Rupesh Kumar Patel Email & Phone Number

Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Steering a team of 42 personnel in Security Valuation processes and reporting directly to the Deputy General Manager• Serving as the primary contact for onshore counterparts and client escalations and overseeing deliverables of the security valuations process• Balancing the needs of both offshore and onshore stakeholders and ensuring compliance with internal and audit stipulations• Conducting training sessions for newly hired employees and overseeing Proficiency Projects for Security Valuations across various locations• Automating manually priced securities, reporting daily KPI to the onshore team, and filing incident reports for any NAV discrepancies• Monitoring client communications for key clients, and performing periodic reviews of manual or client instruction priced securities• Hosting monthly one-on-one meetings with direct reports and leading daily huddles with team leads, and conducting annual performance reviews for direct reportsInternal Process Audit & Controls:• Identifying manually priced securities and requesting backup from team members, and conducting regular audits of vendor source codes per pricing source agreement• In charge of ensuring correct mapping of source codes for each security in the client's portfolio and ensuring prices are automatically integrated into the system• Addressing any audit-related queries from onshore related to the process, escalating any system bugs or limitations to the IT team and onshore counterparts, and proposing improvementsProject Handling: Proficiency Project (a project to skill up the new resources within a specified targeted period)• Selected as the Training Ambassador for the Proficiency Project within the Security Valuations department• The SSHS JV Head supervises the project• Accountable for ensuring newly joined resources are assigned to the appropriate SME trainers for their training initiation• Creating the training curriculum based on inputs from the SME trainers

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Key Deliverables:• Supervised 3 distinct processes related to Private and Public Investment data for Fund Managers and Clients, managing a team of 50 individuals, including 4 Team Leaders for each process Led the Private Equity Investment Manager Data Team (33 members, including 2 Team Leaders): Tasks included updating company/investment level data such as Market value, Cost, Contributions, Distributions, Recallable Return of Capital for LPs and GPs, and the NAV of the Private Equity, Venture Capital, Real Estate, and Infrastructure Funds. This information is drawn from financial statements received from PE fund managers and entered into the system, facilitating the client's Private Investment Benchmark publication Oversaw PRG - Reconciliation (8 members, including 1 Team Leader): Activities included updating transactions from custody statements into the system to enable transaction reconciliation for the fund and assisted clients with Benchmark onboarding by updating historical performance returns Managed the Public Investment Manager Data Team (9 members, including 1 Team Leader): Responsibilities involved updating performance/returns of Mutual funds from Morningstar and approving Manager Surveys• Ensured seamless transition of new activities or processes and prepared weekly and monthly operational review reports for clients• Reported KPIs in accordance with the defined SLA and conducted interviews to fill vacancies in different processes related to our client• Played a key role in the onboarding and offboarding processes of team members and conducting monthly recognition and reward (RNR) sessions for all processes related to our clientProject Handled: Process Automation Project• Identified potential areas for automation within each client process and conducted a detailed analysis of all processes• Composed a comprehensive report detailing the requirements and challenges of automation and presented it to management

Hyderabad Area, India

Process: Core Fund Accounting – Mutual FundsKey Deliverables:• In charge of managing a team of 10, including an Assistant Manager• Tasked with resource allocation, coordination, and handling personnel-related issues and supervised the onboarding and offboarding of team members• Provided direction and training for team members; timely and appropriately escalated client issues or concerns to the VP/AVP that could impact client service and satisfaction• Ensured complete and timely performance evaluation feedback for all personnel and sustained an operating environment in compliance with operational standards• Accountable for ensuring adherence to all controls, checklists, and procedures while recommending improvements and ensuring timely escalation of critical issues by the team• Maintained and updated Management Information System (MIS) and provided timely and regular reporting to management• Acted as a technical and knowledge resource for the team, conducted regular team meetings to encourage feedback on all issues, and managed team assignments in line with client deliverables• Created and periodically updated Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the process

