Associate Director- Fund Accounting, Private Markets - UAE

About This Role

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

Associate Director, Fund Accounting – Private Markets

Location: Abu Dhabi – 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. Working for a private markets fund manager would be an advantage. The successful candidate will be expected to have solid written and verbal communications skills, a proven ability to multi-task, and outstanding organisational and problem-solving skills.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Assist to manage the client deliverables and coordinate with different internal departments in multiple jurisdictions to ensure deadlines are met.
• 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’s.
• Tasked with broadening exposure within the region by working on investment accounting, fund administration, client servicing and investor servicing.
• Ability to implement new processes and technology to support new business initiatives, improve control and increase operating efficiency.
• 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, financial statements.
• Excellent knowledge of private markets, net asset value calculations and capital activities within the fund administration industry.
• Team player with the ability to lead – this will be very important as cross-team interaction is critical to the smooth running of the group.
• Excellent follow-up, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong client service focus, including the ability to effectively respond to client needs.
• Accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA, CA or similar) – ideally you will be fully qualified
• Meet internal and external demands and deadlines demonstrating ability to operate on initiative in a controlled environment.
• The ability to analyse a situation (and its potential solution) and think through all steps to its conclusion.
• Knowledge of US GAAP/UK GAAP and IFRS

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.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

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.