Jignesh Babar

• Managed daily fund accounting operations for diverse investment portfolios.
• Facilitate on-time production of NAV computations in compliance with the SLA.
• Reconciled various accounts and reviewed cash, position, and dividend reconciliations.
• Managed the preparation of fund statements for investors in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Streamline work prioritization and execute thorough investigations on all discrepancies.
• Evaluate daily work methods to optimize efficiency and improve workflow automation.
• Promptly responding to client inquiries and providing ad hoc assistance where needed, coordinating with internal and external auditors during the year-end audit process.
• Maintained relationships with clients through regular communication regarding their accounts.

• Reviewed and reconciled fund transactions to maintain accurate records.
• Implemented process improvements to enhance efficiency in fund management tasks.
• Evaluated existing systems and processes used by the company to recommend improvements.
• Assisted in the preparation of financial statements and reports for stakeholders.
• Collaborated with auditors during annual audits to provide necessary documentation.
• Manage vendor payment transactions on behalf of clients.
• Monthly Client calls to discuss ongoing process implementation.
• Generated quarterly and annual NAV packs for client examination, facilitating informed decision-making.
  Drafted Financial Statements for investors after receiving client approval.
• Participated in ad hoc projects as needed, such as developing new products.

• Acquire complete understanding of NAV Calculation & its related functions with various parties involved. For example: Prime Broker Custody, Pricing, Corporate Actions, trade bookings.
• Facilitate daily cash and position reconciliation with Prime brokers and resolve any identified breaks.
• Deliver daily reconciliations to clients and request clarification on aged outstanding breaks.
• Achieve recognition as SME (Subject Matter Expert) in NAV Calculation Processing & Review via thorough knowledge of all fund and instrument varieties.
• Ensure NAV calculations are produced in a timely manner as per SLA.

• Obtain daily approval from Trade Ops team to execute daily FA activitiess.
• Monitoring of Fund daily prices with BBG and observe daily movement tolerances if any.
• Oversee accurate booking of corporate actions in accounting system - Geneva following Bloomberg protocols.
• Verify OTC products and Bonds pricing aligns with agreement
• Conduct cash and position reconciliation followed by manager review prior to FTP submission.
• Generate monthly NAV pack reports through the implemented system, and reconcile figures with the Trial Balance, Balance Sheet, and Income Statement.

Cash & Asset Reconciliation.

• Streamlined reconciliation of investment manager book and custodians’ book to identify discrepancies and formulate resolution report for account manager.
• Focused on managing financial products including Fixed Income, Equity, Derivatives, Bonds, FX trades, and Tax products across entire portfolio while highlighting distinctions.
• Aligned financial records and statement with general ledger.
• Monthly client call to address ongoing process implementation and any outstanding issues or challenges faced.
• Cultivated positive work ethic and self-motivated attitude.

Market Operation & Trade Surveillance

• Verify existing securities' close prices against prior day Bhavcopy.
• Track live trading operations and submit BOD, MOD, and EOD reports to supervisor.
• Verify parameters of new securities added, reactivated, relisted. Check number of securities available for trading and keep a record of total number of member and users active for trading.
• Ensuring no outstanding trades and orders remain after market hours
• Monitoring daily price range alerts, open interest, and orders entered, and trades executed by members.
• Facilitated client requests including creation of new system identifications, cancellations, and password resets.