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Apoorva S C Shekar

Apoorva S C Shekar

EMEA Fund Accounting
Bengaluru

Summary

To enhance my career further by joining an organization, where I can benefit the company by utilizing my comprehensive experience in the areas of Finance, Fund Accounting, Conversions,Trial Balance,Custody with sound knowledge on applications Invest Tran, BBG, Newton, COBALT, MT564, Euclid, Swift Payment, ICE,Tableau, Alteryx, Power Bi.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Manager

JPMorgan & Chase
7 2023 - Current
  • Migrated Collateral Project from Trades to NAV OPS team.
  • Reviewing the Funds, setting up a training on the different aspects of Funds Structure.
  • Completed UBS HSC model testing.
  • Going on a Client due diligence call and understanding from client point of view about their needs.
  • Resolving the Fund issues , escalating on timely manner are the main focus.
  • Maintaining a healthy co-ordination with Oversight and OSD.
  • Managed cross-functional projects, ensuring timely completion and alignment with company objectives.
  • Successfully managed multiple high-priority tasks simultaneously while maintaining strict deadlines ensuring optimal resource allocation.

Team Leader FUND ACCOUNTING

JPMORGAN & CHASE
11.2019 - 06.2023
  • Responsibilities:
  • Currently handling LUX/UK funds on daily basis.
  • Worked on UCITS,SICAV,REITS funds.
  • Sound knowledge on US GAAP,LUX GAAP, IFRS.
  • Onboarded 16 funds to WINS platform from client platform.
  • Worked on HFS, PE, RE, Property , Pension , Master Feeder and Mutual funds.
  • Good knowledge on Equity/Bonds.
  • Actively involved in new projects such as Fund/Share class launches , Loan Roll over (Sonia rates)
  • Perform the monthly , Quarterly, Annual distribution for funds on both LUX/UK funds.
  • Reconciling positions, tax lot, income, cash, Futures, OTC expense for the whole.
  • Match up the whole fund on share class level and expenses of all the share class before live date of fund in JPM fund accounting
  • Booking of Cap stock, Management fees across various client
  • Accrual review & TER is also processed and send to the client on the given deadline
  • Working on Golden Record adjustments provided by the client
  • Processing distributions on mid-month, month end across all the EDIN clients using GDE tool and sending Estimated file to the client
  • Taking a client due diligence call and walk them through the Cap stock, NAV VAL process
  • Working on the Ops readiness perspective to clean up the whole fund and identify and raise issue with client in case of Methodological difference, before JPM starts calculating NAV
  • Assist in the production of daily, weekly and monthly NAV, ensuring completion of specified tasks per NAV checklists
  • Perform cash, position and market value reconciliations between Invest One, brokers and clients
  • Escalate fund accounting issues and aged items to the Fund Accounting.
  • Verify corporate actions to ensure accurate processing
  • Calculate and process income and expense accruals including fee calculations and trading accruals.
  • Converse and liaise with internal service departments to resolve miscellaneous fund issues
  • Deals Processing- Base/ Non- base deals
  • Setting up of Fixed/ Variable expenses in automated Expense Calculator or manual accrual of daily expenses.
  • Fair knowledge on Corporate Action Events (Bonus Issue, ROCA, Split, Rights Issue.


Senior Analyst - Investment Banking

Northern Trust
05.2016 - 11.2019
  • Assist in the production of daily, weekly and monthly NAV, ensuring completion of specified tasks per NAV checklists.
  • Perform cash, position and market value reconciliations between Invest One, brokers and clients.
  • Identify and investigate break items on reconciliations in a timely manner.Escalate fund accounting issues and aged items to the Fund Accounting Supervisor.
  • Ensure all positions are priced correctly.Verify corporate actions to ensure accurate processing. Prepare daily profit and loss reports and review for reasonableness.
  • Calculate and process income and expense accruals including fee calculations and trading accruals.
  • Deals Processing- Base/ Non- base deals. Setting up of Fixed/ Variable expenses in automated Expense Calculator or manual accrual of daily expenses.
  • Fair knowledge on Corporate Action Events (Bonus Issue, ROCA, Split, Rights Issue)

Process Executive

GALLAGHER & CO
10.2014 - 05.2016
  • PROCESS EXECUTIVE INDEXATION, INVOICE 1 YEAR AND 8 MONTHS
  • Prevented assembly errors by maintaining clean, organized workstation.
  • Viewed images to determine appropriate indexing decisions based on type of document.

Education

MBA (Master of Business Administration) - Finance

Sir. M Visveswaraya Institute of Technology Visveswaraya Technological University

BSC (Bachelor of Science) - Computer Science

Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni college for Women, Bangalore University

Skills

  • Mutual funds

  • Financial Management

    NAV VAL

  • Account Reconciliation

Timeline

Team Leader FUND ACCOUNTING

JPMORGAN & CHASE
11.2019 - 06.2023

Senior Analyst - Investment Banking

Northern Trust
05.2016 - 11.2019

Process Executive

GALLAGHER & CO
10.2014 - 05.2016

Associate Manager

JPMorgan & Chase
7 2023 - Current

MBA (Master of Business Administration) - Finance

Sir. M Visveswaraya Institute of Technology Visveswaraya Technological University

BSC (Bachelor of Science) - Computer Science

Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni college for Women, Bangalore University

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