Optimus Capital - Manager - Investment Accounting & Financial Planning

Manager - Investment Accounting, MIS & Financial Planning

Finance - Family Office - Hyderabad

THE ROLE

Position: Manager - Investment Accounting, MIS & Financial Planning

Organisation: Optimus Capital

Location: Hyderabad

Reports to: Chief Financial Officer

Team: Accounting & Finance Team report to this role

Qualification: Chartered Accountant (ICAI)

Experience: Minimum 5 years

Employment: Full-time

PURPOSE

This role runs the finance work behind the family office portfolio: management information, budgets and forecasts, investment accounting, and finalization of accounts.

It is a working manager's job. The person does the investment tracking and the review of accounts, and leads the Team who support that work.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

MIS, budgeting and forecasting:

• Prepare MIS for management, on a regular cycle and for specific questions.
• Build the budget, keep the assumptions clear, and update it through the year.
• Prepare forecasts and explain what moved against the budget and the previous forecast.

Investments:

• Handle investment accounting: recording, classification and reconciliation of the portfolio.
• Analyse the portfolio and track each investment - cost, value, income, charges and where it stands.
• Track returns and prepare the day-to-day investment report for management.
• Overview PPMs, Agreements and other contracts and oversee the charges charged and necessary monitoring.

Accounts:

• Oversee finalization of accounts and review the figures before they are closed.
• Find mistakes, wrong classifications and incomplete entries, and get them corrected.
• Set an action plan for the accounts team - the issue, the owner and the date - and see it through.

Team:

• Lead the Chartered Accountants who report to this role. Set the work, review it, and keep the standard of the close and the investment records.

Required:

• Chartered Accountant, member of ICAI.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in accounting and finance.
• Has prepared MIS, budgets and forecasts, not only contributed a schedule.
• Has done investment accounting and can track a portfolio and its returns.
• Has reviewed accounts at close and is used to finding and fixing errors.
• Can lead a small team of qualified accountants.
• Strong in Excel, and comfortable in an accounting system.

Useful:

• Time in a family office, fund, wealth or asset manager, NBFC, or a group that runs its own investment book.
• Multi-entity closes.
• Clear writing. A short note should say what the number is, what is off, and what happens next.

How the person works:

• Careful with figures, and direct when something does not add up.
• Able to hold a daily investment report and a period close at the same time.
• Discreet with the family's and the office's investment information.