Senior Associate

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

Responsibilities:

• Contribute toward a team covering one or more client relationships
• Deliver accurate and timely work product within specified deliverables timelines, and in coordination with the Manager and other team members
• Handle daily/routine client information requests
• Perform bank reconciliations, process journal entries, and prepare supporting financial schedules
• Review/prepare all transaction documentation and supporting files, and understand the features of the investment transactions, accruals, etc.
• Review/prepare work paper files for accuracy and completeness, including capital activity, investment activity, income and expense accruals, valuation adjustments, etc.
• Review/prepare management fee calculations and supporting schedules
• Review/prepare investor allocations and capital account statements.
• Review/prepare capital call and distribution calculations, sources/uses of cash, allocations, and investor notices
• Preparation of financial statements, notes disclosures, and supporting schedules
• Support the year-end audit process, in collaboration with the team, client, and auditors.
• Support corporate goals and business/departmental initiatives
• Update distribution waterfall (carried interest) models, in keeping with the applicable fund terms
• Where applicable, support the tax team with information to prepare tax compliance/reports

Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience working within fund accounting, preferably within Private Equity or Big 4 Audit Firm. Experience in Mutual and/or Hedge fund accounting will be considered
• Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment
• Deadline oriented with ability to complete assigned tasks independently
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, with emphasis on Excel skills
• Team player

Preferred:

• A strong command of Excel is essential, with additional expertise in application such as Power Query, Power BI, Macro, and VBA considered a valuable asset.
• A keen interest in data preparation tools such as Power Query and VBA, as well as the ability to work with various software applications, is required.

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.