Vice President- Fund Accounting & Trade Operations

Gratitude Philippines; Manila; On-site; PHP 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Gratitude Philippines is seeking a Vice President to lead the Fund Accounting Trades team in Manila. You will manage end-to-end workflow across the market trade lifecycle with emphasis on accuracy, controls, and service delivery.

You will lead a trades team responsible for reconciliations, exception management, and timely completion of daily processing and sign-offs, partnering with risk and operations to drive improvements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Trades or fund accounting.
• Minimum 4 years as People Manager.
• Operational subject matter expertise in reconciliation, settlements, and trade support.
• Strong leadership with ability to motivate managers.

Responsibilities

• Maximize team capacity through resource planning, training, and succession planning.
• Ensure daily controls and processing are completed and signed off, including inquiries, break/event management, and metrics.
• Own department issues and elevate to leadership.
• Ensure adherence to escalation policies, procedures, and ethics standards.
• Manage people with direction, coaching, and communication of regulatory changes.
• Review and improve SOPs reflecting new policies and risk management activities.
• Act as focal point during issue planning and crises, providing quick assessments.
• Ensure business continuity and concentration plans are in place and tested.
• Validate exceptions and drive practical solutions.
• Represent Global Trades with clients, promoting strategy, products, and capabilities.
• Contribute to product strategy by building business cases and governance.

Skills

People management

Fund accounting

Reconciliation

Trade support

Job description

Join us to grow your leadership impact while delivering accurate, timely outcomes and strengthening operational resilience.

As a Fund Accounting Trades - Vice President within the Fund Servicing team, you will manage the end-to-end workflow across the market trade lifecycle, with a focus on accuracy, controls, and service delivery.

You will lead a Trades team responsible for reconciliations, exception management, and timely completion of daily processing and sign-offs.

You will partner with operational and risk stakeholders to identify issues, elevate appropriately, and drive process and documentation improvements.

Job responsibilities

• Maximize team capacity through resource planning, training, and succession planning.
• Ensure daily controls and processing are completed and signed off, including inquiry resolution, break management, event management, and metrics production.
• Own department issues and elevate in a timely manner to operational and risk leadership.
• Ensure adherence to escalation policies, procedures, and required attestations, maintaining strong ethics and conduct standards.
• Manage people by providing clear direction, coaching, and effective communication of strategic and regulatory changes.
• Review and improve standard operating procedures to reflect new policies and ongoing risk management activities.
• Act as a focal point during issue planning and crisis situations, providing quick operational and technical assessments to protect delivery.
• Ensure business continuity and concentration plans are in place, tested per policy, and understood by the team.
• Validate exceptions above defined thresholds, identify process weaknesses, and drive practical solutions.
• Represent the Global Trades team with internal and external clients, promoting strategy, products, and capabilities.
• Contribute to product strategy by building business cases, supporting prioritization, and implementing governance to deliver agreed outcomes.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• 10+ years of experience in Trades or fund accounting domain.
• Minimum 4years as People Manager
• Operational subject matter expertise critical e.g. Reconciliation, Settlements, Trade Support
• Strong People Management skills, ability to Lead and Motivate Managers