Director, Hedge Fund Accounting – Dublin

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Get To Know Us:

SS&C GlobeOp, a division of SS&C Technologies, is one of the world’s largest administrators with core competencies in private equity, hedge funds, funds of funds and managed accounts. SS&C has been providing outsourcing and fund administration services since 1995. Key differentiators for our business are significant staff expertise and high employee retention rates, ownership of underlying technology and impeccable client service. Our growth is largely driven by referrals from satisfied clients.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

About the Role

SS&C Financial Services (Ireland) Limited are seeking candidates with a strong fund accounting background for a Director level role in its Dublin office. The Fund Accounting Director is responsible for leadership and oversight within the Fund Accounting team, as well as playing a lead role in the strategic direction of fund accounting operations within the Dublin office. The role has overall responsibility for the accuracy, quality and timely delivery of NAVs, financial reporting and Irish regulatory reporting, while maintaining a strong control environment and ensuring compliance with local regulatory, accounting and client requirements.

Successful candidates are expected to combine strong technical fund-accounting expertise with people leadership, client management, operational risk management and strategic transformation skills, with a strong focus on automation. The position typically involves significant interaction with senior client stakeholders, auditors, depositaries, investment managers, regulators, compliance, risk, technology, and other operational functions.

What You Will Get to Do:

• Act as the lead Fund Accounting contact for a number of strategic hedge fund clients.
• Manage a team of experienced staff to ensure high-quality client service, and that all client deliverables for the team are completed and delivered on time, to the highest standard and in line with service level agreements and procedures.
• Oversee the Professional Development of direct reports.
• Act as a member of the Dublin senior leadership team, contributing to the broader strategy, governance and development of the business.
• Act as a point of escalation for complex issues which arise in the team.
• Build strong partnerships across Investor Services, Operations, Technology, Risk/Compliance and other global functions to deliver consistent client and business outcomes.
• Represent the Dublin fund accounting team on key global strategic initiatives.
• Lead strategic initiatives that improve scalability, operational resilience, client experience and efficiency.

What You Will Bring:

Extensive experience within fund accounting, fund administration, asset servicing or investment operations, including significant senior-management experience. A relevant professional qualification such as ACCA, CA, CAIA, CFA, and CIMA is desirable. The successful candidate should demonstrate experience in several of the following:

• Senior leadership within Fund accounting or Audit
• NAV oversight and fund accounting controls
• Irish Regulatory reporting (MMIF, SPV/FVC, DIFR)
• Audit and financial reporting oversight Designated Activity Company (DAC) products
• Senior client relationship management
• Operational risk and governance
• Transformation and process improvement
• Technology implementation, including AI deployment
• Hedge fund and complex alternative investment structures
• Leadership of senior managers and geographically dispersed teams

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense. Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from head-hunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Background Checks

All offers of employment at SS&C are subject to background verification checks, including 5-year employment history, proof of eligibility to work in hiring location, proof of address, credit check and criminal record check (where permitted by local law). The accuracy of all information you submit as part of your application is vital and may be used as part of the background checking process should you be successful. Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from head-hunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, colour, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.