EMEA Fund Administration Vice President recruitment
International asset manager world wide active, provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory for institutional and private clients.
Tasks and Responsibilities
- Provide an authoritative source of business, industry and technical accounting expertise on functional and process requirements; manage change and the strategic agenda for key initiatives that impact across process and people.
- Manage a small team of individuals dealing with full oversight of the fund accounting process and fund specific projects
- Build strong relationships with contributing business areas within the company to improve the processes around fund launch and product change. Especially maintain a strong working relationship with the Product Development and New Product Services Groups.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant company policies and with regulatory requirements across all Products.
- Assisting the Financial Statement team in managing local audits
- Managing shareholder taxation relationships in conjunction with Product Tax.
- Ensure Team approach is consistent with global best practice for control, oversight and management of vendors and production of fund asset valuations and where appropriate provides input and drive to enhance such processes.
- Maintains strong relationships with Dublin, UK and other Fund Accounting oversight offices ensuring consistency of process and most optimal use of resource to provide various control and administrative duties (such as daily NAV review, tolerances checks, invoicing, etc.) to achieve complete and robust oversight of vendors and specific fund processes.
Profile of the Ideal Candidate
- Preferably relevant recognised qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CFA), or equivalent years-served industry experience
- 8+ years post-qualification experience in the Mutual fund industry with fund accounting focus and exposure to retail, institutional, hedge and cash product.
- Significant expertise in fund valuation and associated reporting and administrative requirements including specific knowledge of Luxembourg and Offshore product including (but not exhaustive of) swing pricing, dilution, levels, performance fees, shareholder taxation, hedged share classes.
- Proven experience in managing operational processes.
- Strong understanding of investment processes and controls across all product structures.
- Strong ability and track record in determining and implementing change management to process and product.
- Develop practical and pragmatic solutions through a ‘hands on’ approach.
- Ability to justify and defend proposed approaches.
- Strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to lead / motivate a team through times of change.
- Excellent verbal and written communication capabilities – ability to interact with all levels, including independent fund directors, industry groups, business heads and the firm’s senior management.
Contact person Robert Walters
Robert van den Oord
E: Robert.vandenoord@robertwalters.com
T: +352/ 26 47 85 85
Ref: RVG/285190
August 3, 2012
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