VENKATASUBRAMANIAM MURTHY
Chennai,India
Summary
Senior Specialist -Fund accounting Recon Resolution with 9+ years of experience in fund accounting, reconciliation and exception management across investment operations. Skilled in resolving cash, position, NAV and transaction breaks with strong focus on accuracy, control, audit readiness and process improvement.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
Senior Associate – Financial Reporting
BNY Mellon
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
02.2022 - Current
- Perform daily review of cash, position , NAV, and transaction level reconciliations.
- Investigate breaks using accounting records, custody data, market activity, and operational workflows.
- Resolve exceptions accurately within agreed timelines; escalate aged material, and high-risk items.
- Tracked, documented, and evidenced all reconciling items to ensure audit readiness.
- Prioritize aged items based on materiality, client impact, and reporting deadlines.
- Facilitated month-end, quarter-end, and year-end reconciliation processes.
- Identify recurring issues and root causes, propose process improvements, and control enhancements.
- Maintain adherence to operational procedure, risk controls, and service expectations.
- Provide exception trends, root causes, and resolutions for management reporting.
- Support migration and change activity impacting reconciliation processes
- Coach Junior team members on investigation and resolution practices.
- Managed client onboarding processes to ensure compliance with company policies.
- Managed client inquiries and provided timely resolutions for service-related issues.
- Collaborated with team members to enhance operational efficiency and streamline processes
- Developed training materials and conducted sessions for new staff onboarding procedures.
- Worked in AI integration and automation.
Senior Associate Operations
BNP Paribas
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
03.2017 - 01.2022
- Reconciled Cash transactions and position holdings records to custodian, transfer agent and portfolio accounting group on a daily basis.
- Reconciled Cash transactions and position holdings records to custodian, transfer agent and portfolio accounting group on daily basis.
- Prepared and submitted cash balance projections /cash movements/ cash availability in detail to clients on a daily basis.
- Calculated daily income accruals, interest/dividend payments, distribution, expense and complex foreign payments supported by a clearly documented and compliant report.
- Ensured accuracy of the fund's trade, cash transactions, corporate actions and verified securities prices to properly value portfolios.
- Created issue logs daily and provided necessary responses to the department's inquiries.
Education
MBA - Finance & Marketing
D.G Vaishnav
Chennai01-2014
B.A - Business Economics
D.G Vaishnav
Chennai01-2012
Skills
- Reconciliation Analysis
- Break investigation and resolution
- Fund accounting Knowledge
- Exception management
- Root cause analysis
- Risk and control awareness
- Process improvement
- Reporting and Documentation
- Compliance monitoring
- Reconciliation Tool
- Team collaboration
- Workflow automation
- Project coordinating
Accomplishments
- Manage stakeholder mapping and prepare communications to stakeholders and respond to stakeholder enquiries
- Ensure escalations are reviewed and control point has been discussed with client. Have experience in handling their queries efficiently.
- Effective use of JIRA dashboard in tracking and reporting project status.
- Delivered high quality presentations, Demos, Training videos alongside actively managing iteration planning.
- Documented procedures and business processes and shared information with appropriate stakeholders.
- Conducting brainstorming sessions within the team to resolve daily BAU issues and to improve efficiency in process.
Languages
English
Full Professional
Tamil
Professional Working
Timeline
Senior Associate – Financial Reporting
BNY Mellon
02.2022 - Current
Senior Associate Operations
BNP Paribas
03.2017 - 01.2022
B.A - Business Economics
D.G Vaishnav
MBA - Finance & Marketing
D.G Vaishnav