Associate Manager – Fund Accounting

IQ-EQ is a leading Investor Services group which combines global expertise with an unwavering focus on client service delivery. We support fund managers, global companies, family offices and private clients operating worldwide.

Responsibilities

• The Manager – Fund Accounting is responsible to build and sustain a premium organization capable of delivering services in a high-volume, client centered environment where higher level of service requires developing/maintaining process excellence.
• The Manager – Fund Accounting is a sought-out business partner and resource for client requesting accounting needs by leading individual and team performance.
• Ensures that work delivered to clients are compliant to the Group and Company compliance policies as well as local regulatory framework.

Tasks

• Manage a team of accounting professionals to delivery accounting related services to clients.
• Encourages new ideas, approaches and opinions.
• Works together with the Associate Managers to ensure the planning assumptions and input are correct.  Accurately establishes capacity plan. 
• Evaluates optimal resource utilization between each team by ensuring staff allocation arbitration. Assesses accordingly the capacity plan.
• Ensures efficiency of operations to minimize costs and allows on-time delivery of services to clients.
• Works closely with the Executive Director to ensure client’s expectations are met.
• Manage the Accounting team to ensure that client deadlines and milestones are met.
• Ensures all incidents and clients’ complaints are logged and properly handled.
• Prepare and analyse the incidents and clients’ complaints reports to include immediate mitigation to avoid similar occurrences. Report to be communicated to respective committee/forum.
• Ensures invoicing is timely and full, including billing of all Ad-hoc works.
• Ensures Compliance and risk policies and protocols are adhered to by the entire department and deficiencies repaired and escalated to CDD without delay.
• Takes responsibility for the quality control in the department while promoting empowerment and ownership.
• Daily time sheet control and approval for his direct reports + overruns check and chargeability.
• Monitors improvement in processes and optimisation of technology.
• Leads continuous improvement efforts and projects to refine production methods and processes to produce quality services that meet customer requirements in the most cost-effective manner.
• Directs, guides, monitors the department with consistent and established operating mode, and safety procedures and processes.  Engages in problem solving of complex situations.
• Monitoring of budgets, identifying revenue opportunities and monitoring of WIP.
• Ascertain scop creep work, if any, and discuss that with client and seniors in timely manner.
• Work together with the Managers to ensure a proper allocation of client/task to the team members. Identify staff’s training requirements and arrange/provide required training to them.
• Develops and maintains targets concerning staffing; overtime budgeting and productivity.
• Directs, guides, monitors Manager under his/her accountability e.g. quality of work, leaves, attrition, appraisal, coaching and development.
• Report to CDD on information related to accounting deliverables.
• Ensure protections of information assets of IQ-EQ India

Key Performance Indicators

• Maintain revenue from existing clients
• Client satisfaction by meeting all agreed KPIs and service level understanding

Key competencies for position and level

• Conceptualising (Information Management)
• Innovating (Information Management)
• Managing (Task Management)
• Organising (Task Management)
• Building teams (People Management)
• Motivating (People Management)
• Influencing (Interpersonal Management)
• Achieving objectives (Personal Management)

Key behaviours we expect to see

In addition to demonstrating our Group Values (Authentic, Bold, and Collaborative), the role holder will be expected to demonstrate the following:

• Accuracy
• Approachability
• Attention to detail
• Prioritisation
• Proactivity
• Relationship Building
• Taking ownership

Required Experience

Education / professional  qualifications

• Degree holder and/or related Professional qualification

Background experience

• Minimum 7 years’ managerial operational experience in either fund accounting services

Languages

• Fluent in spoken English

Technical

• Experience in complex accounting
• Sound Knowledge of accounting GAAP.Review/Preparation of     Financial Statements under IndAs, IFRS and other applicable laws and regulations
• Proven client operational relationship at senior level

Computer / program knowledge

• Knowledge of PAXUS and/or Microgen is preferable. Microsoft office, experience in the use of internal tools and programs