Experienced finance professional with 8 years of expertise in fund accounting, corporate actions and reconciliations. Proven ability to manage complex financial processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements. Adept at collaborating with stakeholders, streamlining workflows, and implementing process improvements to enhance operational efficiency. Strong attention to details, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills, with a commitment to delivering high-quality financial services. Looking to contribute expertise to a forward-thinking organization in the financial sector.
· Leading a team of 7 Fund Accountants responsible for daily NAV calculation for various clients of Unit Investment Trust funds for both Equity and Fixed Income Securities.
· Reviewing Accounting vs Custodian Reconciliations, identifying, and determining the cause of breaks and resolving the breaks through necessary adjustments in funds.
· Making sure that Pricing of the securities are performed accurately on IAS platform to disseminate correct NAV along with teams daily BAU queries resolution.
· Reconcile client position and monitor appropriate posting of accruals and entitlements of client account.
· Make sure that the hourly deadlines for the processes are met.
· Ensure smooth functioning of daily as well as monthly deliverables with respect to funds specific.
· Responsible for on-boarding of new activities, funds, portfolios by maintaining process related documents.
· Ensure proper distribution of work amongst team based on baselining.
· Responsible for interval communications between client and stake holders with respect to KPI.
· Proactive and face exigencies in case of any unforeseen scenarios by being an active member of clients recommended BCP team.
· Over-sighted 5 client process standardization projects that led to timing and cost saving.
· Perform daily duties in a professional and flexible manner with all internal and external parties.
· Financial Reporting of the year-end statements of the various clients as per US GAAP.
·UAT testing of accounting applications to check bug and fix the errors.
· Processing and producing accurate and timely NAVs of the portfolios for mutual funds.
· Responsible for Position, price, Market value and cash reconciliation with custody data and researching and resolving discrepancies.
· Assist in the collection and analysis of the relevant management information from an operational and client perspective.
· Processing of corporate actions that are accounted for before pricing and delivering Pre and Final NAV.
· Checking security prices with various vendor prices like IDC, Six Financial, Yahoo Finance and Bloomberg to make sure all the prices are within threshold.
· Timely and accurate processing of subscriptions and redemptions and ensured accruals are being checked and properly posting to client portfolios.
· Review of Proving & Ageing breaks report for accuracy after completion of reconciliation which delivers to clients.
· Review & approval of all Overdrafts and reporting the status and reasons of OD processed on daily basis to the sponsors.
· Developed SOPs for ETF overdrafts (Overview & monthly reports) and ensured timely updates to all changes.
· Reviewing of sponsor wise monthly reports for TDvsSD Report, Option Reconciliation & ETF at the start of every month.
· Lead the migration of the TLM application for the UIT reconciliation process; managed complex data required for the TLM migration.
· Rconciliation of funds Custody and Accounting teams and investigating the differences between breaks (like dividendes, fail trades, corporate actions, fees etc.).
· Processing of Overdrafts for both Unit Investment Trust (UIT) and Exchange Traded Funds (ETF).
· Reporting on a weekly and monthly basis to provide information to all sponsors for both UIT as well as ETF.
· Reporting of EOD reports to Clients once the ETF Overdrafts are validated.
· Communicated with the fund sponsor ensuring all issues and/or queries are handled efficiently and escalated appropriately.
Fund Accounting
Financial Reconciliation
Daily Pricing Functions
Trade Monitoring
Corporate Actions and Dividends Management
Reporting and Communication
Team Coordination and Management
Compliance and Regulations
Data Migration and Management
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) Development
· Lead the successful migration of the TLM application for the UIT reconciliation process. This initiative streamlined workflows and improved overall performance.
· Successfully migrated the overdrafts activity platform from Lotus Notes to Nexen, enhancing system efficiency and reliability.
· Successfully transitioned the ETF overdrafts process from Pune to Chennai location.
· Created multiple complex files for reporting purposes to improve efficiency and reduce manual workload within the team.
Investment Banking Certification from Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)
TLM
Nexen
FACTS
Citrix
Lotus Notes
Custody
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