Fund Accounting Lead - Private Equity

Our client is India's marquee global technology company. They are an international flag-bearer of technical and managerial excellence. With offices around the globe, the company has a comprehensive presence across multiple segments of the IT product and service industries. They are a respected career company and a long-term wealth creator.

The company partners with their clients to transform their businesses in areas such as strategy, processes, organization, systems and risk. As Value Integrators, the company deliver realized business value by managing transformations from strategy through execution, including operating and optimizing delivered solutions.

The Consulting team in India works with its overseas counterparts to provide business consulting services to clients in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Middle East markets.

We are seeking to identify a Fund Accounting Lead (Private Equity) for the company. You should be a qualified Chartered Accountant and will work on key client deliverables in fund accounting and group finance (monthly, quarterly and annual reporting requirements)

Key responsibilities:

- Manage the day-to day team operations, prepare / review team deliverables before final submission to clients and achieve key performance indicators or specified Service Level Agreements

- Work closely with client stakeholders to resolve queries, support new business requirements, work with client auditors to resolve queries

- Responsible for end-to-end finalization of accounts for English Limited Partnership entities / funds. Reporting responsibilities are typically divided into three period ends (monthly, quarterly and annual)

- Broad reporting deliverables will include:

- Monthly: Cash Book preparation, Clearing of Key suspense account, Intercompany reconciliations for allocated entities, Portfolio KPI analysis

- Quarterly: Quarterly investor reports, GP fee calculation, Allocation Journals and calculations and forecasting presentations

- Yearly: Annual Statutory reports, Investor reports, Tax Statements

Your Profile

- A qualified CA, with 13+ years of work experience in leading teams in accounting / financial reporting functional areas in the alternative investments sector (preferably worked in compiling books of account for private equity firms / hedge funds / financial services firms)

- Must have sound understanding of fund structures, partnership entities and fund accounting

- Must be capable of understanding a complex holding-subsidiary company / partnership structure and possess thorough accounting knowledge to treat and disclose investment accounting transactions

- Conversant with IFRS and UK GAAP. Ability to pick up specific areas in IFRS and UK GAAP, as required

- Must have worked in client facing roles and focus on process improvements

- Excel skills - Writing formulae, macros, VBA desirable

- MS Visio - Experience in preparing process maps