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Suman Sharma

Marsaskala

Summary

To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Risk Valuation Analyst

ACA Mirabella Ltd
10.2023 - Current
  • Created financial strategies to optimize portfolio performance and reduce risk.
  • Reviewing reconciliation and calculation of periodic Monthly Net Asset Values (NAV) of various Hedge funds and Private equity funds.
  • Reconciling transactions related to investment portfolios, dividends and interests, corporate actions and investor capital activity.
  • Review closings, Capital Calls and Distributions.
  • Preparation and review of portfolio reports, Reconcile trial balance of monthly NAV.
  • Liaising with fund administrators, investment managers, depositories,auditors & other service providers.
  • Ensuring funds' internal and regulatory requirements are met at all time.
  • Design, generate and maintain portfolio reports to assist in Global Risk Oversight’s portfolio management responsibilities.
  • Investor communications including statements (daily/weekly/monthly/etc.),notifications and other reporting; and Fund NAV/price feed into pricing platforms (Reuters/Bloomberg/Telekurs).

Fund Operations Officer

Altarius Asset Management Limited
04.2022 - 07.2023
  • Reviewing reconciliation and calculation of periodic (daily/monthly/Quarterly) Net Asset Values (NAV) of various Private equity funds.
  • Collection of invoices from different Service providers, Perform weekly Cash monitoring for fund accounts and payment review activity, review of Payment processing / Disbursements.
  • Preparing quarterly and annual expense budgets for funds, investment holding companies and manager entities.
  • Reconciling transactions related to investment portfolios, dividends and interests, corporate actions and investor capital activity.
  • Preparation of closings, Capital Calls and Distributions.
  • Preparation and review of Accruals, Prepayment and Trial Balance.
  • Preparation and review of portfolio reports, Reconcile trial balance of daily NAV.
  • Support in corporate services activities for respective funds under management
  • Monitoring and oversight of funds’ activities.
  • Ensuring portfolio and investment records are kept up to date on Altarius platform.
  • Liaising with fund administrators, investment managers, depositories, auditors & other service providers.
  • Preparation of Annual fund return and Co-ordination of annual audit with appointed auditors.
  • Ensuring funds’ internal and regulatory requirements are met at all time.
  • Investor communications including statements (daily/weekly/monthly/etc.), notifications and other reporting; and Fund NAV/price feed into pricing platforms (Reuters/Bloomberg/Telekurs).

Financial Reporting Specialist

State Street HCL Services
02.2020 - 04.2022
  • Validation of source documents to understand completeness of NAV packs.
  • Prepare and review fund level financial statements, including consolidated balance sheet, income statement, statement of partners' capital, schedule of investments, and cash flow statement, Notes to accounts, FIHI (Financial Highlights Ratios) etc.) Of Private Equity and Hedge funds under USGAAP/IFRS.
  • Preparation and Review of Quarterly, Semi-Annual, Annual Financial Statements, Income Allocation, Schedule of Investments, Master and Feeder Tie out for funds.
  • Analysis of Financial Statements and NAV based on Trial balance of funds.
  • Ensure financial templates used in process are reflecting correct numbers.
  • Maintain level of accuracy as defined in SLA/KPI.
  • Deliver target number of statements as allocated by Management.
  • Process comments received from clients and auditors accurately and timely manner.
  • Working on different clients and different teams within financial reporting division.
  • Proactive in communicating issues/challenges to manager/lead that affects client deliverables.
  • Capture and review data in issue log as allocated by Client.
  • Communicate with client responsibly.
  • Mentoring/training to team and perform review function along with production.
  • Coordinate with team to ensure funds are delivered with required quality and timely manner that I am leading.
  • Open and perform for other adhoc tasks assigned as per business requirement.
  • Flexible to work in different shifts (including night shift) and weekends as when required.

Investor Reporting Analyst

Ocwen Financial Solutions India Pvt. Ltd
01.2016 - 08.2019
  • Debt Portfolio Management and Reporting-Financial Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting and financial analysis as per Servicing agreements
  • Planning and allocating funds based on performance of portfolio and strategizing portfolio to move out of discrepancy.
  • Financial Research and Variance analysis includes handling investor queries, Discrepancy reports, Balance sheet and Reconciliation items.
  • Summary and Performance Reports submitted to Management on forecasted amounts and advances. Variance analysis for actual, budgeted and forecast performance.
  • Investment grade bond -Valuation by forecasting Cash inflows on a portfolio in consideration to delinquency of borrowers.
  • Cash flow analysis –Preparation of monthly Cash Flow Analysis of Various General Ledger and Custodial Bank Account and responsible for analyzing the mismatch in cash flow between company and investors(Bond holders) and clearing them within deadlines.
  • Compilation of financials statements (P&L, B/S etc.) and first level analysis for monthly reviews by Finance & Operational Leaders.
  • Reconciliation of portfolio newly boarded to system, helping in settlement of cash from previous servicer.
  • Process improvements include working closely with automation team for process improvements by introducing template enhancements, functional and application testing, designed training materials on special projects.
  • Used various Ocwen Proprietary software such as Dynamics, Real E,MSP (Blacknight) and SQL(Toad) tools for analysis of Debt Portfolio.

Achievements:

  • Acknowledged with Error Free reporting with 100% accuracy.
  • Initiated Process Improvements and Trained new recruits which improved overall efficiency and productivity.

Education

MBA - Finance With 62.7%

Indira Institute of Management
08.2016

BBA - Business Administration With 70.3%

Management Institute of Durgapur(WBUT Board)
08.2014

Higher Secondary Certificate-Commerce With 77.6%

CBSE Board
05.2011

Secondary School Certificate With 70.2%

CBSE Board
05.2009

Skills

  • Investment Fund Management
  • Fund Administration and Administrative Operations and Analysis
  • Fund Accounting and Portfolios, Fund Leveraging, Fund-Raising Skills
  • Private Equity Fund and Hedge Fund Industry Knowledge and Operations
  • Budgeting and Forecasting
  • Expense Reports
  • Financial Records and Reporting
  • Financial Modeling
  • MS Office-Word,Powerpoint,Tally,Advanced Excel
  • Financial Statements Expertise
  • DBMS-SQL(Oracle Toad),MySQL
  • CPM-Board International-BI Tool

Certification

  • Certified SAP FI User , Human Catalyst,Pune
  • Certified NCFM Financial Modeling , IMS Proschool - 20th August 2015 to 24th August 2015-Business Decision Modeling and Financial Statement Analysis.
  • Certified MASA Funds Operations Course , MASA - 1st March 2023 - 27 March 2023.

Languages

English
Proficient
C2
Bengali
Upper intermediate
B2
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Risk Valuation Analyst

ACA Mirabella Ltd
10.2023 - Current

Fund Operations Officer

Altarius Asset Management Limited
04.2022 - 07.2023

Financial Reporting Specialist

State Street HCL Services
02.2020 - 04.2022

Investor Reporting Analyst

Ocwen Financial Solutions India Pvt. Ltd
01.2016 - 08.2019

BBA - Business Administration With 70.3%

Management Institute of Durgapur(WBUT Board)

Higher Secondary Certificate-Commerce With 77.6%

CBSE Board

Secondary School Certificate With 70.2%

CBSE Board

MBA - Finance With 62.7%

Indira Institute of Management
Suman Sharma