Lokesh Goyal

CEO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India16 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in post trade operations and automation.
Proven track record in managing cross-functional teams.
Strong background in financial analysis and modeling.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional with expertise in post-trade operations and financial automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Post Trade OperationsTeam ManagementAccountingOperations ManagementReconciliationCash Flow ManagementAutomationCash ReconciliationData ManagementCash ManagementData Reconciliation

Other Skills

Data MigrationDerivativesEquitiesCapital MarketsCorporate FinanceFinancial ModelingValuationStrategic Financial PlanningInvestment BankingPortfolio ManagementFixed IncomeRisk ManagementFinancial MarketsHedge FundsEquity Valuation

About

Years of experience in Hedge Fund industry’s post trade operations, bordering on automation and efficiency. Proven ability to manage multiple projects and meeting challenging deadlines while simultaneously coordinating cross teams efforts.

Experience

16 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

8 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

10 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Arcesium

3 roles

Vice President, Financial Operations

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

Senior Manager

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos

 Managing a multi-member team to handle back office operations of various multi-manager investment funds, including a few SMAs, trading in diverse asset classes
 Working with client representatives of investment funds to understand their requirement on accounting and modeling structured deals and fund of funds investments, involving multi layer investments and cash flow sources, and delivering the best possible solution.
 Continuously working with the team to ensure that every member in the team is motivated and focused on the team goals, thereby achieving maximum productivity for the team.
 Ensuring that proper training is imparted to the team to hone their skills and understanding of various asset classes and internal processes
 Working with different internal teams assigned to multiple operational expertise, for post trade accounting and reporting, and ensuring that process handling and delivery to internal teams is optimum.

Post Trade OperationsTeam Management

Manager

Jul 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

 Handling accounting and operations of secondary market loans portfolio.
 Assisting in client data migration to internal platforms by mapping the client data to in-house accounting tool’s requirement and loading client’s data into the internal system via manual entries.
 Performing TB tie-outs between internal and client/client’s third party admin to ensure data correctness and completeness for both balance sheet and income statement accounts.
 Liaise with various internal and external teams, including clients and their investment managers, to resolve data discrepancies or respond to client queries.
 Handling a team under SwapOps for total return swaps in convertible arbitrage strategy.
 Responsible for daily position, Swap MTM and financing reconciliations, cash flow & reset settlement for various clients including month end support for outstanding breaks and binder generation.
 Provide assistance to auditors and fund administrators during the audit and NAV finalization process.
 Work with technology teams when needed-assist in special projects, developing bespoke reports, product implementation and testing, fixing bugs in the existing tools.

AccountingOperations Management

The d. e. shaw group

3 roles

Manager

Promoted

Jan 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

 Responsible for daily position, Swap MTM and financing reconciliations.
 Responsible for unwind reconciliations and cash flow settlements.
 Perform monthly reset reconciliations and liaise with the prime brokers/investment managers to handle discrepancies and settle cash flows.
 Liaise with other internal functions like pricing, middle office and collateral management to resolve discrepancies and/or respond to internal queries.
 Supporting month-end accounting close; providing adequate support for outstanding breaks, and preparation of month-end binder for Swap accruals.
 Provide assistance to auditors and fund administrators during the audit and NAV finalization process.

ReconciliationCash Flow Management

Senior Analyst

Jan 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

 Cash Rec UI: Automating the Cash Rec created during Daily Close project to reduce human intervention and thereby reducing operational risk.
 Automation of cash interest postings on the PB accounts to specific categories based on the broker data thereby eliminating human intervention and allowing timely reconciliation of the cash related data.
 Working with TAO and tech teams to streamline broker file parsing by moving PBs to swift platform for cash reporting.
 Geneva to CODA (G2C): Automating the process of uploading Geneva Trial Balance to CODA (Firm’s reporting tool) by providing the business logic to the tech teams.
 Preparing various reports for TAO to enable exception based workflow. Some of the reports includes:
 Wires Exception Report
 Cash Rec Exception Report – a combination of various exceptions related to cash reconciliation.
 Responsible for daily position and cash reconciliation for Private Equity India fund providing adequate support for outstanding breaks, and preparation of month-end binder for the strategy.

AutomationCash Reconciliation

Financial Analyst

Mar 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

 Daily Close: An across the firm project enabling back office to account for firm’s exposure to various counterparties in terms of cash balances and receivable/payable on a daily basis.
 Working with a team to assist TAO to move towards automated, excel based Cash Rec as against manual to enable category level reconciliation of trade date and settle date cash.
 Creation of various sub accounts at each counterparty entity level and start trade bookings and cash reconciliation for each sub account.
 Creation of Geneva Trial Balance to reflect the status of the firm’s exposure at any given day using Geneva (firm’s accounting tool).
 Assisting TAO to clean up the trial balance off the old accounts and have all the balances on the newly created sub accounts.

Cash ManagementData Reconciliation

Karvy commodities

Managenet Trainee

Feb 2008 – May 2008 · 3 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Completed my summer Internship at Karvy Comtrade. Worked on a live project to help the company in making the decision to take the membership of the upcoming exchange Safal National Exchange. During the four months period learned about various derivative instruments traded in India and how the commodity markets in India are functioning.