ARJUN ALAGAR

Fund Accounts and Reconciliation Responsibilities:

• Conducting team-wise meetings for critical and core clients to ensure smooth delivery.
• Maintaining a positive and professional work environment.
• Conducting daily, weekly, and monthly position reconciliations to ensure accurate reporting.
• Validating monthly books for compliance and accuracy.
• Conducting annual ERISA compliance checks for clients and validating Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Generating cash flow statements to support client's business evaluations.
• Reconciling the client's cash books and accounting cash books to ensure zero cash proofs.
• Client Relationship Management: Maintained strong client relationships, ensuring timely delivery of information and fulfillment of all accounting support needs.
• Preparing accounting books to generate NAV and produce quarterly/monthly audited statements.
• Respond to client services/internal queries in a timely fashion to ensure all queries are logged and resolved within the appropriate time frame.
• Hedge fund reconciliation activity for Cash, Cost and Realization.
• Assisting in internal and external audits.
• Actively engaged as a tech support point of contact to create tools and techniques to automate manual processes with AI.
• Working with the tech team for prompt creation to automate procurement and processing with the help of AI.
• Identifying and escalating issues promptly

Team & Management Responsibilities :

• Maintaining strong client relationships.
• Handling the team and engaging in people management.
• Establishing reporting standards for the team and coordinating report reviews.
• Daily MIS Tracking & Compliance: Monitored daily MIS checklist completion, maintained an error log, and contributed to team objectives by resolving discrepancies.
• Monthly one-to-one meetings to discuss team goals and performance.
• Year-end appraisal meetings and providing overall feedback and ratings.
• Preparation of New loss business for FTE calculation.
• Approval of OT, leaves, and other permissions accordingly.
• Managing calls and assisting teams to ensure deliverables are on time.
• Conducting monthly meetings to discuss internal and external errors.
• Team Standards & Reporting Coordination: Established reporting standards for the team, coordinated report reviews, and shared outputs with accounting teams.
• Monthly presentation about market and updates as well as issues to management.
• Owned the process with end-to-end knowledge in production and training to new joiners. Monitoring and maintaining proper information flow between and within team. Formulating and overseeing the successful implementation of hand-over process.

• Key Responsibilities
• Performed level 1 and level 2 AML processes for 11 months.
• Handled account opening and closure.
• Under TA, handled trade placing such as subscriptions and redemptions, and transfers of holdings from one account to another.
• Checked and ensured timely and accurate processing of subscriptions and redemptions to client portfolios.
• Inputting FX rates in the TA system for cross-currency exchange.
• Entering back-dated and future-dated trades.
• Handling internal and client queries and exceptions.
• Preparing pre-reconciliation to ensure trades received are inputted in the TA system.
• Uploading Net Asset Value (NAV) in the system daily and processing trades.
• Generating and sending daily EOD reports to shareholders and Fund Companies.
• Updating customer's non-financial information and adding/cancelling bank account details as per their request.