Aditya Kathuria

Product Manager

Gurugram, Haryana, India11 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 11 years in financial operations and accounting.
Expert in streamlining operations for investment firms.
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Financial Operations Specialist with expertise in asset management and investment accounting.

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Skills

Core Skills

Investment AccountingOperationsAsset ServicingSecuritization TransactionsOnboardingReconciliationPnl ResolutionCash ManagementTrade SupportFund ClosureTrade ReconciliationOperational Risk MitigationFinancial Operations

Other Skills

AccountingAnalysisAnalytical SkillsBusiness AnalysisCash settlementsClient communicationCommission rulesCorporate FinanceCost/Benefit analysisCurrencies Spots and ForwardsCustomized reportingData AnalysisData visibilityDeliverables transitionFinance

About

Dynamic and talented professional having more than 11 years of in-depth financial operations and accounting experience working with Hedge funds and asset based finance funds. Proven expertise in streamlining operations and accounting functions for complex boutique investment firms. Team leader with effective communication and inter personal skills, capable of collaborating effectively with stakeholders and cross-functional teams. Strong analytical and problem solving abilities with focus on effective long term solutions.

Experience

Arcesium

2 roles

Senior Manager

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Investment accounting and Operations, Asset servicing, Reconciliation, PnL & NAV reporting , Product life cycle of all major asset classes , Onboarding of Hedge funds/ Private Credit and Daily NAV (40-Act) Asset based finance funds, Project management and Expertise in designing solutions for Alternative lending speciality finance businesses.

Investment accountingOperationsAsset servicingReconciliationPnL reportingNAV reporting+1

Manager

Jan 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

End to end asset servicing of Consumer loans, Residential loans, Private credit, Risk transfers, MBS and ABS
Helping alternative lending speciality businesses streamline their operations .
Assisting alternative lending boutique firms in execution of securitization transactions , providing full data visibility to the clients and ensuring transparent accounting.
Helping clients in onboarding new loan servicers with end to end processing of the loan tapes on a daily basis and ensuring data/P&l accuracy.
Assisting trading desks with required data to make informed trading decisions.
Prepare Manager’s Accounting reports for the private vehicles for every month.
Creating customized reporting for clients to help visualize the data better.

Asset servicingSecuritization transactionsData visibilityLoan processingCustomized reporting

Stone ridge asset management

Consultant

Nov 2019 – Feb 2020 · 3 mos · New York, United States

Role included Trade support, settlements and cash management for a portfolio of more than 400,000 consumer loans as well as ABS, FX and Cleared IRS. Total AUM - USD 3.5 Billion
Direct interaction with trading desk and more than 15 Alternative lending Peer 2 Peer platforms ( Fintech companies) on a daily basis.
Sole owner of all the Charge Off sales for all the Alt lending funds; tracking all the debt sales and providing a summary to the execution desk on a weekly basis.
Responsible for PNL Control and investigating PNL issues with Fund admin on a daily basis
Streamlined the EOD NAV process by building new control checks in the current processes.
Co-ordinated Securitization deals with investment banks and lending platforms on a monthly basis.
Responsible for delivering Manager accounting reports and settled waterfall distributions to investors for privately held Asset Backed Securities.

Trade supportCash managementPNL controlSecuritization deals

Balyasny asset management l.p.

Consultant

Aug 2018 – Nov 2018 · 3 mos · New York, United States

Responsible for Cash management for all Balyasny funds which involved debit compression for PMs, cleaning of all Asset/Liabilities for closed PMs, execution of spot FX trades for closed managers to collapse to FX exposure to USD.
In depth analysis of Cash requirements for Macro Closed Managers with open positions. Ensuring that only the appropriate cash is allocated to the closed BUs to meet the future settlements and sweeping the rest in order to ensure maximum utilisation of cash
Helped in OMNI move of 2 funds ( Total AUM - USD 5 Billion) in order to ensure effecient utilization of cash and minimal charges to the Managers.
Revamped all commission rules for futures agreement to ensure greater accuracy in application of commissions on futures and options on futures.
Involved in closure of a Balyasny fund which involved multiple intricacies.

Cash managementCommission rulesFund closure

Arcesium

2 roles

Finance Associate

Aug 2017 – Nov 2017 · 3 mos

Worked out of New York office for 4 months ,where the key responsibilities included Onboarding of new client fund, position transfers from existing fund to new fund, investigating & resolving PNL queries/issues raised by client and transitioning deliverables done out of NY to Hyderabad.

OnboardingPNL resolutionDeliverables transition

Senior Analyst

Jul 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Sole ownership of end to end on boarding of the futures and options for a Hedge fund client
Worked in conjunction with technology teams to roll out new reconciler for futures and options reconciliation. Closely involved in revamping of match keys to minimize risk and ensure proper mapping of broker records to proprietary records.
Leading daily client calls for resolving pending queries , where clients are based out of US
Hands on experience in reconciliation of Cleared IRS, Cleared CDX, Bonds, Repos and Reverse Repos, ensuring their settlements and following up with counter parties in case of any discrepancies.
Experience in On-boarding of new prime brokers as well as Positions/Portfolio transfer from one prime broker to another prime broker.
Responsible for cash settlements for all OTC products under ISDA agreement as well as Coupon settlements on Bond/Repo trades

OnboardingReconciliationClient communicationCash settlements

D.e. shaw & co.

Analyst

Apr 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad

Analyst -- Trade, Accounting and Operations (Futures,Options ,Energy and Fx group)
Mitigation of operational risk by Trade, Position and Cash Reconciliation of global listed Futures, Commodities, Energy futures and Options on a daily basis.
Reconciliation of Currency Forwards and Spots on a daily basis, reporting any mismatch and ensuring that the counter-parties agree to the pending settlements on the Currency FX trading.
Continuous interaction with Front Office, Middle Office and Prime Brokers to ensure that the trades settle within the settlement period and there are no trade failures.
Cost/Benefit analysis of a portfolio with various PB combinations that helps in cost savings and effective decision making. Experience in accounting for various income/expenses and assisting in Month-end close.
Investigating and resolving PNL differences between Front Office and Back office and ensuring that correct PNL is captured in books on a daily basis.

Trade reconciliationOperational risk mitigationCost/Benefit analysis

D. e. shaw india private limited

Summer Internship

Apr 2013 – Jun 2013 · 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Financial Analyst -- Financial Operations
Project- Tax Havens: International Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion
The project laid emphasis on the strategies used by the U.S. companies to avoid tax by making use of taxhavens.
It also included a comparative analysis of 3 tax havens and which tax haven is most tax effective if a U.S.company has to invest in India.

Financial operationsTax avoidance strategies