Assistant Manager, Fund Accounting

About the role

The Assistant Manager is accountable for delivering timely, accurate, and high‑quality fund accounting and reporting services to assigned private equity fund clients and cluster stakeholders. The role has end‑to‑end ownership of client deliverables, with a strong focus on review, quality control, and performance management. The Assistant Manager leads and develops the team, drives results against defined KPIs, and supports the review and preparation of NAVs, financial statements, capital activities, and complex client deliverables. The position also plays a key role in onboarding new funds, system conversions to Investran or Paxus, stakeholder communication, risk and compliance oversight, and continuous process improvement, in line with IQ‑EQ India Global Client Delivery policies and procedures. Core Responsibilities Client Delivery & Review Ownership: Review and, where required, prepare NAVs, financial statements with disclosures, capital calls, distributions, investor notices, and other complex and ad‑hoc reporting for private equity funds, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness. Team Leadership & Performance Management: Lead, organize, and monitor the performance of the team by planning workloads, reviewing deliverables, providing consistent technical and non‑technical feedback, coaching team members, and driving results against KPIs such as quality, timeliness, productivity, and error reduction. Stakeholder & Cluster Management: Act as the primary liaison with cluster counterparts and other stakeholders by coordinating deadlines, managing queries and dependencies, escalating issues as needed, and ensuring all reviewed deliverables are submitted in line with agreed SLAs. Systems, Onboarding & Process Optimization: Facilitate and support the onboarding of new private equity funds and the conversion of funds from other accounting platforms to Investran or Paxus, while standardizing, optimizing, and improving accounting and reporting processes for complex clients. Risk, Compliance & Governance: Champion compliance with internal procedures, SSAE and other regulatory requirements by overseeing controls, drafting and reviewing error and compliance reports, identifying root causes and risks, and ensuring timely implementation of corrective and preventive actions.