Vice President, Cash Reconcilliation, Tech & Ops

Overview

Senior leadership role accountable for the end-to-end cash reconciliation operating model for OPS Cash Reconciliations, safeguarding the integrity of investment data across investment management, analytics, compliance and regulatory reporting.

What you'll do

• Lead the end-to-end operating model for OPS Cash Reconciliations, ensuring accurate, timely and controlled reconciliation of positions, cash and related activity across portfolios, platforms and counterparties.
• Own the risk and control framework for the function, including escalation management, exception governance, root cause analysis, remediation oversight and continuous strengthening of the control environment.
• Drive strategic initiatives to improve scalability, automation, data quality and operational resilience, reducing manual dependency and enhancing service delivery.
• Partner with internal stakeholders, external administrators, custodians and service providers to resolve complex issues, influence outcomes and ensure alignment on priorities, controls and client commitments.
• Provide leadership in governance forums by communicating material risks, service issues, performance trends and key decisions clearly and promptly to senior management and relevant partners.
• Oversee delivery against service level expectations and business priorities, ensuring issues are identified early, prioritized and resolved in a timely and sustainable manner.
• Lead organizational development for the team through coaching, performance management, succession planning and talent development.
• Assess capacity, operating model design and resource allocation to position the function to support business growth, platform change and evolving client and regulatory demands.
• Champion process standardization, documentation quality and best practices to improve consistency, transparency, audit readiness and knowledge transfer.
• Use data, trend analysis and operational metrics to identify emerging risks, inform decisions and drive measurable improvements in accuracy, efficiency and client experience.

What you'll need

• Strong knowledge of equity and fixed income securities and derivative products.
• Ability to prioritize and balance multiple requests without losing sight of overall objectives.
• Strong decision-making skills, obtaining further assistance or clarification when vital.
• Ability to multi-task, balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, evolving team.
• Organized and detail oriented with strong time management skills.
• Ability to work in a multifaceted, team-oriented environment and quickly adapt to a constantly evolving business.
• Contributor to the leadership team, ensuring appropriate staffing model, depth charts and succession plans are assessed across the location.
• Social skills to effectively articulate solutions to internal and external partners.
• Capability to assist in creating a team vision, planning and executing steps to ensure a consistently robust team.
• Ability to thrive in a team environment and build strong relationships with colleagues and external contacts such as custodians, counterparties and third-party providers.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office with an aptitude for learning new applications.
• Initiative to follow up on issues, identify what needs to be done and act.
• 10+ years of investment / fund accounting / reconciliation work experience or equivalent, including review experience for at least a portion of that time.
• Strong leadership and management skills and ability to collaborate across many teams.
• Very strong communication skills, both written (presentations, policies, process documents) and verbal.
• Positive attitude with very strong problem-solving skills.
• Great multi-tasking, project management skills and deadline focus.
• Knowledge of technical and regulatory issues affecting the alternatives investment fund industry, including investment company accounting and reporting, US GAAP and IFRS.
• Standout colleague with excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to collaborate with a broad network to resolve issues.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to clearly communicate complex concepts to a wide variety of partners.

Nice to have

• Understanding of upstream processes and ability to correlate the effect of change on reconciliation.
• Flexible and open to new challenges; able to work effectively on multiple projects at a time in a dynamic, demanding and constantly evolving environment while maintaining the highest standard and attention to detail.
• Infrastructure, private equity or valuation experience.

Details

• Location: Mumbai, India.
• Hybrid work model: at least 4 days in the office per week, with flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.