Nikitha Reddy Peddabavi
Hyderabad
Summary
Finance professional over 6 years of expertise in fund operations and accounting. Proficient in NAV oversight, ETF compliance, and financial reporting, with a strong background in mutual funds, ETFs, and private equity. Demonstrated ability to enhance operational efficiency and ensure regulatory compliance. Seeking new opportunities abroad to leverage extensive experience in a dynamic environment.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Financial Reporting — Lead Analyst
Principal Global Services
06.2025 - Current
- Led ETF SEC Rule 6c-11 compliance: ensured portfolio transparency, accurate website disclosures, and maintained control evidence.
- Oversaw ETF capital markets operations: validated creation/redemption workflows, basket compliance, liquidity checks, and Sev-1 escalations.
- Partnered with Compliance, Legal, and Capital Markets to monitor regulations, assess fund eligibility, and strengthen control frameworks.
- Performed daily NAV oversight: reconciled positions/cash, validated income/expenses, and resolved operational breaks across funds.
- Managed tax shadow accounting, GAAP amortization, tax reclaim monitoring, and supported period-end financial reporting.
- Acted as audit liaison: prepared schedules, coordinated samples, resolved queries, and ensured timely sign-offs.
Financial Reporting — Senior Fund Accountant
CITCO
01.2024 - Current
- Working on Quarterly Nav packs which includes Financial statements, various schedules for accruals, valuation, cash, Management fee.
- Preparing Capital call workings, sub close interest calculations & rebalancing.
- Worked on both Inter Fund & Intra Fund (parallel fund structures) rebalancing.
- Generating PCAP's, Capital call & distribution notices.
- Reviewing Management fee calculations, Valuation postings & Carried Interest.
- Liaising with onshore teams, client on daily basis during audit period and ensured all supports are provided to the auditors to get financials approved on agreed timeline.
- Preparing Loan workings, booking fx adjustments & performing month cash recon.
- Working on Preliminary/ Estimated NAV files, in the quarter beginning.
- Working on Adhoc requests from client & liaising internally with IR(Investor relationship) team, FR & Tax team.
- Performing partner transfers through the automated tools.
Financial Reporting — Fund Administrator
Invesco
06.2023 - 01.2024
- Worked on financial statements of Mutual funds, Money Market funds, Municipal Funds.
- Complete review of financial statements - SOI, SAL, SOP, SOC, SCF, FiHi, NTFS (Schedule of Investments, Statement of Assets & Liabilities, Statement of Operations, Statement of Changes in Net assets, Statement of Cash Flow statement, Financial Highlights & Notes to Financial Statements).
- Ensuring the footnotes are properly tagged in SOI, amounts are correctly reflected (with the supporting backup files) language of NTFS is appropriate, all the disclosure requirements are in line.
- Performing proofing checks.
- Ensuring affiliated transactions are reflected correctly.
Mutual Fund Accounting — Senior Associate
State Street
04.2021 - 06.2023
- Preparing quarterly NAV file & associated financial statements.
- Reviewing the daily capstock trades, posting expenses and validating income impacts on the fund.
- Validating the top movers of the fund and corporate actions.
- Validating trading impacts of the fund.
- Posting REIT adjustment entries and performing ROC recon periodically.
- Posting asset transfer entries between the funds.
- Posting external FOF income and Income reinvestment entries.
- Performing month end process.
- Execution of new fund setup.
- Performing Monthly & Quarterly distributions.
- Reviewing cash & share breaks and posting them to accounting.
- Checking past due income.
- Handling queries from client/cs team.
- Supporting FR team on semi-annual / annual deliverables.
- Tax shadow reconciliation and booking trades for tax purpose (Multi manager Funds — requirement).
- Releasing the Daily/Weekly NAVs to the stakeholders.
- Received 14 Bravo awards.
- Got promoted to Senior Associate in 1 Year 1 month.
Mutual Funds — Specialist
Dupont
04.2019 - 01.2020
- Total return & market return calculation workings.
- Review of expense caps.
- Performing FOF recons periodically with positions report.
- Handling audit queries and checking with TPA for resolution.
- Working on KPI reporting.
Articleship Experience
08.2016 - 04.2019
- Preparation of Books of accounts and financial statements.
- Dealt with Incorporation & Compliance Procedural requirements of private limited companies.
- Forms filling with Registrar (INC forms, DIR forms, AOC forms).
- Evaluating the existence, effectiveness and functioning of internal control.
- Exposure to internal audits & stock audits of various sectors.
Education
CA — Inter -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
01.2017
B.com -
Osmania University
Skills
- NAV oversight for mutual funds
- Capital stock and expense management
- Trade impact analysis and distributions
- Collaboration with tax team on year-end distributions
- Annual REIT ROC adjustments
- Fund launch coordination
- Financial reporting expertise
- SAL, SOP, SOC, NTFS, FIHI
- Private equity management
- Capital calls and subscription closings
- Quarterly NAV workbook preparation
- ETF SEC compliance regulations
- ETF fund operations and capital markets oversight
- Year-end audit confirmations management
Timeline
Financial Reporting — Lead Analyst
Principal Global Services
06.2025 - Current
Financial Reporting — Senior Fund Accountant
CITCO
01.2024 - Current
Financial Reporting — Fund Administrator
Invesco
06.2023 - 01.2024
Mutual Fund Accounting — Senior Associate
State Street
04.2021 - 06.2023
Mutual Funds — Specialist
Dupont
04.2019 - 01.2020
Articleship Experience
08.2016 - 04.2019
CA — Inter -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
B.com -
Osmania University