SS&C Technologies India | Associate Director - US TAX 1065 (Hyderabad/ Bangalore)

Responsibilities

• Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
• Ensure team operates effectively and within SS&C guidelines and standards.
• Responsible for assigned client deliverables.
• Assist SVP in setting departmental policies, procedures and standards.
• Maintain and monitor all policies, procedures and standards.
• Act as technical and knowledge resource to the business unit.
• Participate in review of assigned tax deliverables.
• Monitor staff timesheet and weekly workload.
• Set up and attend meetings with accounting group to identify key issues, increase knowledge of fund accounting, and increase efficiencies of the information flow process.
• Build client relationships and demonstrate knowledge of client business.
• Train all staff in relevant tax matters.
• Control and comments on staff performance reviews.
• Manage day to day activities and supervise tax staff.
• Oversee implementation and assignment of new clients.
• Assist SVP with review of offering documents and partnership agreements in conjunction with counsel.
• Assist SVP with value-added services and consultation of high-level tax matters.
• Ensure Internal and External Communications are timely and of High-Quality.
• Perform timely and regular reporting to SVP and other members of senior management.
• Communicate with clients and accounting firms on a regular basis and document any relevant matters.
• Resolve issues and address high level client requests.
• Allocate client deliverable across staff levels
• Document and maintain a file of all tax-related issues, resolutions, positions and methodologies by fund.
• Planning and New Fund Setup

SS&C Technologies

Founded in 1986 as Securities Software & Consulting, SS&C started out in Bill Stone's basement and is now headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut. Its shares trade on Nasdaq under the symbol SSNC. The company provides software and outsourced front-, middle- and back-office operations to financial services firms and healthcare organisations. Acquisitions such as GlobeOp (2012), Advent Software (2015) and DST Systems (2018) built up its fund administration and investor services business. SS&C first set up in India in 2003 and now has offices in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Gurugram and GIFT City in Gandhinagar, where its unit SS&C GlobeOp is licensed by IFSCA to administer funds.

Fund accounting is the core of SS&C's finance hiring in India, covering private equity and hedge funds from senior associate up to director level. Other roles cover general ledger and financial reporting, US partnership tax (Form 1065), tax operations, and internal and IT audit, based in Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Navi Mumbai and GIFT City. Postings usually ask for a bachelor's degree in accounting or finance; some are aimed at Chartered Accountants, including newly qualified CAs in Pune, and one prefers CAs with Big 4 or multinational experience.

• Industry: Software and outsourced operations for financial services and healthcare: fund administration, fund accounting, transfer agency, investment and tax software
• Headquarters: Windsor, Connecticut, United States (SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc.)
• In India: Offices in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Gurugram and GIFT City (Gandhinagar), where SS&C GlobeOp holds an IFSCA licence for fund administration