Fund Accountant

Varite; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

VARITE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED, Bengaluru, invites applications for AVP-level Capital Markets Operations to lead end-to-end fund accounting and client governance across portfolios. The role focuses on operational excellence, risk controls, and strategic service delivery in a global context.

You will oversee multi-fund administration, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive continuous improvement with stakeholders across the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience in Capital Markets accounting and fund administration.
• Experience in transition management, governance, and audits.
• Strong understanding of GAAP/IFRS and regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Capital Markets operations delivery across assigned processes, ensuring adherence to SLAs, KPIs, quality standards, risk controls, and client commitments.
• Manage large delivery teams through Team/Process Supervisor, SMEs ensuring effective workload allocation, capacity planning, coaching, succession planning, and performance management.
• Act as the primary operational contact for clients, senior stakeholders, internal leadership, and cross-functional teams for service delivery, governance, escalations, and transformation priorities.
• Drive strong governance routines including daily/weekly performance reviews, monthly business reviews, risk reviews, audit readiness.
• Ensure robust control environment by strengthening SOPs, checklists, maker-checker controls, reconciliation frameworks, exception management, escalation protocols, and root-cause analysis practices.
• Manage operational risks, client escalations, financial impact incidents, audit observations, and regulatory-sensitive deliverables with timely remediation plans.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify process improvement, automation, Gen AI, analytics, productivity, and transformation opportunities.
• Build a culture of continuous improvement, compliance, data protection, client centricity, operational discipline, and high-performance delivery.
• Support hiring, training, knowledge transition, cross-skilling, talent development, engagement, and retention initiatives across the process span

Skills

Executive presence

Stakeholder management

Risk & controls

Process improvement

Automation awareness

Education

Any Graduation

Job description

Job Title : Fund Accountant
Location State : Karnataka
Location City : Bengaluru
Experience Required : 10 to 17 Year(s)
Shift: US Shift
Work Mode: Onsite
Position Type: Permanent
Openings: 5

Company Name: VARITE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

About The Client: Our client is a leading global professional services company that helps the worlds leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services.

About The Job:

Work Requirements

• Willingness to work in EMEA shift timings, rotational shifts, and business-critical coverage windows as required.
• Willingness to work on Indian holidays or extended hours based on client and market requirements.
• Ability to operate in a 100% return-to-office or hybrid model as per project and business policy.
• Ability to support client visits, transition activities, governance reviews, audits, and crisis management situations when required.

Preferred Competencies

• Executive presence with the ability to influence clients, senior leadership, delivery teams, and support functions.
• Strong control mindset with ability to manage audit, compliance, data protection, and information security requirements.
• Experience in transition management, knowledge transfer, process stabilization, productivity delivery, and transformation execution.
• Ability to create new solutions by adapting existing methods, procedures, tools, and best practices to meet business needs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead change, drive team engagement, and maintain service excellence in a high-volume, risk-sensitive operating environment.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Key Responsibilities
• Lead end-to-end Capital Markets operations delivery across assigned processes, ensuring adherence to SLAs, KPIs, quality standards, risk controls, and client commitments.
• Manage large delivery teams through Team/Process Supervisor, SMEs ensuring effective workload allocation, capacity planning, coaching, succession planning, and performance management.
• Act as the primary operational contact for clients, senior stakeholders, internal leadership, and cross-functional teams for service delivery, governance, escalations, and transformation priorities.
• Drive strong governance routines including daily/weekly performance reviews, monthly business reviews, risk reviews, audit readiness
• Ensure robust control environment by strengthening SOPs, checklists, maker-checker controls, reconciliation frameworks, exception management, escalation protocols, and root-cause analysis practices.
• Manage operational risks, client escalations, financial impact incidents, audit observations, and regulatory-sensitive deliverables with timely remediation plans.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify process improvement, automation, Gen AI, analytics, productivity, and transformation opportunities.
• Build a culture of continuous improvement, compliance, data protection, client centricity, operational discipline, and high-performance delivery.
• Support hiring, training, knowledge transition, cross-skilling, talent development, engagement, and retention initiatives across the process span

Domain Skill/Knowledge and System Exposure

Core Domain Skills Required

Strategic Fund Accounting Oversight

• Oversight of multi-fund accounting operations, Valuation governance and controls, Review of complex waterfall calculations, Master-feeder and SPV structures, complex investor structures

Technical Accounting Expertise

• Expert GAAP / IFRS knowledge, ASC 820, IFRS 13, ASC 470, IFRS 9, Regulatory reporting requirements, Audit and compliance leadership

Investor & Client Management

• Executive stakeholder management, Fund manager interaction, Investor reporting governance, Escalation ownership

Delivery & Governance

• Operational governance, Risk management frameworks, Quality assurance review, Financial controls oversight, Business continuity planning

Transformation & Continuous Improvement

• Operating model optimization
• Automation opportunities
• AI and analytics adoption
• Process redesign
• Productivity improvement initiatives

Leadership Competencies

• People leadership
• Workforce planning
• Talent development
• Financial management
• Client account growth support

Essential Job Functions

he Capital Markets Operations Associate Vice President will be responsible for leading operations for one of the world s leading Private Markets Investment Firm, ensuring operational excellence, strong risk and control governance, stakeholder management, and continuous improvement. Provides strategic leadership across multiple fund administration workstreams or portfolios, ensuring operational excellence, regulatory compliance, client relationship management, and growth of the business.

Qualifications

Any Graduation

Equal Opportunity Employer

VARITE is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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About VARITE: VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.