Capital Markets Operations Manager

Skill required: Asset Management - Accounting & Financial Reporting Standards
Designation: Capital Markets Operations Manager
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:13 to 18 years
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What would you do? • Manage end-to-end delivery of the in-scope Corporate Finance sub-processes for client Accounts Payable; Time & Expense; Revenue Controllership; Compensation Controllership; GP Controllership; Corporate Controllership; Regional Controllers; and Financial Planning & Analysis against the agreed service levels and control standards. • Accountable for the quality and timeliness of every pack, draft account, reconciliation, model and report the team produces. • Act as the primary day-to-day contact and first escalation point for client Corporate Finance, and lead, resource and develop the supervisory and execution layers. • Experience of delivering a period-end close across multiple entities, including reconciliation control and the escalation of unresolved differences. • Experience of the FP&A cycle: budget coordination, forecasting, and variance and KPI reporting. • Experience of managing service levels and KPIs in a service delivery or shared services environment, and of reporting performance to a client.
What are we looking for? • 13+ years of experience, including experience of managing managers in a finance operations environment. • Chartered Accountant, CPA or MBA (Finance), or an equivalent professional qualification. • Strong knowledge of end-to-end Corporate Finance processes: accounts payable, travel and expense, period-end close, controllership, statutory reporting, and financial planning and analysis. • Hands-on delivery experience of these processes on a major ERP or finance platform (for example SAP, Oracle, NetSuite or Workday). The platform matters less than the process depth. • Experience of Workday Financial Management; core accounting, Accounting Center and financial reporting on which the client processes run. • Exposure to Workday reporting (Report Writer, Composite Reports, Discovery Boards), Prism Analytics or Adaptive Planning, or to comparable FP&A planning tools. • Working understanding of private markets fund structures, GP and carry vehicles & capital account mechanics, & of revenue recognition (ASC 606, IFRS 15) in an asset management context. • Experience of multi-entity consolidation, intercompany elimination & multi-jurisdiction statutory reporting.
Roles and Responsibilities: • Delivery management; • Manage day-to-day delivery across Accounts Payable, Time & Expense, the revenue, compensation, GP, corporate and regional controllership streams, and Financial Planning & Analysis, through the Associate Manager (CL8) layer. • Run the delivery plan against the period-end close and payment-preparation calendars and confirm readiness and cut-off adherence ahead of each close. • Deliver the FP&A cycle; budget coordination, rolling forecast and re-forecast, variance and trend reporting to the agreed tolerances, and the monthly KPI and ad hoc packs. • Drive service level and KPI performance across the sub-processes: investigate misses, agree corrective action, and report performance at the monthly review. • Quality and control; • Review the reconciliations, draft accounts, statements, models & reporting packs before they are released. • Maintain the quality framework & the control and audit calendar; maker checker discipline, sampling, root cause resolution, audit evidence & remediation tracking. • Escalate control weaknesses, ageing exceptions, unresolved differences and mistaken or duplicate payments. • Stakeholder management and improvement • Run the weekly and monthly operating cadence with client Controllership, Treasury, HR and FP&A counterparts, and prepare the service performance content for governance reviews. • Translate policy and system decisions into process change, keep documentation and job aids current, and track client side dependencies, reporting service impact where they are not met. • Identify, prioritize and deliver process improvement and automation opportunities, and lead transition workstreams: knowledge capture, training, parallel run and steady-state sign-off. • People and resourcing • Lead & develop the Associate Manager layer &, through them, the Specialist, Team Lead & Analyst population: objectives, performance management & capability building.Any Graduation

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