Aditya Viswanathan
Fund Accountant
Chennai
Summary
Experienced professional with 7+ years of expertise in NAV Calculations. Demonstrates exceptional organizational skills, dependability, and a proven track record of successfully managing multiple priorities. Possesses a positive attitude and thrives in fast-paced environments. Committed to achieving team goals and willing to take on additional responsibilities when needed.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead Analyst (Team Leader) - Fund Accounting
BNY
01.2023 - Current
- Lead the migration of end-to-end funds across various clients in the NAV validation remit and successfully completed the same.
- Planning, allocating, and tracking activities performed by the team.
- Liaising with onshore counterparts and resolving ongoing issues.
- Identify, analyzing, and preventing operational risk events.
- Responsible for tracking daily SLA and reporting the same to Management.
- Addressing issues of team members by troubleshooting the issues encountered during BAU.
- Responsible for periodic SOP review and sign-offs.
- Provide backup plans in case of an unforeseen staff shortage.
- Active participant of regular connects with clients and other internal stakeholders to understand and fulfill the requirements.
- Analyzed and suggested process efficiency ideas to reduce FTE count by automating tasks.
- Monitor the performance, and nominate staff for rewards and recognition programs.
Assistant Manager - Fund Accounting
BNP Paribas GSO
3 2015 - 12.2022
- Ensure NAVs are produced by the team in a timely manner with utmost quality as per SLA
- Analyze Incidents and implement control measures to avoid reputation of the errors
- Act as a SME to assist the team by resolving complex problems and troubleshoot issues encountered during the NAV processing
- Overview the activities and performance of staff by working closely with the direct reporters
- Manage day to day activities and ensure NAVs and other deliverables are delivered on time with utmost quality
- Direct point of contact for the onshore team to address the issues highlighted by client and to resolve them within the stipulated timeframe
- Provide guidance to the team members in process improvements and efficiency
- Ensure high level of communication network is established with all the dependent teams within the business group
- Evaluate performance of the team members periodically and bridge the knowledge gaps by organizing training sessions
- Responsible to create, modify and review the Standard operating procedures to ensure that they adhere to the company's guidelines
- Preparation of Key/Standard Operating Procedures for each process migrated to Chennai Hub
- Ensure all the SOPs are approved and signed between the locations
- Identify and train potential team member to create backup for the SMEs in the team as a backup management practice
- Conducting performance evaluation and recommending promotion for the team members
- Ensure review of critical queries before they are sent by the team
- When issues/errors arise, detailed analysis of issue is done and clear understanding is gained before responding to client, spoke or other parties
- Ensure there is No Financial impact/loss to the organization
- Work closely with Management to understand management decisions and update the required information to subordinates/team members
- Conduct periodic feedback sessions for the subordinates to help in their development by goal setting and motivating them to achieve the same
- Participate in fortnightly and monthly calls with client and counterparts across locations
- Conducting Weekly Team meetings and escalating process level or other challenges which are beyond scope to the immediate line manager
- Ensure to regulate leaves of the team members, specifically during critical business days, month end, rollover days and migration of new funds
- Responsible for interviewing (Technical rounds), recruiting and training staff for the team.
Operational Analyst - Transfer Agency
BNY Mellon
07.2013 - 03.2015
- Responsible for creating Investor Profile on NTAS
- (Covering both High Net worth Individuals and Entity Investors)
- To request and update the records of the investor documents in line with the AML requirements
- Responsible for updating the correspondence details & wire instruction details thereby enabling the monthly contract notes and statements are delivered to investor
- Responsible for carrying out all first level Quality check and checking if the requirements in the checklist have been adhered to
- Work closely with the Investor Query team and NGO team (Not in Good Order team) to Investigate any discrepancies in the instructions sent by the investor and request for the clean instructions as per the norms of the process.
Education
Associate of Arts - MBA - Finance & Marketing
SRM University
Chennai 03.2011 - 06.2013
Skills
NAV
Reconciliation
Fee accruals
Corporate Actions
Pricing
Distributions
Impact Analysis
Procedures
Team Management
Fund Migrations
Performance Review
Problem solving
Personal Information
- Father's Name: MP Viswanathan
- Date of Birth: 01/13/1990
- Gender: Male
- Marital Status: Married
Languages
English
Tamil
Hindi
Accomplishments
- Successfully completed the Dual-office project and transition of funds under NAV Singapore scope from Chennai to Mumbai location.
- Successfully migrated the end-to-end funds of various clients from Westborough regions, USA to Chennai as a part of BNY Mellon NAV Validation project.
- I have been awarded the "Star Award" for delivering the NAVs and other deliverables during the migration period for effectively maintaining the quality and timeliness.
Timeline
Lead Analyst (Team Leader) - Fund Accounting
BNY
01.2023 - Current
Operational Analyst - Transfer Agency
BNY Mellon
07.2013 - 03.2015
Associate of Arts - MBA - Finance & Marketing
SRM University
03.2011 - 06.2013
Assistant Manager - Fund Accounting
BNP Paribas GSO
3 2015 - 12.2022
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