Kapeeshan Makendrarajah
581 Claymeadow Avenue, Mississauga,ON
Summary
Analytical professional with 5 years of experience and a robust background in Fund Accounting, Financial Reporting, and Portfolio Operations.
Skilled in preparing accurate and timely financial statements, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and performing NAV calculations. Proficient in Microsoft Excel, VBA, and various accounting systems, with a proven ability to streamline processes and enhance operational efficiency. Demonstrated success in audit coordination, fund setup and termination, and daily reconciliation tasks. Known for delivering precise, reliable results that improve client satisfaction and support sound investment decision-making.
Currently pursuing advanced knowledge in derivatives and options through the Derivative Fundamentals and Options Licensing (DFOL) course, with a goal to advance into a Senior or Supervisory role.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Fund Analyst, Portfolio Operations
RBC Global Asset Management
05.2023 - Current
- Ensure all transactions (i.e. unitholder subscriptions and redemptions, management fees, expense accruals, security trades) are entered in an accurate and timely manner into the accounting system
- Monitor and reconcile each portfolio daily to ensure the cash, security, and unit positions correctly reflect the client's holdings
- Ensure corporate actions are entered into the accounting system and reflect all relevant securities and tax regulations, analyze market value impacts of corporate actions
- Analyze daily fund activity, trade discrepancies against market data and report daily fund prices and income factors to unitholder systems and external sources for publication
- Maintaining security pricing file as well as helping to price various equities and options during EOD.
- Train junior staff on operational processes and assist senior staff with daily process queries
- Ensure interest / coupon payments & sink payments are accurately entered into the accounting system to match with custodian
- Assist in operational initiatives and process improvements (automation) to help streamline tasks in a faster and efficient way.
- Oversaw and ensured accurate entry of third-party private loan activities—including paydowns, trades, and cash entries—into the accounting system, while maintaining timely and accurate accruals for seamless financial reporting and operations
- Collaborated with the Fund Operations team to support the creation of new funds and fund series, as well as fund and fund series terminations, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and accurate documentation throughout each phase of the process.
- Supported the Fund Operations team with the End-of-Day (EOD) process for RBC Mutual Funds, including fund stamping, ensuring accurate NAV calculations, verifying daily accounting entries, and distributing final NAVs to clients and official platforms
Senior Financial Reporting Analyst
RBC Investor Services
04.2022 - 04.2023
- Prepare annual and semi-annual IFRS Financial Statement packages for assigned investment funds (including Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Comprehensive Income, Statement of Changes in Net Assets, Statement of Cash Flow, Schedule of Investments, Notes to Financial Statements, Financial Highlights)
- Work with external auditors and clients to deliver the Audited Financial Statements on agreed upon deadlines
- Prepare monthly and quarterly Financial Reports
- Lead & Participate in year-end planning meetings with clients, auditors and internal teams
- Work with internal departments to provide audit reports & responses to audit queries on agreed upon timelines
- Participate and provide recommendations towards the improvement of service delivery by recommending and developing changes to Financial Statement processes
- Keep abreast of changes to IFRS and National Instruments 81-106 in regards to Financial Reporting for investment funds
Fund Accountant, NAV Production
RBC Investors Services
05.2020 - 04.2022
- Ensure all required data for producing the NAV are available and quality ensured (corporate action, pricing) and prepare the Net Asset Value (NAV) for funds
- Reconcile unit holder capital stock, cash and security holdings and investigate and clear all outstanding issues in a timely manner
- Analyze & reconcile the general ledger to sub-ledger and resolve outstanding issues in a timely manner
- Calculate Performance fees (if applicable) and investigate, document and escalate issues/events
- Prepare the calculation of year-end distributions of income, capital gains and related tax issues
- Deliver quality customer service through timely and accurate report delivery
- Maintain client on site reports in an organized manner and ensure all daily valuations reports are accounted for
Financial Reporting Analyst (Contract)
RBC Investor Services
12.2019 - 03.2020
- · Working knowledge of MPower (RBC Accounting System) to run reports and extracts from RBC Fund Accounting system to assist Senior Financial Reporting Analyst with daily work and reconciliations
- · Use of analytical skills and industry knowledge to prepare various Financial Statement Schedules – Schedule of Investment Portfolio, Income Statement, Statement of Retained Earning and Risk Disclosure Tables for Mutual funds and Segregated funds
- · Performed complex calculations using Excel formulae such as SUMIF, VLOOKUP, MATCH, and various macros and use of critical thinking skills to investigate figures with analytical issues
- · Assisted Tax Reporting team to prepare Trust Tax Returns and Schedules while reviewing reports for consistency, formats and computations
Resources Officer, Insurance Operations (Contract)
TD Insurance
09.2019 - 11.2019
- · Worked closely with the salvage and total loss teams to ensure expedient moving of vehicles and ownership transfer
- · Assisted vehicles for pickup and removal from storage yard to approved Salvage Vendors using In-house TD programs
- · Closed files on a timely basis and forward salvage documentation to the parties responsible for
subrogation purposes when required in a fast-paced environment - · Closed adherence to set guidelines and procedures; Compliance to the TD Employee Code of Conduct
Corporate Accountant (Contract)
Aviva Canada, Corporate Accounting
11.2018 - 05.2019
- · Worked as an entry level accountant where responsibilities involved uploading journal entries to Aviva’s general ledger and generating accounting reports for brokers using Oracle Essbase program
- · Generated bi-weekly reports and check requisition using strong MS Excel formulas such as: SUMIF, AVERAGE and VLOOKUPS as well as organizing data using Pivot Tables
- · Used critical – thinking skills when navigating through the backups of the accounting journals and took part in the decision-making process when uploading errors occurred
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - Economics & Management Science
Ryerson University, Ted Rogers School Of Managemen
Toronto, ON10-2018
Skills
- Corporate Actions booking & analysis
- Financial Reporting & Financial Statement Analysis
- Audit Planning & Coordination
- Fund & Investment Accounting
- Equity & Options Pricing
- Cash and Asset Reconciliation
- Unitholder & Shareholder Activities (booking Subscriptions and Redemptions)
- Private Loans Accounting
- Setup & Terminations for Funds and Fund Series
- Problem - solving abilities
- Adaptability
- Market analysis using Thomson Reuters & Bloomberg
- Collaboration & Team Work
- Excellent verbal and written communication
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Tamil
Native or Bilingual
Certification
- Canadian Securities Course
- Udemy Basic SQL
- Forage: CITIBank - Investment Banking Job Simulation
- CFI - Power Pivot
- CFI - Power Query
Computer & Software Skills
- MPOWER Accounting System
- Milvus Custodian System
- EAGLE Accounting System
- Microsoft Excel & VBA
- mySQL
- Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg Terminal
- UNITRAX
Timeline
Senior Fund Analyst, Portfolio Operations
RBC Global Asset Management
05.2023 - Current
Senior Financial Reporting Analyst
RBC Investor Services
04.2022 - 04.2023
Fund Accountant, NAV Production
RBC Investors Services
05.2020 - 04.2022
Financial Reporting Analyst (Contract)
RBC Investor Services
12.2019 - 03.2020
Resources Officer, Insurance Operations (Contract)
TD Insurance
09.2019 - 11.2019
Corporate Accountant (Contract)
Aviva Canada, Corporate Accounting
11.2018 - 05.2019
- Canadian Securities Course
- Udemy Basic SQL
- Forage: CITIBank - Investment Banking Job Simulation
- CFI - Power Pivot
- CFI - Power Query
Bachelor of Commerce - Economics & Management Science
Ryerson University, Ted Rogers School Of Managemen
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