Assistant Vice President - Fund Accounting - BFSI

We are hiring for Vice President - Fund Accounting - BFSI

Responsibilities:

- Monitor and ensure accuracy and timeliness of client deliverables

- Improve on past performance through process improvement and continuous training

- Participates in developing the business unit strategic plan and sets goals and priorities based on the direction set for the unit. Follows through to ensure objectives are met

- Implement consistent best practice and monitor the standards as agreed with the home country teams

- Ensures that adequate training/ cross training is provided for all employees

- Manages fund accounting/ financial reporting/regulatory reporting operations unit or function

- Maintain effective communication channels at all levels

- Prepare and review all MIS as required

- Takes ownership of all reconciliation breaks/audit and trustee queries

- Hands-on manager with proven ability to guide the teams in managing complex process related issues

People Management -

- Conducts the performance management process identifies training and development needs and establishes performance standards for the unit including business objectives

- Allocates work between the teams

- Steer the implementation of the business plan

- Provide one on ones to Section Manager

Skills Required:

- Good communication

- Strong accounting and reporting knowledge

- Be able to mentor through confidence and approachability

- Approachable and able to promote teamwork through creative solutions

- Good analytical, numerical and reasoning skills

- Time management and delegation skills

- Ability to develop and deliver client presentations

- MS Office, word and excel

- Market data vendors knowledge

- Deep understanding of process and process improvement

- Thorough knowledge of the relevant regulatory environment

- Good understanding of capital markets and financial instrument

COMPETENCIES:

- Interpersonal (relationship builder, respectful, resolves problems, people friendly and organizational savy)

- Adaptability (flexibility to work in different shifts, including late EMEA and US shifts)

- Communication (presentation skills, listening skills, oral communication skills, allows others to express themselves and written communication skills)

- Self-management (adaptability and resilience, learning behavior, integrity and ethics, and relationship builder)

- Motivation (performance standards, achieving results and persistent)

- Thinking (creative thinking, decision making, input seeking, logical thinking and solution finding)

- Organisational Knowledge (business knowledge, expert knowledge and external events impact)

- Client Service and Quality (quality, relationship building and client satisfaction)

- Administration (anticipates needs, execution, planning, process specialist, quality seeker and time management)

- Leadership (addresses difficult issues, builds effective teams focused on goals, champions new initiatives, fosters development, gives timely feedback and coaching, Idea generator and sets challenging performance standards)

- Initiative and negotiation (succeeding in passing around or over possible issues, taking a first move and acting independently, through proven long-term planning)

Experience Required:

- Candidate to have 10+ years experience in related industry (Accounting, Finance, Audit, Valuations, Capital markets, Fund Accounting, Financial Reporting, Custody). Experience in Fund Accounting / Financial Reporting/Regulatory Reporting is mandatory for external candidates

- Minimum experience of 6 years in managing teams.

- Graduate in Accounting / Economics. Additional qualification in accounting / finance preferred (e.g., CA/ CS/ CWA/CFA/ MBA)

Preferably looking for diversity Profiles for this role

Sheerin Shahnaz