Advance Excel
Blen Prajwal Menezes
Officer, Consultant
Bengaluru,India
Summary
Dedicated Asset Management Reconciliations professional with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Languages
Work History
Consultant- Portfolio Admin Reconciliations
Northern Trust Asset Management
Bangalore , Karnataka
2021.08 - Current
- Analyzing data to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Drove operational improvements which resulted in savings and improved deliverable time.
- Improved operations through consistent hard work and dedication.
- Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule.
- Identify issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships.
- Worked closely with business process, Product owner, other business Analyst and IT developers to ensure full delivery of product life cycle.
- Providing ongoing support activities for existing solutions, including regular business interaction and facilitating delivery of enhancements and bug fixes required.
Associate Consultant, Portfolio Admin Recon
Northern Trust Asset Management
Bengaluru , Karnataka
2019.04 - 2021.08
- Compiled research data and gave professional presentations highlighting finds and recommended optimizations.
- Key partner in Aladdin by BlackRock application migration project of Equity portfolios for APAC, EMEA and NA region portfolios.
- Leading and mentoring team in effective planning and execution of this project and prepared procedure documents afresh for this application.
- Reviewed internal systems and organized training plans to address areas in need of improvement.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with Team members, Middle Office and other relevant partner areas such as Risk, Audit, and Managing BAU effectively in adherence to Service level agreements.
- Provided advice, made recommendations and implemented problem-solving strategies when business needed to re-energize.
- Authored detailed work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines.
- Used Microsoft 365 collaborative tools to optimize the tasks and reports and monitor real time basis.
- Handling Exception review meeting, process improvement discussion on forum for resolving reconciliation breaks and on implementation or raising new Aladdin application configuration requests.
- Front runner in handling queries regarding know-how of application and cash and holdings exceptions from all regions and conducting knowledge share sessions.
Senior Analyst - Investment Operations Outsourcing
Northern Trust
Bengaluru , Karnataka
2016.10 - 2019.03
- Monitored fund and equity investments, including inflows and outflows and provided updates regularly.
- Handled internal and external inquiries and requests submitted by Client service manager, client and other department heads, providing outstanding service when resolving issues and received recognition.
- Key participation in onboarding of new client accounts and helped to build ad-hoc client specific procedures.
- Follow research methods to clear aged exception, and also taking respective actions.
- Oversight and approval for processing cash & positions, daily and monthly reporting.
- Handling escalations and implementing controls to mitigate errors.
- Handled service calls with US counter parts on reconciliation exceptions and client reports.
- Migrated Securities services process to reconciliation team as part of process optimization.
Analyst
Northern Trust
Bengaluru , Karnataka
2013.10 - 2016.09
- Send cash balance, cash exceptions and status of reconciliation reports to Investment managers and Client Servicing Manager team.
- Liaise with internal parties and clients to identify and resolve discrepancies.
- Responsible for providing “Daily Cash Balances” to Front office for Client to have correct balances for trading.
- Research on Equities, Fixed Income, Derivative, FX, Cash flows exceptions outstanding and reconciling books efficiently and accurately.
- Reconcile Bank’s cash & stock transactions/balances with that of Custodians.
- Monthly reports of holdings and Market value using Excel.
- Security linking request and manual loading of custodian data to reconciliation platform.
- Mapped processes to holistically examine business flow and identify improvement opportunities by raising ideas on manual postings.
Education
MBA - Banking & Finance
NMAMIT - Visvesvaraya Technological University
Nitte 2011.09 - 2013.05
BBM - HR
St. Aloysius College - Mangalore University
Mangalore 2007.06 - 2010.05
XII -
Alva's Pre-University College
Mudbidri 2006.06 - 2007.05
X -
St. Thomas High School
Mudbidri 2004.06 - 2005.06
Skills
Financial and operational reporting
Accomplishments
- Received two Spot awards for Client reporting, timeliness, go-to member from the team, commitment to principles of service, Expertise and Integrity. Numerous appreciations for Pro activeness while working on short term investment funds, positive feedbacks from partner areas, various client servicing mangers and client.
- Two Bronze award commitment, loyalty and Excellence for Onboarding new client portfolios and building client specific procedures and supporting on shore ad-hoc reconciliation request.
- Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
- Collaborated with team of 8 in the development of Aladdin by BlackRock application migration.
- Documented and resolved process and knowledge gap which led to team focusing on process improvement.
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop migration application and tracking spreadsheets.
Software
Aladdin by BlackRock
Smart Stream PLC & TLM
Bloomberg
DTCC & Euclid
ERM
Northern Trust custody system- IMS & FM
Interests
Gadgets
Cricket
Photography
Timeline
Consultant- Portfolio Admin Reconciliations
Northern Trust Asset Management
2021.08 - Current
Associate Consultant, Portfolio Admin Recon
Northern Trust Asset Management
2019.04 - 2021.08
Senior Analyst - Investment Operations Outsourcing
Northern Trust
2016.10 - 2019.03
Analyst
Northern Trust
2013.10 - 2016.09
MBA - Banking & Finance
NMAMIT - Visvesvaraya Technological University
2011.09 - 2013.05
BBM - HR
St. Aloysius College - Mangalore University
2007.06 - 2010.05
XII -
Alva's Pre-University College
2006.06 - 2007.05
X -
St. Thomas High School
2004.06 - 2005.06
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