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Manager, Alternative Fund Accounting

Posted on Feb. 18, 2025

Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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Full Time

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

SS&C Financial Services – Manager, Alternatives Fund Accounting -

Luxembourg

About SS&C Technologies

SS&C is a global provider of investment, financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries.

Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

Job Description

SS&C Financial Services

A leading innovator in alternative investment technology solutions and services, SS&C is also home to the industry’s largest fund administrator: SS&C GlobeOp, helping funds of all sizes from start-ups to today's largest funds.

Named "Best Administrator: Technology" in the 2020 HFM US Services Awards. Across all of SS&C, we serve nearly $45 trillion in managed assets. We have assembled an exceptional team of fund accounting experts and equipped them with the industry’s leading technology, which SS&C built and supports.

About the Role

As a Manager you will be responsible for maintaining a number of Private Markets client relationships and overseeing the onshore and offshore team members managing the accounting and reporting functions. You should be a qualified accountant with experience in fund administration for Luxembourg structures and all associated local Luxembourg regulatory reporting associated with these vehicles.

You will be expected to have excellent written and verbal communications skills, a proven ability to multi-task, and outstanding organisational, coordination, team management, deliverables management, and problem-solving skills.

Your Responsibilities

Manage multiple client relationships, including scheduling and meeting all client deliverables.
Oversee the preparation of financial statements, partner capital statements, capital-calls/distributions workings, tax, etc. (inclusive of the underlying work papers).
Act as subject matter expert on accounting standards (IFRS, LuxGAAP, etc.) applied to Luxembourg fund vehicles and local Luxembourg regulatory reporting. Knowledge of US GAAP would be an advantage.
Prepare goals and career development plans for direct reports and complete performance appraisals.
Oversee and assist with the preparation and review of management fee calculations and waterfall models.
Oversee and assist with the preparation and delivery of drawdown and distribution notices to limited partners.
Oversee and assist with the preparation and coordination of the filing of monthly and quarterly local regulatory reporting such as BCL and CSSF reporting.
Manage the relationships and deliverables with 3rd Parties such as Auditors, Depository/Custodian Bank, AIFM, Government Authorities (Tax Office, Register of Companies, etc), and all other Funds’ ancillary parties.
Interact with senior management to implement new initiatives and promote team development.
Coordinate with operations teams locally in Luxembourg, and also in foreign jurisdictions such as New York, London, Dublin and globally as required.

Your Experience

Post Accounting Qualification experience dealing with and reporting on Luxembourg Fund Structures, with emphasis on local Luxembourg regulatory reporting.
Demonstrate ability to critically and constructively review and prepare financial statements in IFRS and LuxGAAP.
Knowledge of tax reporting on Luxembourg vehicles.
Strong background in review of funds and deals related legal documents.
Team player with the ability to coordinate deliverables within a team and the overall Private Markets department – this will be very important as cross-team interaction is critical to the smooth running of the group.
Solid experience in Fund Administration and Fund Accounting (preferably including private equity accounting and consolidation accounting).
An understanding of the control environment associated with private equity administration.
Ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail.
Excellent follow-up, analytical and problem solving skills.
Strong interpersonal skills including oral and written communication skills.
Strong client service focus, including the ability to effectively respond to client needs.
Ability to converse in Mandarin would be an advantage.

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Background Checks

All offers of employment at SS&C are subject to background verification checks, including 5-year employment history, proof of eligibility to work in hiring location, proof of address, credit check and criminal record check (where permitted by local law). The accuracy of all information you submit as part of your application is vital and may be used as part of the background checking process should you be successful.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.

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