Profile
6.6 years of experience in Financial Transaction Processing especially in Portfolio Accounting – Cash / Stock Reconciliations, NAV Validation and Valuation. Hedge Funds, Mutual funds with a fortune 500 company.
Well qualified for positions as financial or investment analyst (operations) requiring superb analytical skills
Synopsis
• Skilled at Compliance Procedure for Mutual Fund / Hedge Fund Investors
• Recognized for meeting key performance metrics of Accuracy, Efficiency and TAT
• Ensure accuracy by adhering to the quality standards as detailed in SLA
• Quick Learner, with an ability to easily grasp things and put into application new ideas, concepts, methods
• Detail-oriented problem solver demonstrating sound interpersonal and analytical mindset
• Excellent communication, organizational, problem solving skills, strong time management and leadership skills
Areas of Expertise
• Transaction Processing for Mutual Funds/ Hedge Funds
• MS Excel (Basic)
• Process Training
• Knowledge of Capital Markets
• Process Improvements
• Documentation
• Knowledge on hedge funds , Portfolio accounting and NAV accounting
Technical Skills
Office Suite: Proficient in MS Excel
Others: Hands on experience in Geneva, TLM, Bloomberg. Multifonds, Pcontrol, Recon Trade and Recon Frontier
Professional Experience
Feb 2015 – Till date
Viteos Capital Private India Ltd
Fund Accounting-Senior Executive
• Reviewing Cash and position recon on daily basis and assisting the team with the suitable course of action.
• Validating Market value reconciliation; Dividend reconciliation; Interest accruals; cash payments and expense payments
• Verification of Cash transactions, Expenses accruals and activity of the funds.
• Tracking corporate actions (i.e. rights, bonuses, splits, Cash & Stock dividends etc.)
• Reviewing Allocation P&L across the investors to maintain accurate value of the fund.
• Subscription and redemption of units accounting and review.
• Verification of Management fee, Performance fee calculation with accordance to the PPM.
• Reviewing the NAV Packs & resolving the client queries.
• Training and supervising the new team members.
• Liaising with the Custodians ,brokerage & counterparts to resolve the breaks
May 2013-Feb 2015
Citi Corp Service India Ltd
Fund Accounting- Assistant Manager
• Cash and Stock reconciliations of brokerage and custodian accounts to underlying records
• Verification of Cash, dividend, accruals and Stock reconciliation between IBOR and ABOR accounting.
• Verification of Management fee, dividend distribution, expenses, accruals/ amortization of expenses
• Computation of NAV and in clearing the NAV exceptions Pcontrol.
• Tracking corporate actions (i.e. rights, bonuses, splits, Cash & Stock dividends etc.)
• Knowledge of Bloomberg, Geneva, Pcontrol, TLM, Recon Trade/Frontier and Multifonds applications.
• Participate in daily, weekly and monthly client reviews.
• Brainstorming and process improvement discussion with team to achieve the high Quality deliverable
• Maintenance of Minutes of meeting and process enhancement call with Client Partners and other stakeholders.
• Periodic Review of training documents, updating new procedures, rules & policies for each operation as discussed in weekly meetings with the clients
• Training & Supervision Training new recruits on the process, query resolutions from team members.
• Leave planning, Managing Compensatory Offs & Unscheduled Leave.
• Worked on different types of testing like System integration testing, Strategic testing & UAT and Joint UAT testing.
• Migration:
Migrated 44new funds to CITI platform.
Drafted Training Plan and Ramp up plan for the new team members.
Drafted Training manuals (Sop’s).
Jul 2009 –Jul 2013
JP Morgan India Private LTD
Hedge Fund Services – Senior Analyst
• Investigate on the trades failed in TCM (Trade Capture Module) which we receive directly from client.
• Ensuring that all trades are captured into Geneva by performing trade reconciliation between client record and Geneva
• Perform daily and monthly cash, trade and position reconciliation.
• Validating the prices and liaising with pricing team in case of discrepancy.
• Perform Market value reconciliation to arrive at fair value of the fund.
• Involved in resolution of cash and position breaks
• Booking Income and expense entries in Geneva to clear the breaks
• Liaise with client, counterparties and Prime Brokers to clear the breaks.
• Training and monitoring new hires in business knowledge and process.
• Acted as sole point of contact for any external /client queries.
Accomplishments
• Recipient of the prestigious Extra miler Award for the month of Nov 2010, June 2011.
• Received Best Employee Award for quarter April – June 2011 for outstanding performance and commitment
• Have been getting appreciations mails from Clients for performing an error free investigation and for resolving the task on time.
Education & Training
MBA (Finance)
2007-09
AJ Institute of management studies (AJIM), Mangalore.
B.Com
2004-2007
St. Mary’s College Shirva
