BPO Trade Settlement Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities

• You will act as an intermediary between the funds and their investment managers and serve as the official record keeper for the funds.
• Prepare daily Net Assets Values, yields, distributions and other fund accounting output timely and accurately for subsequent review.
• Ensuring fund income and expenses, including management and performance fees, are accrued for and are in accordance with relevant accounting standards.
• Accurate and timely processing of all capital activities including subscriptions, redemptions, transfers, rollups, capital commitments and calls.
• Cash Management-managing the daily cash flow of trades and monitoring fund cash-flows. Process incoming and outgoing cash movements related to capital activity
• Independently complete cash, portfolio and capital reconciliations and investigate and resolve any discrepancies
• Preparation of Investor and Client reports including Audit confirmations, Trade confirmations etc.
• Responsible to communicate the transactions associated with the fund(s) and work closely with internal and external clients to provide accurate and thorough accounting packages.
• Identify exceptions and problems affecting accounting records and prices, communicating same to management, and assisting in their resolution.
• Correspond with external and internal stakeholders regarding day-to-day fund inquiries including entering security trades, fee payments, cash position breaks, and reconciliations.

Requirements for this role include:

• Open to work in any scheduled work window from Monday-Friday between 11:30am to 3:30am IST.
• University degree or equivalent that required 3+ years of formal studies of Finance/Accounting principles
• 4+ year(s) of accounting experience for financial instruments (equities, fixed income, and derivatives), corporate actions, operation of capital markets, and life cycle of trades. Good knowledge of Capital Market
• Complete procedural knowledge of fund accounting is a must. Trade Booking, Investable Cash reporting, Exceptions analyzing, reconciliation of assets and cash, Post pricing issues, etc.
• Good command over MS-Excel – including advance functions, Tables & Formatting, Conditional Formatting, Charting, Pivot tables & Pivot Reporting.
• 3+ year(s) of experience in a service-oriented role where you had to correspond in writing or over the phone with external customers.
• Good working knowledge of Bloomberg, IDC and IHS Market.
• Some certification of repute in Capital Market.