Brendan Meaney
Bantry
Summary
Highly skilled in both accounting and auditing, with broad experience managing financial records, conducting audits, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. Strong analytical skills to evaluate data accuracy and integrity, coupled with proficiency in various accounting software. Successfully improved financial reporting processes in previous roles, leading to enhanced efficiency and reliability of financial information.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Fund Accountant, Fund of Fund Services
Alter Domus
Cork
11.2023 - Current
- Responsible for producing and reviewing monthly and quarterly NAV's, Financial Statements and Portfolio Reports for various private equity funds
- Coordinate meetings with stakeholders, fund managers and clients
- Establish and maintain effective cross functional relationships with various groups
- Provide support for internal and external audits
- Correspond with the external auditors and resolve any issues that they have
- Arrange and review banking payments for invoices, capital calls, distributions and fees
- Analyse root cause and correct discrepancies in financial statements, accounts and bank transactions
- Identify potential client risks, disclose concerns to client and mitigate risks
- Manage a team to complete daily tasks to tight deadlines, effectively delegating tasks and reviewing work once complete
- Apply updated automated NAV packs to improve efficiency in the NAV cycle and provide the client with more timely NAV release
Team Lead, Fund Accountant Real Estate & Infrastructure Fund Services
Northern Trust
Limerick
05.2023 - 11.2023
- Produce and review NAV's, Financial Statements, and Management accounts for various real estate and property funds
- Review workings prepared by a team in Bangalore
- Liaising with them if they require help or a point of contact to the client if they require additional back up
- Liaison with the client, and external auditors dealing with audit queries
- Reviewing bookkeeping before posting transactions from the bank statements to Yardi
- Making sure NAV's and Financial statements are completed to strict deadlines, and also accurately before releasing to third parties
- Completion of budgets, property, bank, debtors, creditors, loans, income, and tax (VAT) reconciliations and schedules
- Making sure of accuracy and clear representation of each section in an accounting pack
- Apply the Irish/UK GAAP/US GAAP and IFRS standards to accounting procedures on the various funds
Senior Analyst, Fund/Client Accountant
BNY Mellon
Cork
04.2022 - 05.2023
- Producing, reviewing, and approving NAV's on a daily basis
- Sending to client once reviewed and approved
- Acting as an oversight on NAV's produced offshore and providing help if required on any queries
- Accounted for products such as Equity, Options, CFD's, Futures, Swaps, Bonds and FX (Spots/Forwards)
- Processing transactions on various funds based on calculations and review of the reconciliations and statements
- Supervision, review and training of new staff members
- Reconciliation of our in-house record of the portfolio valuation to the client and to the broker statements
- Recording daily FX and Forwards movements with reconciliations
Stock Trader/Accountant
Ledgir House Ltd.
Vancouver
11.2018 - 01.2022
- Managing $25M Capital, investing in various investment entities to gain a return
- In fiscal year 2021 I was part of a team that generated the second largest revenue earned in a fiscal year for the company
- >$3 million for the year
- Trading new issues such as Common and preferred Shares, Units, Subs, Bonds, Income Funds, and Debentures on the market with various selling brokers and online trading platforms
- Using various methods of trading such as Day trading, short sells, Swing trading, Options, and Warrant trading
- Analysing the market and stocks on Quotestream and Thomson
- Making decisions on whether to purchase equity from brokers, also monitoring and selecting options to buy and sell
- Reconcile transactions from the bank accounts to our records each day making sure there are no discrepancies
- Month end tasks such as P&L, Bank account reconciliations, option rewrites, and updating the marketable securities spreadsheets to monitor all transactions and give a representation of how we are performing during the month
- Using Quickbooks to record transactions and represent data on an income statement
- I reduced the accounting bill at year end by providing the external accountants with consistent year end reports and journal entries which were consistent with prior years financial accounts preparation
- Providing training to new employee's / Co-op students and also conducting interviews for potential new hires
Junior Accountant/Auditor
CHK Partnership
Cork
07.2016 - 07.2018
- Preparing annual financial statements for clients from industries such as retail, rental properties, charities, construction, fast food, sole traders, management and investment companies
- Working to deadlines, ensuring accuracy in work and identifying errors or problems that occur
- Use Sage accounts production and Sage line50 to prepare financial statements
- I Used ROS online to file tax returns and form 46G's
- Prepared audit tests, visited clients on site and carried out audit testing
Education
MBA - Management Information and Managerial Accounting Systems
University College Cork
Cork01.2017
BBA - Business Management
Cork Institute of Technology
Cork01.2015
St. Gobans Secondary School -
St. Gobans Secondary School
Bantry, Co.Cork01.2011
Skills
- Sage Accounts Production
- Sage Line 50
- ROS Online
- Advanced MS Word
- Advanced MS Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Access
- Visual Basic (VBA)
- Relate
- Advanced Quickbooks
- Quotestream
- Thomson
- Geneva
- Praeeo
- Lumis
- SAP
- Docusign
- Sharepoint
- Trading
- Accounting
- Analysing data
- Communication
- Organisational
- Managing assignments
- Problem-solving
- Teamwork
- GAAP compliance
- Hedge fund operations
- Reconciliation expertise
- Cash flow management
Interests And Achievements
- Passionate about fitness, running, snowboarding, mountain biking, hiking and the gym.
- Enjoy reading business articles daily, keeping up to date with events in the business world.
- I actively trade equities/options in my personal accounts.
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Senior Fund Accountant, Fund of Fund Services
Alter Domus
11.2023 - Current
Team Lead, Fund Accountant Real Estate & Infrastructure Fund Services
Northern Trust
05.2023 - 11.2023
Senior Analyst, Fund/Client Accountant
BNY Mellon
04.2022 - 05.2023
Stock Trader/Accountant
Ledgir House Ltd.
11.2018 - 01.2022
Junior Accountant/Auditor
CHK Partnership
07.2016 - 07.2018
MBA - Management Information and Managerial Accounting Systems
University College Cork
BBA - Business Management
Cork Institute of Technology
St. Gobans Secondary School -
St. Gobans Secondary School
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