KKR India | Operations - Investment Operations (Asset Servicing & Reconciliations) - Senior Analyst

Roles & responsibilities

• KKR's Capital Markets team supports the firm's day-to-day middle-office and back-office operations that support business decisions and long-term success.
• The team collaborates closely with KKR's Investment Operations, Treasury, and Finance teams, as well as external agents and counterparties, to ensure accurate processing, settlement, and reporting of the firm's capital markets and syndicated loan activity.
• The role is responsible for leading a team that supports the firm's capital markets operations, including asset servicing, syndication deals tracking, and the processing of principal- and agent-driven activities.
• The team operates in a fast-paced environment and works closely with Finance, Treasury, Investment Operations, external agents, and counterparties.
• The role requires strong knowledge of revolving credit facilities and participations, along with solid experience in cash-break reconciliation and resolution.
• Perform and own asset servicing and the processing of principal activities such as drawdowns, paydowns, contract rollovers, and contract modifications per agent notices.
• Book and reconcile syndication trades with third-party systems, and support the closers team in settlements with external participants.
• Coordinate with the Treasury team to initiate wire requests and manage participations held externally.
• Reconcile cash and positions across all funds and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders for break resolution.
• Preparation of participation notices for the clients.
• Work across multiple groups to troubleshoot technical and accounting problems.
• Liaise with global teams and support ongoing projects, system integration, and perform UAT, as needed.
• Ensure all deliverables meet quality, consistency, and accuracy standards, per agreed SLAs.
• Develop and execute procedures for tracking, processing, and settling portfolio investments in the system.
• Interact with the team and counterparts from global teams on a regular basis to understand their requirements, reporting needs, and possible challenges.
• Act as a point of escalation for all queries.
• Create and manage process metrics, KPIs, and other dashboards at regular frequency, as required.
• Build and manage relationships with different stakeholders within the firm.
• Own ad-hoc tasks as required

Qualifications

• 4 to 7 years of experience in similar roles such as Capital Markets Operations, Asset Servicing, Loan Servicing, and understanding of requirements for financial organizations.
• Experience in a multinational Financial Services organization and/or Private Equity preferred.
• Effective communication skills, email-writing skills, and people-management experience.
• Knowledge of loans, bonds, revolvers, loan syndication, fixed income products and participations preferred.
• Knowledge of strategies like Direct Lending, Mezzanine, CLOs, and Asset-Backed Financing preferred.
• Ability to manage numerous tasks daily and respond in a timely manner.
• Ability to detect and evaluate risk factors and assist and review mitigation of identified risks.

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)