Accounting Assistant

Jennette Alimosa

***-** **** **, *** *B, Kew Gardens, NY – 11415 • ********@*******.*** • 917-***-****

Experience:

Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets, Senior Financial Analyst Nov 2010 – Present

Assists in managing the Global Arbitrage Trading (GAT) Financial Control team in the monthly close process & Head Office (HO)

Reporting

Responsibilities include booking month end journal entries, reconciling Intergroup Brokerage accounts, and submission of

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various HO reporting.

Consolidates large B/S Spot / Avg and NII/OI variance explanations within RBC USA region to be submitted to HO

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monthly and quarterly.

Performs Second level review of Product Control and Financial Control Attestation binders on a monthly basis.

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Submits various quarterly Head Office Templates as required by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions

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(OSFI) and Statutory and Regulatory Reporting (SRR) note disclosures under IFRS.

-Requires a profiling of the total assets and liabilities of RBC USA unit based on remaining term to contractual maturity.

-Granular maturity bucketing of Trading Securities.

-Submission of Cash not available for use or Restricted cash – to disclose any withdrawal and usage restriction.

-Confirmation of BS classification for all BS lines for new transit/gl combination.

Took Lead in various special accounting projects including:

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-Cash balance gl account clean up by third party and correction at the ledger source to eliminate recurring m/e entries. This

entailed collaborating with NY and London Operations team.

-Suspense clearing of up/down balances by transit for 2 accounts. Held several meetings with Product Control and Internal

Control group for the clearing of accounts and now attesting to those accounts as fully reconciled.

-Correction of counterparty op unit for Rolfe and Nolan futures accounts at the ledger source in clearing a 1Billion I/G

counterparty mismatch in SRR reporting.

-Streamlined the Intergroup Brokerage Rec in preparation for the transition of the rec to HO.

Swiss Re, Assistant Vice President in Finance Operations Apr 2008 – Oct 2010

Responsible for the accounting and monthly close process under US GAAP.

Reconciled all SwissRe Financial Products Corp. Global Cash accts to Chase NY USD banks and London Currency banks

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including investigating and resolving cash breaks.

Performed reconciliation of Product Control P&L versus Oracle Ledger P&L for Swiss Re Financial Products Corp. such as

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bonds, interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, and options.

Updated FAS 157 mapping table for any new instrument with its corresponding FAS pricing level.

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Identified account mis-mappings and ensured that proper reclass journals were posted timely.

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Prepared schedules such as Prepaid expenses, Accrued expenses, and Fixed Assets and posted journal entries.

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Closed the books for 2 Swiss Re entities and prepared Financial Statements and analysis on a monthly basis.

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Significantly improved process efficiency of preparation of Financial Statements with help from Finance Operation

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Administrator by automating reports and resulting in shorter preparation time.

Filed monthly FINRA FOCUS report online for small broker dealer entity.

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Assisted in the annual preparation of audited financials and assisted in internal/external audit inquiries.

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Wrote up documentation on key responsibilities and transitioned my role to Kansas.

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Ambac Financial Group, Inc., Assistant Vice President in Financial Services Dept. Feb 2002 – Apr 2008

Responsible for the accounting of Investment Agreement business(IA), Ambac Securities Inc. (ASI) (broker dealer), and conduits.

Reconciled Investment Agreement liabilities to ALMS database supported by Operations.

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Reviewed Month-to-Month investment securities income comparison and amortization analysis for IA Float and Fixed

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portfolios.

Performed first level review of schedules such as Realized gain/loss, upfront premiums, and prepaid expenses.

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Submitted IA Flash P&L report to Senior Managers for monthly P&L meeting.

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Prepared IA, ASI, and Conduits Financial Statements including stand-alone financials and analyze variances of Balance

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Sheet and Income Statement.

Filed monthly ASI FINRA FOCUS report online.

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Interfaced with both internal audit and KPMG with queries and documentation request.

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Salomon Smith Barney – A member of Citigroup, Mutual Fund Accountant Feb. 2000 – Sep 2001

Responsible for daily calculation of Net Asset Value for diversified funds such as Equity, Fixed-income, High Yield, and

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Emerging Market investments.

Determined daily cash availability for trading.

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Prepared daily Bank Reconciliation, weekly Income and Amortization schedules.

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Performed monthly Asset Position Reconciliation and Compliance Reports.

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Prepared quarterly, semi-annually, and year-end Schedule of Investments and Financial Statements.

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Education: Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting, Baruch College, 2000

Computer Skills: MS Office 2007 &2010 (Excel – proficient in Vlookups and Pivot tables, Word, and PowerPoint);

PeopleSoft/Oracle; Cognos TM1: PAM; Murex; Sophis; ALMS; Bloomberg

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