Team Leader
Northern Trust
Total years of experience :6 years, 4 Months
Team Leader, Northern Trust, September 2013 to August 2014
• Collaborate with other members of the income team to distribute income to the stockholders of clients in US, UK and APAC.
• Leverage Bloomberg, euro clear and FTS to retrieve custodian data and reimburse income to the client.
• Initiate measures to ensure mandatory procedures were adhered to, while distributing American Depository Receipts and Global Depository Receipts.
• Ensure all relevant procedures were followed to pay contractual and non contractual currency. Conduct performance appraisals and establish a rating process, to enhance performance of personnel.
• Process TLM TIR to reconcile the cash breaks pertaining to corporate actions (Payups, Pay downs, Cash Proceeds)
• Oversee the execution of control measures while making sure on the compliance to established audit needs.
• Interface with the business area/transition personnel to facilitate smooth process migrations.
• Develop and present a disaster recovery strategy to the process owners for approval.
• Compile and deliver MIS, Risk Annexure, SLA (Service Level Agreement) Tracker and EUC (End-User Computing) documentation pertaining to internal macros and staff competency metrics.
Senior Analyst, Northern Trust, March 2011 to August 2013
• Oversaw the work performance of 8 partners, conducting audit of the investment outsourcing operations.
• Interfaced with key stakeholders in the client organization, to set benchmarks for client servicing and ensured delivery of the same.
• Evaluated and presented the cash position report to the client, which was utilized for the daily trading work functions.
• Delivered solution to all reporting queries put forward by the client. Requested information from team on issues such as trade postings & settlements, cash postings, derivatives, income, corporate action, asset set-up & pricing to resolve accounting issues.
• Supported cash posting team in transferring FX trade from the error queue and posting transactions pertaining to redemptions and subscriptions.
• Assisted performance personnel in resolving skewed returns. Compiled and presented reports providing accounting/performance information the client.
Analyst, Northern Trust, May 2008 to February 2011
• Instrumental in migrating custody loans from London to Bangalore. Handled processing of dividends and trades for corporate actions.
• Oversaw various functions related to outsourced custody business including bookkeeping of the business.
• Assumed responsibility for processing dividends of syndicated bank loans, managing amount received from client and distributing the amount based on the client holdings.
• Teamed with other members of the London alternative asset team to process trades related to the client transactions, conduct fund audit of the trades and get the assets priced.
• Handled assets unlisted in the stock market.
• PGDBA, Sri Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain College, Autonomous - Bangalore University. • B.Com, St. Josephs College of Commerce, Autonomous - Bangalore University.