Fund Oversight Senior Specialist

The Oversight Senior Specialist leads fund accounting process implementation and drives improvements to ensure consistency across global operations. The Senior Specialist also oversees controls to ensure compliance.

The Oversight Senior Specialist:

• Serves as a business leader within the fund accounting organization and guides the consistency of global fund accounting oversight processes. Manages the oversight activities for a suite of funds and works with cross functional business leaders to identify and prioritize strategic and tactical business initiatives to minimize risk and increase scalability.
• Maintains and grows key relationships with outsourced service providers to ensure service levels are being met. Works with internal teams to track vendor performance and works both internally and externally to improve process in order to achieve service excellence.
• Works with management team in the formation and execution of operational plans to achieve departmental, divisional, and corporate objectives.
• Leads process improvements to gain efficiencies and ensure quality. Fosters a comprehensive conceptual understanding of processes and their impact to internal and external clients within the group. Works with senior management to create communications plans.
• Maintains a deep and current understanding of global products to help drive business strategies. Recommends changes in operating model and processes to gain efficiencies and/or ensure global consistency in fund oversight activities.
• Contributes to the development of other crew members through broad fund accounting knowledge and subject matter expertise. Serves as a resource to the department and willingly shares expertise.
• Proactively manages critical financial controls to ensure integrity in the daily deliverables of the business unit. Assesses business needs to enhance or change controls as necessary.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

What it takes:

• Minimum of five years related work experience in the financial industry. Accounting or Finance related experience preferred.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Finance or Accounting degree preferred.
• CPA, CA, or other professional financial designation preferred.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

We are Vanguard. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.

For us, investing doesn’t just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose – and that’s how we’ve become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.

We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Let’s make it count.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.