DAMIAN LESLIE

Brooklyn, NY ***** Phone: 347-***-**** Email: ad2d5y@r.postjobfree.com IN: LinkedIn/DamianLeslie

I am an expert in driving efficiency, while being well verse financial services. A finance management professional with 19+ years of experience executing domestic and international projects. Processed $5B+ in transactions over career. Highly skilled in operations, accounting, budgeting, cash management, and change management. Served as strategic advisor to decision-makers offering sustainable long-term solutions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Coverwhale Inc. (Via Robert Half), New York, NY

Senior Accounts Payable Associate Consultant 05/2023 – 12/2023

Process outgoing payments in compliance with financial policies and procedures. Consults with senior management pertaining to increasing efficiency,

Perform day to day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, and recording accounts payable data.

Reconcile the accounts payable ledger to ensure that all bills and payments are accounted for and properly posted.

Verify and investigate discrepancies, if any, by reconciling vendor accounts and monthly vendor statements.

Entering and reconciling T&E, and corporate credit card accounts via sage. Ensure timely and accurate payments to vendors. Review of payments for compliance with internal controls. Obtain W-9s from all vendors, and information for FACTA compliance and reporting

Bank Of Santander (via Dysis Staffing), New York, NY

Senior Accounts Payable Representative Consultant 11/2022- 02/2023

Entering and reconciling T&E, and corporate credit card accounts via SAP. Ensure timely and accurate payments to vendors. Review of payments for compliance with internal controls. Obtain W-9s from all vendors, and information for FACTA compliance and reporting. Completes a wide variety of spreadsheet tasks by assisting in the preparation of management reports, summaries, and tables via SAP.

Assist ap manager in overseeing the accounts payable team in Mexico to ensure payments are going through the account payable process. Coordinate with Operations and clients for transaction set-up, activity and reporting. Coordinate with operations for resolutions to vendor inquiries. Assist ap manager with managing vendor day-to-day activities related to AP transactions. Create and distribute weekly, monthly, and yearly management reports. Assists ap manager in completion of internal projects related to AP and finance.

Responsible for foreign exchange trades that fund foreign currencies based accounts in order to pay foreign vendors.

Citibank ( via Matrix Staffing) Jersey City, NJ

Agency and Trust Officer Consultant/Business Analyst 8/2021–1/2022

Read, analyze, and understand the different contracts for each clients in different jurisdictions. Review and input operational activities into the Issuer Services Workstation platform according to the transactions per client contract. Review, analyze, and input a variety of invoices for the billing process, Review and resolved payment system issues with the IT group. Review and submit the information for the instructions received by the client into the payment system, in order to make the distributions of funds (domestic transfers, Checks, International transfers, book to book) per contracts.

Review and practice metrics and controls related to all activities performed as defined by bank Policies or internal decision.

DRL Enterprises Inc.,–Brooklyn, NY

Independent Business Anlayst /Consultant 4/2009–Present

Consult with 50+ individuals and businesses monthly on accounting projects, including Brooklyn Ballet, Pich,Bam Tech Solutions, Status Bit App, and DRL tutoring with revenues from $150K to $1.5M; authored internal control procedures, saving 30% in operating costs

Perform full-cycle accounting, including end-to-end bookkeeping, tax, 1099, and financial statement preparation, cash management, budget analysis, payroll processing, month end close, bank reconciliations, and policies and procedures according to GAAP.

Barclays Capital (via Michael Page)–Jersey City, NJ

Project Manager /BA /WHOLE LOANS ANALYST/FICC CONSULTANT–SECURITIZE PRODUCTS 05/2011–4/2014

Reported to Director of Commercial Real Estate; processed and funded $500M to $4.5B securitization transactions; developed a risk management framework

Executed three multi-billion dollar fundings; oversaw audits; revamped the journal approval process; counseled clients on risk-mitigating strategies; utilized tools to analyze and monitor risk; contributed to key regulatory initiatives and reported on risk exposures and metrics; recorded inventory and sub-ledger activities

Oversaw various day-to-day cash management and general ledger transactions; collected and processed all fee-related payments via different systems

PROJECT MANAGER/BUSINESS ANALYST CONSULTANT–CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Led 18 developers domestically and internationally on cross-functional improvement projects boosting scalability

Designed and rolled out centralized global real-time financing database that tracked billon-dollar activities; 28 global offices impacted

Created process flows, business requirements documents, use cases. Documented existing workflows/payments/processes/systems, identified gaps, root-cause analysis, leading design reviews and optimization sessions, and creating action plans

Created business process to articulate functional specifications and standardize the organization's workflows

BlackRock Financial Management Inc.–New York, NY

FINANCIAL ASSOCIATE/QUALITY CONTROL-GLOBAL OPERATIONS GROUP 11/2004–12/2008

Selected to develop new systems and design and implement compensation claims process policies and procedures; charged as day-to-day manager

Acquired $4M of outstanding payments via swift, ach wire transfers, and authorized debit transactions for Blackrock clients; headed company updates meetings seating up to 10K+ as well as heavy budget development

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Business Administration Pace University–New York, NY

SKILLS CERTIFICATIONS

Microsoft Excel: V-LOOK UPs, H-LOOK UPs, Pivot Tables & Charts, Concatenation Microsoft Office Suite SDLC Jira Quick Books Intellimatch SharePoint Fedwire Swift Visio Impact LMS Netsuite SAP Agile Methodology and Water Fall trained AWS Workstation IWS workstation CITI Direct Cash Sage

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