Ashish Toms, Assistant Manager- MIS (Investments) at Landmark Group

Ashish Toms

Assistant Manager- MIS (Investments) at Landmark Group

Landmark Group

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Higher diploma, US CPA 4/4 (In the process of completing licensing requirements)
Experience
15 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 7 Months

Assistant Manager- MIS (Investments) at Landmark Group at Landmark Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since May 2015

Working in a family investment office dealing with the following responsibilities:
1. Checking of trade confirmations, SSIs, Authorizing trade settlements, following up with the brokers and banks for timely settlement of trades. Authorizing of custody forex transactions.
2. Daily cash position analysis and ensuring sufficient cash for trade settlements and transfers. Routine cash transfer instruction/s preparation.
3. Recording securities trades in trade master records and uploading of transactions and holdings in Bloomberg for PORT function. Reconciliation with holdings report from custody accounts. Updating holdings for corporate actions.
4. Investment performance reports on daily, monthly and ad-hoc basis. Performance reports are cross checked with PORT reports from Bloomberg. AUM reconciliation both on cash flow & returns basis. Monthly reconciliation with Financial Accounting reports (prepared based on IFRS).
5. Monthly risk reporting based on asset class, sectors, currency, market, interest rates etc. Analyzing changes in prices of equities month on month and factors contributing to the same.
5. Sending monthly report on estimated cash flow from investments and preparing schedule of cash flows for new investments based on information from Bloomberg.
7. Preparing monthly basis; monthly & YTD (YoY)- new issuances reports of Equities & Bonds- Global and High Yield issuances of bonds (USD denominated)- Global.
8. Using Bloomberg, calculation of current & original yield, modified duration etc. for bonds & treasuries, key ratios of equities and portfolio including earnings, FCF, EV, Sharpe, Sortino, Beta etc.
9. Checking of information for 13F (SEC) filing, providing information for advance tax computation and general audit queries. Routine KYC compliances.

Accountant- Cash & Credit Control at Marriott Vacation Club
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2014 to April 2015

• Accounting in a time-share based company mainly covering (not restricted to) following functions:
 Petty Cash (office expenses), Petty Cash request, Supplier payment request generation & daily Bank Reconciliation.
 Posting of routine Accounting Journals, Escrow (software) posting & preparation of Balance Sheet Reconciliation statement periodically.
 Preparation of Payroll & Commissions file and final WPS sheet for upload.
 Maintenance of daily attendance & canteen usage for Finance department & keeping separate record for annual leaves taken for entire staff.
 Preparation of Microsoft Excel based systems which automate certain routine work which increases efficiency, reduces errors and provides parallel check for identifying and rectifying errors.
 Analytical: Previous year based analysis such as Cancellation, Conversion percentage based on Channels, Sales Staff, Nationality and Resorts etc. Time taken for Contract to get Cancelled, Converted etc.

Assistant Internal Auditor at Saud Bahwan Automotive LLC
  • Oman - Muscat
  • October 2012 to October 2013

Worked with verification of deals for the sales of vehicles.
Checking of collection of dues, Internal credit procedures, vehicle release documents, financing company procedures etc.
System analysis for possible areas of frauds, errors and guidelines to correct them.
Verification of expenses paid and budgets before approval.

Senior Accountant at Steel Castle Furniture
  • India
  • April 2011 to September 2012

•Maintained accounting of the manufacturing company completing functions in the following areas:
Book keeping including bank reconciliation, payroll register & salary payment calculation
Statutory registers, filing of periodic returns and payment of statutory dues
Finalization of annual accounts and co-coordinating with Auditors

Senior Audit Assistant at George & Paulson Chartered Accountants
  • India
  • October 2007 to March 2011

Assisted in the management of audit of Companies, Partnership Firms, Proprietorships and Trusts
Rich experience in Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Auditing, Indian Taxation (Direct and Indirect) and Company Law matters including Indian Accounting Standards, Auditing and
Assurance Standards

Education

Higher diploma, US CPA 4/4 (In the process of completing licensing requirements)
  • at American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • December 2022

Passed all the exams of CPA conducted by AICPA. In the process of meeting further educational requirements for licensing

Diploma, CA Inter
  • at Institute of Chartered Accountants
  • May 2011
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Commerce
  • at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
  • June 2007

College topper

Bayt Tests

Accounting Skills Test (Assets and Revenue)
Score 76%

Specialties & Skills

Internal Audit
Accounting
Internal Controls
Investments
MIS Reporting
MS Office
Financial Accounting
IFRS & International Accounting Standards (IAS)
Adobe Photoshop
Networking
Lotus Notes
Bloomberg

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Malayalam
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Tally Certified Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
September 2007

Hobbies

  • Pencil Drawing
    One of my hobbies. Do portraits in graphite, charcoal and color pencils. Still striving towards ultra realistic portraits.
  • Western Dancing
    Won the First Runners up prize in western group dance competition conducted in Center for American Education, Dubai