Manager, Fund Accounting & Financial Reporting

Scope and Responsibilities

This position is within Oaktree's Fund Accounting Operations Shared Services team, which works across all of Oaktree's fund accounting teams to centralize and streamline fund data. Shared Services works in partnership with several other sub departments to deliver standardized fund data, so strong communication and collaboration skills are critical to success in this position. The analyst will assist with several initiatives to improve the implementation and maintenance of standardized processes and best practices over financial and non-financial information across Oaktree's CFO organization. This includes preparing and aggregating quarterly fund data deliverables for various departments within Oaktree and its parent company, coordinating fund accounting support for the SOX/SOC-1 control audits, assisting with auditor independence and coordination of the funds financial statement audits, participating in vendor oversight processes, help coordinate accounting-related responses to due diligence questions and client requests across several fund accounting strategies and contributing to ad hoc projects and process improvement testing as needed.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Shared Services team and fund accounting team to communicate fund data across the organization and serve as a central point of contact to address related questions and requests from internal and external stakeholders.
• Aggregate, provide and analyze fund level data. This includes providing data and reviewing deliverables to corporate accounting, corporate finance, other Oaktree departments, and Oaktree's parent company. Ensure that the data provided is accurate and sent in a timely manner.
• Serve as a key contact for the Internal Controls Group to provide support for their fund of SOX/SOC-1 control testing and scoping. This includes organizing walkthrough support and responses, providing a valid population, coordinating with fund accounting to provide testing supports timely.
• Corporate Accounting and Finance deliverable and Brookfield reporting
• Assist on the auditor independence process, which includes reaching out to deal team or portfolio companies, collecting relevant supports, documenting the quarterly inquiries, preparing ad-hoc analysis, enhancing the processes, and communicating effectively to deal team, auditors, fund accountants and other internal/external stakeholders.
• Assist with projects related to process improvement and help implement best practices across the Fund Accounting teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years relevant accounting or audit experience, preferably with 1-2 years of experience in the asset management industry
• Strong knowledge of private investment funds
• Experience with SOX and/or SOC-1 compliance audits preferred but not required
• Excellent communication skills; both written and verbal
• Strong judgment and analytical skills - proven ability to communicate proactively, analyze and escalate issues as needed and reach well-considered conclusions under tight time constraints
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Personal Attributes

• Relationship Building; works effectively with diverse teams of people with multiple perspectives, talents and backgrounds. Ability to elicit cooperation from and gain the confidence of a wide variety of participants including upper management, other departments and third-party service providers.
• Communication; strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills.
• Independence Collaboration; proficient at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment; able to complete work effectively with limited supervision (at times) with high attention-to-detail.
• Intellectual Curiosity; energized by learning new things and engaging across a wide range of issues; adept at conducting research into project-related issues; display a technical aptitude that lends itself to learning and mastering new technologies.

Education

• Bachelor s degree in Accounting, Finance or related field.

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