Management Accounting

MANU CHANDRAN

*** **** ****** ** **,ATLANTA, GEORGIA-30067, USA

Mobile: 404-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.***

Objective

To understand, learn and utilize my potential to work towards my objectives with a specified goal, and more specifically contributing to the growth of the organization.

Professional Synopsis

Total 9 years’ of Experience in Investment Banking Operations mainly in to Hedge Fund Accounting and Product control worked with various MNC.

Experience

Previously Working with Viteos Capital Services, as Business Analyst from July 2016 to Jan 2017.

Building an inhouse reconciliation tool for Cash and Positions as a functional expert and manual testing of the different functionalities.

Involved in the cash and position setup of Multi Asset class funds for multiple clients across board.

Deep dive reconciliation to increase the auto match rate for reconciliation across different portfolios.

Previously Working with Cognizant Technologies/ UBS, as Team Lead from April 2014 to July 2016 in Product Controller.

Working for UBS client as L3 ownership for fund dealing with fixed income instruments and Credit Derivative Swaps.

Running daily profit and loss queries and confirm Actual vs estimate P&L on daily basis. Control of daily PnL, T0 vs T1 Reconciliation and report an accurate PnL, handling various client queries.

Clearing Actual vs Implied reconciliation breaks and coordinating with back office operations for actual proceeds of cash payments.

Maintaining controls and coordinating with Traders for daily Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet confirmation.

Coordinating with the traders for color on PnL to identify the drivers and threshold breaches and spikes.

Providing weekly, monthly commentary on the flux in the Profit and loss Statement and Balance sheet

Preparing Audit requirements and also documenting the standard procedures.

Coordinating with Assistant Director in UBS to manage and mitigate risk on PnL and Balance sheet daily

Managing the team and track error on a daily and monthly basis and introduce new controls.

Carry out the month end closure activities such as Bad mark Adjustments and IPV posting for the Balance sheet and PnL and report an accurate month end Profit and loss statement and Balance sheet.

Previously Worked with middle office Citi Hedge Fund services as Assistant Manager from 28 Jan 2013 for Fund Accounting till 18 March 2014.

Handling daily Reconciliation for cash and positions using frontier and answering client queries.

Extracting daily margin reports and advising daily margin calls between broker and custodian.

Maintaining daily cash balances and keeps update on any overdraft happening.

Handing daily NAV and report, swings on a daily basis and management fee calculation.

Updating account books for all the capital activities, query with TA for sub/Red activities.

Approve Monthly NAV and submit to client.

In depth knowledge of Fiserv, TLM and Geneva used for daily Reconcilation and Accounting

Previously Working with State Street Global Advisors, as Senior Associate from Nov 2009 till 21 Jan 2013.

Handling corporate action settlement in equities.

Making report about the transactions done in various trades.

Managing a daily reconciliation and NAV’s of third-party custody data against SSgA Affiliate global investment portfolio and accounting records for Securities positions, Cash Positions, Market value and Net asset value

Reconciliation of cash/stock using the Transaction Lifecycle Management – 2.1 & 2.7 (TLM) systems.

Manually uploading of feeds to TLM – Uploading of Cash and position feeds to TLM through DRS for Tokyo funds, Boston & Paris and London sent by custodian in a flat file format.

Investigating, escalating and resolving exception relating to Contracts difference, Margin Calls, Month end interests, revision of commission and cancellation of variation margins.

Futures: Extract daily broker statements from custody website. Compare manually the statements and identify discrepancies

Futures Reconciliation, booking Margins, commissions, on the accounting system.

Performing valuation for Active & Passive funds in emerging markets and delivering NAV of a fund.

Working on tools like TLM to reconcile funds, and take care of the settlement of various trades

Monitor the performance of various funds.

Performing various reports that includes the riskier assets involved in the portfolio

Working with Focus Comtrade Private Limited, as Commodity trader, from April 2008 till 3rd Nov 2009.

In depth knowledge of commodity analysis technical tools, knowledge of derivatives, knowledge of capital market, knowledge of currencies.

Executing trades in the COMEX and MCX, as well as monitoring currency like INR, USD, JPY

Work on MCX and COMEX and handle a commodity portfolio of five commodities - GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, CRUDE OIL and NATURAL GAS.

Sound financial & socio-economic knowledge. In depth knowledge to technical and fundamental analysis, which is core of our line of business

An effective communicator with good presentation skills and abilities in establishing beneficial relationships with working partners.

Areas of Expertise

Knowledge of Derivatives and capital markets Equity and Fixed Income.

Arbitraging between Commodity mercantile exchange (New York) and Multi commodity exchange (Mumbai) for a portfolio of GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, CRUDE OIL and NATURAL GAS.

Education

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management in Finance/marketing from M.S Ramiaha Institute of Management - 2008. Secured first division with 6.3 CGPA.

Bachelor of Technology in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation from Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology - 2005.

IT Skills

Operating System: Windows XP

Applications: Expert in Microsoft Office, Excel, Power Point.

Projects Done

Perception of customers towards retail shops in India and common kirana shops.

The marketing research helped to find out the customer perception; questionnaire was used as the tool to identify the main objectives in the study. The sample size includes 25 retail shops in India and 1001 customers, the report was submitted to M.S Ramiaha institute of management Bangalore.

Study of derivatives used as tool for hedging and speculation in SHARE KHAN PVT LTD.

The project included study of derivatives and options and many strategies, which included risk aversion techniques and various formulated strategies, which helped the investors to minimize losses and enhance profit. The project was submitted to M.S Ramiaha institute of management Bangalore and to Share khan Pvt ltd.

Personal Dossier

. Valid Work Visa, L2 Dependent

Marital status: Married.

E-mail id: ***********@*****.***

Permanent Address: 333 Wood Hollow CT SE, Marietta, Georgia, 30067

Mobile number: 404-***-****

Languages Known: English, Hindi

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