AVP - Funds Fiduciary
Description
Position: Assistant Vice President – Funds Fiduciary
Location: Delaware
About Us
The Maples Group is a global leader in financial services, trusted by many of the world’s largest hedge fund managers, private equity firms, and international corporations.
Our side-by-side financial and legal teams consistently deliver award winning services to a global client base, offering unrivalled learning and career opportunities to our 2,500 colleagues worldwide.
What’s it like to work here?
We are driven to excel, and collaboration is key to our continued success. We can go further for our clients because we go further for each other too. Our inclusive culture creates an environment where people can be themselves at work while doing their best work. No matter where you work in the Maples Group, you will be part of a global team.
The Opportunity
The Assistant Vice President is responsible for providing administrative assistance to Client Service Professionals (CSPs) who serve as fiduciaries on a wide range of alternative investment funds. Its tactical responsibilities feed one larger objective: deliver high levels of client service, while ensuring that each client relationship is compliant with internal policies and procedures.
Key duties will include:
- Assisting with new business pitch calls and processing new business enquiries, analysing proposed structures, reviewing transaction documents and providing comments to parties as appropriate and coordinating our client acceptance processes;
- Establishing relationships and acting as key liaison with lawyers, investment managers, fund administrators, prime brokers and other transaction parties located in international jurisdictions;
- Managing the financial statement review process of assigned CSPs including reviewing, analyzing and providing comments on the financial statements, management representation letter, engagement letter and all other required documentation;
- Assisting assigned CSPs with processing various tax forms to ensure timely filing ahead of relevant deadlines. ;
- Assisting assigned CSPs with achieving quarterly key performance indicator targets
- Being the assigned administrator for a portfolio of limited number of fiduciary mandates;
- Attending conference calls and board meetings as required;
- Ensuring all databases are completed and maintained with accurate information in relation to assigned portfolio of clients and all new business for CSPs as assigned,
- Ensuring invoices are raised and disseminated to clients in a timely manner and in accordance with the administration agreements for assigned portfolio of client mandates, and in assisting CSPs as assigned with invoices in respect of new business mandates;
- Preparing and delivering training sessions from time to time.
What You Bring
In addition to indisputably high ethical standards and autonomy, the ideal candidate possesses the following:
- the successful candidate will be a university graduate with an excellent academic background;
- will have a minimum of 3-4 years’ experience in the financial services industry with tax and/or accounting background preferred:
- has an understanding of investment funds and related securities;
- experience in reviewing and analyzing transaction documents and financial statements ;
- knowledge of corporate governance and regulatory requirements;
- ability to demonstrate strong project management and organizational skills;
- strong analytical skills and attention to details, accuracy and efficiency;
- the ability to use initiative, be self-motivated and able to work independently with little supervision, and work well under pressure to complete high volumes of work under tight deadlines;
- will be expected to demonstrate strong drafting, communication and presentation skills.
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