Business Analyst Accounting Manager

Sara K. Forrest

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Qualifications Summary:

Five years Compliance experience in Regulatory Reporting, specialize in TIC Reporting.

Eight years Accounting Manager experience of managing a team of eight Accountants.

Three years Project Manager dealing with full life cycle of class action settlements.

Department SME (Subject Matter Expert) in developing test scripts plans and coordination.

Strong requirement knowledge of Treasury International Capital (TIC) Regulatory Reporting

Excellent Excel capabilities, multiple accounting, and system experience.

Consulting Experience:

Ameriprise Financial, Remote May 2022-October 2022

Sr Accountant

Daily reconciliation of swap and future products of clearing cash in PAM system.

Running general ledger accounting entries using Workday.

Ready Credit Corporation, Remote August 2021-April 2022

Sr Accountant

Daily accounting and reconciliation of cash in various international kiosk transactions on QuickBooks accounting system.

Prepare daily ACH payments for the transit ticketing systems.

Monthly bank reconciliations, month end process of the financial statements.

Foreign currency calculations for business done in Canada and Mexico.

Dominium, Remote May 2021-July 2021

Sr Property Accountant

Prepared monthly draw payments for multiple construction projects, recording all accounting transactions and wire payments using Yardi accounting system.

Wells Fargo, Remote February 2021-May 2021

Business Analyst

Testing bonds for the system conversion of Wall Street to Simcorp due to the change from LIBOR.

Verified calculation of all payments done correctly in the conversion of data.

UNFI, Remote September 2020-February 2021

Sr Accountant

Prepared LIFO inflation calculations every period.

Preformed weekly inventory accounting transactions using Oracle accounting system.

Monthly reconciliation of asset/ liability accounts used in inventory accounting.

Wells Fargo, Remote May 2020-August 2020

Business Analyst

Testing of Regulatory Reporting produced by all departments to verify compliance of capture all data correctly.

Ameriprise Financial, Minneapolis, Minnesota November 2019-March 2020

Sr Accountant

Daily accounting and reconciliation of investment portfolio transactions with PAM system.

Preformed accounting transactions on PeopleSoft system and pull transaction reports on Oracle system.

Prepared monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for inclusion in 10Q & 10K, statutory and regulatory filings.

UNFI (Supervalu), Eden Prairie, Minnesota February 2019-November 2019

Sr Accountant

Processed merchandise and vendor funds accounting transactions and reconciliation on Oracle accounting system.

Prepared weekly pharmacy inventory transactions.

Supervisor approval on departments of monthly reconciliations in OARs(Oracle Accounting Reconciliation).

Wells Fargo Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota January 2011- May 2011

Accounting Manager

Managed six Accountants within the Corporate Trust Operations department.

Reviewed and approved general ledger and cash movement transactions generated within the Pegasus and Cash billing applications.

Permanent Roles Experience:

RMR Capital Group, Eden Prairie, Minnesota July 2018-February 2019

Accounting Manager

Prepared month-end general ledger entries, reconcile balance sheet, and monthly financial statements according to GAAP using Sedona accounting system.

Accounts Receivable, ETF payment process, check deposits, and bank reconciliations.

Dealer reporting, funding, calculating loan portfolio, interest payments and Recurring Monthly Revenue (RMR) payments.

Wells Fargo Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota January 2012-June 2018

Financial Accountant Consultant

Prepare subsidiary accounting entries from daily reconciliation of cash accounts in the Loan Portfolio.

Produce the outcome of quarterly SEC reports Form 10-Q and annual Form10-K and upload onto the EDGAR system in HTML format.

Analytic Consultant

Prepared Treasury International Capital (TIC) reporting: monthly Form SLT report of Long-Term Foreign Securities and Foreign Resident Holdings; quarterly BQ-1 & BQ-2 reports; and annual Report of U.S. Ownership of Foreign Securities, including selected money market instruments (SHCA).

Analyze all counterparty broker review of all the fix income trades for compliance using SQL Access program.

Responsible for all transaction for the soft dollar budget from the equity trades from Wealth Management.

Business Analyst

Conduct research and analysis on potential system enhancements, upgrades, corrections in conjunction with system architecture and business partners.

Respond to technology changes as mandated by required reporting changes or hardware and/or software upgrades by collaborating with the project team to develop Project Definition Documents and more extensive system requirements.

Schedule and coordinate UAT test plans and scripts for the TIC reports in TASRRR (Trust Asset Services Regulatory Reporting Repository) and Frontier systems.

Assisted in the creation and filing of Form ABS-15g on Securities Exchange Commission’s EDGAR system.

Taxes by Sara, Remote January 2003-April 2013

Tax Preparer, Owner

Prepared Individual Federal 1040 Income Tax Forms along with MN, WI, OH, NY, KY, NE, and CA State Tax Forms using ProSeries Tax program

Trained and installed QuickBooks on S-Corp and small business clients.

Generated Federal and State 1120 for corporations.

Rust Consulting, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota September 2005-December 2008

Project Manager

Managed 87 class action labor and employment lawsuits for a full life cycle project.

Communicated with clients on project updates, statistical reports, day meetings and conference calls.

Collaborated between client and technology programmer on database structure, operations, data, and validation of specifications for each settlement.

Prepared calculations for distribution of award settlements and managed mailing.

Wells Fargo Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota June 1997-April 2003

Accounting Manager

Responsible for managing eight professional staff within the Funds Management department engaged in investment accounting activities.

Managed completion of complex accounting tasks such as balancing, reconciliation, researching and resolving discrepancies while maintaining accounting systems and records.

Reviewed items such as consolidated balance sheet statements, statement of income, change in capital, cash flow, account reconciliations and certifications.

Education:

University of Wisconsin, River Falls

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

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