A competent professional, offering 14 years of proven track record in managing Fund Accounting and Financial planning services including contributions in streamlining operations, possess excellent analytical, troubleshooting and inter-personal skills with ability to drive quality enhancement, process improvement and cost savings initiatives.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager
State Street Corporation
10.2020 - Current
Financial planning & analysis for mutual funds
Expense management: Monitor daily expenses posting and cap check. Ensure that variable expenses are correctly posted and process the payment monthly. Forecasting & prepare fixed expense budget monthly, Quarterly & Annual. Initiate payment process based on original invoice provided by client/vendor, follow-up the payment status & accounting system posting.
Distribution: Proficiency in calculating income projections to determine expected income for certain period. Calculate per-share distribution amount using outstanding shares as of record date, which are also approved by client and processed through accounting system.
Performance: Once NAV published make sure all nightly performance files are delivered to respective parties. Reconcile daily performance between accounting system vs performance system. Calculate and report monthly performance to client along with index performance comparison.
Reporting: Experienced in preparing supporting document for prospectus & Financial reporting.
Served as primary point of contact for any inquiries from clients and stakeholders, ensuring timely and accurate responses to all requests.
Applications worked on: MCH(Multi Currency Horizon) - Accounting system & eHorizon - Expense & Budget management
Operation Lead
Societe Generale Global Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
01.2015 - 10.2020
Validating NAVs (Net Asset Value) as per defined timeliness & accuracy
Expertise with wide range of investment products which include Equity, Fixed income instruments (various type of bonds), Derivatives, TCN, Term deposits & CDS.
Resolving routine problems independently & reducing dependency on onshore partners
Implementing controls / procedures as defined in SOPs; reviewing existing SOPs regularly.
Identifying training needs and facilitating / conducting training programs along with assessments
Tracking productivity and quality metrics/measurements (KPIs) to ensure optimum operational efficiency.
Managing escalations of team and providing correct feedback to analysts for improving their performance.
Turning-around and stabilizing business operations through continuous training, equal spread of portfolio, process enhancement and job rotation
Applications worked on: GP3 - Accounting system & Accurate - Cash reconciliation.
Senior Associate
Tata consultancy services Ltd.
09.2012 - 12.2014
Processed day-to-day operations of Hedge fund accounting & deal settlements, while ensuring that procedures for NAV calculations were adhered to and NAV for day was computed accurately.
Processed fund accounting including unit capital accounting, interest accrual, Cash reconciliation, position reconciliation, settlement of equity / fixed income deals and valuation of securities
Managed accounting of manual trades booking and verify integrated trades and trade related activities with supporting documents from custody and client.
Ensured that all corporate actions are accounted and reconciled with custody statement and verify backup from vendor (Bloomberg)
Calculate fixed expenses and posting journal entries for respective funds and verify accrual and payable accounts.
Processed invoice for payments after checking on invoices, in-case of difference between accrual and invoice, make adjustment as per agreement.
Co-ordinate with Onshore team for exceptional events or breaks, Cash, position, Price and Expenses and same will be followed up until breaks are fixed
Applications worked on: Geneva - Accounting system
Relationship Manager
HDFC securities Ltd.
09.2010 - 08.2012
Managed Equity investors portfolio and portfolio advisory services based on research reports.
Tracking HNI client's portfolio and communicate market condition at right time
Diversifying investor's portfolio by investing in other financial products, Mutual funds, fixed deposit, corporate bond and tax planning with life cover insurance planning
Dealer
India Bulls Commodity Ltd.
12.2009 - 09.2010
Monitoring Commodity market investors advice & explain them benefit of equity investment than commodity investment in order to ensure minimize loss in commodity and create diversified portfolio.
Accompany with relationship managers to meet clients in order to explain benefit of equity market investment when its required.
Education
MBA - Finance & Marketing
University of Madras
Chennai
06.2007 - 2009.05
Bachelor of Commerce -
Madurai Kamaraj University
Sivakasi
06.2004 - 2007.05
Skills
Fund Accounting - Hedge Fund & Mutual Fund
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Accomplishments
Traveled to France for a month as the lead of the migration process
Awarded three years as team's best performance at Societe Generale
Developed an automated expenditure calculation template to boost efficiency at TCS
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