Accounting Accountant

RICK ZHOU

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Jersey City, NJ 07310 Email: ***********@*****.***

Profile

Senior-level Accountant with more than 10 years of fund accounting experience for the Private Equity and Hedge Fund sectors. Excellent analytical, quantitative and interpersonal skill with a wide range of financial experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SEI Investments. Alternative Investment Funds, New York, NY Oct 2016 – Present

Accounting Supervisor

Supervise staff members, delegate workloads and review NAV reports to successfully complete client deliverables which include two NAV closing cycles per month along with other Ad-Hoc projects.

Serve as the main operational admin contact for two PE funds with combined 5 Billion total commitments.

Review partner’s capital activities for commitments, contributions, distributions, multiple closings, and transfers.

Analyze the legal fund documentations as they apply to maintaining partner capital accounts; including the allocation of income, multiple closings, management fee and carried interest calculations, etc.

Prepare and review year end financials and side in the facilitation of the audit process.

JP Morgan Chase & Co. Corporate & Investment Bank - Private Equity Real Estate services, New York, NY Apr 2015 – Oct 2016

Associate Accountant

Analyze different private equity deal structures and fund documents to set up legal entities, investors and partnership capital allocations.

Prepare and review workbooks to calculate management fee and carried interest and confirm with clients.

Prepare and review investor capital calls, distributions, capital statements and financial statements and liaise with clients and external auditors.

Address investor correspondences, audit confirm requests, special projects and resolve client inquiries.

Assist internal waterfall team in distribution and income allocation waterfall calculations.

SS&C GlobeOp, Inc. Hedge Fund Administrative Accounting Services. New York, NY Jan 2010 – Apr 2015

Senior Fund Accountant

Processed and reconciled trades, cash and position holdings between accounting core system and custodian brokerage statements daily, interacted with hedge fund managers and prime brokers to resolve any issues.

Prepared and reviewed daily and monthly NAV reports to clients including year-end financial statements.

Performed month-end closing for various differently structured funds including master-feeder and fund of funds.

Knowledgeable of financial instruments such as equities, options/warrants, futures/forwards, fixed income securities, swaps, and other financial instruments.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP. New York, NY June 2008 – Dec 2009

Tax Associate

Prepared and reviewed federal and state/local tax returns, quarterly estimates and extensions for hedge funds, private-equity funds, and fund of funds.

Prepared partnership tax allocations for various clients, using the aggregation method, including such aspects as incentive fee re-allocation, side pockets, fill-up/fill-down provisions, transfers of partnership interest, etc.

Identified and analyzed tax issues involving Original Issue Discount, Market Discount, Wash Sales, Future and Forward Contracts, etc.

EDUCATION

Binghamton University, State University of New York May 2008

Bachelor of Science, Accounting

Bachelor of Arts, English, Concentration in Creative Writing

Cumulative GPA: 3.58/4.00 Major GPA:3.67/4.00

EOP Director’s Honor List all semesters

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Chi Alpha Epsilon National Honor Society and ASCEND

Computer Skills: Microsoft Office Suite, QuickBooks, Investran, Total-return, Bloomberg financial terminals, Crystal pages reports

Language Skills: Fluent in Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin)

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