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Zachary Schain , CPA

Plainview,US

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Audit Manager

KPMG LLP
05.2024 - Current
  • Manager with 5+ years of experience successfully planning, facilitating, and executing audits for middle-market private credit and equity funds, hedge funds and fund-of-funds.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional service lines at KPMG, including valuation and tax specialists, to mitigate the significant fair value risk of Level 3 financial instruments and substantiate tax provisions on private funds.
  • One of four selected to lead the deployment of emerging technology firm initiatives in the Generative Artificial Intelligence and Assurance Methodology space for the Northeast Business Unit.
  • Built economic resource planning schedules and monitored team budgets to bump year-over-year recognized revenue by 2% from FY23 to FY24.
  • Developed high-level knowledge of client business goals, policies and procedures to establish foundation for targeted problem solutions.
  • Attributed to the retention of $7 million audit client.
  • Participated in billing and collections operations to facilitate client payment of overdue invoices.

Senior Audit Associate

KPMG LLP
06.2021 - 05.2024
  • Facilitated client meetings to discuss audit objectives, timeline, and improvements to audit quality and client commitment.
  • Performed internal control walkthroughs, evaluated the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with SOX 404 guidance.
  • Validated accuracy of financial statement amounts, disclosures and footnotes, and language on annual financial statement reports.
  • Built project scopes and proposal decks for prospective clients including a component of a newly acquired $80b AUM Investment Advisor.
  • Participated in the firm’s System of Quality Control to remodel the test of design, implementation, and operating effectiveness of quality controls to conform with the new global quality control framework in ISQM 1.
  • Served as a transitional coach out of 50+ applicants to onboard and mentor five new employees.
  • Articulated risk assessment findings, audit conclusions and recommendations to upper management.

Audit Associate

KPMG LLP
06.2019 - 01.2020


  • Organized client presentations, internal team status agendas, and weekly meetings
  • Streamlined the audit confirmation process by leveraging technological resources such as DocuSign for client authorization and PowerBI for graphing external status updates.
  • Executed preliminary materiality calculations using benchmarking analysis and qualitive analysis.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Accounting and Finance

University of Maryland
College Park, MD
05.2019

Skills

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

Client Relationship Management

Enhancing use of outsourced/off-site resources

SEC Custody Rule

Valuation of financial instruments

MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

ChatGPT

Microsoft Co-Pilot

Alteryx

Datasnipper

Timeline

Audit Manager

KPMG LLP
05.2024 - Current

Senior Audit Associate

KPMG LLP
06.2021 - 05.2024

Audit Associate

KPMG LLP
06.2019 - 01.2020

Bachelor of Science - Accounting and Finance

University of Maryland

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