Nikhil K P
Bengaluru
Summary
A skilled Associate professional with 5 years of experience in pricing and valuation. Proficient in validating and updating Mutual Funds' Corporate actions and pricing data in Bloomberg terminal. Currently working as an Associate in the operations team, ensuring timely and accurate loan trading processes, pricing, and valuation.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate - IM Operations
Voya India
07.2024 - Current
- Morning Uploads of Holdings: Manage and upload loan holding files from various sources, ensuring accuracy and timelines
- Verify data integrity and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner
- Pricing and Trade Reconciliation:Perform daily loan pricing and trade reconciliation, identifying and resolving discrepancies
- Collaborate with internal teams to ensure accurate and efficient processing
- Trade Ticket Distribution:Coordinate and distribute loan trade tickets to loan servicers for booking.
- Ensure timely and accurate processing of trade tickets
- PM Pricing: Manage end-of-day loan pricing processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
- Collaborate with internal teams to resolve any pricing discrepancie
- ID Change Requests:
- Prepare and submit ID change requests to servicers as per cashless refinance Corporate action.
- Ensure accurate and timely processing ID changes by servicers for the acurate allocation of the trade.
Associate - Specialized solutions
Acuity Knowledge Partners
04.2023 - 07.2024
- Work with senior professionals in multiple locations to execute daily procedure of valuation and pricing of the portfolio assets consists of mainly CLOs and Bonds to reflect current market price and conditions
- Uploads daily pricing data from loan servicers (BNYM, USB, SSB,BBH) on the data base
- Review prices from different vendor pricing feeds (e.g
- IHS Markit, Refinitive, JPM price direct
- ) Daily trade confirmation, coordinating with counterparties and processing trades in the systems
- Checking and validating the trade ticket (Asset ID, clearing info, trade details, fund Info, net amount, settlement instructions etc.)
- Responsible for trade booking and matching
- Work closely with other team member with middle office and support team to resolve trade related issues
- Investigate on pending trade settlement, cash and position breaks and trade discrepancy.
Specialist - Financial Operations Valuation
Empower India
04.2022 - 04.2023
- Collecting daily prices and dividends information's from various Fund houses through Email
- Check/validate security prices from data source and review vendor prices
- Working experience on different types of products in terms of pricing and valuation such as OTC Derivatives, Bonds, Equity etc
- Work closely with the valuation committee, data vendors, portfolio managers, Global fund accounting, Custodians, and other key and external staff
- Review prices from different Asset management companies
- Preparation of stale price reports in case pricing report exceeds the cut off time And reviewing it proactively to update into current price
- Validating pre-split and post-split prices after the corporate action stock split
- Running daily and prior day pricing files and investigating on price variance, Volume, stale price and unpriced securities.
Mutual Fund Analyst
Infosys BPM
10.2020 - 04.2022
- Validate and upload data from various clients and update on to the Bloomberg terminal
- Set up automation for updating critical data such as prices, dividends and other static data details using MFPD tool, as all data updated live and will not mislead investors
- Updating corporate actions like Liquidation, Name change, Merger, etc As per the details from the client on Bloomberg terminal
- Classifying the Fund on the terminal according to the areas of its investments (Equities, Fixed income, Money Market, Mixed allocation, etc.)
- Monitored the pricing of the securities on Bloomberg terminal on daily basis.
Education
B.Com( Commerce ) -
Calicut University
01.2020
Class XII -
01.2015
Skills
Quick Learner
Analytical Skills
Investment Banking
Trade Life Cycle
Team Leading
Process Training
Pricing of CLOs/Mutual Funds/Bonds
Reconciliation
Bloomberg
Loan trading and operations
Proficient in microsoft office (Excel,word,outlook and acces)
Knowledge of loan trading systems and platforms(Markit,clear par,WSO)
Languages
English
Malayalam
Hindi
Personal Information
- Total Experience: 5
- Date of Birth: 05/01/96
- Gender: Male
- Marital Status: Single / Unmarried
Timeline
Associate - IM Operations
Voya India
07.2024 - Current
Associate - Specialized solutions
Acuity Knowledge Partners
04.2023 - 07.2024
Specialist - Financial Operations Valuation
Empower India
04.2022 - 04.2023
Mutual Fund Analyst
Infosys BPM
10.2020 - 04.2022
B.Com( Commerce ) -
Calicut University
Class XII -
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