Regine Jode
Fund Accounting
**** ******* ** **, ****, Atlanta,
United States, 30305
*********@*****.***
Professional with over 14 years accounting audit and 10 years legal experience. Seasoned senior Fund Accounting expert, and Fund administration SME. Focused on fair value securities, and expenses. Well versed in drafting compliance summaries and preparing tax information for funds reviewing financial statements. Provide oversight, knowledge transfer and guidance related to fund analysis to managers, senior fund accountants and other Stakeholders. Employment history
2022 - Present
AVP Compliance
Brown Brothers Harriman (State Street)
• As a SME ensure and own creation of confident Operations business requirements that includes leading workshops, process mapping and process flow documentation.
• Ensure financial models reflect GAAP (Revenue Recognition).
• Create project plans, stakeholder management plan, Workflows, and compliance monitoring.
• Work with key stakeholders on project scope definition. Identify, document, project dependencies.
• Reviewed quarterly and annual financial work paper packages including portfolio schedules, accruals and PCAP allocations.
• Review monthly bank reconciliations and post journal entries.
• Ensure change control is executed throughout project. Manage audits.
• Establish project communication needs and support creation of project communication plan.
• Track actual project costs, identify variances, and reforecast project costs as needed.
• Measure project management performance (using KPI) against standards.
• Work with procurement team to create, track, and close project contracts.
• Prepared Financial Statements, process securities. Dec 2019 - Oct 2021
Stock Market Trade, Pricing NAV
Fidelity Information systems
• Develop automated process to produce regular reports based on metrics to assist senior managers with status reports.
• Perform transaction analysis to ensure integrity of data and compliance with all government regulations.
• Policy and procedures implementation, regulatory standards execution.
• Develop trading strategies and assess market trends to provide clients with accurate data.
• Evaluate market trends, trader performance (KPI), and trading strategies for financial risk.
• Perform the calculation of daily Net Asset Values (NAVs) for Collective Investment Trusts or Unitized Accounts.
• Confirm all fund capital stock activity is valid and properly loaded to department systems.
• Execute legal contracts to invoice correct payments and contract terms.
• Ensure that all trades and settlements are accurately processed on Fund Accounting software.
• Review fund expenses and expense accrual calculations daily.
• Maintain calendar of anticipated income and corporate actions on fund assets and ensure income and corporate actions are properly processed on the appropriate date.
Operations compliance Manager (Hedge Funds)
STATE STREET, Quincy MA
• As a SNE reviewed work of the fund accounting staff. Ensuring that all relevant policies and controls are adhered to daily.
• Custody accountant.
• Responsibility for maintaining client relationships and dealing with competing priorities.
• Calculate, analyzing and report yields, and NAV’s daily.
• Data reconciliation, exception reporting, and financial statements. Compliance and regulations.
• Corporate action processing, daily/monthly pricing, class action processing. Prepared cash journal, trial balance and monthly financial statements.
• Regular contact transfer agency, funds’ custodians and fund administration regarding compliance reviews, fair value securities, expenses, etc.
• Assist with Fund Accounting training, onboarding, and mentoring junior staff.
• Report to the Director of Fund Accounting and compliance. Manager - Fund Services and Custody Operations
MANULIFE-JOHN HANCOCK, BOSTON, MA
• Oversight and execution of the following functions: third-party repurchase agreements, global and tax documentation, monthly substantial holdings monitoring and reporting for the Schwab and Laudus Funds, Schwab ETFs, and managed accounts, fund liquidity, securities lending, TMPG collateral oversight, class actions and proxy voting.
• Assist Portfolio & Cash Services Director with documentation of current cash flow notification procedures.
• Sub-custodian account opening documentation for 40 Act mutual funds and ETFs in various market.
• Prepare and/or review various reports, including exception accounts, aging, month-end status, and yield analysis.
• Continuously improve processes and implement tools for policy management.
• Document, measure, and report assessments, risks, controls, findings, and remediation activity.
• Lead various projects and initiatives to enhance and improve operational efficiency though technology and other means.
• Brief organization on regulatory requirements & impact on Kambi.
• Act as a key regulatory point of contact, analyze, review and flag regulatory trends.
• Created metrics (Key performance Indicator, KPI, and Key Risk Indicator, KRI).
• Ensure daily trading/wire deadlines are met.
• Performed monthly allocations to Ensure accuracy of income allocation to each participating entity.
• Monitored the commission recapture broker, securities lending agent and lines of credit, multi managed, fix income, hedge funds.
• Prepared daily exception reporting.
Education
Dec 2023
MBA - Finance
Colorado Technical University
May 2008
Legal studies
Boston University
May 2003
Bachelor of Science in Consumer Science Economics with a minor in Business concentration finance Framingham State University at Framingham, MA
Courses
ITIL certified
Cyber security policies certified
Skills
Project Management Microsoft Office
Excel Bloomberg
Notary Public Front Page
AutoCAD SAP
Fiserv Advent Geneva
SunGard Asset Arena ManTra
World check IDC
Markit Horizon Systems
Vertex Invest one
ERP OLE
CRM IMS
Advantage Eagle star