• Minimum 10-15 years of Mutual/Pension/Hedge Fund and accounting experience
• Strong technical skills including accounting principles and theories
• MBA/CA/ICWA preferred
• Exceptional leadership and staff development skills with prior team management experience
• Proven ability
to drive and deliver efficiencies through re-engineering and process
improvements ensuring optimal productivity
• Ability to initiate and drive change
• Project and program management with a demonstrated track record of project delivery
• Proven ability
to establish and review key metrics to measure workflow capacity, system
efficiency and effectiveness of controls and serve as an escalation
point
• Control focus with a thorough understanding of operational risk
• Excellent
communication, influencing and negotiation skills with the ability to
develop and maintain collaborative relationships both internally and
with external clients
• Ability to anticipate issues and aggressively drive initiatives to achieve results
• Detailed knowledge of business processes and procedures as well as service and systems (including downstream impacts)
• Proven ability
to operate effectively in a matrix organization with the ability to work
under pressure and to tight timeframes