KRISHNENDU CHATTERJEE

Finance professional with 14 years of experience in fund accounting for hedge funds, private equity,real estate,infrastructure fund, specializing in US and UK domiciled funds. Proven track record of working with leading investment banks and asset management firms, managing diverse fund structures. Adept in preparing waterfall models and investor allocations. Possess 9 years of leadership experience, having successfully managed teams of up to 25 members, delivering quality results.

Technical Expertise

• Review and perform computation of monthly flash, quarterly and annual Net asset value for the funds which are in house along with funds which are prepared by fund admin.
• Review and perform quarterly close processes, including review work of external administrators, along with producing work papers and analysis.
• Review and perform quarterly and annual GAAP financial statements and footnote disclosures for multiple funds, capital account summaries for limited partners, investor reports, quarterly and annual Fi-Hi.
• Review and perform quarterly regulatory reporting like form ADV, AIFMD, Form PF and other specific investor reporting such as ILPA reporting, Aberdeen reporting, QDIF etc.
• Review and perform computation of fees such as management and performance fee, various types of accruals and payments, working capital, equity pickups.
• Calculation-pro forma return ratio projection summary (ESCROW) and IBCI.
• Review and perform quarterly portfolio summary for the fund family.
• Review and perform computation of quarterly total weighted returns for the funds, gross and net IRR.
• Review and perform cash breaks, cash flow projections, and analyse daily cash management, investments in MMF.
• Review and approval of expense activity/ bank wires and performing monthly reimbursables recon and allocation of expense.
• Contribute to the valuation process, calculation of gross to net adjustments and preparation of valuation committee materials. Also quarterly perform SOX tie outs of the investments for which valuation performed.
• Review and perform capital activities such as capital calls, distributions. Includes preparing distribution and funding analysis-liquidity and projected cash flows, investment capital commitment summary and distribution from investments, capital committed deployed, quarterly PCAPS statement and publishing in IPCC, distribution to investors using Plutus.
• Review and perform waterfall calculation- realized and unrealised through systems (Poseidon, triton) and manual calculation through excel.

Team Management

• Conducting 1:1 meeting on monthly basis with team leads to discuss on their performance.
• Daily work allocation among the team members and monitoring all the deliverables are schedule on time.
• Capacity Management, raising of access, conducting trainings for the team members, leave management, overtime management.
• Preparing monthly KPI and MIS reports which need to be presented to higher officials.
• Analytic work on continuous improvement focusing on creating higher efficiency and better controls.
• Provide overall direction to fund accounting team to assure synchronized teamwork that accomplishes monthly, quarterly, and annual financial and operational goals & objectives.
• Ensure process and procedures are adequate to meet quality standards and are consistently applied and regularly reviewed.
• Liaise with a wide range of internal stakeholders and external service providers to ensure the quality and timely flow of financial data.