FS RC - MS EY Comply and RVS - Private Equity Fund

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The Opportunity:

Open position for a senior role in fund accounting for one of our global clients. The candidate is expected to own the fund accounting and reporting cycle from NAV to financial statements. You will also be responsible for preparing deliverables, reviewing the work of junior team members, liaising with relevant stakeholders, and driving accuracy and process improvement.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Understand the intricacies of funds and fund-of-fund investment operations and financial statement reporting, preferably private equity, real estate funds, or private credit funds.
• Define new procedures and controls to enhance the overall operational risk process.
• Drive high-quality work products within expected timeframes and budget.
• Ability to execute detailed procedures based on knowledge of fund controllership, investment books and records, and/or financial reporting processes.
• Perform critical accounting activities, including capital calls, valuations, and transaction processing.
• Identify, evaluate, and suggest new technology opportunities that are value-driven for platform enablement and act as key differentiators for offerings in the WAM/BCM space.
• Facilitate and encourage the necessary conversations between the business and technology teams to determine the what and the how of product features.
• Work with technology and business partners in identifying process improvement areas and bring in a culture of automation.
• Collaborate with business and architects to translate business requirements into scalable solution options and provide inputs to product roadmap and strategy.
• Translate business goals into detailed epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Prioritize backlog items, manage change requests, and define release scopes.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of AI capabilities relevant to operations. Participate in AI-enabled process improvement initiatives and identify opportunities where AI can improve efficiency and quality.
• Responsible for decision-making, optimizing processes, resource management, and overseeing team management as needed for task execution.
• Accountable for allocating personnel, supervising team members, assigning tasks, ensuring that the team has the necessary tools and support to succeed in their roles, and optimizing and evaluating their performance to meet organizational goals.

Skills and Attributes for Success:

• 4-8 years of experience in the asset management sector. Exposure to a US-based asset management or fund administration firm will be an added advantage.
• The role involves providing hands-on advisory services, including fund accounting, investment accounting, financial reporting, regulatory and statutory reporting, and more.
• Ideal candidates should have previous consulting experience in wealth and asset management or a transformation role within the industry, focusing on the finance function.
• Advanced proficiency in fund accounting and financial reporting, investment accounting, financial statement close process, regulatory and statutory reporting, management and financial reporting, consolidation reporting, advanced data readiness and analytics, governance, controls, and regulation.
• Experience with fund administration and investment accounting platforms like Investran, Eagle, Yardi, or Geneva.
• Knowledge of private equity, private credit, real estate funds, and investment accounting.
• Experience in operational aspects like NAV finalization, reconciliations, management reporting and investor reporting, reconciling investor capital balances, and allocation of profit and loss.
• Qualifications for this position require MBA, CA, ACCA, or CPA certification.
• Immediate joiners will be an added advantage.

Ideally you will also -:

Have hands-on experience with fund accounting and reporting platforms, and an appetite for applying AI and automation to streamline NAV production, reconciliations, and financial statement preparation.

What we look for -:

Strong technical grounding in fund accounting and US GAAP. Someone with sharp analytical judgment who embraces AI-enabled tools, while retaining the rigor to challenge and validate outputs.