Gerald Colatrella

Recruited for short-term project to reconcile balances and transactions from a daily error report for customer mutual fund accounts and provide management hierarchy with viable transaction issue solutions. * Resolved discrepancies involving 65,500+ transactions for 19.5M shares by functioning as liaison between financial and IT personnel. * Detected 30 transaction issues and spearheaded recommendations to management hierarchy to streamline transactions, eliminate redundancy, and reduce future errors.

Recruited for short-term project to provide consultation and analyses of a $350M accounts receivable account. * Developed systematic approach to analyze approximately 5,000 monthly transactions. Recruited for a short-term project challenged to resolve most complex accounts receivable account and recommend permanent accounting process improvements. * Researched 40,000 discrepancies between balance sheet accounts. Identified transaction errors and implemented process improvements.

Recruited for short-term project to deliver the migration of financial data serving 50 mainframe clients to Windows-based system. * Partnered with consultants to collaboratively accelerate migration. * Trained newly hired consultants in migration process and new system audit protocol. * Reconciled and migrated 3.5MM+ shares of stock for clients, assisted fellow consultants in migrating 1.5MM shares of client stock and established reconciliation procedures.

Recruited to manage high priority, complex and long-term project. * Within 6 months of hire, gained knowledge of precise account balance configuration, provided relevant information to controller, monitored daily activity, and eased management hierarchy imbalance concerns. * Analyzed 100,000 transactions, determined 500 transactions were driving outstanding balance and implemented ledger adjustment to sustain balance.

Achieved fast track promotion by conducting financial analyses of $50M expenditures of newly formed Human Resources Department. * Developed financial competencies of 30 mid- and senior-level HR management personnel, focusing on financial analysis, budget preparation, expense management, and financial reporting. * Prepared financial statements to analyze expenses against chargebacks to internal employees for training classes and gauge profitability.

Finance