Sajeetha Balendran Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

• Work on all trade support activities such as settlements of equities, bonds, FX trades and options.
• Book corporate actions and FX trades daily along with monthly trading as well as non-trading expenses in the system.
• Have a solid understanding of the various investment products and manage PB collateral including margin calls.
• Run the daily cash balance forecasts, positions and cash reconciliations against five different Prime Brokers as well as investigate all discrepancies until resolved. Also, book corporate actions and manage dividends.
• Create daily as well as weekly reports for the company, administrators and audit packages.
• As the senior most person in the team, I am currently training / supervising a junior on all operational tasks.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Worked on monthly and quarterly reports for debt and equities within PCI to ensure that the reporting was accurate and completed on time. Reports were based on financial analysis and the data was included in the.
• Led the completion of ad hoc requests such as UAT testing, IRR calculations along with resolving any calculation discrepancies that the Deal team would encounter.
• Booked daily interest or principal paydowns transactions for investments in bonds, loans, and royalties.
• Tested technical issues and escalated them to the appropriate technical resources.
• Contributed to improving the functionality of the existing applications by providing feedback regarding issues or enhancement requests. Developed and enhanced internal relationships across multiple business units.
• Worked with various departments to investigate and resolve any differences between our bank balances and what we had in the SCD (SimCorp Dimension) accounting system.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Good variety of knowledge in Settlements as I was a SME (Subject Matter Expert) on all equity desks (CAD/USD, Prime Brokers, Foreign Equities, Derivatives) as well as the Fixed Income, Repurchase Options, Money Markets.
• I was part of the Passive OMNI Consolidation project to reduce our several accounts into one custody only Passive account to decrease costs, confusions and improve efficiency for settling trades.
• Helped initiate a Prime Broker desk by testing various trade types and ensuring that core processes / reports will be addressed.
• Coordinated the PB project schedule with IT & Business functions and set guidelines for development, testing & release.
• Trained junior members and share my knowledge of Settlements and systems at CPPIB.
• Main SME in the team for all systems such as SCD, Omgeo, Bloomberg, CPPIB internal systems: Hybrid and Hammer, as well as having a good understanding of the links between the systems.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Received a Super Service Award for outstanding work during hard times and keeping the quality of work high while taking on extra funds.
• Subject matter expert for Multicurrency Horizon (MCH) system as well as Bloomberg.
• Worked on fixed income and equity mutual funds in a risky economic environment.
• Responsible to give the client the daily and monthly accounting information requested.
• Reconcile the client’s cash and share positions against the prime broker who has custody of the cash.
• Analyze variances between client and prime broker and solve any discrepancies.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

• Interned in the Investment department within Settlement Annuities.
• Responsible for creating a mortality study on the number of annuitants who died in the past two decades.
• Analyzed data, developed spreadsheets, communicated and worked with several managers and directors, presented the final report that one of my managers used in a meeting with the CFO.

Honours Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting

Activities and Societies: • Volunteered at the York University Income Tax Clinic and received a certificate for completing more income tax.

Financial Math Studies With Concentration On Actuarial Science

Activities and Societies: • Member of the Infinity Math Club, York University, 2006 – 2008 • Executive of the Actuarial Students.