Service Delivery Center - EY Comply - Fund/Private Equity Accounting - Manager

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. 

 

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.  Join EY and help to build a better working world.

 

EY is the only professional services firm with a separate business unit, the Financial Services Organization (“FSO) dedicated to the wealth and asset management, bank and capital markets, and insurance firms. Our FSO teams have been at the forefront of the most significant events that are reshaping and redefining the financial services industry.  As a Manager you will work from one of our several Service Delivery Centers that are made up of high-performing US-based resources, who work closely with our experienced client serving professionals, to deliver project-based work and managed services to our US-based Financial Services clients.  If you have a passion for rallying together to solve the most complex challenges in the financial services industry, come join our dynamic FSO team!

 

The opportunity

You will play a key role in defining the way hedge fund and mutual fund advisors meet regulatory, tax, and financial statement reporting requirements, using our new, proprietary EY-developed technology platform.  Top tier hedge funds and mutual fund companies are assessing and onboarding to the EY platform, which brings together investment risk data, transaction, and holdings data into a single platform for workflow management, transparency, and accountability to lower reporting costs and streamline the regulatory filing, tax reporting, and financial reporting. Join our team and assist leading mutual fund and hedge fund advisors address their most complex reporting and technology challenges.

 

Your key responsibilities

• Understand the intricacies of hedge fund and mutual fund regulatory and financial statement reporting. 
• Effectively manage teams with diverse backgrounds to deliver exceptional quality work and service to our clients.
• Foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented environment while counselling and mentoring others.
• Driving high quality work products within expected timeframes and budget. Monitor progress, manage risks and ensuring key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Stay current on business and industry trends relevant to our clients, including the latest regulatory developments, and industry practices for hedge funds and mutual fund advisors

 

Skills and attributes for success

• Understanding of processes and ability to execute detailed procedures based on knowledge of fund financial statement and regulatory filing principles
• Mastery of the intricacies in hedge fund and mutual fund regulatory reporting, and financial statement reporting
• Mastery of understanding mutual fund and hedge fund investment characteristics and the application of regulatory reporting rules to those investments
• Deliver client and process requirements in a regulatory driven environment, and understanding operationally complex fund accounting principles
• Develop relationships with team members across multiple geographic locations and time zones

 

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Minimum 6 years of work experience related to operational management and regulatory reporting in the financial services industry
• Experience related to fund accounting, including the ability to conduct technical review and understand SEC rules and regulations, and FAQs as they pertain to required reporting.
• A bachelors degree in business, accounting, economics, finance or related discipline
• Analytical skills, especially those related to fund accounting and asset management
• Strong proven communication skills demonstrated through effective writing and presentations to clients and internal stakeholders; based on critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Effective leadership, project management, and organizational skills
• Experience managing large teams and the ability leverage the team’s talents in solving problems
• An understanding of financial products and services, include those related to depository institutions, wholesale banking, insurance, asset management, securities, financial technology or private equity.
• An interest in working in an environment w