Kaneta Metha-itti

Tel: (646) 668-1457 E-mail: makapow1@yahoo.com

Professional Summary
Highly accomplished financial and accounting professional of progressive leadership
growth within the world-class business environments. Results-focused leader, motivating
and inspiring teams of professionals to operate as cohesive units to achieve the timely
completion complex business transactions to both front-line leaders and senior executive,
utilizing advance knowledge of GAAP. Professional hands-on experiences in general
accounting, cost accounting, auditing, and tax in public accounting and corporate firms.
Experience
NK Textile, New York, New York
2017 - Present
CFO/ Controller
 Managing all financial functions of the company including financial strategy, financial
planning and analysis, financial reports, company audits, compliance, and bank
relationships. Develop financial goals and objectives and make decisions regarding the
company’s financial strategy and operations.
 Establishing, strengthening and maintaining business partnering relationships with key
business contacts at our client and internally to deliver end-to-end financial solutions &
support
 Developing an understanding of client’s industry, business, organization, processes and
workflows in order to develop and enhance financial models and provide a broad-range
of financial and operational support
 Providing the owner support for business planning, including assisting with development
of business goals and operating measures of success
 Slash fixed and variable cost 50% by negotiating prices and fees, while continuing
enhancement of services.
 Reviewing and presenting regular financial results packages for management; analyzing
performance against forecasts and operational metrics, as well as historical trends
 Identifying opportunities to enhance the efficiency of existing processes, and propose
improvements to streamline the collection, use, and presentation of data
Market News Inc. / Deutsche Boerse Group. New York, NY
2009 – 2017 Business Partner/ Assistant Controller
 Provide quality analysis and reporting that generate insights into business trends by
preparing a monthly flash and updating applicable reports to be distributed externally
with a documentation to improve and control the procedures related to all operational
areas legal entity standalone financial statements for operating entities in the US and
overseas ensuring conformity with General Accepted Accounting Principal (GAAP) and
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) at a timely manner.
 Assist in month end regulatory reporting post-closing process and Monitor, evaluate and
communicate the effects of proposed U.S. regulatory reporting changes
 Working with divisional and/or central contacts to aid in the preparation and
consolidation of balances and disclosures within the financial statements and
guide their team through the continuous review of financial data and reconciliations as
needed to support the preparation of the standalone financial statements and regulatory
reporting for the Firm and implement new solutions across the various Business Units.
 Prepare internal reporting by summarizing plans and forecasts the organization’s
financial position, including income statements, balance sheets, and analyses of future
revenues, expenses and earnings and present to the Board Directors at quarterly
meetings.
 Negotiate payroll costs which increased the bottom of the company by 30%
 Responsible for rectifying and reporting P&L discrepancies to the accounting team and
researched differences in risk and P&L and provided new claim activity to the P&L team
and front office.
 Directly supervise 6 team members, in addition to indirectly engaging and support
approximately 200 employees
 Primary financial, audit and regulatory liaison for various financial services
organizations, transacting in diverse products in fixed income and equities.
 Process domestic and international payroll and assist HR Insurance and Benefits.
 Developed internal company operating policies and procedures and introduced a
financial reporting system to run preliminary reports for compliance coordination for
Senior Executive Support and Staff Training & Development.
 Responsible for daily & monthly accounting and price verification for the Bonds &
Derivative
 Improved daily attribution of P&L to provide in-depth view of trade outcomes for interest
rate option desk and ensured complete, accurate and timely P&L forecast for vanilla
Interest rate trading desk.
 Interpret accounting regulations, analyze software contracts and document significant
terms and accounting conclusions to ensure that revenue is recorded in compliance
with Company’s revenue recognition policy
 Maintain the consolidation company structure in adherence to 10Q and 10K SEC
reporting requirements which resulted a pass year- end audit and continuously improve
control procedures
 Automate and maintain client account and billing arrangements
 Review and enhancing billing, collection, and cash posting processes and
recommending new processes to improve current work flow with the Controller on
collection status, analysis, bad debt reserves, creating logs of communication with
clients and work with client account manager sales in resolving and cash issues which
results as a reduction on DSO from over 90 days to 54 days for 90% of the accounts.