Pune

Testing Responsibilities during Conversion Phase – TAS to EAGLE: Worked as a Tester for the TAS to Eagle conversion Prepared test trade blotters per the testing requirements and sent those to SMEs to be entered into Custody systemsduring the Functional Testing and UAT testing. Attended daily calls with all the teams involved in the Conversion to discuss the testing plan, defects, and testing results. Validated the testing results and reported them to the Project Management Team Updated defects in the HP ALM application Involved in various testing projects in Eagle after the conversion. Recently completed Value Dating testing in Eagle, and it got migrated to Production.Key Responsibilities: Managed a team of 9 Sr. Representatives Conducted team meeting regularly on a weekly basis to discuss delegation of work and updates, if any, and address other process-related issues. Updated KPI monthly in MY KPI Managed the SLA and revised it annually with clients Updated SOW and got it approved from onshore Reported monthly volume to the management on the monthly dashboard Ensured SOPs were prepared and updated regularly whenever required. Hold fortnightly performance calls with the onshore team Conducted monthly 1to1 meetings with team members Hold PMP discussions with the team members Managed leaves of the team members Facilitated training for the new member of the team Updated the information and documents in the Crisis Management System

India

Systems Used: Invest one, Enterprise, Command Console, Bloomberg TerminalKey Responsibilities: Worked as a full-time reviewer of funds Reporting any people-related issue to the management Giving on-the-job training to the new joined on the Fund Accounting process Suggesting ideas pertaining to process improvement and improving efficiency Updating the error tracker Sending queries to the onshore team Maintaining the query tracker Keeping control points in place Ensuring production and review completion mail is sent on time Resolving fund-related issues within the teamKey Accountabilities of NAV Calculation Includes: Calculation of NAV for different US mutual funds clients (Equity, Bond, Money Market). Preparation of Cash Availability & Reconciliation and sending it to the Fund Managers. Verification of Cash Reconciliation items and posting the adjustment entries. Calculation & processing of Fund Accounting Expenses. Processing of Cap stock (Subscriptions/Redemptions). Processing of Income Distributions for Fixed Income Funds. Expense Accruals & Payments Postings. Processing of Security Lending Interest for Equity Funds. Processing of Trades  Processing of Cap stock Estimates for the Money market funds. To verify if the corporate actions have been processed correctly. Processing of Income Distributions for Money Market Funds Preliminary checking of Fund Reports like Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss A/C & Income & Exp Reports (Pre - Pricing) Final Checking of Fund Reports (Post - Pricing)Process Automation: - Identified an automation opportunity for a monthly reporting process for our wealth management funds, taking almost 3 hours to complete.- Created an Excel macro all by myself to automate the whole reporting process and simplified the entire process, which took only 30 mins to complete the whole reporting.- To achieve this, I created a list of steps involved in the reporting process

Chennai Area, India

 Responsible for the performance of a team of 5 members Interacted with the client daily related to the production AAllocated funds to the team Reviewed the NAV packages Ensured the delivery of NAV packages on or before the deadline Prepared the process documents Maintained the Time Tracker & Issue Log Provided on-the-jobb training” to the trainees Gave feedback about the team’s performance to the Assistant Team Manager

Applications Used: Sungard, InvestOneJob Responsibilities: Worked as a Fund Accountant for the Mutual Funds Pricing & NAV calculation team. Reviewed funds Directly reporting to the Supervisor Booked cap stock activity Performed Cash and Position reconciliation Ran Reports from InvestOne and updated the Cash Sheet  Manually booking the intraday trades, T trades, and T+1 trades Verified the Corporate Actions. Submitted the process checklist to be approved by the Supervisor in Uthe S to perform final checks and release the NAV Uploaded all the NAV packages in PDF format to the Power Image end of the day.

 Worked as a Mentor (Team Lead Equivalent) for a team of 10 members. Assigned work to the team. To monitor the mutual funds financial reporting production. Reported to the Assistant Team Manager regarding the performance of my team members every month. Daily interaction with clients and understanding their requirements. To monitor quality of the production. To update and maintain the MIS every day. Set internal deadlines to complete the task in time. Maintained the review tracker. Provided daily production report to the client. Imparted process training. Responsible for the production, performance and grooming of my team members.

Process: SEC Delta Team (Securities and Exchange Commission of US)Job Responsibilities: To process the files downloaded from the client server. To upload the files after doing quality check. To train the new trainees joining this project. To report the Team Manager regarding the production & also on the progress and improvements of the trainees