Ethan Fitzpatrick

Improved controls and created client reporting around monthly budgeting process

Workflow improvements and automation for distributions, monthly management fee and expense reporting review

Caught issues on fund prospectus before delivery

Worked across departments to improve product for SEC filings and onboarding client performance fee

Alternatives, PE reporting self-service

Relational database architecture

JIRA requirements and development

AGILE ecosystem

• Managed product development cycle for fund accounting Oversight team Processes, Controls and Reporting, prototyping designs and overseeing development into online production platforms
• “Go-to” person to design and develop dozens of products from being presented priority issues/problems within the day to day operations of the firm, building tactical solutions that eventually become online system deployments.
• Work with offshore teams and system developers to provide business design requirements, improve dev understanding of business needs, document UAT, and ensure timely delivery of successful, polished products.
• Ensure quality product by working with Client Service, Department Heads, System Devs, Risk and Business/Accounting teams to ensure all stakeholders are satisfied with any reports, requirements, controls or other output from new product.
• Take care in doing rigorous gap analysis, back testing and acceptance testing, ensuring end-to-end automation of all inputs and outputs with the least human intervention possible.
• Conceptualized and deployed enhanced product features and optimized implementation for use from start-of-life to fully automated system deployment
• Formalized requirements and pushed to maximize team performance and keep project on-task to achieve target dates.
• Spearheaded collaborative efforts between Global Product Heads, Department Heads and Developers to bring products to market.
• Thrived in fast-paced, highly-adept team of SVPs and VPs to develop and prioritize essential product features and build product roadmap.
• Built fund of fund tool to post income statement activity from a master fund onto the feeder fund trial balance, along with reconciliation of those transactions on a daily basis.

• Performed at both Associate and AVP officer titles in this role
• Managed team of 15 handing most VIP client relationships
• Created automated processes and tools to maximize team efficiency, including reconciliation tools and with Sub-Ledger controls for all transactions and ledger entries
• Created daily swap market value reconciliation tool fixing bugs common within online reconciliation product (TLM), worked with that product owner to close gaps and improve product
• Built a product for a specific client’s requirements for Trade Date reconciliation of all trades. Included SQL input from accounting platform, custom trade blotter file from client, and many complexities identifying the exact trade as presented with differing security IDs
• Many years experience working with core control from accounting platform - Ledger/Sub-ledger reconciliation and identifying root causes, system fixes to reduce breaks
• Created tools using batch transaction processing that always had a control of an external balance to prove out the total after the daily entries, such as daily interest, money market waivers (to maintain minimum yield) and directed expenses
• Performance fee processing would reconcile payable balance (going out to portfolio managers) that would accrue daily but pay out periodically, causing the external balance to be adjusted by the prior month’s accrual amount
• Proposed and published metrics and KPIs to be incorporated into monthly financials and scorecards for Senior Managers.
• Engaged with other professionals in the department to impart industry knowledge, optimize employee performance, output and morale.