Finance to ensure all data issues were resolved

prior to migration and verified migrated data was accurate

. Assisted with the preparation and analysis of daily P&L for Debt

Capital Markets Loans & Debt Capital Market Bonds

. Performed month-end P&L reconciliations for Debt Capital Markets,

Structured Capital Markets and Broker Dealer legal entities

. Prepared monthly analysis of funding charges from the Treasury desk to

other business unit areas and posted general ledger journals

J.P. MORGAN CHASE & CO, New York, NY

Consultant: Commercial Card Product 05/2011 -

07/2011

Prepared client level reports on how clients are moving through the sales

and implementation pipeline systems.

Accomplishments:

. Created weekly client tracking report that showed clients

implementation status, implementation estimated go live date and spend

amount

. Performed analysis on State of Texas consortium; compared midyear

forecast spend amount to SOT weekly win and verbal mandates contracts

to determine growth initiatives

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COMMERZBANK, New York, NY

Consultant: Business Unit Control 07/2010 - 03/2011

Prepared month-end P&L reconciliation reports for several businesses:

(Credit Portfolio Management, Debt Capital Markets, Portfolio Restructuring

Unit and Treasury). Liaised with IT to communicate new business

requirements for development. Performed user acceptance testing, and

introduced changes to business unit controllers prior to production.

Accomplishments:

. Introduced a new process of preparing monthly P&L reconciliation

reports that enabled business unit controllers to reconciled Trader's

P&L versus the firm's general ledger

. Documented current processes, procedures and internal controls

. Assisted IT developers with creating a unified sub-ledger database,

resulting in over 75% reduction time spent to generate daily reports

Consultant: Loan Migration Project 10/2009 -

06/2010

Assisted with the migration of 152 facilities and commercial loans

(Bilateral, Undrawn, Letter of Credit) from ACBS to target loan system.

Worked closely with IT and Operations to address and resolve migration

issues. Downloaded sub-ledger and General Ledger reports used to review

and populate loan template to ensure principal / interest and fee balances

were migrated accurately.

Accomplishments:

. Worked through loan migration backlog to ensure timely completion of

migration

. Accurately reviewed all loans as ordered by Price Waterhouse Coopers

and no external audit findings

RBC CAPITAL MARKETS, New York, NY

Consultant: Reconciliation Project 11/ 2007 -

06/2008

Reconciled $7 billion balance sheet and built a sustainable reconciliation

process against the firm's general ledger system. Reviewed and reconciled

global arbitrage trading inventory accounts for several products (bonds,

equity and options) against ADP.

Accomplishments:

. Developed control procedures that were incorporated into the daily

workflow by Product Controllers resulting in a higher accuracy of the

daily P&L

. Reconciled structured products payable and receivable accounts and

flagged old legacy balances that needed to be adjusted back to P&L

MORGAN STANLEY, New York, NY

Senior Associate: Single Broker Dealer Project

02/2006 - 04/2007

Liaised with senior business unit controllers to ensure all Dean Witter

general ledger accounts were accurately migrated to a Morgan Stanley

general ledger account and mapped accurately on the account hierarchy

structure.

Accomplishments:

. Coordinated and submitted over 200 global account and cost center

closure requests for Global Wealth Management and Asset Management

business unit controllers, effectively enabling the project to move

onto Phase II

. Produced monthly queries using fixed and revenue general ledger

accounts that Global Wealth Management Financial Advisor referenced

for reporting

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Senior Associate 01/2003 - 01/2006

Approved and reviewed firm's sub-ledger accounts that were used to book

daily trades for Equity and Fixed Income Business Units. Prepared monthly

reconciliation and substantiation of several balance sheet accounts to the

firm's general ledger.

Accomplishments:

. Reconciled sub-ledger accounts resulting in an 80% reduction in

brokerage comparison breaks

. Developed procedures and performed year end training for business unit

controllers globally which led to a successful and complete year end

close out process

. Assumed responsibility for two junior analysts and trained them on day

to day departmental functions

Associate 01/1998 - 12/2002

Liaised effectively with IT developers to implement changes and improve

existing processes used to record and book daily trades in TAPS (Trade

Analysis and Process System). Conducted user acceptance testing for

several projects including Foreign Exchange and Swaps conversion to

Settlement Date +Pending, and Fixed Income trading accounts to Equity.

Accomplishments:

. Achieved tight deadlines for FX and Equity user acceptance testing

which enabled the projects to meet their targeted deadline

. Developed and implemented training manual that was used by new staff

Education:

B.A., Finance, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI

Computer Skills:

Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint

General Ledgers: Omega, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Discoverer

Plus 10G

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