Technology Product Development: Hedge Fund Accounting recruitment

Position Category: Equities Sales Trading

Position Title: Technology Product Development: Hedge Fund Accounting

Job Level: Vice President

Location: USA - NY - Purchase

Education Required: Bachelors Degree

Position Description:
This wholly owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley administers over $125 billion of hedge fund assets. Using the firm's proprietary, globally accessible technology platform, the business provides a full range of fund administration services, including daily accounting and financial reporting; transfer agency and investor services; middle and back-office support; and integrated portfolio analytics. Morgan Stanley Fund Services is supported by more than 400 professionals based in New York, London, Dublin, Glasgow and Mumbai.

The Product Development team within Morgan Stanley Fund Services (MSFS) works with the business to establish the overall strategy and priorities for the technology products and platforms. Based on the business strategy and overall priorities, the Product Development team creates product plans including high level business requirements, cost analysis, benefits definition and an overall go to market rollout plan.

The team currently seeks a Vice President level professional. The candidate will work closely with the business unit to develop and manage the direction and priorities of the investor accounting platform. This candidate will be responsible for facilitating and gathering detailed user requirements for the development teams, facilitating design reviews with the business and manage the overall rollout plans including QA, user testing, staff training and final delivery. This role also includes being the first line of user support for products, track client issues and works with business to prioritize post implementation issues and enhancements requests. This candidate will have to coordinate between the business, development teams and vendors across multiple global locations.

Skills Required:
•Detailed knowledge of multi currency Hedge Fund accounting and investor allocation process
•Strong communication and project management skills
•Comfortable interfacing with executive management, business users and development teams in multiple locations
•Experience in managing system roll outs, data conversion and integration projects
•Prior experience in managing vendor relationships is a plus
•Should be detailed oriented and must have strong analytical and problem solving skills

Skills Desired:
•Masters or higher in accounting or business, CPA is desired but not a requirement. However, candidate must have an in depth technical knowledge of hedge fund accounting and investor allocation processes and concepts.
•7 plus years of experience working for hedge funds, hedge fund technology vendors, hedge fund administrators and/or prime brokers
•Needs to be comfortable with Microsoft office: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, Share point, Access