Director, Hedge Fund Accounting - Dublin

SS&C Technologies; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Professional Development Reimbursement

Competitive holidays

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

SS&C GlobeOp, a division of SS&C Technologies, seeks a Director of Hedge Fund Accounting in Dublin. The role leads the Fund Accounting team, ensuring accurate NAVs and timely financial and regulatory reporting while upholding a strong control environment and client service standards.

Successful candidates will combine deep fund-accounting expertise with people leadership, client management, and a focus on automation to transform operations in a hybrid Dublin office.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in fund accounting or fund administration.
• NAV oversight and controls.
• Senior leadership within fund accounting or audit.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Fund Accounting team in Dublin, ensuring accurate NAVs and reports.
• Oversee Irish regulatory reporting and client deliverables.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across functions to drive automation and efficiency.

Skills

Fund accounting

NAV oversight

Leadership

Regulatory reporting

Client management

Education

ACCA/CA/CFA

Tools

AI deployment

Job description

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

Job Description

Director, Hedge Fund Accounting - Dublin

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

About the Role

SS&C Financial Services (Ireland) Limited are seeking candidates with a strong fund accounting background for a Director level role in its Dublin office. The Fund Accounting Director is responsible for leadership and oversight within the Fund Accounting team, as well as playing a lead role in the strategic direction of fund accounting operations within the Dublin office.

The role has overall responsibility for the accuracy, quality and timely delivery of NAVs, financial reporting and Irish regulatory reporting, while maintaining a strong control environment and ensuring compliance with local regulatory, accounting and client requirements.

Successful candidates are expected to combine strong technical fund-accounting expertise with people leadership, client management, operational risk management and strategic transformation skills, with a strong focus on automation.

The position has overall responsibility for the accuracy, quality and timely delivery of NAVs, financial reporting and Irish regulatory reporting, while maintaining a strong control environment and ensuring compliance with local regulatory, accounting and client requirements.

Successful candidates are expected to combine strong technical fund-accounting expertise with people leadership, client management, operational risk management and strategic transformation skills, with a strong focus on automation.

The position typically involves significant interaction with senior client stakeholders, auditors, depositaries, investment managers, regulators, compliance, risk, technology, and other operational functions.

What You Will Get to Do:

• Act as the lead Fund Accounting contact for a number of strategic hedge fund clients.
• Manage a team of experienced staff to ensure high-quality client service, and that all client deliverables for the team are completed and delivered on time, to the highest standard and the in line with service level agreements and procedures.
• Oversee the Professional Developmentof direct reports.
• Act as a member of the Dublin senior leadership team, contributing to the broader strategy, governance and development of the business.
• Act as a point of escalation for complex issues which arise in the team.
• Build strong partnerships across Investor Services, Operations, Technology, Risk/Compliance and other global functions to deliver consistent client and business outcomes.
• Represent the Dublin fund accounting team on key global strategic initiatives.
• Lead strategic initiatives that improve scalability, operational resilience, client experience and efficiency.

What You Will Bring:

• Extensive experience within fund accounting, fund administration, asset servicing or investment operations, including significant senior-management experience.
• A relevant professional qualification such as ACCA, CA, CAIA, CFA, and CIMA is desirable.
• Senior leadership within Fund accounting or Audit.
• NAV oversight and fund accounting controls.
• undefinedIrish Regulatory reporting (MMIF, SPV/FVC, DIFR).
• Audit and financial reporting oversight Designated Activity Company (DAC) products.
• Senior client relationship management Operational risk and governance Transformation and process improvement.
• Technology implementation, including AI deployment.
• Hedge fund and complex alternative investment structures.
• undefinedLeadership of senior managers and geographically dispersed teams.

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of 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.U