SUMMARY:

• 14 years of professional experience in areas of Business analysis and Project management, Capital Market Middle office and Back office Operations, Fund Accounting & Reconciliations, Accounts Payable / Receivable, Client servicing and Supply Chain Management
• Knowledge of Capital Market and Over the Counter Derivatives (OTC) products like IRS, CDS, CDI, TRS, and FXO
• Experience on working with SQL, JIRA, SOAPUI, Calypso, Bloomberg, Agile, SharePoint, Enterprise (Investment Accounting system), Confidential & Confidential ( Confidential ) and SAP financial system.
• Canada Visa Status: PR holder

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Fund Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Prepare periodical financial reporting for the Hedge Funds, including the determination of "Net Asset Value" and prepare the Statement of Asset and Liabilities and Profit and Loss Statement
• Independently complete cash, portfolio, and capital reconciliations and investigate and resolve any discrepancies.
• Independently complete income and expense allocations including calculating asset based and performance fees.
• Monitor compliance with various client service agreements.
• Assist with ad hoc projects

Confidential

Business Analyst (Team Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Understanding client requirements and business pain areas and document requirements.
• Direct interaction with client to define and set priorities of the requirements.
• Creation of Product Backlog and conducting a sprint planning meeting between Product Owner, Project Manager, QA and developers.
• Involved in Preparation of Test cases, Acceptance criteria based on the Condition of satisfaction for the story as part of requirement.
• Providing support to Testing team on the defects raised once the code is deployed to SIT
• Operations Team on User Acceptance Testing (UAT) functionalities
• Lead a team of Quality Analyst’s for successfully signing off on new system functionality.
• Conducting a daily scrum call on the progress of each sprint.
• Involvement in Production phases of roll out of the production release to make sure all set for client/operations.
• Conducting functional for Developing Team, Quality Testing team, Implementation Team and Internal team to provide clarity for the requirement.
• Involved in activities to support Production Support team to resolve any issues or concerns raised by clients.
• Was recognized by my team as a person with very good communication and analytical skills
• NAV preparation/ review - Income and expense accruals, Profit allocation statements, Subscription and Redemptions, Pricing, Income and holding recons
• Review NAV Calculation including Cash & Holdings reconciliations between core systems, Custodians, Prime brokers and Investment managers
• Investment accounting - including trade entry, securities and holding data maintenance
• Produce monthly, quarterly and year-end financial statements including audit support, analytical review, research and resolution of discrepancies
• Performing final checks on daily Cash / collateral postings before delivering it to different reconciliation teams for daily trades
• Create, review Client position and valuation reports for reconciliation of P&L to general ledger entries for particular desks.
• Was recognized for automating a manual reconciliation process using Robotics

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Took a global move to Confidential to support the Derivatives hub in setting up a new team by providing them on job and resolving their day to day queries on Over the Counter products Trade booking and valuation of the trade
• Booking OTC derivative product in an In-house system and complex products in Calypso
• Liaising with Audit and Controls team, ensuring all SSAE 16 (audit) requirements are met in day to day activities.
• Part of Regression testing for any development on existing system
• Communicate with Fund Accounting and Client team to make sure all the necessary requisites from Trade capture and valuation perspective are met for any new Client
• Given an opportunity to help setting up a new team

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Liaising with Client servicing for getting various Client related details
• Setting up new Client details (Static information and data information in third party system called Calypso)
• Setting up new Security details in Calypso and In-house trade booking system using Bloomberg for purpose.
• Capturing security valuation from Broker statements.
• Ensuring daily valuations are delivered to Client Fund Manager on timely basis
• ed “Pinnacle of quarter” for the best innovative idea (implementation of an application which helped reduce 2 Full time employee worth of work)
• Part of team which was recognized with “Gladiator ” for understanding the Clients requirement and successfully onboarding it.

Sapient

Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Handling Credit Derivatives Confirmations, IRS and TRS affirmation processes.
• Ensuring all CDS trades are confirmed on Confidential platform in accordance with the policies laid down by the regulators like Confidential ’s US ( Confidential ) and Confidential Association, Inc. ( Confidential ).
• Publishing Metrics to Trading desks and higher management in Chicago.
• Selected by Client to travel to Chicago for Total Return Swap confirmation process .
• Successfully worked with Business partners and documented the Total Return Swap Confirmation process and delivered it to Sapient’s team, along with existing employees on new process.
• Successfully transferred process knowledge of Confirmation process to new Team.

Confidential

Sr. Financial Executive

Responsibilities:

• Work independently with Warehouse locations to ensure accurate position of inventories are recorded in both Warehouse and Confidential inventory record system. Payment of vendor invoices and resolving any quantity / payment related issues.
• Quantity forecasting, planning and implementation of best use practices to ensure maximum utilization of plant resources.
• Making sure all Accounting processes are compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
• Help develop clear process documentation and strive for continuous improvement of processes and efficiency.
• Facilitated workshops on how to improve communication and negotiation skills.
• Part of team nominated for Best Team of the Year in Confidential Annual Appreciation s.

Confidential

Sr. Associate

Responsibilities:

• Travelled to Clients Onsite location (London, U.K.) for process
• Understanding current process from Client and documentation of the process flow.
• Successfully documented the current process and did necessary GAP analysis and accordingly transferred knowledge on Credit Derivative Confirmation process
• new team on Credit Derivatives Confirmations for products like CDS, CDX, LCDS, and LCDX.
• Interacting with Counterparties, Middle office, Front office and Brokers to resolve trade discrepancies.
• Handling team queries and facilitate team bonding activities along with learning sessions.
• Successfully transferred the Credit Derivative confirmation process knowledge from London, UK to Confidential ’s team and trained Confidential ’s employees on the confirmation process.
• Build and trained a new team of 8 members for Credit Derivative confirmation process.

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Selected by Senior management for a new process
• Successfully trained and documented the Standard Operating Procedures
• Handling Equity Derivatives Confirmations for products like Vanilla Options, Equity Swaps, and Variance swaps.
• Ensuring all trades are verbally affirmed and confirmed in accordance with the policies laid down by the regulators like Confidential US ( Confidential ) and Confidential Association, Inc. ( Confidential ).
• Reviewing Master Confirmations to check if Trade confirmations are drafted in accordance to it.
• Was ed Team member of the Quarter - Q3 2006 and Q1 2007

Confidential

Sr. Financial Executive

Responsibilities:

• Process and ensure accurate payment of Vendor invoices.
• Work independently with GMI vendors to ensure accurate position of inventories, payment of vendor invoices and resolving related issues, with minimal involvement from Confidential U.S. team members
• Audit and control accounting processes, and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
• Promoted to Sr. Financial Executive in the first six months based on my performance.