Business exposure to various financial instruments and trade life cycles.
Reconcile portfolio transactions, cash, and positions across custodians and prime brokers, resolving discrepancies within tight deadlines.
Accurately booked trades across asset classes (equities, fixed income, derivatives) in portfolio accounting systems, ensuring timely capture, and compliance with internal controls.
Corporate Actions Processing & Analysis – Experienced in identifying, processing, and reconciling corporate actions (e.g., dividends, mergers, stock splits, rights issues), ensuring accurate reflection in portfolio accounting, and timely communication with custodians and fund managers.
Pricing: Performed daily and month-end pricing of securities across multiple asset classes, including equities, fixed income, derivatives, and alternative investments. Obtained and validated prices from third-party pricing vendors (e.g., Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC) and custodians, ensuring consistency with internal valuation policies. Also applied fair value adjustments and mark-to-market valuations in accordance with GAAP, IFRS, and fund valuation policies.
Accurately recorded FX hedging transactions in portfolio and accounting systems, ensuring alignment with investment strategy and exposure targets.
Prepared and reviewed daily NAV (Net Asset Value) calculations for multiple funds, ensuring timely and accurate reporting to stakeholders.
Maintained general ledger accounting for investment funds, including accruals, income recognition, and expense allocations.
Extracted and validated key trade details from term sheets, including notional amounts, trade/settlement dates, pay/receive legs, reset schedules, day count conventions, underlying reference rates, etc., to set up complex OTC trades and create the security in the system.
Processed and validated investor subscriptions, redemptions, and distributions, ensuring compliance with fund documentation and anti-money laundering (AML) standards.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Controller
Squarepoint Capital
Bengaluru
10.2024 - Current
Manager - Hedge Fund Accounting
Morgan Stanley
Bengaluru
06.2020 - 09.2024
Senior Fund Accountant
BNY Mellon
Chennai
09.2019 - 05.2020
Senior Financial Analyst
Northern Trust
Bengaluru
12.2015 - 08.2019
Education
B.Com -
St. Claret college, Bangalore University
Bengaluru, KA
2015
Skills
Excellent knowledge of Bloomberg Terminal, IDC, Reuters, etc