GUNJAN BHUTANI
Dublin,Dublin
Summary
Highly skilled professional with extensive expertise in financial software systems including Investran, Geneva, Investone, GFAS, MCWS, PAG, and Xtrac. Proficient in advanced Excel functions such as VLOOKUPs and Sumifs, complemented by strong MS Office capabilities. Demonstrates exceptional time-management skills and an excellent work ethic. Committed to customer service excellence and effective team building. Career goal: to leverage technical proficiency and collaborative skills to drive operational efficiency within a dynamic financial services environment.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work history
Associate Director – Fund Accounting
HIGHVERN IRELAND
Dublin, Ireland
07.2024 - 02.2025
- Oversee the weekly and monthly NAV reporting process for timely and quality delivery
- On boarding new clients
- Attending board meetings
- Agreeing budgets with client
- Audit cycle
- Managed and supervised team members, providing mentorship and guidance.
- Built key stakeholder relationships to foster collaboration and partnerships.
- Promoted a positive work environment through proactive conflict resolution steps.
- Coordinated hiring, recruitment and training strategies to build successful administrative team.
Assistant Vice President - Private Equity
JP Morgan Dublin
07.2021 - 06.2024
- Experienced in Private Equity and Private Debt funds
- Outsourced Fund accounting model, coordinating with onshore and offshore teams for regular and timely deliverables
- Regular staff training
- Excellent understanding of end to end fund life cycle
- Managing and allocation of tasks in the team
- Oversight of monthly, quarterly and annual reporting
- Regulatory reporting – monthly and quarterly
- Review of NAV, Capital Events and Management Fee calculations
- Leading year end audits
- Process improvement and automation
- Regular KPIs presentation for the private equity group
Sr Fund Accountant - Private Equity & Real Estate
Citco Fund Services Dublin
01.2020 - 04.2021
- Monthly and quarterly NAV reporting package
- Interpreting Legal documents LPAs
- Reviewing Capital call, distributions and sub close calculations
- Preparation and reviewing of financial reports
- SME for the process, which includes updating procedure and training the team
- Liaising with various teams to obtain fund information
- Daily huddle presentation
- Diverse knowledge of various fund products including private equity, mutual funds and money market funds
- Preparation of Board Reports and reviewing with the various team managers
Sr Fund Analyst - Private Equity & Real Estate
SEI Investments Dublin
08.2018 - 12.2019
- Understanding complex fund structures and processing the cash, accruals as per the accounting policies
- Month end and quarter end reporting - MIS
- Seeking valuations from client or counterparts to ensure the investments are valued at the market value
- Processing Capital events and corporate actions
- Communicating with financial reporting, investor relations and other teams to get appropriate information
- Preparing and Reviewing Board reports
- Running investor allocations to make sure each investor has the correct number of shares and value
Fund Accountant
Fidelity International Dublin
03.2017 - 08.2018
- Daily NAV calculations
- Reconciliation of Cash & Stock
- Monthly expense calculation & processing
- Invoice processing - liaising with a number of teams
- Daily, weekly and monthly reporting
- Projects - Testing of NAV automation tool
- Team mailbox project - Helped getting one place for all the stakeholders
- Training the new joiners in the team
Client Services Administrator - Money Market Funds
Fidelity International
02.2016 - 03.2017
- Placing trades received via various platforms like swift, fax, web and Phone
- Processing payments and receipts
- Management of client cash deposits
- Dealing with daily cut offs for various currencies
- Responding to audit requests from clients and auditors
Senior Customer Service Associate in Banking & Reconciliations
Fidelity International – Gurgaon, India
12.2008 - 12.2010
- Reconciliations of distributions for onshore (OEICs, Investment Trusts and Third Party funds) and Offshore Funds
- Retrieving Distribution data from Third parties
- Requesting distributions amount from custodian
- Dealing with daily cut offs for various funds
- Sign off distributions for Fidelity onshore, Offshore and over 1000 third party funds
- Money movements in the accounts and application to the correct client accounts
- Liaising with Fund Accounting, dealings team and customer services
- Handling mailboxes – Responding to queries from various teams
- Corporate actions processing
- Weekly and monthly Management reporting
- SME for the Banking & Reconciliations and Customer Services team
Sr. Customer Service Associate in Customer Contact Centre
Fidelity International
12.2005 - 11.2008
- Handing telephone queries from Customers and Financial advisors
- Placing deals on investor accounts
- Liaising with various teams in order to resolve issues on client accounts
Education
Masters in Business Management -
Dublin City University
Professional Certificate - Investment Fund Services
Institute of Banking and University College Dublin
Accounting
ACCA
Dublin, IrelandSkills
- Investran
- Geneva
- Excel functions
- VLOOKUPs
- Sumifs
- MS Office
- Investone
- GFAS
- MCWS
- PAG
- JP Morgan
- Xtrac
- Time-management
- Excellent work ethic
- Customer service excellence
- Team building
Accomplishments
- Star of the Quarter award for handling month end volumes, staff trainings and team handling in absence of supervisor efficiently.
- Shining star Awards for handling huge volumes with high quality and Productivity.
- ISA Platinum Award winner for highest quality, productivity during ISA season (High Volume Period).
Custom
- Excellent knowledge of Investran and Geneva.
- Proficient in Excel functions like VLOOKUPs, Sumifs.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office.
- Knowledge of Investone, GFAS, MCWS, PAG, JP Morgan and Xtrac.
Timeline
Associate Director – Fund Accounting
HIGHVERN IRELAND
07.2024 - 02.2025
Assistant Vice President - Private Equity
JP Morgan Dublin
07.2021 - 06.2024
Sr Fund Accountant - Private Equity & Real Estate
Citco Fund Services Dublin
01.2020 - 04.2021
Sr Fund Analyst - Private Equity & Real Estate
SEI Investments Dublin
08.2018 - 12.2019
Fund Accountant
Fidelity International Dublin
03.2017 - 08.2018
Client Services Administrator - Money Market Funds
Fidelity International
02.2016 - 03.2017
Senior Customer Service Associate in Banking & Reconciliations
Fidelity International – Gurgaon, India
12.2008 - 12.2010
Sr. Customer Service Associate in Customer Contact Centre
Fidelity International
12.2005 - 11.2008
Professional Certificate - Investment Fund Services
Institute of Banking and University College Dublin
Masters in Business Management -
Dublin City University
Accounting
ACCA
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