Seasoned professional with 7 years of experience in end to end Fund Accounting GAV, NAV & Valuation of Hybrid & Hedge Funds.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Manager| Hybrid & Hedge Funds
J.P Morgan Chase
Bengaluru
08.2021 - Current
End to end accounting on the Hybrid Funds
Perform GAV and NAV on a quarterly basis.
Capital call, Distribution, Partner transfer, sub close as per the LPA and instructions from Clients.
Investor allocation to investors based on their commitment and validating all the exceptions opt fee investor class per their side letters.
Process and validate capital and expense instructions from clients and fund managers in accordance with the established work practices and procedures.
Perform review of processed instructions by team members and ensure accuracy and timeliness of all transactions processed.
Investigate and resolve cash breaks. Liaise and escalate with internal teams as necessary for resolution.
Respond to and resolve client inquiries in a timely manner.
Strong understanding of Risk Management with ability to manage issues and exceptions above materiality thresholds for resolution.
Ensure all day-to-day queries are handled within required timelines and escalate issues as necessary.
Attend and drive internal onshore partner meetings, usually via conference call, to ensure needs and expectations are consistently met or exceeded; ensure resolution of follow up items.
Active involvement in projects within the team.
Assist in internal and external audit queries on a timely manner.
Product Manager| Hybrid & Hedge Funds
Apex Fund Services (Group) Ltd
Bengaluru
04.2020 - 08.2021
End to End accounting and administration of Hedge Funds on a monthly basis.
Trade Uploads, reconciling position & cash and take necessary action to resolve valid breaks by reaching to IM or Broker respectively.
Reviewing pricing of the portfolio and analysing the pricing exceptions if any.
Booking corporate actions in the system and ensuring that the same is correctly reflected in the books of account and reconciling the accounting books with Broker reports.
Hedging the trades booked in feeder funds and calculating the local currency exposure in the market to USD currency and tying back the Master fund realised PnL to Broker Statement on a monthly basis.
Accruing/amortizing daily/monthly non-security related fee accruals including management fees and financing accruals.
Review the PnL and calculate the Performance/ incentive fees using High Water mark (HWM) & Hurdle Rates.
Finalizing the month end NAV of the client and providing Investor Level Allocation reports at month-end.
Providing support in Audits for funds in the preparation on financial statements. Complete audit reviews and ensure identified issues are documented and tracked to closure.
Product Manager| Hybrid & Hedge Funds
State Street Corporation
Bengaluru
05.2017 - 04.2020
Responsible to prepare/ validate the NAVs of the hedge fund clients which includes traders profit and return analysis, income and fund allocations, distributions along with delivering investor statements.
Prepare/Review and validate the shareholder allocation calculation, including management and Incentive Fee calculations.
Preparing, managing, reviewing & assisting team members in resolving cash and position breaks on a daily basis and on a monthly basis.
Education
M.Com - Finance
St. Joseph's College
Bengaluru
PGDBA - Business Administration
St. Joseph's College
Bengaluru
Skills
Fund Accounting
NAV Calculation and Investor Allocation
PCAP
Sub- Close
Partner Transfer
Pnl & Fee Allocation
Income and Expense Analysis
Corporate Actions
Languages
English, Full Professional Proficiency
Telugu, Native or Bilingual Proficiency
Kannada, Native or Bilingual Proficiency
Hindi, Limited Working Proficiency
Accounting Applications
Arcesium
Geneva
Investran Accounting
Paxus
Mosiki- Recon Tool
IGLS- NAV mgmt. tool
ERP- Reporting Tool
Alpha Frontier- FOHF
ISS-Allocation
Corporate Projects
On boarded end to end new client from scratch from UK with a net work of 1.4 billion at JPM.
Migrated end to end Hybrid funds from Dublin at JPM.
Migrated Singapore funds during my tenure at Apex (End to End in Fund Accounting).
Migrated end to end NAV funds from North America with more of manual work in short span.
Successfully migrated Investor Allocations Project which includes around 40 funds from North America and New York.
Successfully migrated SPV onsite project which includes 97 funds under one client from Toronto, NA.