KKR India | Finance - Credit Fund Controllership (Open Ended Funds) - Assistant Vice President

Key responsibilities

• KKR’s Finance and Accounting team oversees the firm’s credit and accounting, and reporting matters to produce analytical insights that drive business decisions and long-term success.
• The team is responsible for designing efficient frameworks through internal and external data and reports to understand the market environment and business dynamics and implement best practices.
• The team also collaborates closely with KKR’s Legal and Compliance team to ensure compliance and accurate reporting and performance of our corporate tax entities related to our investment funds.
• The Finance and Accounting team also functions as a support for clients, from onboarding to investor communications and overall relationship management across all asset class, as well as responding to any ad-hoc tax-related requests.
• The Assistant Vice President Finance professional will be Responsible for overseeing the accounting, financial reporting, operational governance, and controllership of KKR Credit funds.
• Work with the Global Credit Finance Teams to ensure appropriate accounting, reporting, operational and internal controls across the organization.
• Identify process improvement opportunities and help provide solutions and implementations to maximize efficiency.
• Assist with internal quarterly reporting of funds' asset and revenue figures including preparing reports to facilitate the funds’ consolidation requirements and SOX requirements, as applicable.
• Manage the funds’ annual and quarterly reporting/filing requirements to key external stakeholders such as investors and compliance/regulatory bodies based on governing documents and other statutory requirements.
• Review and enhance financial systems/technologies.
• Assist with resolution of all investor-related queries and other ad-hoc reporting templates.
• Provide oversight on fund administrator’s work mandate, SLAs, performance metrics, schedules, etc.
• Support the team’s key strategic initiatives and other ongoing firmwide transformation efforts such as technology and process re-engineering projects.
• Provide strong, assertive and positive collaboration across the Finance team.
• Develop, mentor and motivate the current team.
• Keep abreast of all major accounting, regulatory and reporting changes that affect the funds.
• Outstanding business judgment; contributes to broader business matters and complex decisions addressed by the senior executives of the Global Credit Finance Team.

Preferred qualifications

• Strong investment company (ASC 946) fund accounting skills with US GAAP & IFRS knowledge; SEC reporting experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience working with open-ended funds, including subscriptions, redemptions, capital activity, incentive Fee, NAV calculations, investor allocations, and related financial reporting.
• Proven and proactive financial leader with a successful track record of managing and leading a fund accounting team.
• Effective communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Ability to influence and collaborate across the broader team, as well as externally.
• Ability to develop, motivate, and retain finance / accounting talent.
• Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated outputs for accuracy and relevance.
• Experience identifying opportunities to apply AI to improve processes and business outcomes.
• Familiarity with effectively using generative AI tools.

KKR & Co. Inc.

Henry Kravis and George Roberts started KKR in 1976 together with their mentor Jerome Kohlberg, and it has grown into a global investment firm whose shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. From its base in New York, KKR invests clients' money across private markets, including private equity, credit, infrastructure and real estate, and through Global Atlantic it also provides annuities and reinsurance. Its first Indian office opened in Mumbai in 2009. A second office followed in Gurugram in 2023, run by KIOPL Management Solutions India Private Limited, and it works as a hub supporting the firm worldwide in technology, finance, operations and corporate functions.

Finance hiring in Gurugram centres on fund controllership for KKR's private markets and credit funds, including open-ended credit funds and special purpose vehicles, along with investment operations (asset servicing and reconciliations) and treasury operations covering payments, controls and governance. Roles run from senior analyst to assistant vice president. Most postings want a qualified Chartered Accountant, and several also accept a CPA, ACCA, CIMA or CFA. One senior role asks for six to nine years of post-qualification experience, and one lists CTP among its preferred certifications.

• Industry: Alternative asset management: private equity, credit, infrastructure and real estate, plus annuities and reinsurance through Global Atlantic
• Headquarters: New York, United States (KKR & Co. Inc., listed on the NYSE as KKR)
• In India: KIOPL Management Solutions India Private Limited in Gurugram (DLF Downtown, opened 2023), and a KKR office in Mumbai (Worli, opened 2009)