Skill required: Asset Management - Asset Valuations
Designation: Delivery Operations Associate Manager
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:10 to 14 years
What would you do
Role Summary
The Capital Markets Operations Associate Vice President will be responsible for leading operations for one of the world s leading Private Markets Investment Firm, ensuring operational excellence, strong risk and control governance, stakeholder management, and continuous improvement. Provides strategic leadership across multiple fund administration workstreams or portfolios, ensuring operational excellence, regulatory compliance, client relationship management, and growth of the business.
What are we looking for
Experience
12 to 15 years of overall experience, preferably in Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Private Market Investment.
6+ years of experience in managing large teams, client delivery, operations governance, process controls, and stakeholder engagement.
Prior experience in managing 30+ FTEs or multiple sub-processes across global delivery models will be preferred.
Qualifications
Chartered Accountant (CA) or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) required.
CFA Charter holder / CFA Level II+ preferred for valuation, portfolio reporting, and investment-focused roles.
ICWA/CMA qualification may be considered for select fund accounting and operational accounting roles.
Strong academic record, with a preference for candidates demonstrating consistent academic excellence (typically 75-80%+ throughout education).
Work Requirements
Willingness to work in EMEA shift timings, rotational shifts, and business-critical coverage windows as required.
Willingness to work on Indian holidays or extended hours based on client and market requirements.
Ability to operate in a 100% return-to-office or hybrid model as per project and business policy.
Ability to support client visits, transition activities, governance reviews, audits, and crisis management situations when required.
Preferred Competencies
Executive presence with the ability to influence clients, senior leadership, delivery teams, and support functions.
Strong control mindset with ability to manage audit, compliance, data protection, and information security requirements.
Experience in transition management, knowledge transfer, process stabilization, productivity delivery, and transformation execution.
Ability to create new solutions by adapting existing methods, procedures, tools, and best practices to meet business needs.
Demonstrated ability to lead change, drive team engagement, and maintain service excellence in a high-volume, risk-sensitive operating environment.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end Capital Markets operations delivery across assigned processes, ensuring adherence to SLAs, KPIs, quality standards, risk controls, and client commitments.
Manage large delivery teams through Team/Process Supervisor, SMEs ensuring effective workload allocation, capacity planning, coaching, succession planning, and performance management.
Act as the primary operational contact for clients, senior stakeholders, internal leadership, and cross-functional teams for service delivery, governance, escalations, and transformation priorities.
Drive strong governance routines including daily/weekly performance reviews, monthly business reviews, risk reviews, audit readiness
Ensure robust control environment by strengthening SOPs, checklists, maker-checker controls, reconciliation frameworks, exception management, escalation protocols, and root-cause analysis practices.
Manage operational risks, client escalations, financial impact incidents, audit observations, and regulatory-sensitive deliverables with timely remediation plans.
Partner with stakeholders to identify process improvement, automation, Gen AI, analytics, productivity, and transformation opportunities.
Build a culture of continuous improvement, compliance, data protection, client centricity, operational discipline, and high-performance delivery.
Support hiring, training, knowledge transition, cross-skilling, talent development, engagement, and retention initiatives across the process span
Domain Skill/Knowledge and System Exposure
Core Domain Skills Required
Strategic Fund Accounting Oversight
Oversight of multi-fund accounting operations, Valuation governance and controls, Review of complex waterfall calculations, Master-feeder and SPV structures, complex investor structures
Technical Accounting Expertise
Expert GAAP / IFRS knowledge, ASC 820, IFRS 13, ASC 470, IFRS 9, Regulatory reporting requirements, Audit and compliance leadership
Investor & Client Management
Executive stakeholder management, Fund manager interaction, Investor reporting governance, Escalation ownership
Delivery & Governance
Operational governance, Risk management frameworks, Quality assurance review, Financial controls oversight, Business continuity planning
Transformation & Continuous Improvement
Operating model optimization
Automation opportunities
AI and analytics adoption
Process redesign
Productivity improvement initiatives
Leadership Competencies
People leadership
Workforce planning
Talent development
Financial management
Client account growth support
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