Due Diligence Role - Financial Services

Due Diligence_Financial Services

Job Description:

- The core responsibility will be to lead and run the DD process with these external counterparties and successfully get them completed within due timeframe.

- The high achieving candidate will ideally be a qualified MBA/CA with 10-20 years of work experience having worked in a large asset management companies or consulting firms. The candidate is expected to have prior experience in conducting due diligence of funds and other legal structures to ensure that the funds/legal structure have high functioning standards, commensurate with the requirements of Institutional investors or Distributors (International and Domestic).

Functional skills:

Required areas of understanding include:

1. Investment products

2. Operations and processes

3. Compliance & Governance

4. Risk Assessment

5. Committee structures, Policy and SOPs

6. Reporting

- Lead all the DD process initiated by Institutional Investors or Distributors from our side and successfully complete all the DDs.

- Anticipate all the challenges that may come up in a DD and have a solution-oriented approach to mitigate these challenges in advance

- Interacting with the Product team and Compliance teams regularly to ensure that all the products of the platform are DD-ready at any point of time.

- Keep abreast of changes in regulatory requirements that may impact due diligence procedures.

- Continuously improve due diligence processes, incorporating best practices and leverage technology for increased efficiency and accuracy.

Behavioural skills:

- Excellent communication and relationship management skills with external stakeholders.

- Advanced Project management skills for running multiple DDs with tight timelines.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to make strong and logical recommendations while designing or running a product to all internal stakeholders.

- Ability to collaborate with various teams, including legal, compliance, and investment, to gather information and ensure a comprehensive due diligence process.

- Keen eye for detail

Job location will be Mumbai, 100% work from office.

Compensation - as per industry standards