Manager - Fund accounting

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

SS&C Financial Services – Manager, Fund Accountant – Private Markets

About SS&C Technologies

SS&C is a global provider of investment, financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries.

Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

Job Description

SS&C Financial Services

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.

Named "Best Administrator: Technology" in the 2020 HFM US Services Awards. Across all of SS&C, we serve nearly $45 trillion in managed assets. We have assembled an exceptional team of fund accounting experts and equipped them with the industry’s leading technology, which SS&C built and supports.

About the Role

As a Manager you will be responsible for maintaining a number of private equity client relationships and overseeing the offshore team members managing the accounting and reporting functions. You should be a qualified accountant with experience in private equity fund administration. You will be expected to have excellent written and verbal communications skills, a proven ability to multi-task, and outstanding organisational and problem-solving skills.

Your Responsibilities

• Manage multiple client relationships, including scheduling and meeting all client deliverables.
• Oversee the preparation of financial statements, partner capital statements and the underlying work papers.
• Act as subject matter expert on accounting standards applied to all Luxembourg Funds.
• Participate in new business discussions with prospects and existing clients.
• Prepare goals and career development plans for direct reports and complete performance appraisals.
• Oversee and assist with the preparation and review of management fee calculations and waterfall models.
• Oversee and assist with the preparation and delivery of drawdown and distribution notices to limited partners.
• Oversee and assist with the preparation and coordinate the filing of monthly and quarterly  regulatory reporting such as SPV reporting.
• Interact with senior management to implement new initiatives and promote team development
• Coordinate, support and manage the external audit process.

Your Experience

• Post qualification experience dealing with and reporting on Fund Structures.
• Demonstrated ability to critically and constructively review prepared financial statements.
• Strong background in review of fund and deal related legal documents.
• Strong working knowledge of accounting principles, general ledgers, financial statements etc.
• Team player with the ability to coordinate deliverables within a team – this will be very important as cross-team interaction is critical to the smooth running of the group.
• An understanding of the control environment associated with private equity administration.
• Accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA or similar).
• Knowledge of IFRS, US GAAP and UK GAAP an advantage

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, colour, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Background Checks

All offers of employment at SS&C are subject to background verification checks, including 5-year employment history, proof of eligibility to work in hiring location, proof of address, credit check and criminal record check (where permitted by local law). The accuracy of all information you submit as part of your application is vital and may be used as part of the background checking process should you be successful.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.