Assistant Manager, Fund Accounting

Job Description

This Role
Responsible for leading fund accounting teams, reviewing complex financial deliverables, managing stakeholder relationships, ensuring compliance, and driving continuous improvement to deliver high‑quality client service.
What You Will Do 

• You’ll own and review complex deliverables including financial statements with disclosures, NAV reporting, capital calls, distributions, investor notices, and ad‑hoc client requirements for private equity funds.
• You’ll lead and develop your team by delegating tasks, monitoring performance, providing coaching and feedback, and driving technical and non‑technical development to meet KPIs and client expectations.
• You’ll coordinate with stakeholders by liaising with cluster counterparts, clients, and investors, ensuring queries are addressed within 24 hours, deadlines are met, and review comments are resolved.
• You’ll manage workflow and compliance by overseeing timesheets, workflow planners, risk reporting, and adherence to SSAE and statutory requirements, while drafting error reports and proposing corrective actions.
• You’ll drive results and improvement by optimizing processes, standardizing fund operations, supporting onboarding and conversions to platforms like Investran/Paxus, and demonstrating behaviours such as collaboration, resilience, decision quality, and talent development.

What we offer

• Competitive Total Rewards Package: Comprehensive annual compensation including basic salary, HRA, special allowance, provident fund, gratuity, internet allowance, and food allowance.
• Health & Insurance Coverage: Medical insurance, group term life insurance, and personal accident insurance.
• Allowances & Support: Transportation/transport allowance and shift allowance.
• Paid Time Off: Generous leave policy to support work–life balance.

Qualifications

About You

• You are a graduate of accounting or a business‑related course with 6+ years of relevant accounting experience, including at least two years in a supervisory role.
• You bring background expertise in managing service operations, client deliverables, staff appraisals, and fund accounting services, preferably with private equity exposure.
• You possess strong technical knowledge of IndAS, IFRS, and GAAPs across multiple jurisdictions (US, UK, Luxembourg), with proven experience preparing and reviewing financial statements under applicable laws.
• You demonstrate technical proficiency with intermediate Excel functions (pivot tables, lookups, IF statements), Microsoft Office applications, effective communication skills, and accounting software such as Investran/Paxus.
• You add value with desired qualifications such as CPA/ACCA certification, experience in financial or shared services environments, exposure to multinational offices, and openness to travel or secondment opportunities abroad.

Additional Information

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT

As a forward-looking business, sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining meaningful, long-term relationships with all our stakeholders – including our employees, clients, and local communities – while also reducing our impact on our natural environment.

There is always more we can, and should do, to improve – whether in relation to our people, our clients, our planet, or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.

Our learning and development programmes and systems enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers, while our hybrid working approach supports our employees in achieving balance and flexibility while remaining connected to their colleagues. We want to empower our 6,500+ employees - from 94 nationalities, across 24 countries - to each achieve their potential. Through IQ-EQ Launchpad we support female managers launching their first fund, in an environment where only 15% of all private equity and venture capital firms are gender balanced.

We’re committed to growing long-term relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our client’s sustainability and success leads to our sustainability and success. We’re emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.