MANISH GARG
MBA
Delhi
Summary
OBJECTIVE Leverage my expertise, skills, knowledge and experience of over 18 years, in the area of Investment Banking operations, Financial market, Start-ups.
Over a decade of diverse experience in the Investment Banking industry having worked across all domains right from Hedge Fund Accounting, Fundraising to Investor conferences. Global exposure has helped organizations migrate processes and operations, extending to Ireland, US, Chile, Singapore among others. Utilizing massive corporate experience I got himself into entrepreneurship path. Worked for 6 years to set up e-commerce markets in South East Asia and US. As I always look out for something interesting and inspiring, In 2017 came to know about blockchain industry that promises to disrupt all traditional processes. Got into it and learnt the technology and fundamentals behind blockchain. Became full time investor in digital assets and supported few start-ups. I founded AHMEV-a fashion house with a team of creative and industry specialists. This added to my exposure to entrepreneurship. I am very well versed with the start-ups eco-system.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
CEO
Ahmev
New Delhi
03.2020 - Current
- Working in keeping the vision outlined by the board of directors
- Partner with multi-branded offline/online stores matching the brand aesthetics.
- Generating the company's revenue by collaborating with the pop-ups, exhibitions & channel partners
- Preparing annual budgets, risk analysis & potential investments in the company
- Managing the GST, Annual returns, taxation from all the revenue generating platforms
- Working closely with HR for hiring, payroll & CSR
- Actively involved in growing the brand in new markets like Japan, UAE, US.
- Attending business (B2B) conferences & events organised by FICCI & ASSOCHAM
Chief Financial Officer
MARKNetwork, Blockchain & IT Solutions
11.2018 - 03.2020
- Managing the global capital requirement of the company
- Responsible for the cost-control, budgeting & revenue Forecasting
- Building and managing 3 teams across US, India & Germany
- Strategize, re-engineer and lead the Finance operations
- Have been involved with the Regulatory Audits
- Worked with the attorney in defining the legal framework of the company in respect of onboarding the clients, employees & other channel partners
- Attended various investors conferences in Singapore & India to raise funds for the company through
- STO offering
- Allocating revenue generated from master nodes in different investment pools
- Did one-o-one meetings with the investors across globe in presenting the company’s vision and showing them the revenue forecast
- Reporting to Managing Director based out in Germany
- Key achievements:
- Successfully presented company’s vision across various investor conferences based out in Singapore &
- India.
Chief Financial Officer
Arogyam Nutrition, Healthcare Services
07.2016 - 11.2018
- Responsible for end-to-end payroll & revenue forecasting for Pan-India locations
- Managing company’s trademark, GST filing and other annual tax returns
- Providing multiple remittance solutions in different currencies to the clients across globe
- Responsible in opening new offices across different cities in India
- Managing the vendors activities across all company’s operations
- Managing financial operation teams across all locations
Manager
Evalueserve Pvt. Ltd
Gurgaon
09.2008 - 06.2016
- Managing the Global Road show Marketing team located in India and Chile which supports Equity
- Capital Markets & Corporate Access team (Institutional Clients Group) for a top Investment bank and have responsibility for managing the Service Delivery
- Organizing ECM Road shows, creating pitch books, managing Deals, Loan Syndication, Analyst meetings,
- Investor Education, Field trips, manage accounts payable & accounts receivable, logistics and organize annual conferences across US, ASIA and Pan-Europe
- Built and managing a team of 3 Managers, 6 Senior Research Associates, also includes 3 different teams of
- Research Associates supporting US, Europe and Asia regions in India and Chile
- Strategize, re-engineer and lead the Road show Marketing Operations
- Played a primary role in transitioning the project from Mphasis to Evalueserve
- Have been involved with the Regulatory Audits, carried out by Client and Company
- Created and developed a high performance team through constant reviews of the key performance indicators and won the “Employee performance awards for Leadership” in December 2010
- Undertook various initiatives aimed at adding value to the processes resulting in excellent feedback from managed Business Partners and had a repeat business from them of 5 FTE's, which equates to 70% growth from US region alone in 2011
- Involved with, at a strategic level for business development and new pitch’s for Corporate Access work
- An accredited member of the hiring and interview panel
- Created and developed a high performance team through constant reviews of the key performance indicators
- Actively participated in global conferences and managed the client conferences in different locations like:
- Singapore, India & China
- Have transitioned three processes under my purview, all of which have achieved Business as Usual (BAU) status within specified timeframes
- Have been involved in defining and agreeing the service level agreements for road show Marketing processes
- Reporting to Group Manager - Financial Services
- Key achievements:
- Identified certain products to pitch up the client, which are useful for the analytical purpose such as PCS tool, Ideal database etc
- Involved in training new tranches evaluate performances, Point of contact for internal escalation and client queries, MIS.
