Praveen Shettigar

Senior Associate at KPMG

• India - Bengaluru
• My current job since March 2012

Collaborating directly with associates and senior associates on team projects.
Generating MIS report based on the hours incurred on each work request form and pod capacity available in each day in a manager group and communicating the same to the manager.
Generating the PMO report based on the hours spent on each client in each partner group and reporting it the managing director based out of onshore team.
Accounts receivable and Accounts payable testing (Three way matching) based on the samples provided by the onshore teams.
Testing of the Journal entries completeness, worked on JE’s Accounts combination and offsetting the entries of ins and outs from the Journal entry details.
Creating the AR and AP aging reports and offsetting the entries of ins and outs from the Journal entry details.
Worked with Various onshore teams on preparation of work papers related to the financial reporting procedures of Hedge funds, Private equity and Venture capital.
Performing bank reconciliation and other reconciliation of Financial Statements as per clients’ requirement.
Preparation of trail balance and map the trail balance to financials based on the GL obtained from client
Preparation of investment cost roll forward, Broker reconciliation and equity reconciliation.
Performing Capital activity (redemptions and contributions) testing and substantive procedures, Holdings and existence testing (position reconciliation) and Partners capital allocation procedures.
Purchase and sales testing of hedge funds with broker statements and holdings reports.
Management fee testing and investment Capital roll forward test work.
Verifying Mathematical accuracy and Fundamental analysis of the financial data from Annual Reports, Quarterly reports and Press Releases of Companies and Schedule of Investments of different mutual funds, Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital.
Calculating industry wise break-ups of investments made by mutual funds, Security pricing of mutual funds using Bloomberg terminal.
Using Client specific Software - IDEA importing the different files into IDEA (Interactive Data Extraction and Analysis) & Smart Analyzer for data analysis and preparing reconciliation report.
Interacting with onshore teams on various queries and work towards resolution of the same with accuracy.
Providing process training to New Hires and Preparing the Capacity and the Efficiency Report of the team members.