Vice President, Fund Accounting (Portuguese Language)
Posted
We are seeking a high-calibre professional for the role of Vice President to join our Fund & Investor Solutions – Fund Accounting (NAV Validation) team based in Singapore.
Key Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Lead a team delivering accurate and timely daily, weekly, and monthly NAVs, accounting outputs, and financial statements.
- Oversee the end-to-end productioncycle, including source-data validation, reconciliations, exceptioninvestigation, movement review, approvals, sign-offs, and evidence retention.
- Partner with Global teams, fund managers, vendors, distributors, and internal service functions to resolve exceptions, queries, and complex client requirements.
- Maintain strong controls and compliance with client mandates, regulatory requirements, BNY policies, procedures, audit standards, and business-continuity expectations.
- Own incidents and escalations through resolution, including impact assessment, stakeholder communication, root-cause analysis, and remediation.
- Monitor KPIs, quality, risk,capacity, recurring errors, and deadlines; escalate concerns and implementcorrective actions.
- Manage staffing, workload, leave coverage, training, onboarding, fund launches, migrations, and operational readiness.
- Coach and develop the team through clear objectives, feedback, performance management, succession planning, and an inclusive culture.
- Deliver system, control, automation, and AI-enabled improvements that strengthen accuracy, resilience, scalability, and efficiency.
Qualifications and Skills
To be successful in this role, candidates should possess:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related discipline; a postgraduate Finance qualification is advantageous.
- Strong fund accounting experience covering NAV production and validation, reconciliations, financial reporting, controls, audits, and issue resolution.
- Professional spoken and written Portuguese is essential for using accounting systems, interpreting reports and instructions, and communicating with fund managers, agencies, vendors, and distributors.
- Proven ability to lead time-sensitive production, manage people and escalations, make risk-based decisions, and communicate with clients and senior stakeholders.
- Experience with fund launches,migrations, system changes, testing, automation, or AI-enabled operations ispreferred.
Core and Functional Competencies
- People leadership, coaching, and resource management.
- Fund accounting, NAV production,risk, controls, quality, and audit management.
- Client service, escalation management, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Accountability, execution, sound judgment, continuous improvement, and a client-focused mindset.