Mohammed Abdalle

· Reconcile general ledger accounts, bank reconciliations, and review all open projects for housing, employment, and shelter department managers monthly through maintaining project budgets and monitoring expenses.

· Prepare financial statements including balance sheets, income statements, cash flows, and other capital project documents.

· Confirm accuracy over recorded expenses, revenues, and capital expenditures to produce accurate cash flow reporting and monitor cash flow needs.

· Perform analysis on balance sheet movements and developed detailed reports to track budget variance against original forecasted budget estimates and collaborated with various department managers on forecasting efforts to ensure accurate projections of future costs and revenues.

· Oversee communication and fostering relationships with private lenders by ensuring accurate and timely submission of underwriting documents, updating, and completing pertinent capital project schedules requested for various capital projects.

· Maintain accurate and up to date payroll records in ADP, prepare and process transactions for weekly and bi-weekly payroll, and assist in year-end related tasks such as T4 generation.

· Provide support in the preparation of board presentations regarding project performance metrics and help present audit results to management teams, delivering information in non-technical terms for easy understanding.

· Manage and cross train team members to ensure completion of priority tasks during vacation and personal absences as well as to enhance performance and morale through coaching and feedback on assigned tasks.

· Took lead working on the capital project team liaising and securing approximately $20 million in funding from external lenders such as CHMC, FCM and Versabank

· Recognized for taking initiative to create a knowledge sharing and onboarding team folder to combat knowledge loss due to staff turnover

· Was recognized as a great team player for successfully completing the audit provided by client package and account analysis for audit reviews independently during a difficult period of staff turnover

· Assisted with the preparation and coordination of presentations, proposals, curating customized financial plans for individuals according to their unique needs and objectives for financial advisors to highlight client needs to be discussed in meetings.

· Drafted marketing materials such as brochures, newsletters and web content highlighting the firm's services.

· Responded promptly to customer inquiries related to wealth management services offered and regularly conducted routine portfolio reviews to measure plan success. To highlight for financial advisors to strengthen client relationships.

· Responsible for ensuring client requests are completed accurately in a timely fashion and utilized Salesforce to update investments' related documents post client meetings.

· Prepared special ad hoc reports as required, for example prepared account transfer reports to track transfers and changes in account information.

· Facilitated and monitored account openings, new client onboarding and ongoing account maintenance such as adjusting existing portfolios to reflect current client holdings using ActionPro

· Articulated value of stocks, bonds and mutual funds and educated clients on benefits and coordinated with other professionals such as financial advisors, portfolio managers etc. to provide holistic wealth management solutions for clients.

· Rated as performing above peer group within firm's annual performance reviews.

· Took initiative in spearheading a special project to document and segment client portfolios to different financial advisors to enhance accountability and internal transparency. This special project enhanced our internal monitoring process for existing portfolios to provide timely reports to clients regarding performance status.

· Recorded debit, credit and account transactions in NetSuite and reconciled ledger to validate payments accounted for and accurately posted.

· Monitored customer account details to minimize or rectify non-payments, delayed payments, and other irregularities and reached out to vendors and customers to resolve account problems.

· Processed new customer forms to set up accounts in system, prepared and submitted accounting documents and reports for review, authorization, and processing.

· Created detailed reports summarizing accounts receivable activity for month end reporting.

· Provided support on audits of accounts receivable by gathering requested information from internal systems.

· Assisted in streamlining accounts receivable process by identifying areas for performance improvement.