JOB DESCRIPTION: Assistant Manager
Core Responsibilities:
- Responsible for review of Financial Statements with Disclosures and other ad-hoc service requests for complex funds and/or corporate clients
- Responsible for the preparation of complex reporting requirements, when necessary
- Manages and ensures the timely and accurate deliverables of the team
- Acquire knowledge to become specialists of their designated clients requirements and deliverables
- Ensures and champions compliance by following procedures and checklists following SSAE and other similar statutory requirements of the clients they handle
- Provides guidance and coaching to the team in both technical and non-technical aspects of their role
- Seeks knowledge and expertise for their own professional development
- Initiates the development of the technical competencies of their teams by providing feedback on their deliverables and endorsing them to the appropriate learning & development activities
- Directly liaises with the cluster counterparts of upcoming deliverables and the progress thereof, queries and other dependencies to carry out the work
- To be able to effectively communicate and relate with the various stakeholders of the team
- Submits cluster client requirements after thoroughly being reviewed
- To act as an alternate for Managers based on business needs which may include cluster client responsibilities, administrative tasks, and team management
Tasks & Duties
Cluster Client Delivery
- Acquires and shares specialized knowledge and understanding of the clients agreements, Scope of Work (SOW), SLA's and other necessary information needed to review and/or prepare deliverables
- Confirms that the complete information, data and supporting documents are received for the review/preparation of the needed requirements, then escalates and requests from the cluster counterparts any missing information
- Ensures the delivery of consistent and quality information within the agreed timeframes of the team
- Coordinates with the cluster the deadlines (and any changes) of deliverables then plans and assigns the workload within the team. Facilitate the request for support from peers, as needed
- Prepare (if needed), completely review, and ensure the quality of the assigned clients deliverables within the agreed timeline
- To be knowledgeable with the components of the reports generated by the appropriate platform/s, when necessary
- Reviews the reports generated by the team
- To be able to review outputs and all other deliverables prepared
- Monitors all review comments for all clients have been addressed
- Monitors that their team takes full ownership and replies to cluster/Client/Investor's queries within 24 hours
- Addresses any job-related issues and concerns in a timely manner and escalates to the appropriate authorities, as needed
- Communicates review comments to the team and then follows up to address pending comments for preparers
- Monitors and oversees the interpretation of the requirements of the client and in some instances, does the research and validates in the absence of an Accountant
- Drafts error reports/compliance cases by collecting information on the root cause then proposes the corrective actions and preventive measures in a timely manner
- Gathers and organizes the information needed for the quarterly debrief meeting with the cluster to review the team's performance. This includes consolidating review comments and action points to watch out for the following quarter
- Decides the proper treatment for transactions when differences in points of view arise, and escalate recommendations to appropriate authorities, as needed
- Decides on escalated recommendations and if necessary, escalate to SMEs/Manager or technical team
- Standardizes and optimizes the efficiency of the process of their funds
Qualifications and Experience Required for this Role:
Graduate of Accounting or any business-related course with 6+ years relevant accounting experience
At least two (2) years supervisory experience
Experience with managing service operations and client deliverables
Experience in managing staff and/or conducting appraisals.
Actual work experience in the preparation and/or review of working paper files, financial statements with disclosures and other financial information
Computer / program knowledge
Intermediate Excel skills such as pivot tables, lookup, if and other similar functions
Experience in e-mail, word processing, presentation and video conferencing applications such as Microsoft Office
Effective written and advance verbal communication skills
Experience in using Investran software (desirable but not required)
