Project Manager Accounting

DENNIS QUINN, MBA

**** * ******** ** 610-***-****

West Chester, PA 19382 *************@*****.***

CORPORATE FINANCE PROFESSIONAL

Financial Operations Professional with a proven track record in the banking and financial investment industries seeks a challenging position in the financial services industry. Expertise includes superior cash management skills, broad-based business acumen, well-honed communication skills with internal and external business partners, demonstrated informal leadership and firm understanding of corporate and government compliance regulations. Possesses strong operational awareness, excellent judgment, and high level of accuracy allowing for effective decision making and independence.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WHEELHOUSE ANALYTICS, West Chester, PA Jan, 2015- Apr, 2015

Senior Project Manager

Worked with CEO on the Enterprise Data Sharing and Socialization Project. The three month project resulted in the successful implementation of financial distribution dashboards for a major client of the firm.

Defined the scope of the project in collaboration with senior management.

Monitored the progress of the project in the Wrike project management system and made adjustments as necessary to ensure the successful completion of the project.

Established a communication schedule to update senior management on the progress of the project.

STATE STREET BANK, Berwyn, PA 2012-2014

Business Analyst

Worked as part of a team of business analysts converting the Morgan Stanley accounting system over to the State Street accounting system. Conversion involves transitioning over 400 institutional accounts with over $1 billion in market value.

Performed daily reconciliation of client’s cash positions, security positions, market value, accrued interest, and future exposures to bank’s accounting system.

Extracted market value data for over 400 institutional accounts, and prepare financial reports for various senior level account managers to review.

Analyzed and resolved various accounting issues that arise as a result of User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

JP MORGAN INVESTMENT BANK, Newark, DE 2008-2012

Senior Credit Derivative Analyst

Directed complete accounting and management of all cash transactions associated with $12.3 billion of annual securities’ transactions, ensuring all legal and financial requirements were met.

Analyzed credit derivative transactions, ensuring accurate accounting of cash in accordance with FAS 107 & FAS 133.

Reviewed and executed credit default and interest rate swaps, effectively verifying compliance of all legal and financial requirements between client and bank.

Analyzed and reconciled $92 million of daily foreign currency transactions with international trading desks in London, Singapore and Dubai, maintaining 100% accuracy rate.

Updated financial information in daily reports of largest investment fund, monitoring collateral and cash positions to support proper investment decisions by investment team decision makers/portfolio manager.

Prepared and reviewed reports for CFO detailing key financial metrics and market values of various securities to allow effective monitoring of financial information across various types of funds.

GARTMORE GLOBAL INVESTMENTS, Conshohocken, PA 2000- 2007

Senior Trading Support Analyst

Developed all internal policies and procedures necessary to reconcile cash transactions across multiple financial systems for start-up company. Company grew from $25 million to $40 billion under management in six years.

Managed and reconciled cash flow of approximately $200 million in various financial instruments traded on daily basis for four global investment teams (London, Philly, Detroit, San Diego).

Identified and reconciled cash variances across 100 fund accounts to ensure accurate daily cash balances communicated for investments by portfolio managers.

Setup and maintained daily/weekly cash forecasts to ensure proper levels of cash availability for investment team transactions from across four global offices.

Managed relationships with banks, accountants, brokers, portfolio managers and traders to ensure 100% accuracy of financial transactions for daily valuation purposes.

Conducted investigations into third-party providers regarding background and fraudulent practice checks to ensure compliance with SEC trading practices.

Selected as lead technical-investment team member to setup and implement key procedures necessary to divest $90 million London investment business and move all operational functions back to U.S. office.

DELAWARE INVESTMENTS, Philadelphia, PA 1998-2000

Corporate Action Analyst/ Supervisor

Compiled financial information from various sources (Bloomberg, custodian banks) for the portfolio managers and/or financial specialists. Processed various types of voluntary and mandatory corporate actions in CPORT accounting system.

Provided a staff of 3 associates with objectives, held regular one on one performance feedback meetings, and performed annual associate reviews.

Managed staff assignments in conjunction with client deliverables

Managed analysis, calculations, and pricing issues for cash or stock dividends and other corporate actions that had share or tax implications.

Uploaded security pricing files from IDC and Muller used for the accurate valuation of over 800 mutual funds.

Contacted various brokers and pulled end of day prices from Bloomberg for a variety of hard to value securities.

Processed security master set up requests for various fund accounting groups involving a wide range of security types.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration- Finance, LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA.

Bachelor of Science: Business Administration- Finance, Widener University, Chester, PA.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Office Systems: Excel, Access, Word, Power Point

Accounting Systems: Bloomberg, CPORT, Sungard Portfolio One, various proprietary banking systems

Investment Specialty Systems: Order Allocation System (OASYS), Longview System

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