Yatin Roy RAMDENEE

1. Fund & Portfolio Management
• Oversee a diverse portfolio of private equity fund clients, ensuring seamless administration, compliance, and operational excellence.
• Lead a multifunctional team of administrators, junior, and senior accountants, providing guidance, mentorship, and professional development.
• Establish best practices and controls for fund operations, ensuring timely and accurate execution of investor capital activity, corporate actions, and fund transactions.
• Supervise cash and asset reconciliations with custodians, brokers, and investment managers to maintain financial accuracy and integrity.
• Ensure the precise calculation and allocation of management fees, performance fees, carried interest, and waterfall distributions in line with fund LPAs.
• Oversee and manage fund closings, including document collection, investor KYC/AML compliance, and regulatory reporting, ensuring adherence to legal and financial requirements.

2. Client Relationship Management & Business Development
• Act as the primary relationship manager for a portfolio of clients, ensuring high-level engagement, service excellence, and strategic alignment with their needs.
• Lead complex negotiations and structuring discussions for new client engagements, expanding service offerings and driving long-term partnerships.
• Spearhead business development initiatives, identifying and securing new revenue opportunities by offering customized solutions tailored to client needs.
• Assist clients in structuring and establishing investment vehicles, working closely with legal teams, regulatory bodies, and financial institutions to optimize operational efficiency.
• Develop and implement a client retention and expansion strategy, ensuring continued growth and deepening relationships with key stakeholders.

3. Financial Reporting, Compliance & Risk Management
• Maintain oversight of accounting, financial reporting, and investor communication processes, ensuring accuracy and compliance with international regulatory standards.
• Lead the preparation and review of financial statements, working closely with auditors to ensure a smooth and efficient audit process.
• Implement robust risk management frameworks, ensuring adherence to governance policies, fund agreements, and industry regulations.
• Monitor investor capital activity, ensuring the timely and accurate execution of capital calls, distributions, and expense processing while mitigating potential financial discrepancies.
• Establish internal controls and performance monitoring systems, ensuring compliance with evolving industry regulations and investor expectations.

4. Performance Management & Operational Efficiency
• Develop and execute strategic initiatives to improve operational efficiency, enhance service quality, and optimize team productivity.
• Define and oversee key performance indicators (KPIs) for the team, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and swiftly addressing any performance gaps.
• Identify bottlenecks and process inefficiencies, implementing innovative solutions to improve workflow, accuracy, and turnaround times.
• Act as a mentor and leader for team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning, professional growth, and high performance.
• Ensure seamless coordination between various internal departments, including compliance, legal, and investment teams, to enhance operational efficiency and cross-functional collaboration.

5. Leadership, Strategy & Growth
• Provide high-level strategic leadership, working closely with executive partners to define business objectives, long-term goals, and market expansion strategies.
• Drive revenue growth and profitability, proactively identifying market trends and leveraging opportunities to expand the firm’s private equity fund services.
• Develop and implement budgeting and financial planning initiatives, ensuring optimal resource allocation, cost control, and financial sustainability.
• Establish and refine company policies and operational frameworks, enhancing efficiency, governance, and risk mitigation.
• Represent the firm in industry events, investor meetings, and regulatory discussions, positioning the company as a leader in the private equity space.

• Analyze operations to evaluate performance of the company and its sta`s in meeting objectives, and to determine areas of potential cost reduction, revenue, improvement, or policy change
• Direct and co-ordinate the organization's financial and budget activities to fund operations
• Direct, plan, and implement policies, objectives, and activities of the company to ensure continuing operations, to maximize returns on investments, and to increase productivity
• Negotiate and approve contracts with clients and stakeholders
• Review monthly reports submitted by sta` members for approval or to suggest changes
• Statutory Return: Prepare and submit all statutory returns as and when they fall due (quarterly computations, TDS & filing; Upload returns on MNS and arrange for electronic filing; Quarterly filing of corporate & APS tax filing)
• Maintain detailed knowledge of the company's policies and procedures, ensuring they are adhered to during the day to day operations
• Regular monitoring of processes on a risk-based approach on clients based in high risk jurisdictions and perform enhanced due diligence on client based in countries such as Zimbabwe and Zambia
• Sign o` on the adequacy of CDD for new and existing business and ensuring all CDD collated are well documented and adequate
• Assist compliance team in deriving solution to meeting the AML CFT requirement while maintaining a positive relationship with the client
• Review of potential investors and working in collaboration to the compliance team to assess if an investor or client can be onboarded or rejected
• Working in collaboration with compliance in ensuring all AML CFT regulations are met and control and monitoring are being implemented as per procedure manuals

• Since Deutsche Bank Alternative Fund Services Department has been acquired by Apex Fund Services, I have transferred to Apex Fund Services (Mauritius) Limited with the same responsibilities I had during my tenure at Deutsche Bank (Mauritius) Limited

• Reconciliation and calculating the quarterly net asset values of private equity and real estate funds
• Reconciling portfolio transactions, dividends and interest, corporate actions, and investor capital activity - Liaising with the investment manager, investors, brokers, company secretaries and custodians regarding all aspects of the funds' operation
• Updating accounting and client relationship management systems and verifying statistical information - Preparing financial statements and working with external auditors
• Processing of investor capital calls, distributions and payment of fund expenses
• Calculation of management, performance fees, carried interest and other accruals
• Pricing of portfolio holdings
• Cash and asset reconciliations to custodian and broker
• Manage fund closings - collection/tracking documents, investor KYC/AML and reporting
• Prepare and issue NAV statements, capital call and distributions notices to investors
• Assist senior management with ad hoc projects and management information systems
• Planning work e`iciently to ensure monthly/quarterly reporting deadlines are met and clients' expectations are met by submitting accounts on time

• Liaised with various authorities such as the FSC, the Registrar of Companies and banks
• Prepared management accounts and reports for the company
• Prepared billing sheets, invoices and other instructions
• Involved in the day to day running of the o`ice
• Assisted in accounting of various clients, updating debtors ledger, processing transactions, reconciliations

• Prepared financial statements for companies applying various accounting standards
• Assisted Managers and Partners in finalizing financial statements
• Prepared and submission of VAT returns, preparation of NFP and also involved in payroll of several clients
• Involved in audit fieldwork
• Performed audit work following various ISA