Arjun Bharti

Experience

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  Atos Syntel

  Mar 2012 - May 2015

  • Maintain ownership of daily transactions, cash and stock breaks by conducting investigation on differences, and monitoring through timely resolution with processing teams and custodians/administrators/other support teams.• Work through high volumes, prioritize, and manage workload according to risk or deadlines.• Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.• Perform and review cash and asset breaks reconciliation between accounting/custody and ensure standard commentary easily comprehended by all internal stakeholders and client.• Review day to day activities in accordance with SOPs and within agreed client deadlines & SLA’s. Audit and resource planning with internal parties and for peak cycles. Ongoing analysis of client accounting records and escalation, where appropriate, of any potential issues identified Identify and correct misstatements within the accounting, ability to identify and escalate potential audit findings. • Interact with stakeholders to respond to any accounting related queries that may arise. Recognize and act on opportunities to improve processes including developing and making recommendations for change and encourage the team to come with ideas for efficiency. • Risk and control checks are adhered to and follow all required checklists and SOPS, ensure they are up to date at any given point. • Accountable for daily deliverable of cash forecast sheet to fund manager for further steps on trading.• Understand flow of information between accounting and custody systems, perform root-cause analysis of breaks, submit workflow or process redesign changes, follow-up with stakeholders or technology partners till closure to eliminate breaks from the root. Show less • Maintain ownership of daily transactions, cash and stock breaks by conducting investigation on differences, and monitoring through timely resolution with processing teams and custodians/administrators/other support teams.• Work through high volumes, prioritize, and manage workload according to risk or deadlines.• Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.• Perform and review cash and asset breaks reconciliation between accounting/custody and ensure standard commentary easily comprehended by all internal stakeholders and client.• Review day to day activities in accordance with SOPs and within agreed client deadlines & SLA’s. Audit and resource planning with internal parties and for peak cycles. Ongoing analysis of client accounting records and escalation, where appropriate, of any potential issues identified Identify and correct misstatements within the accounting, ability to identify and escalate potential audit findings. • Interact with stakeholders to respond to any accounting related queries that may arise. Recognize and act on opportunities to improve processes including developing and making recommendations for change and encourage the team to come with ideas for efficiency. • Risk and control checks are adhered to and follow all required checklists and SOPS, ensure they are up to date at any given point. • Accountable for daily deliverable of cash forecast sheet to fund manager for further steps on trading.• Understand flow of information between accounting and custody systems, perform root-cause analysis of breaks, submit workflow or process redesign changes, follow-up with stakeholders or technology partners till closure to eliminate breaks from the root. Show less

  • Senior Financial Analyst

    Jun 2013 - May 2015

  • Financial Analyst

    Mar 2012 - May 2013
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  SLK

  Oct 2015 - Nov 2018

  Sr. Team Member

  • Processed Income events on clients account like Dividends, Interests on payable date.• Identifying overpaid and underpaid clients and paying them correctly.• Research and Fix differences between internal investment system and Custodian reports.• Respond on share mailboxes and Client queries and daily reporting on performance evaluation to external clients.• Implementation of process improvement projects having a cost / time benefit.• Settlement of Trade activities and Wire Movements for Trade transactions.• Monitoring Fail and Large Trades queues, executing trades timely.• Review day to day activities in accordance with SOPs and within agreed client deadlines & SLA’s. Show less

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  STATESTREET HCL SERVICES (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED

  Nov 2018 - Apr 2022

  Specialist

  • Worked on reconciliation of various OTC products – medium to complex manually and auto (Tri Optima – Global Reconciliation Application) for maintaining financial accuracy and accountability.• Fetching, consolidating, auto matches, manual matches of trades. Narrating standard comments on unmatched trades, their monthly income and expenses fees in order to check and resolve the breaks.• Interacted with internal and custody team for Trade notification/funding memo/Trade ticket/PB valuation report.• Managing MTM (Mark to Market) and its essential collateral payments. Worked on daily collateral margin call from Counterparties on OTC Products and CCP cleared products.• Participation in projects and conducting UAT (User Acceptance Testing) to ensure that new systems meet operational needs.• Experienced in navigating tools like DTCC, Markit WIRE including counterparties web portals for checking trade details.• Experienced in migration of onboarding of new client set up and ensure new products and trade flows are set up timely and accurately for trading. Show less

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  SS&C GlobeOp

  Apr 2022 - May 2024

  Associate Manager

  • Planning, scheduling and managing the daily workflows of all client deliverables within the team.• Responsible for review/prepare the NAVs of the hedge fund clients on a Monthly basis.• Performed Cash/Position/Market Value Reconciliations and resolving breaks. Notify Clients/CSMs of valid breaks. Posted necessary adjustments if breaks are due to an erroneous or missing transaction in accounting system.• Reviewing pricing of the portfolio and analysing the pricing exceptions if any, reviewing the corporate actions booked in the system and ensuring that the same is correctly reflected in the books. Dividends/Interest Reconciliation with Broker reports.• Responsible for accruing/amortizing monthly related Fee accruals including management fees and financing accruals.• Processed non-automated transactions including OTC derivatives and their related cash movements.• Effective communication with clients on daily reporting of Estimates/NAVs/Query resolutions.• Booking of Capital Activities of the fund. Finalizing the month end NAV of the client and providing Investor Level Allocation reports at month-end.• Providing support in Audits for funds in the preparation on financial statements. Complete audit reviews and ensure identified issues are documented and tracked to closure.• Supported operations on projects related to Automations/Work migrations/Conversions etc.• Coordinating with Internal/External Stake holders such as Securities/Trades and Pricing Team, Reporting Team, Investor Services team, Auditors, Client Service Managers and Clients.• Effectively monitoring deliverables to ensure high SLA compliance within set accuracy standards. Show less