Accounting Manager

Ryan Yates

Account Manager - Morgan Stanley Fund Services

Ridgewood, NJ

********@***.*** - 201-***-****

WORK EXPERIENCE

Account Manager

Morgan Stanley Fund Services - Purchase, NY - April 2012 to Present Act as single point of contact for hedge fund clients currently managing 4 client relationships totaling over $8 billion AUM.

Cooperating with the Firm’s offshore operations and clients to resolve daily trade and accounting breaks Preparing/reviewing monthly account closing procedures and ensuring compliance with established accounting procedures and controls, as well as ensuring all fund expenses are accrued timely and in accordance with GAAP

Prepare/review position and cash reconciliations between clients and their custodians Ensuring monthly valuations are reviewed and approved prior to distribution to clients and reviewed and approved by clients prior to distribution to investors Preparing or reviewing accounting journal entries related to standard accruals, management and incentive fees (calculated in accordance with fund documents), deferred compensation payables, derivative contract financing and broker financing.

Performing monthly master-feeder accounting allocations, and repairing/reviewing investor allocations Reviewing key legal fund offering documents and identifying possible accounting or administrative implementation issues and assisting client conversion teams with new client set up and accounting conversion implementation

Identifying and implementing solutions to problems (accounting, operations, investor service) and leveraging firm resources as appropriate to strengthen control environment Coordinating year-end audit with client and independent auditors, as well as, preparing/reviewing draft annual financial statements

Accounting Supervisor- Fund Accounting/Client Services Division Citi Hedge Fund Services of North America - Roseland, NJ - January 2006 to April 2012 Roseland, NJ 1/2006 - 4/2012

Accounting Supervisor- Fund Accounting/Client Services Division Review daily/weekly/monthly accounting packages (NAV), estimates, tax information, financial statements, and other ad hoc reports due out to the client.

Manage staff, seniors, and supervisors, (multiple teams) on the related hedge funds and fund of funds, coordinate with other accounting supervisors in order to create a balanced work schedule. Create standard operating procedures (SAS 70), checklists, training for monthly processes such as NAV packages and complex allocations (Master Feeder Structures/Unit Trusts/Hurdles/Tiered Management Fees) Manage relationships with the client, auditors, brokers, and internal teams such as investor services, tax, and financial statement groups.

Interviewed/hired prospective employees and perform written and verbally reviewed staff under my management on a quarterly/annual basis.

Engaged in many successful audits and financial statement releases by creating supporting schedules, and managing the information. Reviewed financial statements, footnotes, and schedules in order to provide an accurate package to present to the auditors.

Investor Services - Global Transfer Agency Platform with full Allocations Integration Joined a project team as the global business lead for fund accounting that created a global transfer agent platform with an integrated allocation platform with complex management and incentive fee structures. Create business requirement documents and other ad hoc reports in relation to the project, create test scripts for the group to follow when testing the product or multiple funds for proof of concept. Run focus groups within the multiple locations in order to gather all of the appropriate information for the project. Work with information technology (IT) group to implement project phases. Special Projects

Run a forensic accounting project on a bank account with little controls. Design controls and create a report on the different possibilities of fraud.

Create an independent report on the private equity fund allocations process, trace back and recreate the process, and add recommendations to create a leaner process. EDUCATION

Bachelors in Accounting

University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth Campus - North Dartmouth, MA September 2005

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Proficient in Advent Geneva, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Hedgetek, Adobe Acrobat, Equitrak, GoSystems Audit, Morgan Stanley internal systems (eMSPA, Xpert, Client Link, Stratum)

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