Associate Director - Hedge Fund Accounting

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 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

Associate Director, Hedge Fund Accounting

Location: London – Hybrid working is on offer.

Get To Know Us:

SS&C GlobeOp, a division of SS&C Technologies, is one of the world’s largest administrators with core competencies in private equity, hedge funds, funds of funds and managed accounts. SS&C has been providing outsourcing and fund administration services since 1995.

Key differentiators for our business are significant staff expertise and high employee retention rates, ownership of underlying technology and impeccable client service. Our growth is largely driven by referrals from satisfied clients.

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.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

What You Will Get To Do:

Within this position you will take on a leadership role at the centre of hedge fund operations, where you’ll guide a team, oversee NAV and P&L reporting, and ensure the delivery of accurate, high-quality financials for sophisticated clients. You’ll partner closely with clients and auditors, contribute to new product initiatives, and play a key role in driving operational excellence across complex fund structures. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced fund accounting professional ready to expand their leadership impact in a fast-paced, client-focused environment.

Here are some of key duties below:

• Provide coaching, training and leadership as necessary to the client service team
• Review all work product prepared by accounting staff including monitoring and pricing of P&L, NAV’s and economic allocations
• Contribute to internal project initiatives regarding new product development, testing and implementation
• Coordinate overall work plan for US client service group accounting staff, which includes managing and monitoring work in progress
• Manage client relationships and satisfaction
• Establish a plan for new client setups, reorganizations and conversions
• Resolve fund accounting inquiries escalated to a supervisor
• Provide technical accounting/industry knowledge to our clients
• Coordinate, manage and monitor the external audit process
• Review client financial statements, partner capital statements and other required financial reporting

What You Will Bring:

• Strong working knowledge of accounting principles, general ledgers and financial statements, within the Hedge fund industry
• Knowledge of Hedge funds, net asset value calculations and capital activities, stemming from your background within fund administration.
• Knowledge of US GAAP/UK GAAP and IFRS.
• Strong client service focus, including the ability to effectively respond to client needs.
• Meet internal and external demands and deadlines by being results orientated and by demonstrating the ability to operate on initiative in a controlled environment.
• Ability to analyse a situation, and its potential solution, working through all steps to its conclusion.
• Prior experience with various products including equities, fixed income, repurchase agreements, futures, FX, Mortgages and options would be an advantage.
• A professional Accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA, CA or similar), preferably fully qualified.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse 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.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

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.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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.