Julian T. Ho, CPA * West **st St, Apt. *H, New York, NY
10001
718-***-**** . ************@*****.***
EXPERIENCE
Principled Capital Management, LLC
April 2008 to Present
Finance Associate
New York, NY
Review NAV and investor allocation calculations (includes administration,
management, and incentive fee calculation) for each Class and Series for 2
Onshore Funds and 1 Master-Feeder Structure Offshore Fund with total AUM of
$1 Billion
Work with various products including equities, bonds, options,
warranty/right, and swaps
Designed new swap review process incorporating swap trade summary and
allocation, swap realized and unrealized profit and loss, and swap DVD and
interest review
Perform month-end reconciliation for custody positions, cash, profit & loss,
dividend receivable/payable, interest income/expense, stock rebate to prime
brokers, custodians, and banks.
Play active role in cash and risk management by monitoring cash balances and
handling margin calls. Suggest cash movement between prime broker and
custodians based on internal target margin, counterparties' margin
requirement, and asset allocation (equity value and cash balance).
Prepare financial statement highlights: Build spreadsheet to feed monthly
information into financial statement highlight summaries. Work with auditors
to complete mid-year and year-end audits.
Review K-1s: Review and verify tax adjustment due to temporary and permanent
differences between book income and taxable income (e.g., difference in
organization expense acceleration treatments).
Prepare annual budget: Determine cost drivers by compiling and analyzing
trend from prior 2 years' expense behavior. Act as liaison with finance
manager and legal counsel in gathering research expense and legal expense to
forecast next year's expense. Adjust budget monthly according to expected
consumption trend and provide administrator with updated accrual.
UAL Corporation
July 2006 to April 2008
United Airlines Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX)
Auditor Chicago, IL
. Hedge accounting (FAS 133) audit experience: Calculated realized
gain/loss of settled of Foreign Currency Forward Contract and Fuel Hedge
Contract. Recalculated mark-to-market of unrealized derivative gain/loss
and traced adjustment to general ledger.
. Played key role in developing SOX compliance annual audit plan by
evaluating risk assessment of business processes and effectiveness of
control activities. Recommended Financial Compliance Manager allocate
resources to perform thorough audit of higher-risk business processes.
. Communicated SOX test results to General Auditor, Financial Compliance
Team (FCT), and related management and provide remediation if
operational/design gap exists. Recommended business process changes to
impacted business units to enforce internal control activity.
. Recommended and discussed 5 remediation initiatives to management in 2
business divisions and provided timeline to ensure timely
implementation. 80% of remediations were implemented within 6 months.
. Initiated and designed audit database to support UAL's company-wide
Enterprise Resource Planning. By enabling auditors to input audit
results and managers to generate audit reports and manage budgeted time
per audit, database increased auditors' and managers' productivity.
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATION
Licensed CPA, State of Illinois since November 2007
University of Illinois (Urbana Champaign, IL)
Master of Accounting Science (MAS), May 2006. Cumulative G.P.A.: 3.34.
University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
B.S.B.A - Accounting, Cum Laude, December 2004. Cumulative G.P.A.: 3.7.
. Dean's List, U.S. National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Golden Key
Honorary Society.