Chief Operating Officer

OAKLANE FUND I LLC; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

OAKLANE FUND I LLC is seeking a Chief Operating Officer based in Pune District, India. The COO will oversee the end-to-end operating architecture of the AMC, ensuring compliance and robust operational frameworks.

Key responsibilities include supervising scheme activities, managing operational relations with critical service providers, and leading operational risk governance. The ideal candidate will have 10-15 years of relevant experience and a Chartered Accountant qualification.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of relevant experience in mutual fund operations or AMC platform build-out.
• Strong understanding of reconciliation architecture and service-provider oversight.

Responsibilities

• Establish and supervise the operating model for all scheme activities.
• Oversee identification and appropriation of expenses to schemes.
• Maintain operational records and readiness for audits.
• Supervise operational relationships with RTA and critical service providers.
• Drive process standardisation and business continuity.

Skills

Mutual fund operations

NAV controls

Regulatory inspections

Operational risk governance

Education

Chartered Accountant / Company Secretary /Cost Accountant

Job description

The Chief Operating Officer will be responsible for building and overseeing the end-to-end operating architecture of the AMC across fund operations, scheme servicing, trade lifecycle, fund accounting oversight, investor servicing interfaces, control design, operational risk, and readiness for scale.

The role is expected to combine execution discipline with strong regulatory orientation. Under the risk management framework for mutual funds, operational risk is expected to sit with the COO or an equivalent functionary responsible for the relevant functions, while the AMC’s overall risk management structure must remain properly demarcated from the CRO function.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and supervise the operating model for all scheme and AMC activities including trade capture, settlement oversight, fund accounting coordination, NAV support processes, reconciliations, investor transaction processing support, and service-provider governance.
• Oversee identification, allocation and appropriation of expenses to schemes and ensure that scheme-related expenses are charged strictly within regulatory limits and are properly recorded and auditable.
• Ensure maintenance of proper books of account, operational records and documents for each scheme, and readiness for audit, trustee review, and SEBI inspection.
• Oversee reconciliations of investments, including government securities reconciliation processes and related control reporting where applicable.
• Supervise operational relationships with RTA, custodian, fund accountant, collecting bankers and other critical service providers identified in the mutual fund disclosure framework.
• Drive process standardisation, maker-checker controls, exception management, escalation protocols, and business continuity of critical operational processes.
• Work closely with Compliance, Risk, Fund Management, Finance, Technology and Trustees to ensure that the AMC’s operational framework remains robust, scalable and inspection-ready.
• Support launch readiness for new schemes, including operational mapping, control checklists, service-provider integration, cut-off controls, settlement workflows, and disclosure support.
• Ensure scheme-wise segregation and ring-fencing of assets and liabilities, and proper segregation of scheme-wise bank accounts and securities accounts, as specifically expected in the operations-related compliance framework.
• Lead operational risk governance, with clear ownership of incidents, root-cause analysis, corrective actions and control enhancement.

Calm execution style, high control orientation, and ability to build operations for a growing AMC without over-engineering.

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant / Company Secretary /Cost Accountant/ equivalent professional qualification.
• 10–15 years of relevant experience in mutual fund operations, fund accounting oversight, transfer agency/custody interfaces, or AMC platform build-out.
• Strong understanding of complete mutual fund operations, NAV controls, reconciliation architecture, service-provider oversight and regulatory inspections.