PAUL CRAIG NICHOLSON

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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11216-2106

917-***-****

Email: actqck@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A seasoned finance professional with extensive experience in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting and computer systems. Proficient self starter who aligns financial initiatives to achieve strategic goals & objectives. Results focused, independent professional with problem solving, project management and organizational skills. Prioritize competing needs and opportunities to navigate challenging environments or relationships with professionalism and diplomacy. Team player with excellent verbal and written skills.

EXPERIENCE

DOUGLAS ELLIMAN PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, New York, NY

FINANCIAL ANALYST, 1998 – Present

Formulate annual operating and capital budgets to provide comprehensive, detailed balanced budgets.

Manage financial solvency by preparing lease abstracts, monthly cash flow analyses, reconciliations and management statements.

Increase revenues and lessen expenses by monitoring monthly revenue and expenses and capital improvements, performing variance and advanced analyses and assessing daily cash requirements for all properties.

Manage and maintain all financial transactions and fiscal operations for 30 cooperative, condominium and mixed use corporations.

Post and supervise all entries to the general ledger.

Invest reserve funds and handle special financial matters based on interactions with the Boards of Directors & Managers and owners of the properties.

Interact with property managers, auditors, bank representatives and other professionals involved in property operations.

Prepare special projects as required by the Boards of Directors & Managers and Douglas Elliman Property Management.

Secure short term or special financing for various projects of the properties.

COLLECTIONS MANAGER, 1989 – 1998

Collected maintenance, mortgage, rental and sundry charges on various residential and commercial properties.

Initiated new legal proceedings and managed tenant and owner accounts on legal action with several law firms.

Supervised subordinate personnel and reviewed their daily work.

Communicated daily by telephone, in person and in writing with tenants, owners, Board Presidents and Officers, attorneys and mortgage personnel.

Provided workout strategies & approved legal invoices for payment.

Authorized and monitored acceptance of payments for all legal and problem accounts.

Supervised all legal information computer systems processing.

Wrote status reports on monthly arrears.

Appeared and testified in Civil Court for trials and inquests.

HELMSLEY-SPEAR, INC., New York, NY

COLLECTIONS ADMINISTRATOR, 1984-1989

Collected rental, escalation and sundry charges on various commercial properties.

Initiated new legal proceedings and managed tenant accounts on legal action with several law firms.

Communicated daily by telephone, in person and in writing with tenants, owners and attorneys.

Authorized and monitored acceptance of payments for all legal and problem accounts.

Entered all legal information computer systems processing.

Wrote monthly arrears reports.

EDUCATION

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, LEONARD N. STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

M.B.A. Finance, February 1993

THE BERNARD M. BARUCH COLLEGE OF THE C.U.N.Y., New York, NY

B.B.A. Computer Systems, February 1984

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