Shilpa Sikdar
Mumbai
Summary
Equipped with over a decade of diverse experience in Fund Accounting, Financial Analysis, OTC reconciliation, and Bond Admin in corporate trust, it has been my goal to leverage my skills and experiences into my next role. I seek to contribute my expertise developed through managing financial products, creating advanced Excel and VBA cash flow models, and reporting financial data. My knowledge of mutual funds, onshore and offshore communications, and effective leading of multiple teams renders me a well-rounded professional, ready to deliver exceptional results.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Manager Lead (Fund Accounting)
BNP Paribas India Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
2020.01 - Current
- Currently working as Assistant Manager Lead in Fund Accounting Team where in managing four clients and making sure all deliverable must go on time and with accuracy
- Responsible to make sure all clients instruction has been processed accurately
- Worked on resolving complex cash breaks by using complex formulas and provide reports to senior managers
- Responsible for Calculating NAV prices for various securities instruments like Equities, Futures etc
- Worked on investigating and identifying root cause of NAV Price deviation and resolving it by updating manual journals or adjustments
- Experienced in daily & month-end pricing checks, to provide client with correct valuations for its investment portfolio across various financial products like equities and derivatives products like options, swaps, CDS etc, to verify and compare valuations against various feeds received from Bloomberg and highlight issues in cases of discrepancy
- As a manager directly involved in coordinating with various parties like Clients, Onshore counterparts, Senior Managers
- Responsible to ensure that coupon raised/ interest accruals have correctly been processed for fixed interest securities
- Providing timely update to team and allocating work to all team members properly and ensuring all delivery
- Involved in projects to automate the process like to calculate the performance fee, sending auto mails etc by developing macros or liaising with IT team, also worked on creating complex template for Cash breaks and management fees processing
- Actively involved in project to migrate Pcontrol V6 from V4 version and successfully migrated 4 clients so far.
Senior Associate (OTC Reconciliation)
GlobeOp Financial Services India Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
2018.01 - 2020.01
- Responsible for trade capturing, trade loading
- Responsible for Cash reconciliation for various OTC Derivatives Products like IRS, Swaption, CDS Option, equities option
- Responsible for break resolution after analyzing cash ledger from Geneva reports and client valuation file
- Responsible for resolving differences and research for differences if we have between Geneva reports and client valuation file
- Responsible for continuously communicating with onshore and clients Via email or phone
- Experienced in trade confirmation in Geneva and Markit Wire
- Worked on creating macros for MIS, Allocation, Fees Booking and for Blue Mountain project, booking for various products like CDS Options, Cap & Floor etc
- Created 15 macros for various process like trade booking, creating MIS, and etc to automate it to reduce manual work and time.
Operation Executive (Bond Admin)
BNY Mellon International Operations (India) Private Limited
Pune
2012.11 - 2018.01
- Worked in Bond Analytics team with corporate trust management to remediate UDT for cash flow models
- Interpretation of governing documents for deals like Indenture
- Analyze and building Script and troubleshoot quantitative and complex cash-flow models for complex structures of RMBS, CMBS and Re- securitization and other structured finance products like CLO (Collateral Loan Obligation) through Asset Securitization Analysis Pro (ASAP) application and excel spreadsheet model
- Worked on crystal report conversion project where in manually mapped deals to get the report in crystal format by using SQL Query and Orion Application
- Responsible to properly communicate with onshore and offshore team members regarding issues or updates
- Handled various project which involves Investor query resolving, UAT remediation by VBA, manually mapping cusips for various deals
- Manually Mapping 400 cusips in DART tool to automate the deal
- Develop Excel macros, worked on VB Script on business requirements
- Give training and monitoring new Comers.
Analyst (Reconciliation)
Eclerx Services Private Limited
Pune
2010.11 - 2012.11
- Deploy and manage complex data processes for the clients
- Capturing, reconciling and validation and matching of document for the client and delivering exact match for trades processed in derivatives market
- 2nd check consists of checking all the discrepancies in the Doc against the booking system
- ISDA paper trade confirmations for all complex Interest Rate and FX Derivative trades
- Get trained on Bquery, it consists of chasing counterparty for all the discrepancies raised & amendments through mails on behalf of client for OTC derivatives
- Involved in generating Monthly and weekly report which shows all details of trades which has been performed weekly or monthly basis
- Involved in handling team 4 to 5 members with ensuring all work has been performed in time with 100 percent quality.
Education
MBA (Finance and Marketing) -
Indian Institute of e-Business Management
BCA (Computer Application) -
Makhanlal Chaturvedi University
Higher Secondary Education -
Khalsha Education Society
Skills
- Excel
- Microsoft Office
- Financial Analytical
- Middle Office
- OTC Derivatives
- Structured Finance Products
Timeline
Assistant Manager Lead (Fund Accounting)
BNP Paribas India Pvt. Ltd.
2020.01 - Current
Senior Associate (OTC Reconciliation)
GlobeOp Financial Services India Pvt. Ltd.
2018.01 - 2020.01
Operation Executive (Bond Admin)
BNY Mellon International Operations (India) Private Limited
2012.11 - 2018.01
Analyst (Reconciliation)
Eclerx Services Private Limited
2010.11 - 2012.11
MBA (Finance and Marketing) -
Indian Institute of e-Business Management
BCA (Computer Application) -
Makhanlal Chaturvedi University
Higher Secondary Education -
Khalsha Education Society
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