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Manikandan Ramanathan

Manikandan Ramanathan

Manager
Chennai

Summary

Accomplished finance professional with a proven track record at Societe Generale, enhancing operational efficiency and leading teams to success. Expert in NAV calculation and fund reconciliation, leveraging strong PC skills including Microsoft VBA Excel and Power BI. Demonstrated leadership in strategic planning and decision-making, significantly improving team productivity and process automation.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager

BNP Paribas, Chennai
06.2022 - 04.2023
  • Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work
  • Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
  • Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members
  • Checking all the funds cash, stock and share transaction are correctly feed in system feeds
  • Performing the cash/positions/corporate action/market value recons for the day
  • Justifying the cash and position movement which impacting current date NAV
  • Responsible for capital activity trade bookings. (subscription and redemption)


Lead

Societe Generale
11.2014 - 06.2022
  • NAV Calculation - Mutual funds and Hedge funds
  • Primary responsibility includes the validation of the bookings, corporate actions, reconciliations and NAV calculation performed by the accountants
  • Conducting daily huddle meeting to discuss about the daily KPI achieved, capacity planning, sharing best practices
  • Updating the daily and monthly dashboard to share it with the Paris counterparts
  • Conducting monthly one on one meetings with the team members to provide performance feedback
  • Have migrated funds from Paris and trained the team
  • As a part of resilience have trained the team in Bangalore with the process that was managed from Chennai
  • As a part of Idea generation, have suggested building a Global Error tracker to facilitate easy reporting and analysis of the Errors from the team. The same was initiated and was implemented in various other business teams as well
  • Contributed towards implementation of EVIDENCE tool wherein the prechecks and post-NAV checks are dealt
  • Was responsible for collection of rules from the operations for rule creation in EVIDENCE tool, performing UAT testing upon each Sprint release and providing feedback to the development team
  • Worked in the implementation of In-House built mail management tool by understanding the usage and creating rules in the backend to allocate the mails to the corresponding teams, training all the Operations team and continuous monitoring of the Mail system and troubleshooting as and when required

Senior Process Associate

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2012 - 09.2014
  • NAV Calculation - Hedge funds
  • Performing reconciliations of multi-currency cash on daily basis and ensure the SLA's are met
  • Performing reconciliation of stock on daily basis
  • Reviewing cash and position reconciliations
  • Calculating the Gross Asset Value for the portfolios and making necessary bookings during month ends
  • Met month-end reporting objectives and deadlines.
  • Identified modifications to processes and procedures that would promote better efficiency.
  • Supervised team of process associates to enhance accountability, develop professional skills and improve efficiency.
  • Increased customer satisfaction by promptly addressing concerns and providing effective solutions tailored to their needs.
  • Has contributed towards automating the manually reconciled funds into Frontier (auto reconciling tool) in coordination with the tech team

Junior Analyst

Scope International, Standard Chartered Bank
08.2010 - 06.2012
  • Monitoring/analyzing transactions and current customer account in investigations of suspicious and money laundering activities and if unusual escalating to concern unit to file a suspicious activity report (SAR)
  • Analyze customer, account and transactions from an automated detection scenario system and differentiating between suspicious activities and legitimate activities of a client.
  • Ensure the regulations of UK and Anti-money laundering matters
  • Ensure acquiescence with compliance standards and regulatory requirements
  • Interacted with Regulators during audits as well as regulatory inquiries
  • Review control and compliance reports
  • Make sure that the system and Anti-money laundering process meet the requirements of regulatory
  • Developing controls and procedures relating transaction monitoring and quality assurance
  • Reviewing KYC documents and CDD documents through source system

Education

MBA - Finance

K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology
Tiruchengode
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Arts - Commerce

Hindusthan College of Arts And Science College
Coimbatore
04.2001 -

Skills

  • Strong PC skills including Microsoft – VBA Excel, Power BI, GP3, Accurate, Power point, NORKOM, EBBS, Geneva, Middle Office Monitor, Word, Outlook
  • Team leadership
  • Operations management
  • Strategic planning
  • Decision-making

Accomplishments

  • Collaborated with team in the development of Evidence application to standardize pre and post NAV checks
  • Received appreciations for providing Excel based solutions for various reconciliations
  • Has been awarded “Star Performer” for the quarter for consistency in work and for handling the team in the absence the lead
  • Received appreciation card – “Good job done” and "You are the champ"

Timeline

Manager

BNP Paribas, Chennai
06.2022 - 04.2023

Lead

Societe Generale
11.2014 - 06.2022

Senior Process Associate

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2012 - 09.2014

Junior Analyst

Scope International, Standard Chartered Bank
08.2010 - 06.2012

MBA - Finance

K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Arts - Commerce

Hindusthan College of Arts And Science College
04.2001 -

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