KRISTIN FERRARO

603-***-****

ac0ihu@r.postjobfree.com

AREAS OF STRENGTH AND EXPERTISE

Payment Processing

Wallstreet Suite

SWIFT

Management Reporting

Cash Positioning

FX Trade Settlement

Process Automation

Project Management

Cash Forecasting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Blackstone 2009 to Present

Director - Treasury Operations (2016 to Present)

Manage day-to-day operations for the New York treasury operations team and provide support to global treasury centers. Manage existing bank relationships to ensure consistent standards. Focus on treasury process improvement solutions.

Key Accomplishments:

•Project lead for upgrade of the treasury management system, Wallstreet Suite, improving existing processes, and adding new functionality

•Treasury lead for design and build of system to automate wire processing mitigating risk

Assistant Vice President - Treasury Operations (2015)

Enhance management reporting to support changing bank regulations. Diversification of European banking relationships. Assisted in testing of self-service wire instruction portal for internal parties. Coordination and execution of Foreign Bank Account Reporting (FBAR) process.

Key Accomplishments:

•Execution of ACH debit program for capital contributions; eliminating deposit of over 4000 checks a year

•Lead for creation of invoice repayment internal system solution reducing manual payment input

Manager - Treasury Operations (2013 to 2014)

Management of local team members overseeing intra-day operational items. Support of global treasury centers to facilitate changing business requirements. Expand bank relationships supported, via Wallstreet Suite, to support internal groups more completely.

Key Accomplishments:

•Support across internal departments for general ledger migration including updating static data, reimplementation of treasury operations automated file share process improving functionality between systems, and enhanced file import logic to expedite manual processes.

•Implementation of new process for check printing via Wallstreet Suite

•Assisted in integration of acquired business group on to standard company systems and platforms

Financial Associate - Treasury Operations (2011 to 2012)

Bank account openings with various banking partners. Input and approval of static data and payments in Wallstreet Suite. Communication with counterparties facilitating FX settlement. Input and approval of money market transactions. Coordination of wire investigation research and resolution with internal and external partners.

Key Accomplishments:

•Successful integration of two regional treasury centers onto Wallstreet Suite and SWIFT

•Redesign of internal partner distribution process for more automated solution

•Created process of checks and balances to ensure accuracy on external partner distributions

Consultant - Treasury Operations (2009 to 2011)

Daily processing of firm and client payment transfers. Daily cash positioning of greater than 1000 accounts. Maintenance and addition of payment instructions as required.

Key Accomplishments:

•Subject Matter Expert and integral project team member in implementation of Wallstreet Suite treasury management system and SWIFT. Managed static data conversion from bank proprietary formats. Assisted in training of all internal users based on Train the Trainer approach.

Newedge USA LLC 2008 to 2009

Treasury Analyst

Assemble and reconcile daily cash activity and upload to the general ledger. Daily processing of wire transfers. Hedge daily foreign exchange exposure based on client positions.

Key Accomplishments:

•Project point for integration of Calyon Financial and Fimat USA, LLC treasuries

•Static data migration from Chase Insight to treasury management system Globes for US operations

•Communicate and coordinate testing of new system with internal stakeholders

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Finance, Bentley University Class of ‘07, Waltham, MA

SYSTEM SKILLS

Wallstreet Suite, SWIFT, Microsoft Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Bloomberg, ADP, Globes, Chase Insight, Bank of America CashPro, barclays.net, Citidirect, Wells Fargo CEO

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