Our client, a leading global financial services firm, is seeking a Vice President – Portfolio Accounting. This role is open to lateral candidates only.
The Vice President will provide deep accounting expertise and play a key role in the ongoing development and enhancement of portfolio accounting capabilities and controls. Partnering closely with the Head of Portfolio Accounting, this individual will help drive business process transformation and deliver high-quality IBOR/ABOR data to support front-to-back operations, investment analytics, regulatory compliance, and a best-in-class client experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a subject matter expert on current portfolio accounting standards.
- Produce and publish the official Aladdin Portfolio Asset Value on a monthly basis, in accordance with client and reporting SLAs, including execution of all quality control checks to finalize and close the books.
- Execute and oversee daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual control processes to ensure consistent, accurate accounting data and mitigate the risk of delays in daily IBOR and month-end close.
- Ensure complete, accurate, and timely start-of-day positions to support the investment process.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) required.
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, within asset management, with hands-on experience in portfolio accounting.
- In-depth knowledge of middle-office operations, including trade settlement, IBOR/ABOR, transaction lifecycle events across multiple asset classes (equities, fixed income, derivatives), cash and position reconciliation, and performance reporting.
- Excellent people management and stakeholder management experience.
Please note that due to the high number of applications only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us in the next 5 business days we regret to inform you that your application for this position was unsuccessful.