Assistant Manager
HSBC Securities Services, COE
Kolkata
01.2007 - 09.2008
- Managing Investment banking products of various verticals such as Hedge funds and Fund of Fund
- Providing end-to-end Hedge fund administration from Trade input, Reconciliation & support in NAV calculation
- Handling reconciliation of the funds with the Registrar/Prime broker statements using application as SSR,
- SOLAR, GENEVA, Excel & Macros
- Maintaining and increasing relationship with the client located across the globe for providing high value corporate and investment banking solutions
- Handling a team of 35 administrators in Fund of Fund & Hedge Fund Transfer Agency operations
- Working on various reports using BI-Query and Message View
- Key achievements:
- Best employee of the month credentials on the basis of performance, Initiative, new ideas and value additions to the company
- Migrated complete fund of funds operations for the reconciliation process from all around the globe
- Created macros using Microsoft XL for automating emails to be sent to Prime brokers for reducing the number of FTE (Full Time Employees) in the process under direct supervision, thus saving the
- Company costs on charge-backs
- Created couple of CQI (Continuous Quality Improvements) projects which reduces the cost and TAT for the processing.
Senior Associate Operations
Xchanging Technology
Gurgaon
05.2005 - 12.2006
- Reconciliation of securities and analysis of dividend/interest payments
- Worked on the reconciliation tools Message View (SWIFT), Smart Stream and Income Tool
- Complete Bug free delivery to the client without missing any SLA’s
- Preparation of aging schedule of customers and suppliers on monthly basis for the outstanding items in reconciliation
- Worked on raising purchase orders (SAP)and query management (TALISMA)
- Manage processes to ensure that all Service level Agreements are adhered to consistently by implementing effective capacity planning measures via multi- tasking and cross-training of resources
- Have optimized the resource utilization across all the team, thus generating immense cost benefit to the organization
- Implement migration plans to maximize capacity utilization and to create center of excellence
- To identify and evaluate operational risks and to help establish appropriate strategies to mitigate such risk
- To provide development opportunities to ensure that my subordinates are adequately groomed to handle line management responsibilities and to institute a pragmatic and effective succession plan
- To maintain an effective tracking mechanism to analyze team performance on process adherence for quality of work as well as for productivity
- To ensure accurate generation, timely delivery and efficient analysis of MI’s, focused at creating precise records of performance
- To provide timely orientation and direction to team members through regular briefings /meetings and effective communication
- Manage workload and ensure that manning and skills levels within the team are effectively utilized to meet current needs Ensure compliance of the team to all reporting issues
- KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:
- Got promoted in 9 months and was selected for an IJP for the client Securities reconciliation process
- Got a appreciation certificate from the client
- Have contingencies and enabling effective resource utilization
- Believe in a common goal of entire team development enriched by mutual learning as is evident by the promotion / lateral movement of 40% of core team members inspired to take up greater roles in the higher level or to more challenging lateral successfully integrated aggressive cross training within the teams thus building strong roles.
Senior Financial Analyst
NuWave e solutions Pvt. Ltd
Gurgaon
10.2004 - 05.2005
- Analysis of documents filed by the issuers to SEC
- Studying the US stock exchanges and providing valuable information to the clients investing in Mutual Funds
- Searching and Retrieving information related to various financial products available in the US financial market from databases like SEC-Edgar, Free Edgar, Edgar on-line etc
- Refining electronic documents like Prospectus, Statement of Additional Information, Annual Report and
- Semi-Annual Report
- Other Interests
- Led the organizing committee of the college fest
- Organized fresher’s party in MBA
- Member of the cricket teams at school and college
- Played CONGO in the inter school competition
- In-house Corporate courses
- ACCREDITED FRAUD INVESTIGATION OFFICER
- COACHING FOR MANAGERS
- LEADING & MANAGING PEOPLE
- BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS
- CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
- GIVING AND RECEIVING FEEDBACK
Education
MBA - Finance
IMED, Bharati Vidyapeeth
Pune 06.2002 - 07.2004
BBA - Accounting And Finance
Rajdhani College, Delhi University
Delhi 05.1999 - 03.2002
Skills
Corporate leadership
Affiliations
ACCA (UK) – Pursing – Cleared 4 papers out of 14
Work Availability
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Quote
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live if, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.
Sylvia Plath
Timeline
CEO
Ahmev
03.2020 - Current
Chief Financial Officer
MARKNetwork, Blockchain & IT Solutions
11.2018 - 03.2020
Chief Financial Officer
Arogyam Nutrition, Healthcare Services
07.2016 - 11.2018
Manager
Evalueserve Pvt. Ltd
09.2008 - 06.2016
Assistant Manager
HSBC Securities Services, COE
01.2007 - 09.2008
Senior Associate Operations
Xchanging Technology
05.2005 - 12.2006
Senior Financial Analyst
NuWave e solutions Pvt. Ltd
10.2004 - 05.2005
MBA - Finance
IMED, Bharati Vidyapeeth
06.2002 - 07.2004
BBA - Accounting And Finance
Rajdhani College, Delhi University
05.1999 - 03.2002
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