1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Teella. Atchuta Rao
#30, 1st
Cross, Ground
Muneshwara Temple Street
Kempapura
Hebbal Mobile No: +91 - 99025 77364
Bangalore - 560024 E-mail ID: atchut.teella@gmail.com
Professional knowledge:
• Proven skills in managing the Complete Cycle of Hedge Fund and Mutual Fund operations like, customer service, fund
accounting Services, back office operations, establishing data integrity, quality checks, errors recurrence monitoring,
transaction process activities, process flow controls, Asset Management Services.
• Domain expertise on Fund Administration (Hedge Fund, Mutual Fund) & Registrar and Transfer Agency functions with
intimate knowledge of concepts and business practices in this domain.
• Exposed to SDLC in Mutual Fund domain.
• Fair knowledge in Capital Markets, Fixed Income & Derivative Markets, fair idea of the operations/market participants in
the mutual fund/ hedge fund industry.
Professional Experience:
1. Currently working as a “Technical Coordinator’ (UK Transfer Agency operations, Distributions & Technical Team)” with
“Northern Trust Pvt Ltd.”, Bangalore from 7th September 2015 to till date.
Job Profile:
• Allocating & Reviewing (quality checking) various stages of distributions, initial and renewal commissions, regular saves,
regular withdrawals, reissuing of outstanding distribution amounts to the clients and reviewing funding forms for the
distributions & commissions to be paid as per SLAs agreed.
• Ensure daily, weekly, monthly & adhoc reports are done and sending confirmation mails to the onshore teams &
operations manager.
• Ensure that the work is allocated to all the partners and make sure that the work is completed within the timelines given.
• Make sure that the productivity and errors are logged in respective trackers on daily basis.
• Regular reviews of procedures assuring new processes are documented.
• Identify business knowledge gaps and ensure everyone has ownership of deliverables.
• Responsible for all the management reports and activities in the absence of Team Leader & ensure that deliverables
should go on time without failing on turnaround time (TAT).
• Investigating & resolving the various queries pertains to distribution, commission, regular saver, regular withdrawal &
reissues.
• Train the new partners to ensure adequate back-ups are created for all the processes.
• Liasing with the London counterparts to resolve the issues if any on daily basis.
• Participation in specification, design, user testing and implementation of new business requirements.
2. Worked as an “Assistant Manager (Reliance Mutual Fund, Transfer Agency operations)” from November 2014 to Aug
2015, worked as an Assistant Manager (Goldman Sachs MF, TA operations) from October 2008 to Feb 2013 & worked as an
Executive (LIC MF) from August 2004 to May 2007 with “Karvy Computer share Pvt Ltd.”, Hyderabad.
Job Profile:
• Provide overall supervision, leadership and guidance to the 36 member team during their shift operating window.
• Client relation ship management, process enhancement and implementation of changes as per client requirement.
Overlooking the complete UAT process of new scheme launches.
• Review staffing, Employee engagement and volume trends to ensure the optimal capacity plan is in place.
• Develop an environment of continuous focus on quantifiable productivity and quality.
• Constant and regular review of processes and performance with focus on improving departmental competency and
performance rating.
• Constant and regular review for direct reports. Set expectations with direct reports, regarding positive motivation and
leading through accountability.
• Develop and lead a team that is responsive to dynamic organizational and operational changes.
• Foster and champion High Performance Culture where people are empowered to make decisions that affect their

2. work/environment.
• Responsible for operations like transaction processing(Purchase, Redemption & Switch transactions), dividend processing,
redemption and switch funding, Purchase, Redemption & switch reconciliation & posting controls to fund accountant &
ensure that deliverables should go on time without failing on turnaround time (TAT).
• Ensure that the commercial & Non-commercial transactions are processed as per procedures laid down.
• Ensure that the targets are assigned in accordance with the SLAs are met.
• Ensure that the quality of transactions is in compliance with predefined parameters.
• Identifying and making process improvements.
• Provide the relevant process reports (MIS) on a daily, weekly, monthly basis and as and when the client requires.
• Resolving the various queries pertaining to purchase, redemption, switch, dividend & brokerage processes raised by the
investors, branches & Asset Management Company (Client).
• Ensuring the process controls are in place to avoid the errors while processing.
• Ensuring the work is processed accurately, completely and agreed upon timelines (as per SLA) and follows appropriate
procedures & controls.
• Identifying operational risks proactively and mitigating appropriately.
• Train team members to ensure adequate back-ups are created for all critical functions and assist other teams during
contingencies (High volumes, in the absence of any of the team member etc).
• Working closely with the process owners (AMC) and other stakeholders for overall growth of business.
• Co-coordinating with the senior management for various initiatives.
• Serving as an operational expert for queries from clients, investors etc.
• Serving as an internal and external escalation point.
• Interacting with software department for product specifications, validations, developments, functional testing &
implementation.
