Arif Shaikh

Experience

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  Syntel

  Apr 2006 - Jan 2008

  Associate

  Pension Fund Accounting. To reconcile Daily and Monthly Broker Statement and ensure that the prices are accurately reflected in accounting for all the holdings. Settlement of daily Trade, assuring that the proper dividend and interest are received updating price of securities of client. During the month end to report the investment manager and client by sending them the accounting statement of holding and cash for every fund.  Helping the team in resolving their issue and ensure that they meet the deadline. Show less

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  Viteos

  Jan 2008 - Dec 2009

  Senior Associate

   Ensure 100% error-free operations, timeliness in delivery and meet client SLA’s  To complete all aspects of Cash and Position Recon including understanding of  VPM and follow up with client on resolution of breaks. To complete the Market Value reconciliation of client within deadlines. To complete the break resolution part by posting or updating entries in Geneva. Promptly escalate to reporting line manager in case of delays of deliverable Pricing of security as per Broker and Bloomberg. Making sure that all the Daily MIS, Daily Recon Activity Details. Show less

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  Oracle

  Dec 2009 - Apr 2012

  Senior Associate

   To perform Cash reconciliation for EMEA (Equities) and Delaware portfolios (Fixed Income) of client in Alpha Cash master through Mt 950 swift messages. Ensure that there are no breaks in the recon. To pass necessary accounting entries like Dividend, Withholding tax, Interest, Corporate Actions e.t.c. To follow up on the open breaks with the front end team and ensuring they are resolved on time. To log overdraft for the portfolios which are overdrawn and commenting the same. To provide cash confirmation for the portfolios where wire transfer has taken place and provide a final sign off to the Investment Managers located across countries for various currencies. Aladdin view, Alpha & Beta Cash Master along with Adam tools is used to perform above mentioned tasks. Show less

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  SSNC Globeop

  Apr 2012 - Jun 2014

  Acting AM

  To handle a team of 8 members. Taking care of daily deadlines of client funds. UAT testing. Automation Project of ETL. Day-to-Day Fund accounting of more than 20 Hedge funds. Implementation of corporate actions on each fund such as (Dividend declaration, Stock Splits, Rights issue). Trade confirmation & Non OTC settlements using Omgeo as well as manual confirmations. Handling operations work (Coordinating with clients, Trader, Counter parties and Prime Brokers in resolution of discrepancies in the Open Trade Equity settlement)  Coordinating with different teams (Accounting, Geneva, Kondor, Operations, Implementation, Conversions and Pricing). Having experience in handling derivatives products such as Futures and Options & Bonds, IAM, Spot, Forwards and Repo’s.  Have assisted in implementation and conversion of new funds and clients and also worked on Geneva, Omgeo and MCH. Show less

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  VBK

  May 2015 - Aug 2017

  Assistant Manager

   Taking care of Operations Team of 10 Member. To motivate them to bring best output. Providing End to End service for Client allocated to Team. Using “Fund Count” System. Trade booking in System, Pricing of all trades. Updating Corporate action of all security on Daily basis. (Using Factset as Source) Providing Trade, position and Cash Swap & Swap Maturity schedule on daily and Monthly basis. To provide fund account service to clients. To train new joiners in the process To coordinate with upper Management on process improvement and updates. Weekly call with client to discuss and update all pending items related to fund. Show less

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  BNY Mellon

  Nov 2017 - now

  Client Operations Manager