Harish Agarwal Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Develop and execute UAT test plans including documentation, tracking, issues management and status reporting.• Responsible for New Release Management for fund accounting application “InvestOne” covering planning, execution and control of the software development release process including testing activities from the initial scope definition, through impact analysis, integration, integration testing, system testing and regression testing, to delivery for final validation and transition to production.• Responsible to analyze complexity of various deliverables, their mutual dependencies; estimate effort and contribute to deciding project timeline in collaboration with local and global technology leads.• Serve as a liaison between end users and developers to gather and refine business requirements.• Coordinate development iteration calls between end users and developers (dev/QA)• Monitoring the iteration in JIRA

Bengaluru Area, India

• Being the part of Pilot project, involved in learning and migrating the process from onshore.• Involved in automations using SQL and improving the process controls and reduce manual interventions.• Handling a team and actively involved in allocations and their skill enhancements.

Bangalore

• Set up for Filing of New Financial Reporting for Mutual Funds as per SEC guidelines, viz; N-Port and N-CEN, replacing the existing reporting of NQ and NSAR respectively.• Data Authentication and data validation from various sources for base formation for filing the reports.• Basic overview of Structured Query Language (SQL) for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for extracting desired results to meet the requirements.

Patan Area, India

• Maintaining daily books of Accounts.• Preparation and timely reporting of Financial Statements.• Preparation and Filing of various Tax Returns, viz; VAT Return, Entry Tax, Service Tax.• Preparation of monthly budgets and analysis with actual outcomes. • Reporting of variances in expenses and provide solutions to reduce cost to company.• Determining charges as per Master Service Agreements with operators and accordingly recognizing revenue.• Complying with the statutory requirements of the Company.• Monthly Reconciliation of books of accounts with the Operators.• Playing active role in decision making on expenses and revenue of Circle and taking appropriate steps to curb expenses and enhancement of revenue.• Keeping my team updated with latest changes and organizing trainings in liaison with training team to enhance team’s skill and efficiency.

Kolkata Area, India

• Preparing Investor Audited statements post finalization of NAV and calculating Fees payable by Investors accordingly.• Liaising with the Investment Manager, the Custodian, the Brokers and other Service providers to understand requirements and cater to the client needs and thereby ensuring uncompromised quality of deliverables.• Calculation of Pre NAV and NAV of hedge funds and accounting the same in the accounting platform Geneva.• Performing Cash and Position reconciliation on daily basis and resolving the breaks.• Communicate all open Holdings and Cash breaks to all respective stakeholders regularly for timely resolution of the same.• Building excellent relationship with the onshore teams and the internal clients to improve communication and workflows, thereby increasing team effectiveness to add value to business.• Participation in an active role for migration of new activities and workflow into COE.• Dealing with Accounting & Reporting tools e.g. Advent Geneva, TLM & COGNOS.• Analyze trade entries to resolve reconciliation breaks and Valuation errors on TLM. Liaise with various parties (e.g. Trade Input Team, Prime Brokers, Fund Managers and various internal parties) to resolve issues related to trades. Handle queries from internal parties and other business units (Trade Input, Accounting & Valuations and market data, TLM Project team.)• Processing of all fees (accruals & payments) on to the relevant accounting period whether fixed or percentage based & validating all corporate Actions including dividends correctly by confirming to both Prime Broker and external source such as Bloomberg.• Reporting Profit and Loss within defined PLA. Confirming all price movements which breach previously set tolerance to an external source such as Bloomberg or Reuters & Pricing all missing priced securities.

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounts Honours

Higher Secondary