Christine Yang

• Provide operational oversight for fund or SMA investments, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of cash, positions, subscriptions, redemptions, distributions, and P&L by external middle office provider while serving as escalation lead for fund related matters to drive timely resolutions.
• Review monthly performance returns at portfolio and fund level, including TWR, IRR, detailed contribution and attribution analysis.
• Ensure timely deliverable of monthly client reports. Engage with client management team to align reporting requirements with evolving client needs.
• Monitor daily FX exposure for funds and coordinate with FX traders to ensure appropriate hedging.
• Partner closely with portfolio managers to optimize liquidity (borrowing / repayment), valuation review and dividend calculations.
• Oversee management fee calculation process; review IMAs for new or amended mandates and ensure fee calculations align with contractual terms.
• Lead operational support for new fund launches, establishing infrastructure, processes, and controls while collaborating with portfolio managers, legal team, fund administrators, custodians, and external middle office provider. Conduct comprehensive reviews and provide commentary on key fund documents, including PPMs, LPAs, IMAs.
• Perform annual Investment Manager Due Diligence Questionnaires and support ad hoc requests from clients, custodians, and fund administrators. Collaborate closely with auditors on audit inquiries and review fund financial statements for accuracy and reasonableness.
• Review SOX controls and assessed SOC 1 reports from external middle office providers and custodians to ensure control adequacy and proper implementation of user-entity responsibilities.
• Partner with IT team to automate NAV review process, daily and monthly reporting tracker to enhance productivity and operational efficiency.

• Reviewed the month-end closing process, ensuring P&L valuations aligned with monthly NAV statements; performed P&L analytics across Alternative Investments business lines.
• Oversaw financial and management reporting for firm’s seed capital investments in hedge funds, mutual funds, CLOs, including accruals for management fees, performance fees and revenue sharing arrangements.
• Managed consolidation and disclosure process for hedge funds, mutual funds and CLOs.
• Reviewed quarterly and annual FRY-11 regulatory filings for US legal entities within the Alternative Investments group, ensuring accuracy and compliance with Federal Reserve Bank of New York instructions.
• Supported financial and accounting reporting for Alternative Investments front office; coordinated with accounting policy, treasury, tax, legal and compliance on new business initiatives, including new fund launches and changes in accounting standards.
• Reviewed quarterly and annual FRY-11 regulatory filings for US legal entities within Alternative Investments group, ensuring accuracy and compliance with Federal Reserve Bank of New York instructions.
• Supported financial and accounting reporting for Alternative Investments front office; coordinated with accounting policy, treasury, tax, legal, and compliance on new business initiatives, including fund launches and changes in accounting standards.
• Worked closely with IT team on in-house system design, development, implementation and user acceptance testing for new reporting requirements.

School of Management