Dheeraj Dawar
Delhi
Summary
Result-driven finance professional with a post graduate degree and over 6 years of experience in project management, capital market and middle office roles within the financial sector.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Team lead
Ameriprise Financial LLP
08.2025 - Current
- Monitored team performance, providing suggestions for improvement and training programmes to increase team efficiency.
- Regularly review the exception report.
- Successfully onboarded new custodian Pyford client accounts in the cash and accounting system.
- Monthly NAV signoff process, wherein we have to ensure that the NAV of the fund is being accurately published for downstream teams such as Accounting, Performance and Client Reporting. Cash breaks can impact such data; hence, we have to be on top of such breaks.
- Facilitated the transition of mutual funds and ETF accounts within the Atlas project.
- Perform position reconciliations of holdings for cash sweeps.
- Worked on multiple company-owned funds, municipal bonds, and short-term funds, which are experiencing stringent SLAs. This requires meticulous research to ensure the availability of suitable, investable cash.
- Prepared daily client reports and monthly performance reports on designated sign-off days.
- Perform onboarding and termination of new and existing portfolios.
- Oversee validation of processed corporate action events as per CAM Tool(Corporate action manager tool) and Bloomberg.
- Ensured accurate reconciliation between custodian and accounting records using the Aladdin application.
- Prepared a consolidated day-end report on a daily basis, which helps us to track our outstanding breaks.
- Publish cash reports on Aladdin for Portfolio Managers and Traders by agreed-upon SLAs.
- Monitor and notify Portfolio Managers and Traders of overdraft notifications and resolutions.
- Coordinated with relevant parties to facilitate effective communication and resolve exceptions promptly.
- Maintained close communication with cross-functional teams such as Corporate Action, Data Management, Settlements and Derivatives to verify precise data integration into Aladdin and offer guidance on any required modifications.
- Efficiently handled various financial instruments including Equity, Bonds, Foreign exchanges. Swaps. Futures and collateral.
- Worked on multiple syndicate loan portfolios, Hedge funds and Prime brokers.
- Working on Custody services transition/restructuring project.
Senior Analyst
Ameriprise Financials LLP
08.2022 - 07.2025
Analyst
Ameriprise Financials LLP
06.2020 - 07.2022
Education
M.B.A. - Finance and Marketing
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
01-2019
B.B.A. - General
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
01-2017
Skills
- BlackRock Aladdin
- Cash Management
- CAM Tool
- Security master
- Position reconciliation
- Bloomberg Terminal
- MS Office Suite
- JIRA Task
- IDS
Accomplishments
- Achieved Chairman's Award 2020 for transition of Equity funds from LVTS to Aladdin.
- Platinum award winner for onboarding new accounts of Pyford client.
- Received 4 Gold Awards.
- Received 12 AMMY Thank you awards.
- Secured 1st Position in LAN Gaming.
PROJECTS AND PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS
- Transitioned all ETF portfolios from BNY Mellon to State street Bank in Atlas Project.
- Transitioned the NEA Equity Funds to Aladdin
- Worked on US GAAP project to match all our Paycheck (Interest and
Principal factors) with security master data in a project. - Transform Manual custodian data through FTP to load statements.
- Correction of SWIFT messages in multiple accounts.
- Automation of creation of Adhoc and regular cashflows.
- Initiated and assembled Auto match rate to 85%
- Enabled MT381 from custodians for reducing the errors of manual inputs.
Timeline
Team lead
Ameriprise Financial LLP
08.2025 - Current
Senior Analyst
Ameriprise Financials LLP
08.2022 - 07.2025
Analyst
Ameriprise Financials LLP
06.2020 - 07.2022
M.B.A. - Finance and Marketing
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
B.B.A. - General
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University