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Pune, Maharashtra, India

Pune Area, India

Bengaluru Area, India

• Perform transactional activities related to the function at the expected level of delivery in terms of turnaround time and quality while performing the following processes:• Investment Accounting: Perform sub ledger preparation: Pre closing checksProcess Accrual and ValuationPerform first level of Impairment control: Preparation of working filePerform Closing Controls• Reporting: Prepare and analyze Low/Medium complexity level of Reports and Magnitude disclosuresIdentify process efficiencies and participate in process improvement initiativeMake updates and amendments to process documentationHandle client queries pertaining to activities performed.Understand the accounting impact of Investment transactions.

Mumbai Area, India

• Manage and supervise the daily operation of Fund Accounting, financial reporting team in Chennai and Mumbai an end-to-end, specialized fund accounting. Catering to all the requirements of Hedge Funds, Private Equity/Venture Capital• Review all deliverables and ensure timely delivered. Managing a professional’s team.• Deliverables include complete accounting and Investor reporting for Private Equity Funds including preparation of Financial Statements in accordance with various GAAPs.• Communicate directly with clients and resolving their queries• Research and Create Knowledge database. Develop and design a Process Manual.• Monitor Control, Risk associated to process. • Excellent communication and presentation skills.• Expertise in handling all simple and complex structures likes Master feeder, sub funds, UCITS, SICAV's, Standalones, Consolidated Etc.• Robust, strictly controlled and monitored work flows, with the ability to accommodate client specific requirements, with minimum turnaround time and maximum efficiencies. Commitments honored, best delivery schedules maintained. All major audit firms handled experts in effective communications and meeting expectations of auditors.• Keeping the team motivated with innovative activities.Additional Responsibility: • Data analysis, resource allocation, managing over all operations. Year and Monthly report presentation to Regional heads and MD.

Mumbai

Key Tasks and Responsibility Handle• Spreading of data into database provided by Client from financial statements of various Insurance companies In IFRS, US, UK GAAP and other countries Accounting Standard for Credit Rating of these companies.• Ensuring Quality and TAT as per the client requirement.• Client communication via E-mail and Conference Call along with weekly WebEx meeting.• Taking team meeting and calls. Trained/ handles team of 16 people and was successfully stabilize the process and built resilient team. • Work with Manager to developing process and controls, ability to meet deadlines.• Keep track of all work orders received from the client.• Arrange for project related trainings & also providing training to the new team members.• Overall control on project related activities.• Updating of SQC & MIS reporting. Following IFRS rules while covering companies that file their annual/quarterly reports using IFRS.• Ensuring GM of the project is maintained. Keeping the team motivated with innovative activities.Sourcing, Scanning and Allocation:Searching URL’s for company reports, and for those insurers without URLs on Fitch database, finding them and adding them to the database, sending letters and / or emails using records from the database (and mail merge facilities from the database), to contact the individual companies requesting their Annual Reports. Successfully migrated above process from London which resulted in 30% increase in overall project revenue.

Master'S Degree, Accounting And Finance

Hsc And Graduation, Accounting And Finance

Ssc, 2002

Ssc