
Ramakrishnan R
I write essays that make people pause and think
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Writer & Essayist
Self Employed • Self-employed
Jul 2025 - Present • 1 yr 1 mo
Publishing reflective essays on personal growth, mindfulness, and personal finance across Medium and Substack. Writing draws on Indian philosophical traditions including the Bhagavad Gita and Vedanta.
Operational Excecutive
Franklin Templeton • Full-time
Aug 2003 - Mar 2017 • 13 yrs 7 mos
✔ Oversee entire electronic clearing services (ECS) for systematic investment plans (SIPs) of Franklin Templeton mutual funds. ✔ Process commissions of distributors/agents in the distributor services department of Franklin Templeton mutual fund. ✔ Liaise with sponsor banks to reduce turnaround times of settlement. ✔ Resolve ECS queries and reduced the number of queries over the course of time. ✔ Efficiently handle the facility of ‘exchange privilege’ within the same fund family for clients. ✔ Assist in user acceptance testing (UAT) of software during AML implementation in mutual funds. ✔ Guide distributors and stock markets through the entire process of online transactions and electronic transactions using team’s assistance. ✔ Received individual High Five Award for outstanding contribution in 2011. ✔ Reduced the turnaround time of critical financial processes from 10 days to 7 days.