Deepak Chawda Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Hedge Fund Accounting & Reporting:• Leading clients and team allocated to the parallel business site located at Airoli.• Reviewing month end NAV statements, daily P&L for hedge fund clients. Reviewing P&L allocations to investors.• Focus on price variances and reconciliation of the same with the various price sources.• Conducting dividend, trade, position and cash reconciliation. Ensuring that expense accruals are booked.• Review of financial statements prepared as per IFRS and US GAAP.

Mumbai, India

Associated with J.P. Morgan for more than 13 years of in the field of Fund Accounting, Financial Reporting and performance reporting. Fund Accounting•Managing cash and assets reconciliation between Accounting and Custody books•Working in Trades, Corporate actions, cash wires, TBA trades (To Be Announced), etc.•Ensuring NAV calculation, validation and comparison with various benchmarks for Superannuation Fund & Unit Trusts. Validating prices as per Bloomberg, ASX and other sources•Ensuring that Corporate Action ranging from simple bonus issues to complex acquisitions are captured in the valuation•Studying the Fund Manager Statements and ensuring that the valuations of portfolios are in line to that of FM statementsFinancial Reporting•Involved in preparation and review of end-to-end financials as per IFRS and AASB Standards (The Australian Accounting Standards Board)•Distribution calculation for various funds in Australia keeping in mind the taxation laws•SME for the Caseware tool which converts Raw excel data into the proper Financial Statements•Implemented Caseware in different regions holding same process•Involved in preparation and review of BAS (Business activity statement) and Tax returns as per Australian Taxation Office•Prepared various MIS for Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)Performance Measurement, Reporting & Analytics •Critical member of the pilot team who travelled New York to migrate/transition the process of WHEM Performance Reporting•Lead other phases of the same migration which were on-boarded online•We prepare the Daily/ Weekly/ Monthly Performance reports for the pension & Mutual Funds•Reports are prepared on the basis of GIPS (Global Investment Performance Standards). These includes the returns calculations as per various methodologies and then compared to the associated Indices/benchmarks.•Fund Manager Reconciliation. This reconciliation is about comparing the Fund manager’s data along with the custody/ Accounting data.

Finance And Financial Management Services

Another important aspect of my career which enhanced my managerial and leadership skills. It also gave me the opportunity to learn more.

Bachelor Of Management Studies., Specialization In International Finance

Bachelor of Management studies (BMS) gave me a good exposure to various industry related projects where I got the chance to prepare.

Commerce

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