Team Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Total years of experience :7 years, 6 Months
Valuation and Reporting Team
Client - Alternative Investments (One of the top 3 Switzerland Bank)
Responsibilities
• Work flow management for Alternative Investments - Zurich and New York based Processes.
• Revenue tracking and reporting (accruals vs. cash), invoicing for various hedge fund portfolios.
• Variance analysis - Explain significant variances compared to previous months, quarters and year.
• Financial reporting- Fund/Firm level consolidation/MIS reporting on monthly and quarterly basis.
• Accounting - Commitments/P&L/Balance Sheet/Exposure/Admin /AUM/NNA reporting to Senior Management & other internal groups for assets of private equity funds.
• Firm P&L (Realized / Unrealized P&L) booking and revenue reporting to financial controllers.
• Daily performance, AuM, management fee and month end final reporting for credit/liquid funds.
• Quarterly financial data input/Reconciliations, hedge funds pricing Summary and SharePoint (web based) upload for financials &other management related documents.
• Process tracking, Monitoring & Metrics reporting and preparing/updating quality reports.
• Documentation -Updating process manuals, procedures, and various audit/adhoc reports.
• Performance Appraisal, goal setting, regular assessment, review and feedback.
• Put in place cross training plans, monitor, provide status updates and ensure on time completion.
• Interact with clients, escalate where appropriate and handle queries.
• Active involvement in organizational level activities like conducting interviews and training.
Project Initiatives
• Productivity and Accuracy metric improvements for all sub-processes within Liquid group.
Achievements
• Certified by OnTrac Operations Management for “The Star Certification” Program.
Valuation and Reporting Team
Client - FAS Finance (One of the top 3 Switzerland Bank)
Responsibilities
• Accounting - Revenue accruals and reporting for FAS Zurich Products - Multi manager portfolio (MMP) -Swiss, Europe & Americas and Single Manager Hedge Fund portfolios(SMHF).
• Calculations of various fees like management, performance, advisory, Risk fees and Rebates.
• Cash update, Invoicing and Bank reconciliations daily and monthly basis.
• Booking month end PeopleSoft Journals and review through Essbase Excel add-in tool.
• Journal preparation & posting for all accrual and adjustment journals during month close.
• Variance analysis and drafting performance commentary.
• NNA Weekly update for net inflows and outflows of all Liquid funds.
• Generating Daily/ Monthly summary and Adhoc MIS reports.
• Handling client queries from Financial Accounting group.
• Performance Appraisal, goal setting, regular assessment, review and feedback.
Project Initiatives
• Master files clean-up& process automation for MMP & SMHF portfolios.
Achievements
• Single-handedly transitioned (onshore) complex processes within two weeks from Zurich.
• Awarded Frontline Leadership Award twice for Q22010 and Q12011.
Proprietary Research Team, Investment & Advisory Division
Responsibilities
• Provided Research support to Market Analytics Specialist/Research heads on projects/requests that help brand all Company Information products.
• Ensured the quality of research offerings through editorial control.
• Delivered analytical information for Market Commentary reports (US, UK & India)
• Facilitated in the expansion/creation of the Asian (Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore) and European (France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Netherlands) Market Commentary reports.
• Reviewed and analyzed research reports on Country/ Index/ Company published by investments bank and brokerage houses.
• Handled data queries from both internal and external clients and provided high-level user support.
• Data mining and analysis to support media and academic research projects/attributions.
• Trained the new members of the team.
• Have worked extensively on products of Reuters: RKIM, and 3000 Xtra,
Project Initiatives
• A comparative study on the increasing US chief executive’s pay package with respect to the company’s corporate earnings and shareholder returns.
• Analysis of price performance on positive/ negative earnings pre-announcements and positive/ negative earnings surprise.
• Prepared documents/Training Manual on Bottom-Up analysis/calculations.
Achievements
• Was recognized for building bottom-up calculations for world’s major twelve indices like FTSE-100 CAC -40, DAX-30, S&P/ASX 200, ST-30 and TSX-Composite etc within a short span of time.
• Automated the process by building Auto RLMO spreadsheets with the help of development team, which effectively reduced the time taken to retrieve index companies’ related data from Reuters Knowledge database.
Corporate Events Team, Business Intelligence Database
Responsibilities
• Gathered facts regarding future events like earning report dates, conference calls, meeting etc. hosted by listed companies in the U.S, and Canada region from primary as well as secondary sources
• Query resolution and reporting - daily reports which are relied by different teams and clients.
• Researched new and existing sources to ensure quality, timeliness, automation are improved.
• Developed and maintained contacts with Investor Relation Department for company information.
• Trained the new members of the team.
Project Initiatives
• Retagging of Historical Developments: Re-tagging of the company developments and significance levels of around 7000 historical company developments within a short span of time.
• Enhanced the methods of working: Assisted the team with new suggestions, improvements and ideas; came out with new and simpler methods of working.
Achievements
• Best performer of the month - June 2005 for meeting TAT target.
MBA in Finance and Marketing
Bcom - Commerce and accountancy.