State Street Global Advisors, Fund Expense Oversight, Vice President

Job Description

SSGA’s Global Funds Management (“GFM”) team drives sound fund oversight programs across SSGA’s funds and services. GFM’s Fund Expense Oversight Center of Excellence (“COE”) is looking for a Fund Expense Oversight Vice President who will act as a Subject Matter Expert (“SME”) and take ownership of a variety of fund expense and regulatory reporting activities as well as directly manage staff on the Expense Team in order to continue the development of a centralized team of expense experts across a variety of fund ranges and jurisdictions. The team that you will be joining oversees funds registered in multiple EMEA and North America countries with diverse fund and umbrella structures.

As Fund Expense Oversight Vice President your responsibilities will include:

• Review fund expenses and approve invoice payments based on Fee Schedules and other agreements with the vendors.
• Liaise with vendors, regulators and other parties to ensure expenses charged to the funds are correct.
• Ensure accruals and payments are processed accurately and in a timely manner by corporate teams and service providers.
• Ensure SSGA fund expense records are accurate and up to date.
• Review and approve funds TERs and other expense reports delivered by service providers.
• Help establish standardized and effective governance structure over fund expenses by reviewing and updating procedures and ensuring their consistent application.
• Lead  process automation.
• Act as an Expense Expert for queries and escalation issues received from SSGA departments, team and clients.
• Manage a team of analysts in the Expense COE team and all functional tasks associated with the team.
• Identify areas of need and/or improvement within the team and drive ideas for process improvements with all pertinent parties.
• Manage cross training initiative within the team to ensure all responsibilities are covered when needed.
• Act as the lead on projects when needed within the team as well as with internal business partners to fulfil all necessary requirements.

These skills will help you succeed in this role:

• Proven leadership and presentation skills, with the ability to interface effectively with an executive audience
• Ability to coach and develop a high performing staff and senior managers
• Appreciation of multicultural work environment
• Strong communication skills to clearly articulate ideas and ability to use experience and analysis to gain support and work with internal and external parties
• Excellent critical-thinking skills with ability to structure and solve complex business problems
• Excellent attention to details.
• Focus on continuous process improvement, procedure writing, and risk mitigation.
• Strong analytical, organizational and critical thinking skills.
• Self-motivated, ability to work independently and prioritize.
• The ability to work with people and direct them towards a common goal. Both within the team as well as with internal and external business partners

Education & Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in financial services.
• 6+ years of leadership experience in leading teams and managing senior managers
• Working knowledge of US Mutual Funds, Cash Funds, ETFs, unregistered commingled funds, UCITS, SICAVs. 
• Master’s degree in business, finance or related field.
• Computer proficient especially with advanced Excel features.
• Proficient in English language.