Operations Specialist

• May 2021 - Present

Fund Accountant

• Nov 2019 - May 2021

Fund Accountant responsible for production of accurate Net Asset Value for entire fund range, inclusive but not limited to hedge funds, mutual funds, pooled funds and segregated funds. Responsibilities: - Prepare daily, weekly, semi-monthly and monthly NAV for funds, meeting tight deadlines and service level standards (SLS) on Mpower. - Reconciliation for Assets holdings factored securities and term loans. - Reconciliation on Smart streams - Transaction lifecycle management ( TLM ). - Review trade blotter, process trades and flips, verify trade price for trades breaching set threshold. - Review and validate exceptions flagged on exception based system - Pcontrol due to Pricing impact or Accounting impact. - Ensure required data to produce NAV is available and quality is ensured ( Corporate actions and Pricing ) using Milvus and Trust. - Minimize NAV discrepancies and ensure timely correction action. - Prepare the calculation of distributions of income, capital gains and related tax issues. - Liaise with external custodians/third parties for accurate and timely computation of NAV. - Review reports for consistency and accuracy. Provide training to New hires. - Provide clients with prompt responses to service issues or queries in professional manner that consistently exceeds clients’ expectations. Show less

NAV Analysis Senior Analyst - Investment Accounting

• Aug 2018 - Jun 2019

The Senior Analyst performs and reviews daily, monthly and periodic work completed by the NAV Analysis teams, ensuring that the daily NAVs, distribution factors are calculated accurately by the required deadlines.Assists the Supervisor in training and developing staff within the teams, including workflow planning.Provides assistance with special departmental projects as requested.-Reviews all daily work in accordance with department’s review checklist and works with staff to ensure the timely and accurate release of NAV and distribution factor information.- Sign off on NAV impacts greater than stated thresholds, seek further authorization if required.- Assists in the resolution of all issues occurring with the funds and related processes.- Assist in the resolution of system issues, such as failure of automated transactions to GL and subsidiaryledgers or incorrect information.- Assists supervisor in staff and workflow planning to ensure proper coverage of daily work within a specifiedline group.- Ensure that all daily work is performed in accordance with policy and procedural guidelines.Monthly/Periodic Responsibilities:- Prepares and/or review month end reports and other internal documents for accuracy or reasonablenessprior to dissemination.- Reviews fund information prepared for external/internal auditors and liaise with NAV Services to resolveissues with applicable funds.- Assists in the preparation of KPIs and or MORs as per department requirements.- Reviews and assists in the preparation of year end fund files and accounts to the trial balance.Other Responsibilities:- Provides feedback on NAV departmental policies and procedures.- Assists supervisor in providing adequate training for staff within a specified fund group.- Offer suggestions for improvement to NAV workflows.- Assists supervisor with the preparation of staff appraisals and provide feedback to staff and Supervisorregarding staff’s performance. Show less

NAV Analysis Analyst - Investment Accounting

• Jun 2016 - Aug 2018

The Analyst Performs the daily work in accordance with policies and procedures to ensure that NAV is calculated correctly. The Analyst is responsible for providing monthly and periodic Fund information within the required deadlines. The Analyst assists other NAV Analysis members with Specified projects- Perform all daily functions to compute the NAV or any associated data/calculations for assigned funds. Which may involve but is not limited to:- Postings, verification of source data, calculations, storage & publication of information in accordance with department guidelines- Analyzing system reports for variances/resolving discrepancies- Communicating with internal or external business partners to resolve fund related and system issues.- Follow all stated internal controls per the daily work checklists and document adherence to internal controlsby signing off on checklists- Identify and Inform Supervisor of any issues within the assigned funds. Follow through to ensure that issueis resolved with appropriate parties- Complete administrative functions in accordance with department guidelines, i.e. maintenance ofappropriate document retention and filing system.- Perform monthly closing activities in accordance with providing accurate reporting to P&CS group by stateddeadlines.- Perform periodic audit reports for assigned funds at reporting periods in accordance with P&CS, TAX andAudit package requirements.- Assist in the preparation of KPI’s (Key Performance Indicator- Maintain and complete all monthly scheduled reports using defined procedures by the prescribed deadline- Participate in department projects as required.- Offer suggestions for improvement to NAV workflows. Show less