Jeffrey Berger

Experience:

• Manage and provide leadership to a global team of 12 operations professionals.
• Established and structured the department into three teams: Investment Operations, Treasury, and Investor Operations, leading to smoother workflow, specialization and increased efficiency.
• Oversee the management of the firm's credit facilities and balance sheet investments.
• Spearheaded a cross-functional initiative aimed at creating scalable technology solutions to improve investors' experience and streamline regulatory, financial, and business operations.
• Collaborated with banking/custodial partners and third-party financial and system providers to enhance operations and reduce overhead.
• Support legal and accounting teams in drafting new operating agreements for the firm's funds.
• Led and actively engaged in a cross-functional committee dedicated to establishing and maintaining investor trust.
• Coordinated with fund and corporate accounting teams to conduct annual audits and generate financial and regulatory reports for over 300 entities.
• Assist the tax department in investor tax allocations, filing of 1065s and respective K-1s, and reporting of 1099s.
• Key member of the investment product development team.
• Key member of the acquisition and corporate strategy team.

Products Supported:

• Private Equity: Real Estate, Legal, Venture Capital, Transportation, Art
• Private Credit: Consumer lending, Commercial Lending, Real Estate, Legal Finance, Art Finance
• Funds: RIC and Private

Experience:

• Managed the review operational systems and procedures to identify and deliver automated improvements for efficiency and scalability
• Team lead for global middle-office service provider change and the global functionalization of investment operations department 's global support of investment teams
• Supervised daily BAU operations support for investment teams (i.e. trade entry, cash management, collateral management, trade/position reconciliation, NAV calculations)
• Provided oversight to global third-party service providers
• Generated custom reporting and analysis for Investment teams, as well as Client Service & Sales, Management and Fund Accounting

Products Supported:

• Fixed Income: U.S. Corporate Debt, Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), Treasuries
• Derivative: Listed Options, OTC options, Total Return Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, Futures, Forward Settling MBS, FFX

Experience:

• Managed the development and implementation of the WFS' strategic corporate action capture/processing
• Supported the implementation of the portfolio accounting system Advent Geneva and transaction capture/processing engine
• Processed incoming client trade allocation files and handled trade processing exceptions
• Provided trade life-cycle oversight for client transactions
• Processed corporate actions and handled corporate action exceptions
• Responsible for end of day pricing, pricing exceptions and challenges
• Supported margin and risk teams in pricing stale or low volume securities
• Completed end of day reporting for the Sr. leadership team

Products Supported:

• Index and Equity Options, Asset Backed Securities, Factor Bonds, Corp. Debt, High yield, Equity, Intl. Equity, FX Spots and Forwards, Total Return Swaps