Fund Accounting Role - Investment Banking

The candidate should have 7-8 years or more experience in a fund accounting and/or a good understanding of financial products and should have worked extensively in such areas with also experience in managing a team of 3-5 people.

Night shift

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

- Review of day to day activities in accordance of SOPs and within agreed client deadlines & SLAs

- Audit and resource planning with internal parties and for peak cycles

- Consistency review and management across large clients throughout the year

- Ongoing analysis of client accounting records and escalation, where appropriate, of any potential issues identified

- Identify and correct misstatements within the accounting, ability to identify and escalate potential audit findings

- Able to resolve the team queries & act as a reference point for junior team members on technical, accounting and audit related matters

- Liaise with partner sites for external deliveries and communicate status effectively and in a timely manner

- Interaction with stakeholders to respond to any accounting related queries that may arise.

- Recognise and act on opportunities to improve processes including developing and making recommendations for change and encourage the team to come with ideas for efficiency

- To ensure all the risk and control checks are adhered to and follow all required checklists and SOPS, ensure they are up to date at any given point

- Liaise with OCM (internal control) team on any issues that arise that need to be reviewed

- To manage teams Objective setting, Performance review and providing ongoing feedback for the team

- To work with local and global management team as and when required, providing timely updates and MIS

Key Skills and Knowledge

- You will have 7+ years experience in a Fund Accounting or Financial Reporting and/or a good understanding of financial products and should have worked extensively in such areas with also experience in managing a team of 3-5 people.

- Post graduate with major in Finance/Accounting will be added value.

- You will have experience in managing people, completion of performance reviews and setting objectives

- You will be able to demonstrate strong management skills and ability to build key internal relationships across locations

- You will have very strong attention to detail in review of documents and analytical review capabilities in relation to Fund Accounting numbers & reporting

- You will have excellent knowledge and understanding of all primary US Regulations, Mutual Funds and NAV

- You will possess the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines and juggle multiple client and audit deliverables at peak delivery times

- You will be able to implement change, seek efficiencies and manage initiatives along with your daily workload

- You will be risk, control and procedure oriented

- You will have analytical & prioritization skills and be capable of making judgments

- You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills

- You will have excellent time management skills

- You will be result and target oriented, self-motivated