Associate Director, Fund Accountant, Client Operations - Private Equity

Summary

Join a dynamic team at MUFG Investor Services in Malaysia, where you'll have the opportunity to elevate your learning and work-life balance. As a Fund Accountant Manager, you'll manage fund accounting teams, client relationships, and deliverables, while promoting a refreshing people culture.

Requirements

• Post-secondary education/University Degree with a concentration in finance or accounting
• At least 5 years' experience working in the fund administration industry with experience managing staff. This can include other administrators, investment managers or fund auditors
• Experience with the fund administration business and the drivers of profitability and success
• High proficiency with Microsoft Excel is an essential requirement for this role
• In-depth understanding of fund administration industry. This includes multiple fund structures, fee calculations, financial instruments and fund offering documentation review
• Have a client-centric mentality to provide an excellent client service
• Willing to embrace new technologies to identify new solutions and inefficient processes
• Experience with team dynamics including engagement, moral, performance management
• Creativity in exploring solutions to improve daily operational efficiency

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of accountants responsible for client deliverables such as NAV production, financial statements and associated reports and assist with the review process
• Manage client relationships and client queries and help to resolve issues/queries raised by our clients
• Ensure the service level agreement and accuracy of client deliverables prepared by their team
• Ensure that the team is trained, engaged and as efficient and effective as possible in achieving organizational goals
• Help with the coordination of resources and make sure that appropriate cross training and coverage is in place to meet client and organizational expectations for deliverables
• Oversea the audit process, prepare financial statements or review such if prepared by other parties
• Ensure all processes are performed following operational controls as stipulated in SOC1 and all relevant checklists are completed
• Ensure all fees are billed on time and collected promptly for their assigned team
• Participate in multiple system initiatives and projects and contribute to idea generation for future process or technological improvements. Expected to participate on both a local and global level
• Perform other duties as assigned and incidental to the work described above

Benefits

• Group medical insurance scheme
• Group pension scheme
• Reimbursement of professional subscriptions
• Paid holidays
• Assistance towards gym memberships