
Ramakrishnan R
I write essays that make people pause and think
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Writer & Essayist
Self Employed • Self-employed
Jul 2025 - Present • 11 mos
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.