Varun Kothapalli
Bangalore
Summary
Detail-oriented and results-driven Corporate Action Event Associate with four years of experience in asset servicing, event management, and corporate action processing across global markets. Skilled in managing mandatory and voluntary events, ensuring timely and accurate event capture, entitlement processing, and risk mitigation. Adept at liaising with custodians, fund managers, counterparties, and internal stakeholders to ensure compliance, and operational efficiency. Strong knowledge of SWIFT messaging, market practices, and regulatory requirements.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Process Analyst
Broadridge Financial Solutions (India) Pvt Ltd.
06.2021 - Current
- Manage end-to-end lifecycle of global corporate actions (dividends, mergers, cash merger, tender offers, reverse stock split, redemptions, etc.) across multiple markets.
- Supported client service teams by providing timely updates on event status and market deadlines.
- Trained and mentored junior associates on corporate action processes and market standards.
- Reconciliation DTC Breaks, trades reprocessing, validating Customer accounts, preparing summarized EOD reports and sending to client.
- Providing Training to on site Associates for Client transition.
- Coordinated with global custodians and counterparties for event clarification and break resolution.
- Provide customer support to the client for escalated corporate action inquiries and discrepancies, responsible for monitoring, researching, analysing & reconciling the corporate action event.
- Processing payments for voluntary corporate actions based on Voluntary elections.
- Making payments through wire and SPO’s to customer accounts.
- Production of daily, weekly and monthly reporting of positional break information at high level to operations management outlining number of items researched and reconciled.
- Attending weekly and bi-weekly client calls to discuss issues on corporate action events and other reconciliation related issues.
- Responsible to meet the SLAs set without any deviation from timelines.
- Prepared SOP documents of New and Updated projects and activities.
- Ensure to maintain track on new projects and updating process changes up to date.
- Applications used: Gloss, Brokerage Processing System (BPS), Impact, DTC Portal, People Soft, MS – Outlook, Global One, Euroclear, MS Excel.
Credit Processing Associate in KYC Process
Kotak Mahindra Bank
08.2019 - 05.2020
- Validate the documents from Sales team processing for Loan against Properties.
- Checking the require documents of Customer and inputs data into Banks KYC application.
- Validate customer profile for Loan processing.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Finance Specialization
KKR&KSR Institute of Technology And Sciences
Guntur03-2019
Bachelor of Business Management -
NRK & KSR Gupta Degree College
Tenali04-2017
Skills
- Corporate action processing (mandatory and voluntary)
- Asset servicing and event lifecycle management
- Reconciliation and break resolution
- Entitlement calculation and distribution
- Market data analysis and event validation
- Risk and compliance management
- SWIFT messaging (MT564, MT566, MT568)
- Stakeholder communication and relationship management
- Process improvement and automation
- Gloss
- BPS
- PBS
- DTCC
- Euroclear
- MS Excel
- MS Word
- Power BI
- Capital markets
- Corporate actions
- Payment processing
- Process documentation
- Client relationship management
- Risk assessment
- Process improvement strategies
- Cross-functional collaboration
- DTC SPO charge payments and receipts
- KYC verification
- Data reconciliation
Certification
- Certified in the Foundation of Global Financial Markets and Accounting from SSCPL, Hyderabad
- Corporate actions training (e.g., Euroclear, DTCC)
- Certified by Pearson's UK for completing seven levels in the English Scholar Program
Accomplishments
- Successfully processed over 5,000 corporate action events annually, with high accuracy
- Recognized with 'Best Performer Award' for operational excellence and client satisfaction
- Automated reconciliation workflow, reducing manual intervention by 25%
Languages
- English
- Telugu
- Hindi
Timeline
Senior Process Analyst
Broadridge Financial Solutions (India) Pvt Ltd.
06.2021 - Current
Credit Processing Associate in KYC Process
Kotak Mahindra Bank
08.2019 - 05.2020
Master of Business Administration - Finance Specialization
KKR&KSR Institute of Technology And Sciences
Bachelor of Business Management -
NRK & KSR Gupta Degree College
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