Amritaa Praveen

- Successfully transitioned real estate fund accounting and property review activities to the India team, ensuring seamless knowledge transfer and operational efficiency.

- Gained extensive experience in administrative services, fund accounting, property reviews, and portfolio analytics.

Fund Administration - As part of fund administration, I managed funding requests submitted by property managers or clients. This involved validating funding requests and coordinating with the Treasury team for timely fund releases.

Property Level Services : I was responsible for conducting two types of property level services

-Transaction-Based Property Review: Imported property transactions into the Yardi platform.
Reviewed property manager accounting statements, capital expenditures, rent trends, and financial analysis.
Identified inconsistencies and collaborated with property managers for necessary corrections.

-Financial Review of Property Manger data: Analyzed financial reports provided by property managers.
Reviewed key metrics, including trends, Schedule N, Schedule J,rent reports,CAM, management fees, budget-to-actual comparisons, and accruals.
Ensured accuracy and provided confirmations to the fund team.

Fund Accounting -Once the property review process was completed, I move to fund accounting activities.

-Prepared cash reconciliations, accruals, amortization schedules (tax ,insurance,Vendor payments) and administrative fee schedules.

- Prepare the journal entries and upload the same to yardi application.

- Post the quarterly valuations.

- Work on the top side related entries.

- Reviewed financial statements and delivered final reports to clients.

Portfolio Analytics: Managed investor reporting following client approval of the quarterly NAV.Compiled and reported investor data to support future investment decisions.

Technical and Software Skills

Yardi: Extensive experience in financial postings, roll-up functions, and report generation.

TLM (Transaction Lifecycle Management): Proficient in cash reconciliation processes.

Baseline & ECRM: Hands-on experience in financial data management and client relationship tools.

Broker Websites: Familiar with platforms such as JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and Capital One for financial transactions and data retrieval.

Client Share Portals: Experienced in managing and accessing client financial information securely.

Received multiple commendations from the onshore team, clients, and property managers for successfully migrating activities and maintaining high-quality work standards.

Appreciations

- Recognized with Employee of the Quarter and Star Awards for outstanding performance and contributions.

- Developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and checklists for newly migrated funds to ensure process consistency.

Trainings Provided

- Provided in-depth training on Real Estate (RE) funds, equipping the team with essential domain knowledge.

- Conducted training sessions for new joiners on the real estate process and Yardi application to enhance their proficiency.

Review Functions

- Ensuring accuracy by verifying and correcting activities performed by preparers.

- Assisted preparers in production and troubleshooting issues to maintain workflow efficiency.

- Supported the onshore team by preparing and delivering audit reports.

HEDGE FUND ACCOUNTING

Roles and Responsibilities

• Reconciliation of Cash and Stock recon on daily basis for multiple brokers
• Saving various broker reports i.e JPM,CITI,ML,GS,MS etc form broker website's and Emails.
• Reconciled Derivatives and equity products
• Analyzing and researching the breaks between custody and broker and ensured that they are properly cleared.
• Provided proper investigation for the breaks and queried with the client for the optimal solution.
• Gathering various Bloomberg screen's to investigate and provide backs for Corporate action's, Security details and coupon interest.
• Processed resets and interest for CFD products.
• Worked with operations team for clearing and correcting trade related entries.
• Supported Offshore team towards clearing and querying the aged breaks.
• Providing proper communication to the Offshore team incase of any delay's.
• Worked on Complex clients.

Trainings and Support

• Provided training's to new joiners regarding the process and products.
• Supported team members incase of any issues and leave coverages.
• Supported Team leaders for preparing proper leave allocation and fund allocation plans.
• Provided trainings to other team members during TLMP migration.

Operational Skills

• A dynamic 5.6 years of experience toward reconciliation of hedge funds.
• Good knowledge of accounting software's like ERP,IGLS NAV,RXP and TLMP.
• Very flexible and adaptable to any work environment.
• Maintained excellent attendance record, consistently arriving to work on time.