Vice President, Fund accounting

We are seeking a high-calibre professional to join our Fund & Investor Solutions – Fund Accounting (NAV Validation) team based in Singapore.
In this role, you will:

• Lead a team delivering accurate and timely daily, weekly, and monthly NAVs, accounting outputs, and financial statements.
• Oversee the end-to-end production cycle, including source-data validation, reconciliations, exception investigation, movement review, approvals, sign-offs, and evidence retention.
• Partner with Global teams, fund managers, vendors, distributors, and internal service functions to resolve exceptions, queries, and complex client requirements.
• Maintain strong controls and compliance with client mandates, regulatory requirements, BNY policies, procedures, audit standards, and business-continuity expectations.
• Own incidents and escalations through resolution, including impact assessment, stakeholder communication, root-cause analysis, and remediation.
• Monitor KPIs, quality, risk, capacity, recurring errors, and deadlines; escalate concerns and implement corrective actions.
• Manage staffing, workload, leave coverage, training, onboarding, fund launches, migrations, and operational readiness.
• Coach and develop the team through clear objectives, feedback, performance management, succession planning, and an inclusive culture.
• Deliver system, control, automation, and AI-enabled improvements that strengthen accuracy, resilience, scalability, and efficiency.

To be successful in this role, candidates should possess:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related discipline; a postgraduate Finance qualification is advantageous.
• Strong fund accounting experience covering NAV production and validation, reconciliations, financial reporting, controls, audits, and issue resolution.
• Professional spoken and written Portuguese is essential for using accounting systems, interpreting reports and instructions, and communicating with fund managers, agencies, vendors, and distributors.
• Proven ability to lead time-sensitive production, manage people and escalations, make risk-based decisions, and communicate with clients and senior stakeholders.
• Experience with fund launches, migrations, system changes, testing, automation, or AI-enabled operations is preferred.

Core and Functional Competencies

• People leadership, coaching, and resource management.
• Fund accounting, NAV production, risk, controls, quality, and audit management.
• Client service, escalation management, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Accountability, execution, sound judgment, continuous improvement, and a client-focused mindset.