PAVITHRA SHARMA
Quincy,MA
Summary
An Enthusiastic Professional with 8 years of experience in Fund Accounting. Good understanding of Mutual and Hedge Fund business operations and strong knowledge in calculations of Net asset value. Highly organized thought process and well-structured problem-solving capability. Organized team leader builds positive rapport, inspires trust and guides teams toward achievement of organizational goals.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Lead
Morgan Stanley
01.2019 - 03.2021
- Led a team of 4 accounting professionals, overseeing day-to-day fund accounting operations.
- Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training, and mentoring individuals with lagging skills.
- Managed and reviewed complex fund valuations, financial statements.
- Worked proactively with team manager in allocating work and training new recruits.
- Troubleshoot across team and ensured smooth nav delivery
Senior Associate
Morgan Stanley
12.2017 - 12.2018
- Worked on complex funds that involved various financial products like Swaps, Options, Forwards and Futures.
- Prepared financial statements and NAV calculations for hedge fund clients.
- Conducted thorough portfolio reconciliations and resolved complex discrepancies.
- Worked on month end procedures
- Interacted with account managers on daily basis to resolve questions and reconciliations differences
- Proactive in creating SOP's and building best practices across team.
- Successfully migrated funds, interacted with client and account managers on daily basis to understand client requirements.
- Developed various spread sheets as per fund prospectus and client requirements.
- Investor allocations
- Proactive in responding to ad-hoc requests from clients.
PROCESS LEAD
BNY MELLON
06.2017 - 12.2017
- Trained new recruits in FOF and EMEA hedge fund accounting.
- Reviewed worked done by preparers and helped in resolving breaks
- Worked on various process improvements and good practices thereby improving team performance and accuracy.
SENIOR FUND ADMIN
BNY Mellon
08.2013 - 05.2017
- Hedge Funds & Fund of Funds-Portfolio and Nav Accounting.
- Performing financial analysis: Evaluate fund performance, compare fund performance with benchmark performance, and analyze nav fluctuations.
- Worked on new migrations and developed SOP’s for the same
- Worked on various accounting platforms like Geneva, Investier, Lamp and Multifonds.
- Worked on Year end budgets and quarterly budgets.
- Respond to Auditor inquiries and prepare financial statements required for auditing.
- Actively participated in various initiative and community partnership programs.
- Received awards for excellent performance.
- Part of accounting academy training program
FUND ACCOUNTANT
BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES SERVICES
04.2012 - 05.2013
- Daily accounting of assigned fund
- Cash, Stock & TA Reconciliation
- Trades, Corporate Actions and Pricing
- Calculation of NAV
- Worked on exceptions tool and ensuring Nav controls are in place
- Worked on month end and year end closing of funds
- Generate routine and ad-hoc financial statements for management
- Analyze root causes of accounting discrepancies and provide corrective actions
- Resolve accounting variances and posting monthly closing accruals
Management Trainee
HERITAGE FOODS RETAIL INDIA LTD
04.2011 - 09.2011
- Studied various operations in retail- front end and back end
- Store operations, logistics and warehouse, promotions, buying and merchandise, accounting etc.
Education
MBA -
SRM University
2011
Bachelor of Commerce - undefined
MOP Vaishnav College for Women
2009
XII th Grade - undefined
St Mary’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School
2006
X th - undefined
St Mary’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School
2004
Skills
- Team Leadership
- Mentoring team members
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong technical knowledge
- Strong analytical skills
- Best practices
- Fund Accounting with exposure to operations (ie products and trade process knowledge)
Languages
English
Full Professional
Tamil
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Kannada
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Team Lead
Morgan Stanley
01.2019 - 03.2021
Senior Associate
Morgan Stanley
12.2017 - 12.2018
PROCESS LEAD
BNY MELLON
06.2017 - 12.2017
SENIOR FUND ADMIN
BNY Mellon
08.2013 - 05.2017
FUND ACCOUNTANT
BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES SERVICES
04.2012 - 05.2013
Management Trainee
HERITAGE FOODS RETAIL INDIA LTD
04.2011 - 09.2011
MBA -
SRM University
Bachelor of Commerce - undefined
MOP Vaishnav College for Women
XII th Grade - undefined
St Mary’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School
X th - undefined
St Mary’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School