Deputy Chief Manager

Role overview

This position focuses on precise accounting, settlement, and valuation of equity securities across multiple portfolios. The role also involves preparing MIS reports accurately and on schedule, while coordinating with auditors and internal teams such as Accounts & MIS, Taxation, and Actuarial to support smooth audits and dependable financial reporting.

Job context and key challenges

• The work requires familiarity with multiple systems to complete daily operational tasks.
• Settlement, accounting, and valuation activities must be handled with speed and accuracy, taking system and asset complexity into account.
• Reports must be submitted on time so they can be used as supporting evidence across different audits.

Key responsibilities

Equity settlement: Ensure timely and correct equity settlement for accounting purposes, including STP-based settlement, custody and broker confirmations, and coordination with equity brokers, dealers, and custody teams for trade closure. This also includes margin payable calculations and providing equity cash flow inputs for cash flow projections.

Accounting and valuation: Support accounting and valuation of the equity portfolio across funds to enable NAV release. Responsibilities include creating equity and broker masters, recording equity trades accurately and on time, carrying out MTM valuation across fund groups, and tracking as well as accounting for corporate actions.

Debt valuation checks: Perform daily review of debt valuation and debt accounting across all funds to help ensure accuracy in the NAVs released.

MIS and reporting: Prepare management MIS and financial reports for review, regulatory reporting, and audit support. This includes reports aligned with IRDA, Schedule VI, and IFRS, along with daily, monthly, and yearly MIS, reconciliation of to-be-received policies, and ad hoc investment MIS requested by IRDA, Actuary, Front Office, Taxation, Planning, or management.

Audit coordination: Work closely with statutory, internal, and concurrent auditors, along with other stakeholder teams, to ensure audit inputs and financial data are completed accurately and within deadlines.

Skills required

• Equity settlement processing
• Portfolio accounting
• Valuation and MTM analysis
• NAV support and controls
• Financial MIS preparation
• Audit coordination
• Reconciliation skills
• Knowledge of regulatory reporting
• Broker and custodian coordination
• Attention to detail
• Multi-system operations

Additional information

No stipend or salary figure was specified in the source. No openings, education requirement, eligibility note, joining timeline, or application deadline were mentioned.