Accounting Manager

Gregory Gaeta

*** *** ***** ******, **********, Massachusetts 02050

617-***-**** *******@*****.***

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Summary

Results-oriented Client Relationship Officer with extensive experience and

proven ability to exceed relationship development, revenue generation and

expense reduction goals in a high-pressure environment. Competencies

include:

Highly skilled at communicating with clients in understanding and analyzing

their asset custody and investment accounting needs in order to develop

strategic solutions, furthering their investment objectives.

Relationship development that complements ability to aggressively build

solid client partnerships and whose objective is client satisfaction

coupled with strong revenue growth and expense management.

Comprehensive knowledge of and experience in all aspects of financial

accounting, securities settlement, and global custody operations in a

variety of complex scenarios with significant expertise in Emerging

Markets.

Proven leadership and team-building skills, matched with the ability to

direct personnel in meeting client service deliverables.

Experience

STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, Boston, MA

State Street is a worldwide provider of investment management and asset

servicing to institutional investors.

Client Relationship Officer (1999-2010)

Managed the client service and relationship profitability of large

institutional investor clients.

Key Accomplishments

Succeeded in developing and implementing innovative solutions managing the

unique settlement and custody requirements of a major supranational

organization which minimized potential operating losses for State Street.

This ground breaking mode was implemented with similar State Street

clients.

Accomplished a variety of high-profile private equity security and foreign

exchange transactions in Emerging Markets in local time, resulting in

greater client profitability and improved the client's reputation among its

investee companies and local market participants.

Advised clients in the ever-changing settlement, legal, tax and regulatory

requirements necessary to comply with local market protocols improving

client compliance with market regulation thereby minimizing financial

losses along with potential market penalties.

Conducted numerous client presentations to promote State Street products

and services increasing State Street revenue while supporting client

investment servicing objectives.

Developed and delivered presentations to State Street staff and local

subcustodian personnel describing the unique characteristics and servicing

needs of State Street's supranational clients fostering greater mutual

understanding among all parties improving operational efficiency.

Achieved exemplary client satisfaction ratings year after year despite

internal and external obstacles to service delivery while enhancing

profitability through effective P&L management to levels in excess of 30%.

Designed and implemented the Divestment Resource Center used by State

Street personnel to advise their institutional investor clients of relevant

information on state and federal divestment legislation affecting public

pension plans and endowment funds. Countries of focus included Sudan,

Iran, and Israel.

Mutual Fund Account Manager (1995-1999)

Managed a staff of six direct reports in the performance of full service

custody, portfolio accounting, and mutual fund pricing services. Expertise

with municipal bond and other fixed income products, including CMO's

REMIC's, CLC's, FHA's, and other MBS instruments.

Key Accomplishments

Led an investigation to identify and resolve numerous and long-standing

municipal bond amortization and accretion errors that were adversely

affecting client's accounting records.

Recognized by Deloitte & Touche and State Street as a subject matter expert

on mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities.

Prior to 1995

Derivative Specialist

Performed the research, data integrity, cash flow analysis, accounting, and

income collection for derivative mortgage-backed and asset-backed

securities, which resulted in more accurate accounting records along with

reduced past-due income exposure.

Key Accomplishments

Created, implemented, and maintained an innovative desktop derivative

finance accounting system due to the inadequacy of State Street's existing

mainframe. This system successfully achieved the client's needs while

saving State Street additional mainframe software development costs.

Advised clients and internal State Street business areas on the accounting

and custody characteristics of fixed income products with an emphasis on

mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, and related

derivatives.

Account Controller

Audited the daily, weekly, and monthly custody and accounting records for

various mutual fund clients. Analyzed cash forecasting, cash availability,

securities settlement, corporate event processing, past due income

collection, general ledger accounting, custody reconciliation, net asset

valuation, and financial reporting in a high pressure environment under

tight deadlines.

Education and Professional Development

Bachelor of Science, Marketing, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY

Classes in Portfolio Accounting, American Institute of Banking

Training in Accounting, Custody, Systems and Management, The State Street

Institute

Course work in Certified Financial Planning, Boston University

Proficient with both Microsoft Office Suite and Mac software.

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