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Work History
Education
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NITHIN KUMAR KM

NITHIN KUMAR KM

Team Lead, Fund Accounting
Kadaba, Dakshina Kannada,Karnataka

Summary

Resourceful Team Leader experienced in directing activities of workgroups. Develops strategies, provides training, sets goals and obtains team feedback. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Big picture focus with excellence in communicating goals and vision to succeed. Problem solver, networker and consensus builder.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate

Work History

LEAD, Fund Accounting

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre Pvt. Ltd
Bengaluru
07.2022 - Current
  • Assist in production of daily, weekly, and monthly NAV, ensuring completion of specified tasks per NAV checklists
  • Allocation of tasks among team members and ensuring daily deliverable are met in a timely manner
  • Business continuity plan/crisis management for team and making backup plan for team in any
  • BCP and emergency scenario
  • Process all trades - Equities, Bonds, FX, Listed Derivatives, OTC Trades, Collaterals, and related cash movement as per trade files, broker statements and custody statements
  • Processing Voluntary corporate action transactions as per Custodian and Broker statements
  • Cash and Position reconciliation between FA and Custody and resolve with respective teams for any discrepancy and resolve breaks.

Team Leader, Fund Accounting

Northern Trust
Bengaluru, Karnataka
04.2020 - 04.2022


People Management

  • Monitored staff performance levels, implementing necessary changes to improve productivity and meet SLA
  • Mentored and coached junior staff to produce high-performing, quality team members
  • Led performance reviews and tailored employee feedback to facilitate professional development
  • Held daily meetings to ensure consistent communication and team motivation towards productivity goals
  • Successfully led high-volume teams to achieve KPI targets and other department metrics
  • Led by example to maintain team motivation, ensuring daily tasks were performed accurately and efficiently
  • Conducted interviews with participants to assess eligibility, Observed participants and recorded results


Process Management

  • Manage and oversee team on daily basis, controlling and allocating day to day work for team
  • Deliver NAV valuation processes in line with SLA
  • Review End to End NAV and ensure timely and accurate reports and accounts for range of clients
  • Performed management reporting on transactions, including statistics on volume, productivity, accuracy, timeliness, new development, and service impact to clients
  • Review and improve processes and procedures to increase efficiencies and ensure all are adequately documented
  • Ensure client requests are implemented in a timely and professional manner
  • Coordinate on-boarding of new funds and system changes
  • Control and update of Business Continuity Plans and Business Impact Analysis documentation of team


Projects & Testing Handled

  • Communicated with PMO & project stakeholders, providing timely updates on project advancement
  • Resolved system test and validation problems to provide normal program functioning
  • Prepared meeting agendas and minutes for distribution and record keeping
  • Implemented User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with focus on documenting defects, identifying bottlenecks, and executing test cases
  • Kept scripts and test cases updated with current requirements, reported problems and concerns to management
  • Conducted investigations into questionable test results, recommended changes, and corrections to developers for optimal software performance and usability
  • Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.

Technical Coordinator, Fund Accounting

Northern Trust
Bengaluru, Karnataka
06.2017 - 02.2020
  • Supporting team Manager in ensuring operational efficiency
  • Serve as key subject matter expert and mentor to other more junior level employees
  • On daily basis ensure that all corporate action events across all markets and asset types (equities, fixed income and CFD's) are correctly processed, reviewed and reconciled as necessary in accordance with procedures and event deadlines
  • Be responsible for documentation of operating procedures and periodic review of existing procedures
  • Interact with Fund Accounting teams and third parties/custodians as appropriate
  • Identify special handling needs early on in life cycle of event and ensure that proper communication and escalation takes place
  • Monitor incoming queries and ensure that are answered accurately and on timely basis
  • Supported senior members by delivering reports outlining performance to drive process improvements
  • Scrutinizes loss information in event of missed Corporate Action and submits synopsis to
  • Department Manager explaining in detail situation
  • MIS activity - Daily, weekly & monthly reporting
  • Team capacity tracker analysis, FTE analysis &
  • Error analysis
  • Participate to local and global projects related to process improvements and / or systems migrations.

Senior Analyst, Fund Accounting Corporate Actions

Northern Trust
Bengaluru, Karnataka
01.2015 - 05.2017
  • Collate, scrub, and interpret information for corporate action events using custodian and vendor feeds
  • Research and review more complicated corporate action events using database system
  • Adhere to established processes and procedures
  • Ensure corporate actions are carried out in timely and accurate manner including effective communicating of impact of corporate actions
  • Reconcile client positions and cash in accounting platform with notifications received from
  • Custodians
  • Contacting Fund managers for distribution details on Fund of fund assets
  • Instructing pricing regards with CA for some securities where market price is not available
  • Ensure all inquiries relating to corporate actions are addressed within service level agreement.

ANALYST, Fund Accounting

Northern Trust
Bengaluru, Karnataka
07.2012 - 12.2014
  • Performed end to end process in preparing NAV for Fund of Hedge Funds.
  • Prepare timely and accurate Net Assets Values and delivery of reporting to clients.
  • Record capital and Portfolio activities accurately, and in accordance with Department policies and procedures.
  • Reconcile Cash, Stock, FX, and Income against custodian /Prime Broker's /Client reports.
  • Researching and querying with various counterparts to clear breaks.
  • Accrue various expenses as per fund prospectus and make payment as per invoice.
  • Pricing of Underlying Hedge Fund by obtaining price from external sources (Hedge Fund Administrator and Investment manager).
  • Ensuring portfolio is priced and agreed by client. Converse and liaise with internal service departments to resolve miscellaneous fund issues.

Education

MBA - Finance

Visvesvaraya Technological University
06.2012

Skills

  • Team supervision
  • Employee performance reviews
  • Employee coaching and mentorship
  • Quality Assurance Testing
  • Quality Assurance Testing
  • KPI Management
  • Business Process Improvement
  • Problem Solving

Certification

  • International Investment Fund Services, Institute of Banking (IOB) - University College Dublin, Ireland.
  • Certified Trainer, Northern Trust.

Accomplishments

  • Received Gold Award and Bronze Award from Northern trust for successfully migrating new process and applications.
  • Received Newbie Award & Quality Ambassador Award from Society general.
  • Multiple Awards and recognition received from Senior Mgmt. for Quality, Accuracy and critical process management.
  • As a Certified Trainer provided extensive support to different departments and delivered training sessions across Bangalore and Pune regions.

Timeline

LEAD, Fund Accounting

Societe Generale Global Solution Centre Pvt. Ltd
07.2022 - Current

Team Leader, Fund Accounting

Northern Trust
04.2020 - 04.2022

Technical Coordinator, Fund Accounting

Northern Trust
06.2017 - 02.2020

Senior Analyst, Fund Accounting Corporate Actions

Northern Trust
01.2015 - 05.2017

ANALYST, Fund Accounting

Northern Trust
07.2012 - 12.2014

MBA - Finance

Visvesvaraya Technological University
  • International Investment Fund Services, Institute of Banking (IOB) - University College Dublin, Ireland.
  • Certified Trainer, Northern Trust.

Applications

  • Global Invest one Enterprise
  • GP3
  • Bloomberg
  • Microsoft suite
  • Reuters
  • IDC
  • TLM premium
  • Jira

Activities

  • Active Participation in College and Organization lever Cricket & badminton Tournament.
  • Active participation in CSR activities and delivered motivational speeches.
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