Management Accounting

KATO L. FIGUEROA

Jersey City, NJ 917-***-**** ****@*******.***

SUMMARY

Financial Management professional with experience in the New York Banking

industry, with a broad knowledge of accounting, Disaster Recovery, Senior

Analyst, and Quality Risk Management. I am hard working, extremely computer

literate, willing to learn and provide new systems and procedures. I take

initiative and self-teach myself new programs. Demonstrated leadership in

motivating colleagues to work collaboratively to achieve productivity and

cost improvements. Successful in selecting and introducing new processes

and technology changes through automation seamlessly throughout the

organization.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BNY MELLON, New York, NY 1990 - Dec. 2013

Americas Client Services Delivery

Business Recovery Coordinator/Billing Quality Risk Management

. Comply with regulatory requirements to review plans to ensure that

they are appropriately administered and maintained for use in the

event of a crisis.

. Consulted with business managers to direct support to the recovery

teams throughout the established planning and/or recovery process

following a major crisis.

. Analyzing and defining the business requirements and functional or

operational architecture for moderately complex operations.

. SOX Compliance/Regulatory Compliance, AML, KYC, Patriot Act, and

formulate and define system scope and work with internal business

groups on process improvement and is involved in testing, training and

implementing of applications and/or systems.

CORPORATE FINANCE

1985 - 1990

ACCOUNTANT I

Developed and coordinated the distribution of a wide array of daily,

monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for the accounting department and

senior management

. Researched opportunities and developed programs for 75% automation of

manual bookkeeping functions on personal computer, designed databases

and spreadsheet applications.

Selected Achievements:

. Cost Management - Pricing and volume projects as well as cost saving

analysis as well as revenue impact on expenses and costs

. Quality Management - Implementation of new technology systems and

hardware

. Risk Management - Risk management review and quality control as well

as auditing requirements for department.

. Billing, pricing and volume, including product line, general ledger

postings, bank customer-based conversions, Affiliate Level Service

Codes, Timing of Revenue calculations. Developed procedures for

Disaster Recover/Business Contingency. Assisted in developing

procedures to provide support to the Recovery Teams and maintained all

standards and procedures for tracking of business.

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. Created and assisted in analyzing the business requirements and

operational architecture for moderately complex projects (pricing,

service, systems).

. Maintained daily, weekly, and monthly foreign and domestic rates for

company customer base.

. Coordinated a recent conversion of pseudo-custody account detail to

true "IMMS" accounts for Insurance Division, Foreign Exchange

department, and the Personal Financial Planning department and

properly mapped IMMS conversion for and estimated a revenue increase

of $250M annually for the Insurance Division and combined customer

base annual revenue for Foreign Exchange and Personal Financial

Planning departments of $1.6MM.

. Controlled an automated distribution system for all corporate

financial reports company wide.

. Redesigned all forms and training material for company training

projects; and controlled data review for new PowerBuilder's database.

CBS TOYS, SUBSIDIARY OF CBS, INC., New York, NY

ACCOUNTANT

. Preparation and distribution of Financial Statements, Flash Reports,

Quarterly and Year End.

. Converting manual reports into an automated environment; as well as an

on-line system

. Designed statements and prepared account analysis.

. Supervised internal control and related file library.

ADDITIONAL RELATED EXPERIENCE

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, New York, NY

STAFF ACCOUNTANT

. Provide Financial Statements, Balance Sheets, and Quarterly Profit

Reports, accrued and analyzed accounts.

SUPERVISOR OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE AND RECEIVABLE

. Managed a team of five (5) staff members, handling operational

expenses, collections, domestic and foreign billing.

SEABOARD, INC., DIVISION OF CHROMADYE CORPORATION, New York, NY

STAFF ASSISTANT

. Administrative duties, Billing and Payment records, familiarity with

computers systems

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, Lotus Notes,

Lync, Projects, SameTime, as well as other financial software as well as

other software for internal and external database controls.

EDUCATION

Business Class America Banking School (major in Finance/Accounting/Budgets/

Expense Control)

Queens Borough Community College

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