Fund Accounting, Vice President

Overview

Lead the fund accounting function as a Vice President, managing day-to-day operations, client experience and service delivery across a large, multi-location team.

What you'll do

• Manage the day-to-day running of functional and oversight teams and daily service delivery and production activities performed by staff.
• Work with the team, other Shared Service teams and COEs, outsource locations, Client Operations and other business units to ensure seamless processing per fund policies, NAV/yield accuracy and SLA compliance.
• Collaborate with teams and management across the organization on projects, oversight, committees and KPIs.
• Lead the accounting function, manage client experience and operational delivery, and implement strategy.
• Act as command and control across the team to drive operational effectiveness and establish a core competency for conversions across sectors and regions.
• Work with the COO and Executive team to explore, create, direct, manage and achieve business objectives, including revenue and profit growth.
• Actively manage global stakeholders across Global Hubs, Global Delivery and Global Services.
• Drive innovation, transformation and productivity across the delivery organization in India and globally.
• Develop and lead a large team, fostering high performance.
• Identify and escalate unusual or potentially suspicious transaction activity in accordance with corporate policy.
• Assess impacts of regulatory changes and identify and implement consistent operational best practices.
• Coordinate implementation of new funds, systems and processes, and assist with client conversions and other client projects.
• Serve on committees and help define and implement new company initiatives.
• Provide management information to support business unit decision making.
• Support the Risk Excellence culture and adhere to limits of delegation and escalation procedures.

What you'll need

• A college degree; an accounting degree is strongly preferred, and a business, finance or economics degree is required.
• 15 or more years of accounting and/or financial services operations experience.
• Solid business unit management experience on complex clients requiring a high level of client interaction.
• Knowledge of fund structures, designs and hierarchies, including standalone funds, master-feeder funds, and the role of each entity.
• Knowledge of or experience with fund accounting technology such as Invest One or Geneva.
• Proficient working knowledge of equity and fixed income securities and derivative products.
• Understanding of operational functions within custody and/or fund accounting.
• Overall 15 years of relevant experience, part of which must have been in a management or supervisory capacity.
• Ability to lead large teams across multiple locations and manage teams virtually.
• Strong problem solving, analytical, communication, interpersonal and organizational skills, including time management and prioritization.
• Ability to lead, influence and drive solutions and outcomes on client calls, and to work with cross-functional teams and Technology.
• Ability to understand and manage costs and budgets.
• Experience working directly with clients and counterparties in a global context.
• Experience leading operations at a global level across countries and regions.
• Experience of end-to-end ownership of operations, with direct accountability for business, client and risk metrics, including losses.
• Demonstrated leadership beyond operations, working with Risk, Technology, Automation and Change groups.
• Proven leadership in managing and developing a high-performing operations team.
• Proven track record of achieving or exceeding financial goals through expense discipline and headcount management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage, coach and influence colleagues and virtual team members.
• Should be open to working North American shift hours as needed by the business.

Nice to have

• MBA and/or CP/ACCA.
• Knowledge of upstream and downstream technology solutions to drive automation in servicing complex fund structures.
• Experience in global locations.
• Experience on investment decisions.
• Proven ability to generate innovation ideas, manage a project pipeline and transform businesses.
• Ability to identify and present cross-sell opportunities.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune, Coimbatore or Chennai, India.
• Shift: North America, EMEA or MENA shifts.