StoriesKavitha Rajan
Kavitha Rajan
Kavitha Rajan
Senior Product Manager
Walmart Global Tech · Bangalore
Schedule FA
Rovia user sinceMay 2026
Years vested4 years
Lots tracked16 lots
BrokerMerrill Lynch

Walmart Global Tech is 5,000 engineers in Bangalore. The RSU compliance conversation never comes up.

QHave you ever sold RSUs?

Yes, two lots so far. WMT has been stable but not exciting — it's a defensive stock, not a high-growth one. I sold when I needed to, not because of any strategy. Now I'm starting to think more deliberately about what to do with the accumulating position.

QHow were you managing your RSUs before using Rovia?

Merrill Lynch equity plan. I'd never even heard of Schedule FA until a friend at Google mentioned it casually two years after my first vest. I went to my CA and he said yes, I should have been filing it — and that he would need the INR cost basis data for the previous two years. That was a difficult conversation.

QWhat made you transfer your RSUs to Rovia?

The catch-up exercise. Reconstructing two years of SBI TT rates manually was painful. I found Rovia while looking for a better way to handle the ongoing filing. It also turned out that several colleagues at Walmart Global Tech were in the same situation — we'd all been under-informed about the India compliance side of US RSUs.

QWhat do you want to do with your RSUs?

Hold WMT as a stable anchor in my portfolio and slowly add to it. It's not a high-excitement position but it's steady. I want the rest of my portfolio to be more growth-oriented — Indian mid-caps, some US tech exposure through funds. The RSU position is the defensive layer.

QWhat do you think is your risk score as an investor? Why?

Moderate. I came to RSUs late compared to my FAANG peers and I'm still building my financial literacy around them. I'm not going to swing aggressively until I understand the full picture better. What I do know is that compliance needs to be clean, and now it is.