Ayoni Withanage
Auckland,New Zealand
Summary
I am a qualified financial professional with eight years of professional experience in finance, business administration, investment, and fund management. I am excellent at working with others to achieve a certain objective on time and with excellence. Having the ability to handle complex duties effectively & possessing the confidence to work as part of a team or independently. Looking to apply my eight years of finance knowledge and experience to a new challenge.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Fund Administrator/ Fund Accountant
Appello Services
06.2023 - Current
- Streamlined fund administration processes, resulting in increased efficiency and reduced operational costs.
- Managed daily reconciliation of cash and positions for accurate reporting to investors and regulatory agencies.
- Process and support all investor registry, distribution, payment operational processes.
- Reconcile fund investor positions to external records (fund accountants, custodian, and other registry records).
- Ensure that all investor details and transactions are all accurately and timely recorded and processed.
- Ensure all periodic reconciliation and operational processes completed accurately and on time.
- Assist with preparing/proofing monthly management financials for our client schemes.
- Assist fund accounting aspects of administering client schemes.
- Preparing and filling IRD payments.
- Investigate and resolve issues.
- Assist with project management and continuous management plans.
Portfolio and Investment Administrator/ Operator
Somerset Smith Partners
01.2019 - 05.2023
- Corporate actions- Review Corporate Actions notifications, providing information to advisors and processing all mandatory and voluntary corporate actions.
- Trade settlements- advising daily client, broker settlements and investigating and following up discrepancies with internal and external parties, handling and processing of settlements in currency from third party brokers, preparing daily trial balance of orders and processing contract notes, registering stocks, and handling manual registrations.
- Trade management- Placing buy and sell orders through brokers, allocating trades and following up on outstanding orders.
- Custody Administration- Actioning custodial client onboarding and outgoing process , receiving, monitoring, responding correspondences received from registries on behalf of clients and ensuring the timely receipt of custody client’s income that income flows according to client requirements.
- Compliance & reporting - Maintaining accurate up-to -date records of all client holdings and ensure all described activities conform with NZX rules and SSP written instructions.
- Preparing monthly portfolio analysis summary reports for higher management.
- Training and coaching new staff members and helping them to solve process related issues.
Fund Administrator
HSBC Sri Lanka
08.2014 - 02.2017
- Responsibilities include reconciliation of stock breaks, cash and derivative reconciliation, reconciliation of statements and records, KPI analysis, preparing reports, maintaining static data of investors, providing input for process improvement, resolving client queries, and compliance monitoring.
- Cash and Derivative reconciliation (custodians, Accounting and valuation, FX hedging, stocks reconciliations) combination of both Alternative Hedge funds and Traditional operation funds process.
- Reconciliation of the broker, custodian, bank, and investment manager statements and records.
- KPI (Key performance Indicator) analysis for outstanding discrepancies and following up with relevant teams.
- Identify exceptions and problems affecting accounting records and prices, communicating same to management, and assisting in their resolutions.
- Prepare reports for pricing and valuations.
- Input and maintain static data of investors.
- Provide input in relation to the review and monitoring of existing business processes, procedures, and checklists to maximize efficiency and productivity in the reconciliation team.
- Direct client deals and resolve client queries.
- Compliance and anti-money laundering monitoring and reporting.
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in International Studies
IPU Tertiary Institute
Palmerston North, NZ08.2018
Bachelor of Business Administration
University of Colombo
Colombo, Sri Lanka12.2014
Chartered Accountancy
Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka
Colombo, Sri Lanka07.2014
Skills
- Data Management
- Investment Management
- Due diligence
- Cash reconciliation
- Tax reporting
- Client Services
- Fund Accounting
Accomplishments
- Academic excellence awards (2018)- I have received academic excellence award for exceptional performance in academics from IPU New Zealand.
- Successfully completed certificate in proficiency of English conducted by English training unit of University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- Successfully completed National Certification in Computer Applications conducted by the western province ministry of education, Sri Lanka.
- Successfully completed the Information Technology for the Business Environment conducted by the Institute of chartered accountants of Sri Lanka.
Timeline
Fund Administrator/ Fund Accountant
Appello Services
06.2023 - Current
Portfolio and Investment Administrator/ Operator
Somerset Smith Partners
01.2019 - 05.2023
Fund Administrator
HSBC Sri Lanka
08.2014 - 02.2017
Postgraduate Diploma in International Studies
IPU Tertiary Institute
Bachelor of Business Administration
University of Colombo
Chartered Accountancy
Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka
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