Job Description
Job Title: Head of Audit
Locations: Bristol | Hybrid
Get To Know the Team
SS&C Technologies seek a Head of Finance to lead the finance team within the finances outsourced functions. This must be carried out in line with the SLAs & KPIs, meeting all regulatory requirements, internal and external audit responsibility as well as regulatory reporting. Additionally manage the processes carried out offshore.
Why You Will Love It Here!
* Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
* Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement
* Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
* Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
* Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
* Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
* Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!
What You Will Get to Do:
* Act as the key business partner point of contact in support of the annual budget cycle and business plan activity and for undertaking forecasting as required.
* Play a key role in supporting the financial reporting integration with Clients.
* Build relationships with key personnel within the Client base to support this process.
What You Will Bring:
Financial Reporting
* Quarterly reporting to the client, in line with requirements.
* Production of accurate statutory accounts.
* Interact with actuarial and tax as necessary as part of this role.
* Ensure that controls and reconciliations are appropriate, monitored and developed on an ongoing basis and consistently look to proactively review and improve. Have a detailed understanding of all processes and the dependencies / impact with the Finance team.
SII reporting
* Provide a key role in the production of the SII quarterly returns (QRTs) and annual returns (QRTs, SFCR, RSR).
* Finance Ops
* Oversight and day to day management of finance ops team manager.
* Ensure team remains appropriately resourced.
* Interaction with other operational teams as necessary.
Programme Initiatives
* Support implementation of relevant programmes from a finance perspective.
* Act as an SME where applicable on onboarding programmes of work.
Business Partnering
* Act as the key business partner point of contact in support of the annual budget cycle and business plan activity and for undertaking forecasting as required.
* Play a key role in supporting the financial reporting integration with Clients.
* Build relationships with key personnel within the Client base to support this process.
BAU
* Daily BAU operational activities.
* Project migration activities in line with BAU.
* Effective organization - Respond positively to the goals of the team and actively add to the success of the Finance Department.
* Service delivery - ensuring SS&C meets client expectation in line with Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
* Migrate processes and manage the relationship with Team India for processes owned that are carried out offshore.
Staff Management and Development
* Staff PDR’s, training & development to ensure regular documented reviews of individual performance, including staff 1:1 meetings, where appropriate, and oversee the teams process in respect of quality and productivity monitoring (applies AOM methodology where applicable).
* Relevant staff are trained and competent.
* Accountable for ensuring that Managers are aware of how their individual objectives link to Corporate Goals, documents action plans to achieve own and managers objectives.
* Accountable for identifying Learning and Development needs for direct reports, documents requirements and helps facilitate training.
* Accountable for assessing the impact of Learning and Development on direct reports ensuring learning is evaluated.
* Carries out any other duties which are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed
SS&C quality:
All employees are accountable for the delivery of a Quality service, driving for excellence in all their work activities:
* To be quality driven, aiming for 100% accuracy and timeliness of delivery.
* To effectively plan the way services are delivered so that all activity is directly related to providing quality services and meeting the expectations of the customer.
* To continuously review processes and practices relating to the role and act as a catalyst for change and improvement in individual and team performance.
* To observe proper standards of market, business, and personal conduct, demonstrating integrity in the execution of duties.
* To communicate and promote the values which reinforce and support a consistent quality culture.
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 diverse workforce in the widest sense.