3. Worked as an SME (Asst Manager, CITI Hedge Fund TA & Accounting Operations)” with “HCL Technologies Ltd”, SP
Infocity, Gurgaon, from March 2013 to June 2014.
Job Profile:
• Performing & Reviewing of trades, trade settlements, Cash Reconciliations, Contract Notes, Funding Memos, Wires
(Financial Transactions), TACM (Non-Financial Transactions) audits and preparing various monthly & adhoc reports
done by the team members and sending sign off mails to the onshore teams.
• New investor creation in Contact Manager (Internal Software) for the initial subscriptions done for the first time.
• Performing trade (Subscriptions, Redemptions, Switches & Transfers) processing on completion of trade uploads by
Indexing team.
• New client and New fund creations in AIS portal which is Citi’s internal platform.
• Reconciliation of trades processed vs funds received and TAP vs LOG.
• Generate, prepare and send various kinds of regular & adhoc reports to client based on their requirement.
• Identify, investigate, research, resolution and escalation of trade breaks on a timely manner.
• Get trained on new projects and funds and then cross-train the team members...
• Identify errors and assign reasons for the same in rework tracker.
• Performing daily activities diligently without defaulting on SLA.
• Coordinating with onshore team, Indexing and Portfolio Evaluation teams to resolve the issues if any.
4. Worked as a “Fund Administrator” (Alternate Fund Services Management)” with “HSBC Securities Services Pvt Ltd.”,
Kolkata, from June 2007 to July 2008.
Job Profile:
• Performing & Reviewing of reconciliations done by the team members and sending sign off mails to the portfolio
Valuation teams and jurisdictions and escalate the issues timely.
• Downloading the required prime broker and fund manager reports (GENEVA, which is Hedge Fund Accounting Tool) in
order to perform reconciliation activities.
• Performing both cash and position reconciliation on completion of trade uploads by trade input team.
• Identify, investigate, research, resolution and escalation of trade breaks on a timely manner.
• Ensuring the pricing sign-offs & deliverables on timely manner.
• Migration of funds by performing activities like spread sheet template preparation for reconciliation.
• Get trained on new funds and then cross-train the team members.
• Manual pricing of securities with the help of Bloomberg and trade capture within prescribed control procedures.

3. • Identify errors and assign reasons for the same in CQI sheet.
• Performing daily activities diligently without defaulting on PLA.
• Liasing with Market Data, Trade Input, Portfolio Evaluation and Prime broker/custodians to resolve outstanding
reconciliation breaks.
• Identifies the opportunities for improvement to the reconciliation&control process, particularly automation of
initiatives and strengthening of controls.
5. Worked as an “Equity Dealer & DP Operations Executive in “Dimensional Securities Pvt Ltd” Goregaon branch, Mumbai
from October 2003 to April 2004.
Job Profile:
• Online trading activities on both BOLT & NEAT terminals and client handling through e-mail and telephone.
• Accepting, placing & executing the orders (buy/sell) on the request of clients by monitoring price movements.
• Sending trade confirmations on post trading session to the head-office for further processing i.e. clearing & settlement of
securities/funds pay-in & payouts.
• Dematerialization of shares, transfer of securities from one DP to another DP.
6. Worked as a ‘Career Agent’ in LIC India Ltd., at Visakhapatnam from 1999-01. (Job profile is selling insurance policies to the
need based customers) & worked as a faculty in ‘Ramakrishna Residential Junior College’ Visakhapatnam from 1994-99.
Educational Qualification: M B A (Finance) from Andhra University (2001-03).
Certifications in Financial Market:
NISM certified in Mutual Funds from NSE, Hyderabad.
NCFM in “(AMFI) Mutual Fund Advisor’s Module” from NSE, Hyderabad
NCFM in “Capital Markets (Dealers) Module” from NSE, Mumbai
NCFM in “NSDL-Depository Operations Module” from NSE, Mumbai
Computer Literacy:
Working knowledge on Microsoft Office - MS Word, Excel and Power Point presentation
Working knowledge on Internet, telephone and E-mail etiquettes
Achievements:
• Received the spot award &appreciation from Northern Trust senior management for successful completion of
migration of various management companies.
• Received the Citi onshore team and management’s appreciation for successful handling & completion of various
projects.
• Received certification & cash prize from our (KARVY) CEO for standing 2nd
position in the “Ongoing Innovative Thought
Engine Process” contest, for the month of July, 2011.
• Received the management appreciation for initial setup of Axis MF operations, successful handling & completion of
various NFOs of AXISMF.
• Received certification for attending the office and resuming the work in BCP situation in HSBC Securities Services Pvt
Ltd, Kolkata.
Strengths:
• Have fair Knowledge in Hedge Fund & Mutual Fund Operations.
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills.
• Organized, focused, high energy and work ethics.
• Target oriented and to the point on subject matters.
• Working towards achieving the corporate goals of the company.
Personal Details:
Marital Status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Date of Birth : 13.07.1972
Languages known : English, Telugu and Hindi
Passport No. : G7105131
(T. Atchuta Rao)