• Pre-trade and post-trade compliance
  
  • Compliance monitoring of pre- and post-trade alerts on compliance platforms
    
  • Investigate and report potential active/ passive breaches as per investment and regulatory guidelines

• Compliance risk management and monitoring
  
  • Address ad hoc query resolution related to trading, portfolio guidelines and regulatory requirements
    
  • Conduct regular reviews and updates, and mitigate compliance risk to solve issues

• Guidelines interpretation and coding
  
  • New fund launches/ changes to existing accounts; IMA and prospectus review, including investment objective, rule coding and testing on compliance platforms
    
  • Update securities/ issuers/ entity list for various portfolios based on client/ regulatory requirements
    

• Fund accounting
  
  • Financial statements review - detailed review of the financial statements of mutual funds/ hedge funds prepared as per the US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and International Financial Report Standards guidelines
    
  • Net asset value (NAV) preparation - monthly NAVs, ancillary activities, and annual and semi-annual financial reporting for hedge funds
    
  • Regulatory reporting - prepare N-PORT, N-CEN, CPO-PQR, etc. and approve them on the client portal
  • Portfolio valuation services - include swing pricing, unchanged priced report, levelling report, PE unrestricted securities, and procedure deep-dive
  • Expense approvals - process UCTIS (undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities) and 1940 Act expenses in Concur and FES software, respectively, and provide wire instructions to the relevant team
  • Process class action lawsuits
  • Financial planning and analysis - expense budgeting and income forecasting for client funds
  • Tax reporting - tax calculation (advance tax, income tax return) for client funds domiciled in India

• Performance reporting - prepare performance reports for clients on various platforms
  
• Client performance checks and reviews - portfolio/ accounts performance review and correction; analysis of client performance for various asset classes and performance products
• Daily tasks - benchmark set-up, returns upload, inception date set-up, billing report, fund transfers, holding transfer, performance outliers, etc.
• Third-party support - liaise with other third-party vendor support teams to onboard clients on reporting platforms

• Cash and position reconciliation
  
  • Daily, weekly and monthly custody reconciliation of cash and positions for the US
    
  • Investigate discrepancies, resolve them or escalate to the appropriate teams
    

• IBoR reconciliation
  
  • Daily, weekly and monthly reconciliation of cash and positions for Singapore
    

• Cost basis reconciliation
  
  • Daily, weekly and monthly cost basis custody reconciliation
    
  • Resolve queries from admins and assist them in new account onboarding, account closing or cost basis maintenance
    

• Corporate actions
  
  • Investigate discrepancies and either resolve them or escalate to the corporate actions team
    

Enhance portfolio value in the post-deal value chain for private market firms

• Cash optimisation, rationalisation and controls, supply-chain optimisation
  
  • Review financial transactions and budget variances
    
  • Evaluate capital projects and priorities
    
  • Analyse redundant workflows that can be automated
  • Evaluate supplier reliability to renegotiate terms and enhance real-time visibility in the supply chain

• Strategic repositioning and performance improvement
  
  • M&A synergies - integrate market and peer set data to identify right-fit opportunities and synergy opportunities
    
  • Product/ services innovation - design surveys to perform analysis of the existing products and services; conduct competitor analysis to identify potential gaps, and market share growth analysis
  • Revenue growth - conduct market research to identify new geographical markets and facilitate customer base diversification to expand market share
  • Data-driven decision-making - analyse customer purchase patterns and feedback, evaluate effectiveness of marketing campaigns, and integrate and streamline data workflows

• Asset optimisation
  
  • Balance-sheet efficiency - monitor and manage asset turnover and utilisations; manage asset lifecycle to plan timely upgrades, disposals and replacements
    
  • Capital structure optimisation - evaluate the mix of equity and debt and assess the cost of capital regularly; conduct financial assessment, scenario planning and ongoing monitoring of working capital