Associate Director, Fund Accounting - Private Equity in London

Location: London – Hybrid working is on offer.

Get To Know Us:

SS&C GlobeOp, a division of SS&C Technologies, is one of the world’s largest administrators with core competencies in private equity, hedge funds, funds of funds and managed accounts. SS&C has been providing outsourcing and fund administration services since 1995. Key differentiators for our business are significant staff expertise and high employee retention rates, ownership of underlying technology and impeccable client service. Our growth is largely driven by referrals from satisfied clients. A leading innovator in alternative investment technology solutions and services, SS&C is also home to the industry’s largest fund administrator: SS&C GlobeOp, helping funds of all sizes from start-ups to today's largest funds.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

What You Will Get To Do:

Within this role you will be responsible for providing the accounting and reporting function for our growing private markets client base. Our client base includes existing clients that have grown organically, as well as new clients that we have recently acquired. This opportunity will also enable you to work with a global team to develop our private markets coverage and associated services in EMEA.

Due to the nature of our clients, having prior experience working in private equity or for a private markets fund manager would be a strong advantage in the position. The successful candidate will be expected to have strong written and verbal communications skills, a proven ability to multi-task, and outstanding organisational and problem-solving skills.

Here are some of key duties below:

• Assistance with managing client deliverables and coordinate with different internal departments in multiple jurisdictions to ensure deadlines are met.
• Prepare and/or Review NAV calculation, audited and unaudited financial statements, partner capital statements, management fee calculation, drawdowns, distributions and the underlying work papers.
• Act as one of the daily points of contact for clients, ensure to communicate promptly and professionally with clients and develop ongoing relationship.
• Prepare appropriate material and responses for client meetings and other requests.
• Coordinate, support and facilitate the external audit process and other third party reporting.
• Opportunity to broaden exposure by working on investment accounting, fund administration, client servicing and investor servicing.
• Being able to implement new processes and technology to support new business initiatives, improve control and increase operating efficiency.
• Develop and demonstrate the skill set required to work under pressure in a high growth environment, implement high quality processes with strong focus on process development.
• Coordinate private markets services across internal functions including Cash, Corporate Secretarial, Legal and AML.
• Networking and communicating across Private Markets and associated internal and external businesses; interacting with Risk & Controls, Legal, Implementations and Sales.

What You Will Bring:

• Strong working knowledge of accounting principles, general ledgers and financial statements, within Private Markets.
• Knowledge of private markets, net asset value calculations and capital activities, stemming from your background within fund administration.
• Knowledge of US GAAP/UK GAAP and IFRS.
• Strong client service focus, including the ability to effectively respond to client needs.
• Meet internal and external demands and deadlines by being results orientated and by demonstrating the ability to operate on initiative in a controlled environment.
• Ability to analyse a situation, and its potential solution, working through all steps to its conclusion.
• A professional Accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA, CA or similar), preferably fully qualified.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.