Experienced Fund Accounting reconciliation specialist with over 9 years hands on experience in asset management excels in Mutual funds, ETF fund reporting, Derivatives, NAV calculations and OTC products.
• Performed daily, weekly and monthly reconciliations between internal systems and external counterparties including banks, custodian, and brokers. Detect and analyze inconsistencies in monetary transactions, such as payments, transfers, and settlements.
• Enhanced operational efficiency by conducting systematic reviews of fund cash, asset and trades exceptions over 3000 breaks on throughout the clients and posting timely adjustments which reduced 30 - 40% of breaks in recon.
• Ensure 100% accuracy on recon investigations for securities on exception basis, including exceeding tolerance thresholds and substantial NAV impact, using backup documentation.
• Enhanced team productivity by 40% through the implementation of time sheets, which facilitated the acquisition of new clients, and optimized email protocols to ensure expeditious communication responses.
• Examine trade confirmations and settlements reports to ensure that all transactions are accurately documented and completed. Identify and resolve inconsistencies in trade details and settlement mismatches.
• Escalate unresolved exceptions to senior management and coordinate with relevant teams to ensure timely resolution of exceptions.
• Enhanced break resolution automation by modifying TLM Smartstream processing rules, coordinated with IT and other teams to improve productivity and risk.
• Managed daily reporting of open breaks and client updates for NAV Operations Managers and onshore teams via calls; prepared ad-hoc MIS reports as needed; led daily team meetings; developed and updated SOPs for process standardization while ensuring compliance with SLA, KPI, and KRI targets.
• Conducted investigations on cash and securities scheduled for corporate action payments using SWIFT messages, ensuring accurate processing and adherence to deadlines.
• Facilitated timely dividend payments to clients over 300 payments, ensuring receipt on issuer-specified payment dates.
• Monitored daily reconciliation reports for discrepancies and quickly implemented resolutions
to address breaks to achieve 100% correctness.
• Maintained consistent follow-up with custodians to allocate funds accurately as cash dividends or principal in global and local currencies based on elections
• Addressed queries from branches promptly, providing clarification and resolving issues on timely basis.