Dynamic & competent finance professional with total 11 years of achievement driven experience in Financial Analysis of various investment products and instruments includes Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, Financial Reporting, Fixed Income, Derivatives and Corporate Action. Team Management – Ensure adequate and appropriate training on product, process, and data collection skills, aimed at creating learning and growth opportunities for the team. Lead by example: motivate the team to imbibe healthy competitive spirit, focused at customer satisfaction. Ability to follow defined processes/procedures and come up with Process improvement ideas. Reliable management professional with several years of expertise developing top-notch skills in customer service and team leadership in the retail industry. Ready to take on new challenges in an exciting new position.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Manager
TIAA Global capabilities Pvt Ltd
Pune
10.2022 - Current
Managed all financial reporting activities, ensuring compliance with US GAAP standards.
Prepared monthly trackers and support files detailing Agency's financial activities and analyses.
Created consolidated balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and cash flow statements.
Oversaw preparation of work papers for SEC financial filings, including financial statements and disclosures.
Recommended enhancements to internal controls for accounting and financial reporting processes.
Maintained procedures to ensure adherence to internal control requirements.
Coordinated allocation for INDIA team and collaborated with Onshore to meet NPORT filing deadlines.
Reviewed NPORT funds monthly and submitted N-CEN forms directly to SEC.
Associate Manager
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Mumbai
03.2018 - 09.2022
Financial Reporting (Prepare & Review (Recon) Financial Statement for Shareholders)
Preparing and Reviewing the N-Port filing on Monthly basis as per new the SEC amendments.
Part of the N-PORT reporting team since its inception.
Disclose of significant information and their potential impact on the fund’s investments with respect to the fund’s operations and policies and presenting the relevant historical information to the Shareholders.
Key member of the Data Optimization team within the reporting group, which ensured the correctness of data prior to creation of main support/input files.
Conceptualized and implemented various activities, which helped in appropriate data load.
Played a pivotal role in automating the GL validation, Entries and Complex activities like EBS etc thereby reducing the time of mentioned activities.
Ensured the accuracy of accounting entries prior to its load, as per the mandate of SEC/Client.
Managed complex funds of the group, without compromise on the quality of the signoff, and delivered it within initial agreed timeline.
Identified and rectified issues with respect to Derivatives data reporting. Ensured the data for complex derivatives like Swaps (including swaps like Total Return Swap, Interest rate Swap, Credit Default Swap, and Equity Basket Swap etc), Futures, Forwards, Options, Swaptions, and Warrants is correct, accurate and as mandated.
Ensured the correctness of non-derivative data attributes like LEI, ISIN, FAS157 leveling, asset type (including the repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements).
Liaised with OCM team for giving them the overview of the process followed for validation of funds, and addressing concerns, if any raised by the OCM team.
Also, liaised with Change Management team for developing a macro for reducing time for validation of funds.
Preparing and Reviewing Equity Basket swaps activity for dynamic clients like AQR, JPMIM & JPM ETF for N-Port Reporting.
Preparing and Reviewing ACG and FR Entries for N-Port Reporting.
Preparing N-CN forms as well on monthly basis for many clients as well as supporting NMFP.
Preparing the Mutual Funds Financial Draft (Annually, Semi-annually), Portfolio of Investment (POI's) (quarterly) and N-Port filing (Monthly).
Worked with dynamic clients within year like AQR, Blackrock, JPM, First Eagle, AXA etc.
Use GIM report and WINS application for checking securities information.
Handling change team within the reporting group.
Worked with Xceptor and BOT team for automate manual activities. Prepared and implemented successfully in live production cycles.
Lengthy and complicated activities automated through Xceptor tool.
Report running activity automated through BOT tool.
Team Lead
State Street Syntel Services Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
01.2012 - 09.2017
Financial Reporting (Prepare & Review (Recon) Financial Statement for Shareholders)
Preparing the Portfolio of Investment (POI’s) annually, semi-annually or quarterly, this is one part of the financial report in Fund Administration Process.
Disclose of significant information and their potential impact on the fund’s investments with respect to the fund’s operations and policies and also presenting the relevant historical information to the Shareholders.
POI prepared for Equity, International Equity, Fixed Income and Municipal Bond funds which includes securities held in different categories, as of statement date, number of shares held within that portfolio, their market value on the date.
Disclose some additional Tables like Top ten Holdings, Country Table, Derivative Table and Industry Table, (ASC820) FAS157, (ASC 815) FAS161, Level 3 Roll Forward, WORF (Written Option Roll Forward), Top Ten Holdings, Country Table, Derivatives Table and Industry Table.
Calculation of NAV for mutual funds.
Use Bloomberg terminal for CACS, Income/Non Income, Categorization and various other information.
Designed methodology for analysis of portfolio of PIMCO, MetLife, AB, Legg Mason, Madison, NYLIM, Ridgeworth, Allianz and DFA etc.
Analyzing the data accuracy of securities and finding the source to make them accurate in the data load process.
Working on MCH to extract various security information.
Developed experience and the ability to utilize the Bloomberg system.
Good knowledge of corporate action.
Analysis and posting of domestic and international corporate actions.
Taking Post Mortem call with Clients on monthly basis.
Taking one on one meeting with team member.
Ensure that SLA’s are adhered.
Maintaining Production Schedule, Internal and External Error Log and Accuracy file for process.
Cross Training team members within the process of different client specific.
Preparing/ Maintaining Productivity Accuracy file, Month end Query Log Analysis, External and Internal Training work shop for the Process.
Team Management-Ensure adequate and appropriate training on product, process and data collection skills aimed at development and growth of entire team. Lead by example; motivate the team to imbibe healthy competitive spirit, focused at customer satisfaction.