Lee Kelly
Dartmouth,NS
Summary
A successful record of leadership within the financial services industry across various fields of specialization. Experience managing and driving change to promote continuous operational improvement while maintaining staff engagement. Over a decade of leadership experience driving organizational goals through the development and implementation of automation technology.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Vice President (Lead)
Opus Fund Services
Halifax, NS
04.2022 - Current
- VP lead for the Portfolio Accounting Group globally . The Portfolio Accounting group is split across five separate locations/time zones.
- Work with executive Leadership to developing the strategic goals of the department
- Champion the drive towards Straight Through Processing and the reduction of head count in expensive onshore locations.
- Identify high risk manual processes associated with more custom clients and work with developers to automate.
- Coordinate project rollouts and ensure compliance with new technologies across the function.
- Initiated a project to develop a client facing valuation application that offers clients full transparency around the process as well as the ability to make adjustments in real time .
- Created a new valuation verification process to better manage the risk associated with client priced positions.
- Standardized our approach to Direct Lending which enabled the group to better monitor the valuation of non-performing loans.
- Actively preempt issues across teams by reviewing exceptions to best practice and take steps to mitigate future occurrences
- Coordinated with other departmental heads to ensure seamless transitions across workflows.
- Ensure AVPs and Managers are actively engaged with their staff (i.e., assessing performance accurately and holding active development conversations)
- Manage rewards and compensation (merit, bonus, promotional increases) in line with company policy and a meritocratic approach
Vice President of Operations
Citco Fund Services
Halifax , NS
01.2012 - 04.2023
- Clearly outline the organization's goals and expectations to managers and team members, incorporating feedback from the teams to develop a workable consensus.
- Take an analytical and wholistic approach to decision making analyzing all available information while considering alternate viewpoints and ideas from subject matter experts across the organization.
- Foster an environment where all team members feel their contributions are meaningful and have a clear understanding of the alignment between their own career path and the strategic direction of the company.
- Proficient at identification and evaluation of risk associated with various processes across the business.
- Actively review Service Level Agreements and client portfolios to ensure processes and controls continue to meet the demands of an ever changing financial marketplace.
- Skilled at developing strong personal and professional relationships, demonstrated throughout my career to develop high performing teams with shared goals and values.
- Initialize new client relationships, leading new fund launches and conversions and use these scenarios to establish myself as a point of contact for the relationship.
- Coach managers to develop a culture of high performance, cultivating positive mindsets and behaviors across their teams . Ensuring that each team member receives individualized development plans that meet the needs of the teams and their individual ambitions.
- Performing analytical/quantitative analysis to identify Key Risk Indicators impacting client portfolios and present to executive leadership on a monthly basis. Formulate action plans where applicable and ensure risk is appropriately managed.
- Manage risk reporting associated with clients, critical to the strategic direction of the company. Coordinate with location heads across the organization and present reports to executive leadership on a weekly and monthly basis.
- Key driver in the development and implementation of a Business Process Management System. Deliver automation and process integration solutions that translated into significant head count savings.
- Implement Process Automation technology across multiple platforms and processes eliminating risk associated with manual intervention and realizing significant cost savings.
Senior Investment Accountant
Equity Trustees
Melbourne, Australia
11.2010 - 11.2011
- Was engaged primarily to manage a new system conversion. Lead a small team through the process leveraging my experience with fund conversions from a pervious role.
- Activated after the technology had been acquired and was required to drive implementation while mitigating the risks associated with the conversion and impact to the organization as a whole.
- Familiarized myself with the new system and coordinated the transfer of open lots to the new system and building of trial balance
- Used a phased approach starting with the least complex portfolios.
- Once clients were onboarded formulated training plans for individual teams/clients highlighting differences in processes.
- Oversaw the unit pricing of 15 funds on a daily basis under tight deadlines.
- Completed year-end financial statements and liaised with auditors on all queries.
Senior Account Manager
Banks of New York Mellon AIS
Hamilton , Bermuda
03.2008 - 03.2010
- With AIS working with a number of different hedge fund structures with complex investment strategies.
- Completion of all Pre-NAV activities such as cash postings, investment postings, subscription and redemption postings, balancing of inter-company balances and other general ledger postings in preparation for the striking of the NAV.
- Produced the NAV in the manner outlined in the prospectus within set deadlines. This includes the calculation of Management fees and Performance fees.
- Produced financial statement packages on a monthly basis.
- Valued any side-pocket investments including the calculation of any new investments in relation to redemptions.
- Performed all post-NAV functions such as payments of fees, redemptions and the calculation and collection of administration charges.
- Provide all required information to auditors. This included the preparation of Financial Statements and all supporting schedules.
- All client requests, outside of NAV production, were completed in a timely and efficient manner.
- Participated in monthly and yearly review processes. Most notably detailed reviews of monthly NAV packages and year-end financial statements for my colleagues.
Education
BBA - Business Administration
ITT Dublin
Dublin , Ireland09.2006
Project Management Professional
Project Management Institute
Halifax, NS04.2018
Skills
- Operational efficiency
- Leadership training
- Technology design/implementation
- Resource Management
- Performance monitoring and evaluation
- Project Management
- Process Automation
- Risk management
- Training and mentoring
- Staff development
Timeline
Vice President (Lead)
Opus Fund Services
04.2022 - Current
Vice President of Operations
Citco Fund Services
01.2012 - 04.2023
Senior Investment Accountant
Equity Trustees
11.2010 - 11.2011
Senior Account Manager
Banks of New York Mellon AIS
03.2008 - 03.2010
BBA - Business Administration
ITT Dublin
Project Management Professional
Project Management Institute
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