Senior Associate, 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 – Senior Associate, Hedge Fund Accounting

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

Given the location and nature of this role designed to specifically focus on UK client support and act as a conduit between client and several internal teams overall model support and comprehensive understanding of Back Office operations will be critical.  The ability to manage day to day operations of the team, ensuring all SLA’s are being met, managing organizational reporting requirements while working directly with the client on development requirements will also be required.

Your Responsibilities

• Accurate oversight of fund NAV’s (daily & monthly)
• Daily cash and position reconciliation
• Performing month-end close processes.
• Performing month-end fund reporting and checks
• Admin reconciliation of interest, Forwards and market value
• Calculation of management/incentive fees.
• Income/dividend distributions
• Working with various products (Loans, bonds, ABS, equities, options, FX and futures).
• Working with a global team which is responsible for reconciling corporate actions, cash/positions, pricing and calculating daily P&L.
• Supporting all aspects of ad/hoc reporting and client queries

Your Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related discipline preferred.
• Experience of Accounting / Finance-related work experience.
• CPA / CFA / MBA a plus.
• 3-5 years’ experience/knowledge of hedge fund accounting with experience in investment operations and fund administration is preferred.
• Strong understanding of complete NAV cycle processing and detailed review.
• Experience in calculation of complex management and incentive fee structures a must.
• Advent Geneva and HedgeTek software knowledge a plus.
• Strong Excel knowledge (Vlookup, Sumif, Pivot Table), 
• Exceptional organizational and written/verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Team player and self-starter, individual who takes initiative and ownership of assigned responsibilities 

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of 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.

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.