Natasha Rajani
Hyderabad
Summary
Dynamic finance professional with extensive experience at Credit Suisse, excelling in fund accounting and reconciliation. Proven track record in leading teams to enhance operational efficiency and achieve compliance. Adept at stakeholder management and process improvement, driving significant contributions to financial reporting accuracy and team performance.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Manager
Principal Global Services
07.2024 - Current
- Lead a 23-member team managing Financial reporting for Alternative Assets and other funds.
- Actively contributed to the initial setup of the entire banking structure at Principal, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Conduct interviews, performance appraisals, and team development.
- Successfully on-boarded two teams and built a client base of over 2500 accounts, ensuring a seamless integration of services.
- Led teams to achieve operational targets, maintaining high levels of performance and quality.
- Collaborated closely with both the US and Manila offices to streamline the migration process, ensuring efficient transitions.
- Prepare, review, and analyse financial statements, ensuring accuracy, compliance with standards, and timely delivery within deadlines.
- Manage the approval workflow for financial reports, resolving discrepancies of position oversold, residual cash on SEI and obtaining stakeholder sign-offs.
- Collaborate with auditors, regulators, and senior management to provide accurate financial data and address inquiries.
- Implement and maintain internal controls to ensure data integrity, compliance, and risk mitigation in financial reporting.
- Streamline reporting processes through automation, standardization, and best practices to improve efficiency and quality.
- Train and mentor team members on reporting standards, tools, and processes to enhance team capabilities.
- Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for financial reporting processes to ensure consistency, clarity, and compliance across the organization.
- Support audits by ensuring audit readiness, providing documentation, and addressing audit findings.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance reporting quality, reduce manual effort, and ensure compliance.
- Act as a subject matter expert, guiding the organization on complex accounting and reporting matters.
- Develop and implement succession planning strategies for the financial reporting team to ensure continuity, knowledge retention, and smooth transitions during staff changes or promotions.
- Liaise with stakeholders, including tech teams, product owners, project manager and clients, to meet requirements and get the signoff on Tollgate document.
Assistant Vice President
Credit Suisse Services India (Pvt) LTD
01.2022 - 06.2023
- Stakeholder Management: Liaising with the concerned team (Margin/Trader/Settlements/Product Controller (PC)/Technology) to resolve the breaks promptly.
- Nostro Bank reconciliation: Investigating root cause of every break and implementing actions to resolve them.
- FOBO: Conducted FOBO reconciliation on Intellimatch/Clareti Transaction Control, resolving breaks by liaising with relevant teams (e.g., Margin, Trader, Settlements).
- Fee Based Borrow reconciliation: Review monthly accruals to ensure accurate balances are reflected for external counter-party and inter-company.
- Collaboration: Investigate transactions for payables and receivables. Collaborate work with billing team, Product Controller, Static team and technology for strategic fixing of aged balance on the account.
- Balance Sheet Substantiation – Making sure that the Control Account balances and Balance sheet balances are reconciled if not then providing appropriate commentary along with supporting the investigation for the sign-off.
- Review: Review daily profit & Loss. Provide daily commentary on significant P & L movements. Regularly reviewing and signing off the set of controls and checks associated with tasks in SOPs. Constantly analyzing all activities to close potential risks, gaps and implement preventative/detective control.
- SOX Audit – 404, successfully tested and implemented Change of Reconciliation Platform – Intellimatch to CTC application.
- Break Resolution: Oversaw daily and month-end P&L review, reconciliation of cash and stock settlements for exchange-traded and OTC derivatives (IRS, CDS, Options, Futures). Break investigation and provide resolutions promptly. Liaising with various internal and external teams to resolve open breaks.
- Escalation Management: Escalating breaks to mitigate the breach of SLAs.
- Onboarding Process: Provide new Hire onboarding support, Access setup, Orientation and Training, daily Huddle with the team for work allocation and discuss issues and challenges.
ENO3 (Team Leader)
Credit Suisse Services India (Pvt) LTD
12.2018 - 01.2023
- Stakeholder Management: Liaising with the concerned team (Margin/Trader/Settlements/Product Controller (PC)/Technology) to resolve the breaks promptly.
- Nostro Bank reconciliation: Investigating root cause of every break and implementing actions to resolve them.
- FOBO: Conducted FOBO reconciliation on Intellimatch/Clareti Transaction Control, resolving breaks by liaising with relevant teams (e.g., Margin, Trader, Settlements).
- Fee Based Borrow reconciliation: Review monthly accruals to ensure accurate balances are reflected for external counter-party and inter-company.
