B Venugopal

• Reviewed and signed off on NAV and Financials of Private equity funds, involving recording Journal Entries, preparing workpapers for varying time periods, and generating investor notices and client reports.
• Reviewed Capital Call and distribution workings, as well as notices and signatures, for local office team review.
• Managed onboarding conversion of new funds and aligned them with standard reporting protocols.
• Developed various KPIs and implemented necessary controls to ensure process efficiency and maintain healthy indicators.
• Collaborated with onshore team, clients, and auditors to fulfill requirements and facilitate timely approval of financials.
• Managed client relationships for Funds and handled daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly deliverable requirements.
• Liaised with stakeholders to meet tight deadlines on multiple organizational initiatives.
• Managed team operations including work allocation, backups, continuous feedback, goal setting, training identification and collaborative environment maintenance.
• Collaborated with various stakeholders to address ad hoc requests and ensure timely completion.
• Identified and implemented process improvement techniques to enhance process efficiency and team productivity.
• Identified team requirements for training, knowledge gap, technical abilities, and other areas.
• Participated in talent acquisition and collaborated with onsite team to fulfill new business FTE needs.

• Handled all aspects of fund accounting for private equity funds on behalf of a top-tier Swiss investment bank.
• Perform final review of reporting deliverables, daily journal entries for cash/bank transactions, accrual entries for various expenses, and receivables/payables in accordance with the relevant supporting documents as per US GAAP within the prescribed TAT and accuracy.
• Preparation of Financials and Notes to Financial Statements.
• Comparing the data from various sources and performing various checks to ensure consistency of the data.
• Working knowledge of Investran - Private equity accounting package and customization of reports in Report Wizard.
• Reviewing of Monthly Accruals.
• Calculation of Management Fees payable to the firm and Waterfall calculations.
• Fin46 reporting - Consolidation of financial statements and elimination of intercompany activities for every quarter end.
• Preparation of Annual reports.
• Processing of capital call and distribution notices.
• Quarterly Partners' capital reporting to the firm.
• Performing various reconciliations for cash, partnership operation expense reconciliation.
• Preparation of memos for expenses payable to the firm.

Team Management:

• Achieved 100% quality and SLA compliance while ensuring adherence to compliance, productivity improvement, buffer management, and DAG audit requirements. Implemented various systems and procedures within the team. Collaborated with Fund Administrators, Stakeholders, and Controllers to ensure seamless business operations.
• Hiring the right resource, training and motivating the team, conducting employee engagement activities, managing attrition, monitoring team performance, and assisting in their development areas.
• Managed client escalations, effectively resolving issues as the main point of contact.
• Reviewing the high-importance deliverables and giving final sign-off in assistance to NY partners. Conduct team building activities, KT, cross training, new joiners training, and other team building programs in the team to enhance quality and motivate the team.
• Setting goals, conducting performance appraisal discussions, providing feedback.
• Preparation of billing files, invoices, and getting approval from controllers. Acting as POC for the Learning Team.

• To capture key companies' financial data after understanding and analyzing the financial reports, press releases, filings, and websites published by companies.
• To ensure that the creating/updating of specific company data adequately satisfies the client-approved process.
• Analysis of extraordinary items and their impact on the Earnings Per Share.
• Handling and resolution of client queries.
• Reviewing the collection policy of financial data catering to clients' requirements and policies.
• Exposure to different GAAPs, like IFRS GAAP and US GAAP.
• Manage proactive research of historical problem areas in the database and on Product in order to ensure consistent and accurate data of the highest quality.
• Monitoring of service level agreement and compliance for the team.
• Manage research and follow up on inconsistencies in current collection.
• Assess performance of team members and conduct performance appraisals.
• Provide coaching and feedback to team members.
• Creation of various MIS production reports and metrics.

Process: Invoice validation team- and Network (Telecom) expenses

My responsibilities include:

• Maintaining the market data services inventory database for the purpose of allocating vendor invoices to the appropriate cost centers, as well as the allocation of network costs.
• Reviewing invoices to ensure there are no miscellaneous or inaccurate charges associated with the invoice.
• Review invoices for accuracy. Identify issues and report them to the Regional Business Manager. Challenge unjustified charges with the vendors. Input invoices into the cost allocation system.
• Ensuring update of vendor contracts, cost, and usage information.
• Verify that orders have gone through all the stages of the customer's approval process.
• Preparation of monthly accruals and prepayments.
• Prepare various month-end reports explaining significant variances.
• Resolution of queries/problems in the process.

• Responsible for timely payment of invoices to the U.S. Vendors for sales and services rendered to HSBC Bank, U.S.A.
• Resolved queries of vendors and internal customers related to cheque requests for the Accounts Payable department.
• Managed problem resolution and supervisory queue, addressing queries from processors on invoices.
• Audited work of processors and sent report to manager by end of day.
• Called U.S. Branch managers should verify invoice payments.
• Called vendors to recover team's overpayments.
• Managed and maintained the Overpayment sheet and Overpayment log sheet, providing accurate cost center and General ledger account number information on invoices.

Worked as a research associate with Capital IQ, a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard and Poor's, a division of the McGraw Hill Group of companies. Engaged in creating the financial database of the AMEX, NASDAQ, and NYSE-listed companies.

My job was associated with dealing with financial statements of companies, which are listed on the NASDAQ, NYSE, and AMEX stock exchanges. I present the data relating to analyzing the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow, and making necessary classifications which are key inputs for deriving the final products, including the ratios, projections, inter-firm, and intra-firm comparisons, etc. Of those companies, in the format which our company keeps on its website, of interested customers.