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DAMIAN LESLIE

Brooklyn, NY ***** Phone: 347-***-**** Email: *******@***.*** IN: LinkedIn/DamianLeslie

An expert in driving efficiency, while being well verse in financial services. A finance management professional with 19+ years of experience executing domestic and international projects. Highly skilled in operations, accounting, budgeting, cash management, and change management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Church World Service Org (Via LHH Solutions) Jersey City, NJ 10/2024 – 12/31/24

Senior Accounting Specialist Consultant

• Prepare and complete weekly check runs and maintain check request documentation. Responsible for the following essential accounting functions (accounts payable, onboarding of vendors, accounts receivable, month end reporting, review and create journals entries). Process credit card transactions and complete monthly credit card reconciliations. Track petty cash and gift card disbursements and complete petty cash/gift card replenishment requests. Assist with processing and tracking incoming and outgoing unrestricted and restricted private funds.

KKR & Co. (Via Green key resources), New York, NY

Senior Invoice Coordinator Consultant 02/2024 – 06/2024

Collaborate with internal management and external firms to ensure the timely payment of invoices. Liaise with Accounts Payable to ensure proper routing of the invoices via Concur. Work with legal and finance departments to identify appropriate invoice expense allocations to fund accounts and/or legal general ledger accounts and cost centers. Responsible for invoice process flow from invoice receipt, management approval, payment, and expense posting.

Liaise with vendors to confirm receipt of payment and resolve discrepancies. Responsible weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports, and auditing inquiries.

DRL Enterprises Inc., Brooklyn, NY

Independent Business Anlayst /Account/Tax Consultant 04/2009–Present

Consult with 50+ individuals and businesses monthly on accounting projects(Brooklyn Ballet, Pich, Bam Tech Solutions, Status Bit App, and DRL tutoring)

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.

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. Entered and reconciled 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.

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. Responsible for ensuring international invoice were paid via FX funding trades.

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 client 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 instructions received by the client in order to make the distributions of funds

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 multi-billion dollar fundings; oversaw audits; revamped the journal approval process; utilized tools to analyze and monitor risk; recorded.

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

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. 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

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Business Administration Pace University–New York, NY

SKILLS CERTIFICATIONS

Excel: V-LOOK UPs, H-LOOK UPs, Pivot Tables & Charts, Concatenation MS Office Suite SDLC Jira Quick Books Intellimatch SharePoint Fedwire Swift Visio MS Dynamics 365 Coupa LMS NetSuite Oracle SAP Concur Appian Gems AWS Workstation IWS workstation CITI Direct Cash Sage

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