- Collaboration: Investigate transactions for payables and receivables. Collaborate work with billing team, Product Controller, Static team and technology for strategic fixing of aged balance on the account.
- Balance Sheet Substantiation – Making sure that the Control Account balances and Balance sheet balances are reconciled if not then providing appropriate commentary along with supporting the investigation for the sign-off.
- Review: Review daily profit & Loss. Provide daily commentary on significant P & L movements. Regularly reviewing and signing off the set of controls and checks associated with tasks in SOPs. Constantly analyzing all activities to close potential risks, gaps and implement preventative/detective control.
- SOX Audit – 404, successfully tested and implemented Change of Reconciliation Platform – Intellimatch to CTC application.
- Break Resolution: Oversaw daily and month-end P&L review, reconciliation of cash and stock settlements for exchange-traded and OTC derivatives (IRS, CDS, Options, Futures). Break investigation and provide resolutions promptly. Liaising with various internal and external teams to resolve open breaks.
- Escalation Management: Escalating breaks to mitigate the breach of SLAs.
- Onboarding Process: Provide new Hire onboarding support, Access setup, Orientation and Training, daily Huddle with the team for work allocation and discuss issues and challenges.
Operations Executive
BNY Mellon International India
Pune
06.2009 - 01.2018
- Monitored and tracked various corporate actions, identifying discrepancies and escalating them to the concerned departments for timely resolution to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Managed end-to-end reconciliation processes for cash and assets of equity funds, ensuring alignment between internal records and external statements.
- Ensured daily completion of reconciliation tasks, maintaining accuracy and timeliness in financial reporting and operational efficiency.
- Addressed and resolved exceptions related to cash flows, ensuring smooth transaction processing and minimizing operational risks.
- Analyzed financial data to calculate and verify the correct Net Asset Value (NAV) as part of client reporting, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Supported portfolio managers by assisting in currency management, conducting research, and resolving cash and stock discrepancies arising from settlement issues or corporate actions.
- Utilized Bloomberg application extensively for market data analysis, research, and decision-making support.
- Processed corporate actions and class actions, ensuring accurate and timely execution while organizing team tasks such as weekly updates, team meetings, update sessions, and motivational exercises.
- Identified, facilitated, and implemented process improvement ideas to enhance operational efficiency and streamline workflows.
- Managed workflow and productivity to ensure daily processing volumes met service level agreements (SLAs) and organizational targets.
- Addressed operational risks by implementing controls and proposing effective solutions to management for risk mitigation.
- Handled escalations related to process or people management issues, ensuring timely resolution and maintaining team morale.
- Provided necessary documentation and support for external audits, ensuring compliance with regulatory and organizational requirements.
- Ensured proper backup and knowledge transfer within the team, fostering a collaborative environment and maintaining operational continuity.
- Managed team access to relevant systems and departments, approving requests in accordance with organizational policies and procedures.
Education
BBA -
C.M.C.S College
Amravati, Maharashtra12.2007
12th -
Amravati Board
Amravati12.2004
10th -
Amravati Board
Amravati12.2002
Post Graduated Diploma - Finance
Indian Institute of Education and Business Management
PuneSkills
- Fund accounting and reconciliation
- Alternative asset management
- Collateral management
- Corporate actions processing
- Margin funding and trade settlement
- Derivatives trading
- Compliance and audits
- Process transition management
- People management strategies
- Planning and implementation
- Crisis management techniques
- Operational excellence practices
- Quality management systems
- Sourcing and staffing solutions
- External audit handling
- Performance analysis methodologies
- Cross-functional leadership skills
- Decision-making processes
- Liaising and coordination
Projects
- End-to-end new client onboarding, UAT testing, validating test results, suggesting changes, and go-live
- System migration for reconciliation, getting access, UAT testing, validating test results, suggesting changes, and going live
- Process migration to a different location, hiring and onboarding, FTE calculation, training plan, KPI/KRI, SOW, go live
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Marathi
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 12/20/85
- Nationality: Indian
Timeline
Associate Manager
Principal Global Services
07.2024 - Current
Assistant Vice President
Credit Suisse Services India (Pvt) LTD
01.2022 - 06.2023
ENO3 (Team Leader)
Credit Suisse Services India (Pvt) LTD
12.2018 - 01.2023
Operations Executive
BNY Mellon International India
06.2009 - 01.2018
BBA -
C.M.C.S College
12th -
Amravati Board
10th -
Amravati Board
Post Graduated Diploma - Finance
Indian Institute of Education and Business Management
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