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PROFESSIONALS: CHRISTIE KAM, CPA

   CHRISTIE KAM, CPA

WORK EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
LICENSES

Ms. Kam performs TradeLog accounting services.
 

WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Hedge Fund Accountant, Hedge Fund Administration Group, Goldman Sachs, Princeton, NJ (June 2004 - July 2006)

  • Provided extensive accounting services for various hedge funds clients including calculating a monthly NAV and fund performance, reconciliation for daily trades, cash, portfolio position, dividends, interests, corporate actions, and custodial capital accounts.
  • Monitored, reviewed and recorded trades within fund portfolio, as well as expenses, capital movements and corporate actions.
  • Responsible for various financial and administrative duties of the funds, including preparing financial statements, compliance reports, fund performance estimates, expenses payments and NAV analysis.
  • Maintained ongoing communication and relationship with prime brokerage, clients, investors, investor service group, auditors, legal counsels, tax consultants.
  • Assisted in all clients' annual audit, banking audit, K-1 preparation, and other compliance reporting.
Senior Financial Analyst (Report directly to CFO), Zero Stage Capital, L.P., Cambridge, MA (October 2000 - Jul 2003)
  • Responsible for preparing quarterly reports, annual reports, regulatory reports and all applicable supporting documents
  • Produced federal and multi-state tax returns
  • Responsible to provide venture partners financial models for portfolio evaluations and financing offering
  • Responsible for identifying and researching regulatory, compliance and accounting/reporting issues
  • Responsible for interface with portfolio companies, examiners, auditors, legal counsel, and SBA for all accounting matters
  • Responsible for maintaining investor relations
  • Key member in due diligence process during investor fund raising
  • Managed capital calls and distributions
  • Assisted cost/benefit and profitability analyses and special projects
  • Responsible for maintaining fixed assets account, fund bills and expense reports payments and cash reconciliation
Senior Consultant, Investment Management Group, Assurance and Business Advisory Service, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Boston, MA (August 1998 - October 2000)
  • Specialized in serving mutual funds, real estate investment trusts and other investment management clients
  • Clients experience includes: Fidelity Investment, Putnam Investment, Wellington Management, State Street Global, Preferred Income Funds, and Berkeley Investment
  • Planned and implemented financial statement audits from start to finish
  • Prepared financial statements for various investment management clients
  • Instructed investment management classes in PwC CE series - topics on fixed income funds and municipal funds
  • In charge of coaching new associates on audit field work
  • Performed AIMR performance presentation reviews during summer time. Clients include: GE and Back Bay

EDUCATION
Bentley Graduate School of Business, Waltham, MA.)
Master of Science of Accountancy, May 1998 GPA: 3.5/4.0
Honor: Departmental Assistantship, Bentley scholarship (1996 - 1998)

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1994-95
Courses taken in Ph.D. program: Statistic methods, database management.
Honor: Sage Fellowship, Cornell University scholarship (1994 - 1995)

People's University of China, Beijing, China
Bachelor of Science in Finance, June 1994. GPA: 3.8/4.0

LICENSES

  • Certified Public Accountant licensed by Massachusetts .
  • Certified Financial Analyst - CFA Institute®

  • Tax Planning for Net Investment Income (May 9)

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