Krishnakanth Karanam
Finance Operations
Hyderabad
Summary
Qualified MBA in Finance with over 9 years of experience in financial operations across diverse sectors, dedicated to enhancing organizational performance and competitiveness. Proven expertise in transfer agency, financial reporting, and corporate actions. Seeking opportunities to contribute to innovative financial solutions that align with organizational goals.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
Languages
Work History
Process Specialist
Cognizant Technology solutions Pvt. Ltd.
01.2023 - Current
- Served specific clients for both mandatory and voluntary corporate action events.
- Identified securities eligible for mandatory and Voluntary corporate action adjustment and inform client payment terms.
- Processed these events with week’s turnaround with deadlines through DTC
- Create various financial events to be processed and sent out to clients.
- Managed proxy voting services for several large global investment managers and pension funds.
- Handled municipal bonds as per FINRA regulations.
- Resolved client positions with multiple custodians and monitors appropriate posting of accruals and entitlements to client accounts.
- Handled key processing, review, approval, and reconciliation of Mandatory Domestic Corporate Actions per protocol.
- Obtained and provided current market values, terms, and conditions of all elective and mandatory reorganization offerings for Administration and Asset Management.
- Obtained and posted all calls, maturities, cd redemptions, and death puts for Trust accounts.
- Prepared different types of financial reports related to corporate actions on Daily, weekly and monthly basis.
- Key Result Areas:
Capital Market Operations Analyst
Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
01.2020 - 01.2022
- Gathering additional high-quality reports for particular accounts and deliver them to clients in accordance with their requests
- Assisting the Team Lead in managing the due diligence and risk assessment procedures and making sure they are carried out correctly when choosing new third parties
- Examining and reducing the risks related to third-party suppliers or service providers
- Monitoring and evaluating the risk provided by third parties to determine where it exceeds the threshold established by the business
- Coordinating with outside parties to perform business continuity management and information security assessments
- Streamlining all activities, guaranteeing compliance, quality, and risk management in accordance with policies; assessing internal control systems to identify weaknesses and putting into practice appropriate recommendation
- Working with operational support functions to facilitate and monitor the settlement process
- Carrying out complex activities with significant financial, client, and/or internal business impact
- Responsible for identifying improvement opportunities, defining and justifying projects, mentoring team members, tracking project status and results, anticipating and removing barriers and developing team members
- Creating SOPs for various activities, educating new employees, managing daily operational activities and supervise day-to-day work of junior employees
- Key Result Areas:
TA Operations Executive
Franklin Templeton International Services
01.2016 - 01.2020
- Spotting trade orders in the queue
- Checking investor KYC, FATCA, and requested scheme information
- Executing trade orders against NAV (Net Asset Value)
- Reconciling daily transactions reported by all branches
- Resolving orders that are not processed in the allotted time
- Helping with special projects and settlement inquiries
- Managing daily communication with clients to confirm and verify executed trade information
- Ensuring accurate and timely execution of trades and follows correct trade/fund company procedures and quality checking of all work
- Ensuring that all transactions are accurately and effectively executed within cut-off deadlines while applying due diligence
- Responsible for effectively investigating, addressing, and resolving reconciliation breakdowns within predetermined time constraints
- Key Result Areas:
Education
MBA/PGDM - Finance
Auroras PG College
Hyderabad06-2016
Skills
Capital markets experience
Corporate actions
Process optimization through automation
Stakeholder relations
Comprehensive reporting skills
Regulatory adherence
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 7th August 1994
Timeline
Process Specialist
Cognizant Technology solutions Pvt. Ltd.
01.2023 - Current
Capital Market Operations Analyst
Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
01.2020 - 01.2022
TA Operations Executive
Franklin Templeton International Services
01.2016 - 01.2020
MBA/PGDM - Finance
Auroras PG College