Santosh Kurhade

Middle office operation. Trade Processing. EQ-FI

• Work allocation, leaves management, process training, feedback, query handling.
• Prioritizing tasks, problem analysis, time management, Workload analysis, Process improvements.
• Ensuring SLA's are met for Confirmation (Chasing counterparts) and settlements (Pre matching, SD today, fails, reconciliation, claims/CSDR)
• Co-ordination with Stakeholder like Client, Custodian, traders/portfolio managers, Asset servicing, Lending, Compliance, Business implementations, Data management, Static.
• Trade confirmations via CTM, manual confirmation, mismatches.
• Trade settlement in various market like Euroclear, Clearstream, DTC, Fedwire, Crest and all local markets.
• Monitor/send Claim letters to responsible parties and CSDR penalties.
• Review Swift menages MT540, 541, 542, 543 and MT599.

Environments : Aladdin, Bloomberg, DTCC Alert, CTM, Custody portals.

Equity Settlement

Responsible for cash settlement of Portfolio Swaps and OTC Options

• Chasing counterparties for pre affirmation on S-1 and S-2.
• Action all cash flows to release/exclude as per counterparty response.
• Commenting all exceptions with correct route cause.
• Following up with dedicated Middle office on mismatches.

Environment : PWMS, CBM, BAM, Deal manager, SSI workflow manager.

GPA Reconciliation

Responsible for handel end to end reconciliation between custody and Investment manager on daily and monthly basis.

• Daily/monthly cash and stock reconciliation on TLM 2.7.
• Coding and commenting outstanding breaks in PLM as per transaction.(Coupon, paydown, trade, Exchange, Corporate action, derivatives)
• Posting accounting entries of Coupon, dividend, FX in internal application.

Environment : TLM, PLM, Acewin, BOSS, APEX, Bloomberg.

Fund Administration

Responsible for preparing and review of Portfolio of Investment on Quarterly, Semi-annual and Annual basis.

• Preparing projected deadlines and allocating tasks to meet SLA (Time/Accuracy)
• Preparing and review POI of Equity, Fixed income and Municipal funds.
• Reconciling securities by back up provided by client/Bloomberg.
• Additional information like Top 10 holdings, country, Industry of portfolio.

Environment : GCOM, MCH, Bloomberg.