Senior Fund Accountant
Resume:
STEVEN HALLIDAY
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
EH14 1LJ
Tel: +44-756*-***-***
Email: ***************@*****.***
Detail-oriented, efficient and organized chartered accountant.
Audit based experience in a variety of mutual and hedge funds in US GAAP and IFRS.
Fund administration experience in Fund of Funds and Private Equity funds, providing a full range of fund administration services to clients.
Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to make well thought out decisions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Highly trustworthy and ethical.
Resourceful in the completion of projects and meeting client deadlines. EXPERIENCE:
Harmonic Fund Services, Cayman Islands: November 2013 – October 2016 Senior Fund Accountant
Responsible for a portfolio of Private Equity funds that exceed $2.5bn in assets under management.
Dealing with capital events, preparing financial statements, monthly reporting.
Responsible for review of monthly reporting for other team members’ portfolios in addition to review of the work of the operations team.
Heavily involved in improving the company’s in-house software and adding new functionalities – liaising with programmers, clients and management.
Main point of contact for clients, responding to cyclical and ad hoc requests and demands as they arise.
Liaising with auditors and investors directly as the first point of contact.
Involved in the creation of the operations team and coordination of their duties in order to assist the work performed by fund accountants and increase efficiency in the department.
Heavily involved in decreasing the turnaround and delivery times of various elements of the service provided to clients.
UBS, Cayman Islands: June 2013 – September 2013
Senior Fund Accountant
Responsible for overseeing a portfolio of Fund of Funds, preparing NAVs including weekly estimate deadlines, liaising with the client and auditors. PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cayman Islands: September 2011 – June 2013 Senior Associate, Audit
Responsible for planning, execution and completion of audit work on a variety of hedge funds with a variety of structures, administered by fund administrators in Cayman Islands, Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Bahamas.
Responsible for ensuring audit work is performed in order to meet client deadlines, with all deadlines to date met successfully and several funds completed ahead of deadline.
Responsible for overseeing some less experienced team members, providing coaching and guidance where required.
Assisted with financial statements preparation between the first draft provided by fund administrators and the final signed draft. This includes posting adjustments, reviewing accounts for errors and inconsistencies in addition to suggesting improvements in presentation and in technical areas such as accounting policies.
Taken on additional responsibilities such as coordinating the work of other team members, chairing calls with offshore fund administrators and being their first point of contact, leading internal meetings with the team and the Partner. Also tasked with performing the initial review of associates’ work.
Assisted in the roll out of new audit software and given additional responsibility as a point of contact for colleagues on this software. Continually used as a point of contact within the office for queries or problems relating to this software from colleagues including those more senior than myself.
Due to knowledge of PwC’s audit software, involved in the formal training of new recruits, providing assistance to the training tutors and presenting parts of the training course.
Created templates to partially automate some areas of audit work, utilizing various excel formulas in order to reduce the possibility of human error and also increase efficiency through the partial automation of previously time consuming processes.
All formal and informal feedback received from superiors was extremely positive and as a result was given more responsibility, taking on more of a manager/oversight role on engagements.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Edinburgh, Scotland: September 2008 – August 2011 Senior Associate, Audit
Responsible for overseeing and review of the planning, execution and completion of audit work on a variety of mutual funds, reporting directly to Directors and Partners.
In charge of teams of up to eight associates and senior associates, providing coaching and guidance in addition to reviewing their work.
Assisted with budgeting and time management for booking staff onto various engagements.
Key team member and reviewer on the office’s largest funds audit, coordinating staff and allocation of work on a 42 sub-fund OEIC with a tight deadline.
Involved in the tailoring of the audit approach to increase efficiency and profitability of various engagements, with measured improvements shown as a result.
Created templates utilizing formulas and macros in Excel in order to reduce manual tasks and increase automation in several areas of data entry and analysis.
Heavily involved in utilizing PwC’s audit software in order to increase the efficiency of audits across the funds group. This included creating several template files that could be used across the funds group for a variety of engagements. This significantly reduced the amount of planning and set-up time required to begin an engagement. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor Degree in Law (LLB) with Honors from The University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Certifications: Chartered Accountant (CA) from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Microsoft Office (including Excel, Word and PowerPoint), Windows XP and Vista, Outlook Express, Lotus Notes, MyClient and Aura (both PwC audit packages), FM3 (Harmonic’s custom built Fund Manager platform), Bloomberg, Reuters.
PERSONAL INTERESTS:
I enjoy playing sports, particularly football but also golf and tennis. Since I first arrived in Cayman I have also participated in beach volleyball, softball and Gaelic football. I also enjoy a variety of other leisure activities such as scuba diving, cooking and reading.
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