Ravishankar Reddy
Maidstone,Victoria
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Investment Accountant
MaxCap Group
2022.03
- Liase with Capital team and Fund Administrator to ensure capital calls are issued on a timely basis
- Reconcile funds received with capital call notices and ensure contract notes are issues once KYC is completed
- Provide necessary supporting documents to Fund Administrator and resolve their queries to ensure NAV finalisation in a timely manner
- Oversee management fees and performance fee and portfolio return calculations
- Liasing with the FX providers for booking hedging forwards on foreign currency exposure
- Resolving investor queries on their capital, income and distribution
- Provide assistance to Portfolio management team in analytical review of quarterly fund returns
- Distribution review with Fund Administrator on a quarterly and annual basis
- Oversight of month end NAV preparation for Debt Funds
- Liasing with internal stakeholders for accurate Loan Management in ARMNet
- Financial Statement preparation and liasing with auditors
- Assist in various tax and other regulatory reporting.
Fund Accountant
BNP Paribas Securities Services
2021.11 - 2022.03
- Deliver daily unit prices for Superannuation Funds in a timely manner
- Prepare payment of fund expenses and ensure payments are processed timely based on instructions of clients
- Work on month end reconciliations to deliver final ASO sign off to the client
- Resolving client queries on unit pricing and month end deliverables.
Fund Accountant (Managed Funds)
APN Property Group
2020.11 - 2021.10
- Deliver accurate daily unit prices for Real Estate Securities Funds in a timely manner
- Maintain and update general ledger (Navision), including preparation of monthly reconciliations between Navision and Unit Pricing
- Prepare timely instructions to external custodians for payment of fund expenses and ensure payments are processed
- Ensure all unit pricing packs, bank transfer documents and external custody instructions are appropriately tracked and filed
- Prepare all monthly management, custody fees and registry fees calculations
- Prepare monthly management accounts and analytics
- Prepare half-year/year-end financial statements including relevant audit files
- Assist with periodic cashflow forecasts
- Prepare monthly/quarterly BAS returns.
Associate - AVP (Luxembourg Financial Reporting)
JPMorgan Services India Pvt. Ltd.
2018.03 - 2019.11
- Onboarding a mutual fund client which has over €250 billion AUM (Dec 2019) worldwide
- Managed mutual fund client which has over US$6 trillion AUM (March 2020) worldwide
- High level review of Financial Statements for blue chip and other mutual funds clients as per Lux GAAP, Dutch GAAP, Irish GAAP, IFRS and US GAAP
- Planning supervision and production of half yearly and yearly financial reports for blue chip and other mutual fund clients
- Review of Financial Statements draft comments from auditors and directors
- Resolving queries of clients on Financial Statements
- Interacting with onshore counterparts on a daily basis to understand client expectations and production progress.
Team Manager (Risk and P&L - Global Market Equities)
Deutsche Bank Group
2012.06 - 2014.08
Senior Financial Consultant
EisnerAmper (India) Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
2009.07 - 2012.05
- Audit of Onshore/Offshore/Stand-alone/Master-feeder Hedge Funds per US GAAP
- Audit testing using Bloomberg of year end prices and volume of securities
- Preparation of statements required by FAS 157 and FAS 161
- Preparation of tax returns for Onshore/Stand-alone/Master-feeder Hedge Funds
- Various complex tax testing like Straddles, Wash sales, Constructive sales etc
- Preparation of accounts for hedge funds on a monthly/quarterly basis
- Month end Cash and Portfolio Reconciliation, Pricing and NAV finalization
- Worked in the San Francisco office in 2008 for 4 months as a part of on-the-job training
- Returned to the San Francisco office in 2010 for 2 months to work on 'transition' of a new fund administration client.
Associate, Fund Accounting
GlobeOp Financial Services India Pvt. Ltd
2006.03 - 2007.10
Article Trainee
R.D.Kundalia & Co. (Chartered Accountants)
2001.02 - 2005.08
Education
Skills
- Comfortable with Special purpose packages eg ARMnet, Geneva, Bloomberg, Navision & Unity
- Proficient with MS Office applications Word and Excel
- Secured 97% in Computer Systems & Applications in BCom examination
Personal Information
Nationality: Permanent Resident of Australia
Timeline
Senior Investment Accountant
MaxCap Group
2022.03
Fund Accountant
BNP Paribas Securities Services
2021.11 - 2022.03
Fund Accountant (Managed Funds)
APN Property Group
2020.11 - 2021.10
Associate - AVP (Luxembourg Financial Reporting)
JPMorgan Services India Pvt. Ltd.
2018.03 - 2019.11
Team Manager (Risk and P&L - Global Market Equities)
Deutsche Bank Group
2012.06 - 2014.08
Senior Financial Consultant
EisnerAmper (India) Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
2009.07 - 2012.05
Associate, Fund Accounting
GlobeOp Financial Services India Pvt. Ltd
2006.03 - 2007.10
Article Trainee
R.D.Kundalia & Co. (Chartered Accountants)
2001.02 - 2005.08