Apex Group India | Financial Reporting-Associate/Sr.Associate/AVP

Roles and responsibilities

• As a Financial Reporting Specialist, you will review financial statements for Hedge Funds, Private Equity funds, Real Estate entities and similar structures across multiple GAAP frameworks, including IFRS, US GAAP, UK GAAP, Luxembourg GAAP, and Canadian GAAP.
• You will be responsible for preparing and analyzing financial statements based on the provided data, as well as conducting thorough reviews to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Develop document and institute procedures to make the FR process more efficient and standardized, saving time and money.
• Manage a team in a high-volume, deadline and production-driven environment while maintaining 100% accuracy.
• Provide ongoing and continuous training, motivation and development of all team members to maintain high client service standards.
• Manage a team and deadline and be effective in a production-driven environment while maintaining 100% accuracy.
• Train the team to ensure quality services to clients.
• Resolve queries raised by Onshore, Clients, Auditors, and Director.
• Use resources within the team, establishing goals and objectives of the team
• Define the timeline of financial statements onshore

Experience in financial reporting

• Experience of Financial Reporting in Hedge Funds.
• Manual experience of reporting in IFRS/US GAAP is preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal and time management skills.
• Experience in Financial Reporting

Apex Group

Set up in 2003 with its first office in Bermuda, Apex Group was founded by Peter Hughes and works for allocators, asset managers, family offices, corporates and financial institutions. Its services include fund administration and middle office work, transfer agency, depositary and custody, corporate and management company services, banking, regulatory and compliance support, and ESG services through its Holtara business. The group's India operation was founded in 2008 and has grown to offices in Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune and Gandhinagar. In 2021 Apex became one of the first global fund administrators approved to operate in GIFT City, where it now has an office.

Much of Apex's finance work in India is fund accounting for hedge funds, closed-ended funds, private equity and real asset funds, with roles from fund accountant up to supervisor and senior account manager. Other finance roles cover financial reporting from associate to vice president (including Workiva implementation), middle office, corporate accounting, global payments, tax, regulatory services and transfer agency. Postings usually ask for a B.Com, M.Com or MBA (Finance), and many name CA, CMA, CFA, CPA or ACCA; some roles are open to CA or CMA freshers.

• Industry: Financial services for funds and asset managers: fund administration, middle office, transfer agency, depositary, corporate and banking services
• Headquarters: Apex Group Ltd; founded in 2003 in Bermuda, where it opened its first office
• In India: India operation since 2008, with offices in Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune and Gandhinagar (including GIFT City)