Accounting Administrative Assistant
Resume:
Bronx, NY *****
302-***-**** *.*****@*******.***
Bethanne M Simms
Background Mutual and hedge fund administrator/accountant, A
generalist with extensive cross department
experience. 7 years of mutual fund and 3 years of
hedge funds. I am versed in all aspects of fund
back/middle office, including compliance issues, and
financial reporting.
10 years experience for the 2nd largest mutual and
hedge fund servicing company in the US, in
administration and accounting positions (PFPC, Inc.
Wilmington DE. As of 6/10, a part of BoNY/Mellon
Investments).
Experience with the administration, the accounting,
financial reporting and the oversight/supervision of
most varieties of mutual and hedge funds.
Skills
. Portfolio reconciliation;
Prime Broker and custodian reports to accounting
system, daily.
Administration reports by fund to accounting system.
. Daily trade reconciliation/trade blotter.
. Monthly fund incentive allocation reporting.
. Daily reporting: Exposure, returns, metrics, for
portfolio managers.
. Bloomberg monitoring. (Including OpenBloomberg) for
portfolio review.
. Corporate action monitoring, processing, research
and review.
. Monitor cash balances and reconciliation, daily.
. Trade posting (automated, and manual) review and
reconciliation.
. Commission tracking.
. Fund metrics, exposure, leverage, position,
percentages of fund, with reference to fund
prospectus, as required.
. Audit and financial reporting experience,
includinig SOI, Financial statements, footnote
disclosures. Bluebook, Shareholder reports and SEC
reports utilizing EDGAR.)
. Compliance (40 Act, SEC Acts, Sarbanes-Oxley).
. Review of all general ledger entries.
. NAV strike, review and reporting.
. Tracking, review, and reconciliation of all
outstanding issues. Escalation as required.
. Share subscription and redemption tracking
. Onshore/Offshore funds experience. Tracking income
and expenses by issue.
. Unit Investment Trust experience (Insurance funds)
. Income and Expense forecasting, budgeting.
. Book re-organizations, tax by lot, wash sales.
. Experience with building new reports in various
accounting and report writing systems.
. Knowledge and experience with (Domestic and
International) Equity, Fixed, Mortgage Securities,
Derivatives. Puts Warrants, Calls, Futures, Swaps,
and FX issues
. Programs:
Microsoft Word, Excel (advanced, including macros and
pivot tables).
Powerpoint, Access
Advent/Geneva
Axys (Advent office)
Database experience (SQL)
Visual Basic
Sungard
Crystal Report Writing, and G-Com
. Type 80-100 wpm, faster at 10 key.
. Highly computer literate.
. Controllers office and management experience.
. Tax prep experience. (Individual, contractor, and
corporate and partnership).
.
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Apr 2009- current Self employed Bronx, NY
Experience Office Management / Reorganization
. Bookkeeping, tax and financial accounting. Two
main clients are Comicmix in Weehauken, NJ and
Albe-Shilo in New York, NY.
Jan 1999- Apr 2009 PNC GIS (was PFPC, Inc., Now
BoNY/Mellon) Wilmington, DE
Investment Accountant (Mutual Funds Jan 99-June 05),
Senior Investment Accountant (Mutual Funds, then
Hedge June 05-Dec 07),
Supervisor, Accounting, Alternative Investments
(Hedge Jan 07-Apr 09).
.Advanced from Investment Accountant I through II in
Mutual funds, transferred to Hedge as a Senior
Accountant, then advanced to Supervisor of
accounting
Nov 1996- Dec 1999 PFPC, Inc. Wilmington, DE.
Staff Administrator/Accountant, Financial Control
. Accounts Receivable and Payable along with various
special projects.
. Provided full controllers office support for
subsidiary PNC Investment Management Corp. (PIMC)
throughout merger with BlackRock, which became
BlackRock Investment Management Corp. (BIMC)
Transferred to Mutual Fund Accounting.
1994-1996 Wax Furniture Chadds Ford, PA
Assistant Controller
. Assisted controller in full AP/AR and Payroll
functions, and in preparing financial statements
. Set up computer database to track inventory
control.
. Was responsible for tracking sales and commissions.
. Organized delivery service and scheduling.
1993-1994 Hoffman & White Assoc. Aston, PA
Bookkeeper
. Day to day book-keeping functions, Accountants
Payable, Receivable and Payroll.
1992-1993 Daniel A Winters, CPA. Chadds Ford, PA
Administrative Assistant/Bookkeeper
. Day to day bookkeeping functions, Accountants
Payable, Receivable and Payroll.
. Tracked time sheets for accountants.
. Performed day to day bookkeeping functions and
assisted Office Manager in preparing financial
statements.
Education 1990 West Chester University West Chester, PA
. Psychology/Mathematics
1987 Kings College Wilkes-Barre, PA
. Accounting
Interests History, computers, reading, poetry. I have been on
committee for various regional and World science
fiction conventions. I volunteer my free time, both
personal and professional (tax accounting) for
Distributed Proofreaders Foundation and the Gutenberg
Project. I am also a volunteer tax accountant for
various non-profit educational/literary entities.
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