Real Estate Life Insurance
Resume:
Scott Michael Hill
Bridgewater, MA 02324 240-***-**** (home)
*****************@*****.*** 617-***-**** (work)
PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE
Dependable and highly self-motivated individual with over ten years of progressive experience in the financial services
industry. As a proven hard worker with excellent analytical and communication skills, I am seeking an Investment
Banking Analyst position that will utilize my extensive experience and education.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2003-Present John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. Boston, MA
Lead Investment Analyst (2007-Present)
Responsible for the quarterly analysis and presentation of economic commentary reports describing the factors
affecting the overall macro-economic environment as well as the capital markets for our equity, fixed income and
real estate holdings. I also am responsible for performing qualitative, quantitative and fundamental analysis on
securities to determine their financial standing and capital structure as well as to compare the securities’ market
value with its intrinsic value. The valuation methods used include DCF, Multiple Valuation methods and the
Comparable Company method.
Key Accomplishments:
• Authored and implemented quarterly commentary reports using qualitative and quantitative methods such as
regression analysis to analyze the capital markets during the previous three months and its impact on equity,
fixed income and real estate markets and security prices. Reports are distributed to the various business units.
• Improved our unrealized gain/loss analysis for fixed income securities by revising the procedure to include
financial modeling and in-depth research on the twenty securities with the largest unrealized gains/losses to
determine the bulk of the quarter-to-quarter difference. Previously, an estimate of unrealized gain/loss was
calculated using the interest rate change along with the total duration and convexity of each business unit.
• Implemented valuation analysis to determine the intrinsic value of securities with large realized and unrealized
gains/losses for comparison with the securities’ market value. These valuation techniques include DCF
approaches, multiple valuation approaches, the comparable company multiple valuation approach and the
comparable M&A valuation approach.
• Performed research in Essbase and Business Objects and provided written commentary explaining quarter-over-
quarter changes in investment income and realized gains/losses for all invested asset types including bonds,
stocks, mortgages, real estate, alternative invested assets and investment expenses.
Senior Investment Compliance Consultant (2003-2007)
Responsible for performing compliance testing on all funds in the Variable Series Trust for compliance with
regulatory requirements, such as the Investment Company Act of 1940 and various SEC and IRS Diversification
Tests. Conducted monthly and annual compliance reviews of all Separate and General Accounts of the John
Hancock Life Insurance Company for compliance with their Investment Policies.
Key Accomplishments:
• Promoted from Investment Compliance Specialist to Senior Investment Compliance Consultant in March 2005.
• Elected as an Officer of the Variable Series Trust in December 2004.
• Implemented a procedure for analyzing derivative exposure in the Separate and General Accounts in order to
maintain compliance with New York State Law and internal guidelines. Findings were reported to John
Hancock’s Committee of Finance.
• Worked with portfolio managers and research analysts to resolve all compliance issues in a timely manner.
• Led a team of three Compliance Specialists on on-site due diligence examinations of sub-advisers. No
deficiencies were found on subsequent SEC examinations.
• Researched, prepared and presented reports on Foreign Custody, Illiquid Securities, Affiliated Transactions,
Soft Dollars, 817(h) Compliance and Amortized Cost Valuation Methods to the Variable Series Trust’s Board
of Trustees quarterly meeting.
• Researched and resolved all fair valuation pricing issues involving securities held in the Variable Series Trust.
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2000-2003 The Managers Funds Norwalk, CT
Mutual Fund Administrator
Worked closely with portfolio managers to develop appropriate asset allocations for individuals and institutions as
well as monitor and analyze information such as portfolio turnover, investment and industry allocation and
best/worst performing securities for each Fund. I was also responsible for monitoring the performance of our
portfolios on both an absolute and relative basis.
Key Accomplishments:
• Passed tests to become Registered Series 6 and 63 Representative.
• Designed and Implemented an automated Compliance Testing System in Excel that used formulas, macros and
downloads from Bloomberg to automate the entire compliance testing process. The time to perform this task
was reduced by 75%.
• Designed and Implemented an Excel spreadsheet to automate the process of asset allocation as well as
monitoring portfolio turnover, industry allocation and best/worst performing securities for each Fund.
• Led a team of three fund administrators in creating Annual and Semi-Annual reports for each of the Funds for
individual investors, internal use, and investment professionals.
• Led the analysis of the income, expenses and past distributions of each Fund to determine the Fund’s quarterly
and annual dividend and capital gain distribution.
• Researched and resolved all pricing discrepancies from the custodian records in a timely manner.
• Researched numerous Registered Investment Companies and invested excess cash where it would accrue the
most interest.
1998-2000 Forum Financial Group Portland, ME
Fund Accountant II
Responsible for calculating the daily NAV for mutual funds and reporting findings to NASDAQ. Also
maintained general ledger accounts for funds.
Key Accomplishments:
• Promoted from Fund Accountant I to Fund Accountant II in March 1999.
• Calculated daily, monthly and periodic dividend declarations.
• Worked with Investment Advisers and Custodians in determining where short-term funds should be invested.
EDUCATION:
• MBA with a concentration in Finance, Boston University September 2007
Graduated top 20% of MBA class
Beta Gamma Sigma inductee
• B.S. in Finance, University of Maine May 1998
Graduated Cum Laude
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:
• CFA Institute
Passed Levels I and II of the CFA Examination – Currently a 2009 Level III CFA candidate
COMPUTER SKILLS
• Microsoft Office Products: Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Word
• Other applications include: Bloomberg, Business Objects, Essbase
AFFILIATIONS:
• Member of the CFA Institute
• Member of the National Society of Compliance Professionals
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