VENKATESH K S
Team Supervisor
Bengaluru
Summary
Effective and motivated team leader with a proven track record of monitoring progress to ensure goal attainment. Skilled in developing and implementing work processes to improve efficiency and productivity. Proven ability to coach and motivate team members to reach their goals.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Supervisor - Investor Relations (Transfer Agency)
Citco Fund Services
1 2023 - 1 2024
- Coached team members in process and providing feedback encouragement towards reaching goals
- Implemented new working processes to deliver multiple improvements
- Learned new skills and applied to daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity
- Performance appraisals discussion
- Conducting one-on-one discussion every month and providing feedback
- Established open and professional relationships with team members to achieve quick resolutions for various issues
- Cross-trained and provided backup support for organizational leadership
- Mentored and guided Associates and senior associates to foster proper completion of assigned duties
- Handling escalations from both Internal and external clients
- Conducting error review sessions on weekly basis.
Senior Investor Relations Administrator: Private Equity
Citco Fund Services
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Reviewing trade documents and booking the trades onto system
- Updating contact details based on investor request and sending the confirmations to investors
- Superseding the contacts based on investor confirmation
- Distributing Contract Notes, Distribution notices, K1's, Capital call notices and Performance reports to investors
- Uploading notices to various portals like CitcoOne, Intralinks, MLP etc
- Approving the Contacts on database based on the Instructions received from the client
- Training peers and new joinees on the process
- Distributing notices, Statements and related documents to the investors based on the request received
- Acting as point of contact for the investors/custodians
- Verifying KYC, CDD documents for Signature verifications like Wet ink, Docusign, and other signature platforms
- Procuring KYC documents for the investors and ingesting those documents to the client database
- Updating tax information like Tax ID, PPB, Registered Address, State etc
- Updating Registered Address for Individual and entity type
- Procuring various backups like tax forms and Registered Address documents
- Verifying and approving the details of statement with the excel provided
- Updating details such as Date of Birth and investor names based on Global KYC team
- Downloading Client instructions from Sun Guard Portal
- Setting up new Investor accounts
- Mapping Investor contacts on Database as per Investran records and sending the report to Investors
- Extracting Capital Call trackers on a daily basis, identifying Under Funded/Over Funded and sending the same to Fund accounting team for further processing
- Extracting Payments for redemptions on daily basis and sending the same to Fund accounting team to process them on Investor database
- Reaching out to Investors for pending documents and sending them confirmation on trades and Portal welcome emails
- Synching the contacts in order to release Distribution notices and Capital Call notices.
Senior Financial Analyst: Fund of Hedge Funds Team
Northern Trust
01.2017 - 01.2021
- Calculation of Estimated values for Private Equity Funds
- Approval of Trades using the Contract notes and Capital Call notices
- Placing commitment trades on Clients account
- Was part of Transitioning process from Limerick
- Sending reports to clients on daily basis for both Clear stream and manual trades
- Allocation of BAU activities on daily basis
- Training new joiners on all the activities performed by the team and updating the same into the Training RAG matrix
- Validation of Static data and uploading same to fund Database
- Active team player in Automation projects and giving reports on daily basis to management
- Linking of Contract Notes to correct deals and facilitating Operation teams to post trades on time
- Solving the queries through ERM application
- Calculating LP trades for Private equity assets and pricing them on daily basis
- Loading the month end NAV's into FTP and clearing the scrubs for the same
- Reporting aged work items to the management
- Preparation of CASS file to the management
- Saving MVROR reports end of the day and submitting to the management
- Calculating and resolving issues relating to Market value and comparing the prices of the fund in order to reconcile the holdings and Market Value with fund and the company ledger.
Financial Analyst: Fund of Hedge Funds Team
Northern Trust
01.2015 - 01.2017
- Routing various kinds of documents relating to the trades and non trade related documents
- Pricing the assets using Month end Valuation statements
- Identifying and matching the trades, routing the trade confirmations
- Creating new assets for all subscription trades
- Reconciling the statements received from the fund company and raising breaks wherever necessary
- Posting the trades (subscription and redemption trades)on company database
- Retrieving Swifts from application and helping to process the same on database
- Chasing the fund companies for the deals placed by clients if they are satisfied with all requirements.
Education
Skills
Client Service
Custody Accounting
Project management
Complex problem solver
Service-Focused
Reconciliation
people managing
Accomplishments
- Won Bronze awarded for clearing pending and aged work items
- Won various spot awards for the activities conducted in the organization
- Won Silver Award for Better Client Servicing and signing off the monthly valuations on time
- Presented a paper on "A Study on the need to augment role of Cooperatives in Hospitality Sector through Tourism Cooperative Banks". pp 34-38, Vol III, Issue II, July-December 2013 (ISSN: 2231-6213)
- Served as Representative of the college committee (PG) in organizing management and creative and editorial committee
- Representative of National Service Scheme for the year 2010
Applications
- GPF - Global Platform for Fund of Hedge Funds
- Fund Master
- Moxie
- AIS - Alternative Investment Solutions
- AXI
- ECM - Electronic Content Management
- Vestima
- ALE - Automatic Life Cycle Engine
- FIS
- ERM
- Intralinks
- Impersonation
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that above information is correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Timeline
Senior Investor Relations Administrator: Private Equity
Citco Fund Services
01.2021 - 01.2023
Senior Financial Analyst: Fund of Hedge Funds Team
Northern Trust
01.2017 - 01.2021
Financial Analyst: Fund of Hedge Funds Team
Northern Trust
01.2015 - 01.2017
Team Supervisor - Investor Relations (Transfer Agency)
Citco Fund Services
1 2023 - 1 2024
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