Senior Vice President, Private Equity Fund Accounting

Job description

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President to join our Alternatives team and to play a leading operational engagement role within our Private Markets Accounting pod. This role is located in New York City and to principally support both internal and external client stakeholders in region. In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: Work with a range of and help to influence internal teams of Product professionals and managers that support the ongoing development and management of key products and service enhancements critical to the Alternatives client-base and the high growth private markets commercial segment in particular.

Intake, assess and assist in solution design for existing and prospective private markets client produce improvement, process automation or new capability development enquiries. Act as operations advocate from an efficiency and risk reduction perspective. Ensures the wider private markets team stays on top of the competitive landscape and maintains a capability to address emerging client and investor demands as well as the wider industry and regulatory change environment.

Provides experience based input into key product determination, prioritization and long-term goal setting. Supports the Private Markets pod owner, engineering team and enabling partners to manage the product life cycle from development through marketing to address and bridge gaps in the product portfolio. Collaborates with senior platform and wider enterprise leaders to implement enhancements to products, including pricing, promotional and region or other jurisdiction centric distribution strategies.

Works closely with Relationship Management, Business Development, Operations, and Marketing teams to ensure alignment on sales support, market positioning and periodic RFP and prospective client engagement. Oversees compliance with Risk, Legal, and Regulatory guidelines. Partners with a large and specialized team of wider Alternatives product group professionals in executing against business strategies and with focus on targeted key results.

Assists with recruitment, development and motivation of staff, ensuring a high-performing Alternatives product management and wider operations team.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience. 10-12 years of total work experience with at least 5 years in Alternatives Asset Servicing and/or Investment Management Operations role is preferred. Alternative Investments or directly relevant financial services experience preferred. Experience with leading Alternatives Markets core systems of record (Geneva and Investran a preference) and associated vendor reconciliation, data management and third party regulatory and financial reporting outsourcing partners is preferred.

Strong proficiency in data management. Experience in working within agile teams a preference. Demonstrable experience in vendor management, change management and project management preferred but not essential. Advanced/graduate degree preferred. Applicable local and global licenses or certifications as required by the business.