Investment Operations & Reporting Manager
ABU DHABI FINANCIAL GROUP LLC
Total years of experience :20 years, 9 Months
Please refer to the resume for complete description.
Started as Middle office Manager in 2008, I am heading the operations department since 2012 covering Funds, Discretionary and Non discretionary portfolios
• RISK MANAGEMENT role include testing and monitoring of liquidity test on investable universe, Counterparty risk, operational risks, issuer concentration risk (rating), Market risk & Performance attribution, Churning & fund turnover.
• MIDDLE OFFICE role includes, trade settlements, portfolio update, recording corporate action, Forex update, factsheet distribution, reporting daily fund performance v/s benchmarks, peers and MENA market performances, sending settlement instructions to custodian, reconciliations & P&L account for funds and review of NAV computation and system updates.
•PRODUCT CONTROL includes continuous monitoring of the fund through reports (daily trade reports, daily constituents’ deviation report, weekly geographical and sector deviations, fund performance (bottom up), key performance indicators, key risk indicators (KRI) & UCITS guidelines.
• HANDLING AUDIT queries from external and internal auditors for Quarterly, annual audits for funds and control reviews and implementation of recommendations from internal auditor.
• PROCESS DOCUMENTATION: Drafted the new Operations manual covering all functions of asset management. Responsible for periodic reviews of operations & system manuals and ensure that they represents the existing practice in place.
• COMPLIANCE: Updating compliance Dashboard for breaches for Head of Compliance and the minutes of meeting, time consumed in remedy action and the subsequent procedure taken to ensure adherence to the guidelines.
• SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION: Implemented automated pre trade post trade compliance system covering UCITS III investment guidelines in SOPHIS. Acquired and implemented FACTSET performance attribution system.
• PRODUCT LAUNCH: Actively involved in MENA UCITS product launch and has thorough understanding of entire process and parties involved.
• Handled various small & medium size audits independently and lead the audit and quarterly reviews for listed companies of KSA (Al Hokair group, MESC, Maaden, Ford, Lincoln, Hyundai).
• Involved in restructuring department functions for Riyadh Bank and control review for Arab National Bank (the leading banks in Saudi Arabia).
• Involved in various advisory assignment such as, Sector Due diligence, Project Valuations, Manual Preparations, workflow analysis, Fraud investigation and internal control re-structuring.
• Worked with oracle & SAP systems to define the client specification and development the reporting modules based on client specification with adherence of the regulatory requirement.
• Responsible for the accounting records from generating vouchers to preparing the financialstatements up to audit finalization
• Reporting Complete set of financial statement to Group Financial Controller on monthly basis.
Certified Accounting Technician (CAT) Year 2000 Certficate in IFRS (Certi IFRS) Year 2008 Certificate in International Auditing (Certi IA) Year 2008
