arvind Menon

Responsible for all accounting and tax filing work for the real estate brokerage.

Reviewed trade processing by the administrator and authorize payment after deducting dues to the brokerage.

Set up credit card payment portal for all receivables from agents such as desk fees and other expenses

Set up EFT payment portal with TD and RBC for all commission payments to agents.

Year-end processing of entries with consultation of CPA for finalizing accounts.

Approving all purchase orders for office supplies.

Yearly budgeting for income and expenses.

Negotiating with bill board and advertising companies for bill board and bus advertising.

Corporate tax preparation and filing of HST/GST and corporate tax returns.

Reviewing of monthly reconciliation of trust, commission trust and general accounts.

· Spearhead reconciliations of cash and securities between ADP and Mvest systems, and inform client service representatives of discrepancies as applicable.

· Resourcefully develop macros to automate processing of entries to client accounts.

· Extensively communicate with vendor (CGI) to efficiently resolve issues relating to various systems.

· Set up securities and manually update prices of equities, bonds and mutual funds on Mvest.

· Prepare and process corporate action notices.

· Apply strong leadership talents toward training new staff in use of software.

· Winner of four Bravo Awards within last three years and consistently evaluated as “distinguished” employee for outstanding performance.

· Participated in testing of new technology for broad-based financial processes and identified issues to be resolved prior to final migration.

· Chosen as key member of migration team with specific accountability for database management and modification, corporate action, reconciliation and security set-ups.

· Accurately and expeditiously processed draw-downs and repayments for Canadian and US prime loans Banker’s Acceptances (BA) LCs and guarantees for syndicated facilities.

· Processed rollovers and new disbursements for LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) loans.

· Informed treasury of new draws and repayments and determined cost of funds for each term draw.

· Monitored interest, commitment, utilization, LC guarantee and facility fees monthly and quarterly to reconcile with agent bank’s remittances and batched all entries within expected timeframe.Decisively defined credit limits for new customers and processed renewals for existing customers.

· Calculated transaction-based losses for bank from customer exposures related to BAs and LIBOR loans.