Project Manager Management

Jeffrey H. Wasserman

* ******** ****, **** *********, NJ 08816

Cell: 908-***-**** Home: 732-***-****

E-mail: ***@*****.***

o Attributes:

Experienced manager in management reporting and in financial planning and

analysis on Wall Street. Very strong and accomplished in report creation,

profitability analysis, and data management. Managerial and hands-on

experience in accounting for Fixed Income products and futures contracts.

Initiated, planned, and implemented changes to streamline or automate

processes. Adroitly managed the month-end and year-end closing processes

on behalf of the CFO, requiring close contact with and coordination of

forty accountants so as to meet tight reporting deadlines successfully.

Designed and maintained hierarchies in general ledger for accounts and

departments in a multi-company environment to assure seamless and rapid

reporting downstream. Expert in Excel. Able to access large volumes of

data and weave from them an ornate tapestry of reports. Unparalleled use

of programming in Visual Basic Application (VBA) to automate processes.

Renders decisions independently and makes good judgment calls, yet is still

a team player. Excellent trainer, mentor, and motivator.

o Work Experience:

Amalgamated Bank of New York 275 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York

December 2008 to April 2009

Consultant to the Chief Financial Officer

(short-term consultancy)

. Preparation of the financial statements and footnotes for the annual

report.

. Conversion to a new general ledger package.

. Analysis of accounts.

. Training the staff to use Microsoft Excel so as to improve their

efficiency.

Nomura Holding America 2 World Financial Center, New York, New York

(company downsized 33%)

Vice-president, Controller's Department

June 2000 to December 2008

. Preparation of daily and month-end management reporting and analyses for

all financial products on a consolidated basis and by several individual

subsidiaries for board members in the U.S. and the home office. These

reports covered all trading and back office divisions drilling down to

the center level. Analyses included substantiation of revenues and

expenses versus budget with supporting schedules, graphs, and written

explanations.

. Project Manager for the design and ongoing maintenance and evolution of

the aforementioned reports using highly developed Excel, VBA programming,

and People Soft skills, permitting the Management Reporting unit to

easily handle increased workloads and responsibilities with an ever-

smaller staff.

. Manager of the end of month closing cycle.

. Chaired and choreographed month-end meetings with the CFO, Controller,

Product Accountants, Tax Accountants, and Financial Reporting to present

and discuss the firm's performance.

. Designed general ledger hierarchies to accommodate divisions straddling

several affiliated companies and to properly recognize management revenue

and expense allocations.

Assistant Vice-president, Controller's Department

October 1993 to June 2000

. Reporting of the firm's performance to senior management stateside and

overseas.

. Inclusion of several metrics to daily managerial profitability reports

(i.e.- headcount, risk capital limits and usage, budgets) by way of

database functions.

. Determined appropriate methodologies for allocation of administrative and

corporate expenses to the front offices. Posted journal entries to

accomplish these allocations using database uploads and inter-company

accounts.

. Forecasted revenues and expenses and analyzed differences between

estimates and actual amounts posted to general ledger.

. Implemented conversion and automation of these reports to Excel using VBA

programming.

. Participated in team effort to produce and monitor expense budgets.

Manager, Controller's Department

November 1988 to October 1993

. Daily preparation and analytical review of the firm's profitability.

. Product accounting, reporting, and analysis for Securities Lending and

Equity Commissions daily and at month-end.

. Implemented programming in Lotus 123 spreadsheets to improve report

preparation.

. Hired, trained, and supervised several accountants to perform the above

tasks successfully. (Continued

Jeffrey H. Wasserman (continued)

Additional Experience:

. Supervised accounting and back-office operations of futures and options

derivatives. Accounting included posting of journal entries during the

month-end close. Operations included coordination with the treasury

department for daily margining and orchestrating the taking and making

delivery of the securities underlying futures contracts.

. Redesigned back-office handling of futures contracts, permitting the firm

to increase trading volume.

. Acted as liaison between the firm's traders, the accounting department,

and the futures marketplaces; immensely improving trade control

. Prepared regulatory reports to the Federal Reserve Bank, Commodity

Futures Trading Commission, National Futures Association, and Chicago

Board of Trade.

. Implemented detailed delivery procedures for securities underlying

futures contracts.

. Hired, trained, and supervised several accountants to perform the above

tasks successfully.

o Education:

Master of Business Administration in Finance

Long Island University

Brooklyn Center

Brooklyn, NY

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

Brooklyn College

City University of New York

Brooklyn, NY

Attended on a full Regents Scholarship from State University of New York

Jeffrey H. Cell 908 - 616 -

Wasserman 2549

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KEY WORDS PAGE

Amalgamated Audited financials

Bank

user acceptance

testing

Nomura internal reporting

Securities

vice president internal reports

VP Visual Basic

Visual Basic

Application

V.P. macros

Excel revenue analysis

People Soft expense analysis

PeopleSoft budget variance

MBA profitability

analysis

M.B.A. expense allocation

Project Manager financial planning

financial planning

and analysis

Project

Management

FPA

FP&A

streamline processes

automate processes

process automation

profit and loss

P and L

P&L

year end close

month end close

monthly closings

agent of change

automation

product accounting

product controller

securities lending

security lending

stock loan

financial futures

interest rate

futures

commodity futures

futures contracts

point balancing

capital markets

fixed income

_______________ money market

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Central New ______________

Jersey Candidate lives

Central Jersey within an easy

commute to

New York City,

Jersey City, and

Princeton.

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