Staff Accountant

TERESA FONG

******.****@*****.*** • LinkedIn Kendall Park, NJ • 732-***-****

For The Position in Accounting / Finance

Extensive experience in the financial services industry serving mutual funds for Merrill Lynch and BlackRock. Background includes expertise in accounting for diversified funds with multi-currency securities (equities, bonds, & derivatives ie options, futures, swaps & swaptions), master-feeder and limited partnership structures. Responsible for funds with net assets range from $73 million to $2 billion each; with 5 to10 at a time. Provide excellent client service and top quality financial information. Ensure current knowledge of all laws, rules and regulations which pertain to the industry. Identify control weaknesses and develop approaches to increase efficiency and accuracy. Formulate ideas and strategies to achieve organizational goals. With broad knowledge and strong managerial skills. Initiative, self-motivated and detail-oriented.

Professional Experience

East Asian Fusion Restaurant Plainsboro, NJ 2007- Present

Manager / Bookkeeper

STATE STREET Corp., Princeton, NJ 1990 – May 2011

Serving mutual funds for Merrill Lynch and BlackRock

Supervisor in Global Units (2001 –May 2011)

●Supervise, manage and train staff accountants within the most diversified groups of mutual funds: no Multi-foreign currency funds with more challenging derivative securities like Credit Default swaps, Total Return and Interest Rate swaps, Currency and Index Options, Swaptions, and futures

●Oversee the efficiency of the daily accounting and record keeping functions of complex funds and ensure that the net asset values are determined in an accurate and timely manner

●Provide manager with the assurance that all responsibilities of staff are performed in an efficient, accurate manner

●Up to date in maintaining proficiency concerning mutual fund industry and regulatory changes

●Up to date on maintaining and applying a high level of knowledge concerning accounting policies, procedures and controls

●Proactively aid in creating, administering and improving accounting procedures

●Ensure that all monthly requirements have been complied, reviewed and appropriately submitted

●Manage and develop staff by providing balanced feedback, recognition development opportunities, and provide guidance to staff to ensure proper level of understanding

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MERRILL LYNCH (merged with BLACKROCK 2006), Princeton, NJ

Unit Floater (2000 – 2001)

Of the newly created Global Unit IV, developed daily, weekly, and monthly supportive analysis and reports specifically for this unit. Provide overall support to the unit: manager, supervisors and staff (~15)

Senior Fund Accountant (1994 – 2000)

●A leading member of the newly formed functionalized Support Unit: responsible for preparing cash projections, month-end checklists, monthly compliance reports, and asset reconciliations

●Effectively streamlined the monthly checklist and automated process to increase accuracy

●Fixed Income Corporate Bond Unit

●Handle more complex funds’ daily recording and reconciliation of investments

●Prepare various reports and statutory filings

Fund Accountant (1990 – 1994)

●Joined Money Market Unit and transferred to Muni Bond Unit a year later

LOWER EASTSIDE SERVICES CENTER, New York City, 1990

Staff Accountant / Administrative Assistant

Education

BBA Public Accounting

Pace University NYC, NY

Certification

Series 7 (1997)

Computer Proficiency

MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Bloomberg, IDC, and PAS (Portfolio Accounting System)

Language Fluent in Chinese: Mandarin and Cantonese

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