 Participating in monthly and quarterly meetings with the upper management team and
business unit leaders as it relates to delinquent A/R review calls and revenue meetings.
Preparing relevant information, analysis, and suggestions

 Serve as a liaison from all different department on resolving both internal and external
customer issues within an appropriate action and seeking alternatives when challenges
arise.

 Review of ISDA contracts and other capital markets documentation and will provide ad
hoc support to other members Corporate Tax team.

H&R Block. Hoboken, New Jersey, New York

2012-Present Senior Tax Advisor

 Tax review of new products and services to evaluate the potential impacts to the
Company's tax and accounting positions in all relevant jurisdictions, including
considering the tax impact and suitability requirements for potential clients and
reviewing marketing materials
 Ensure compliance with established internal control procedures by examining records
and operating practices

 Reviewing and evaluating the impact of any new tax laws, regulations or other
authorities that affect existing products and services and working with the relevant
business units to implement changes to approvals or guidelines necessary to comply
with such new tax laws or regulations.

 Work closely with clients throughout the year to ensure client tax liability is minimized.
Consult Clients on Tax Planning and strategies in a way that is accessible and easy for
clients to understand which increased the revenue by 25%.
Lunaire, Inc., New York, New York
2003-2009 Accountant/ System Reporting Analyst

 Designed and implemented new automated processes to streamline accounting

 Prepared financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements and cash
flows.

 Budget forecasting and obtain agreements with vendors for a better service at a lower
costs which increased the company bottom line by 35%.

 Provided information to strategic planning for venture capital funding presentations

which includes cash reporting and reconcile accounting records to fund administrator.

 Processed and kept records and settlement of trades for the bank loan group

 Monitored and reconciled interest payments with the administrative agents, interacted
and communicate with brokers, custodians, fund administrators and loan administrative
agents

 Customized and generated various reports to assist in portfolio management,

 Translated sales into production once copies of commitments were received from a
customer

Federated Department Stores, Inc., New York, New York

2000-2003
Business Analyst Manager
 Ensured that inventories are accurately maintained which double the revenue in 3 year
period
 Reviewed and approved manual entries & system interfaces to General Ledger;
managed profit and loss impact

 Lead the General Ledger/Budgeting team in preparation and distribution of monthly and
year-end financial statements, monthly analysis and reporting of company-wide
performance

 Researched, developed and implemented the accounting policies

 Designed business modules requirements in JD Edwards One World, as a result saved $1

million in costs by choosing a new provider of data system.

Liz Claiborne Inc, New York, New York

1997-2000
Financial Analyst (1998 – 2000)
 Implemented distribution and assortment strategies for many specialty products for JC
Penney, Kohl's, Sears and Mervyns'
 Prepared a year over year quarterly on inventory growth by managing daily sales reports
using RetailPro, Crystal Reports, Webalizer, and Microsoft Excel which increased the
revenue by 30%.

Inventory Controller (1997-1998)

 Reconciled warehouse management system to the AS400 inventory system and checked
shipping documents, ensured vendors supported proof of Delivery and worked with
vendors to provide monthly shortage projection.

Citibank N/A, Long Island City, New York

1995-1997
Information Center Manager (1996-1997)
 Visited and oversaw new technologies at Citibank Hong Kong, learn PC Docs program
and transfer the knowledge to Citibank Thailand.
 Worked closely with IT departments in studying layout of Citibank Thailand building and
set up LAN Network between the Information Center and 300 work station which
allowed Citibank to conglomerate with Travelers.

Help Desk Administrator (1995-1996)

 Added new users to telecommunication system and administer software upgrade and
provide introductory training to new users and support them on a variety of issues.

Education:
New York University, Stern School of Business
B.S., Finance/ Accounting 1995 MBA, Finance-Accounting, 1996
Computer Programming Certified 1998 EA/ CPA Certification 2012 - PTIN #
P01682384
Software Experience: Knowledge of IFRS, GAAP, CCH Prosystem FX, Lacerte Microsoft
Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, SAP, Crystal Reports, Hyperion, AS 400, Retail Pro,
QuickBooks, Photoshop, JD Edwards, EDI., Firewall, Visual Basic, TSO, Excel Financial
Reporting, Elite, MS Access, ,Mas200, Epicor, Microsoft 365 Suite, GreatPlains, MS
Dynamics AX (Accounting), Marketplace. Audit Experience. English, Mandarin, Cantonese
and Thai