Finance – Fund Controllership (Special Purpose Vehicles) – Vice President Full Time NEW

KKR is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions. KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and supporting growth in its portfolio companies and communities. KKR sponsors investment funds that invest in private equity, credit and real assets and has strategic partners that manage hedge funds. KKR’s insurance subsidiaries offer retirement, life and reinsurance products under the management of Global Atlantic Financial Group. References to KKR’s investments may include the activities of its sponsored funds and insurance subsidiaries.

KKR’s Gurugram office provides best in class services and solutions to our internal stakeholders and clients, drives organization wide process efficiency and transformation, and reflects KKR’s global culture and values of teamwork and innovation. The office contains multifunctional business capabilities and is integral in furthering the growth and transformation of KKR.

Team Overview

KKR’s Finance, Tax, and Accounting team oversees the firm’s tax compliance, credit and accounting, and reporting matters to produce analytical insights that drive business decisions and long-term success. The team is responsible for designing efficient frameworks through internal and external data and reports to understand the market environment and business dynamics and implement best practices. The team also collaborates closely with KKR’s Legal and Compliance team to ensure compliance and accurate reporting and performance of our corporate tax entities related to our investment funds. The Finance, Tax, and Accounting team also functions as a support for clients, from onboarding to investor communications and overall relationship management across all asset class, as well as responding to any ad-hoc tax-related requests.

Position Summary

This role is responsible for the review and oversight of Finance activity associated with deal specific Funds and SPVs across all asset classes (e.g. Private Equity, Infrastructure, Growth, Impact, Core, Climate, Credit etc.). The role will become a key member of the SPV Controllership leadership team.

Key Responsibilities

Co-Invest Reviews

• Responsible for key activities related to fund accounting and management of the funds from a controllership perspective – such as overseeing and reviewing fund accounting deliverables from external fund administrators including but not limited to: valuations, performance, management fee and carried interest calculations, investor capital balances and financial statements associated with the co-invest funds’ reporting close periods.
• Ensure robust automated reconciliations within centralized system tools which aids controllers in their reviews of TPA output.
• Assist with review of internal reporting of funds’ asset and revenue figures including reviewing reports to facilitate the funds’ consolidation requirements and SOX requirements, as applicable.
• Manage the funds’ annual and quarterly reporting/filing requirements to key external stakeholders such as investors and compliance/regulatory bodies based on governing documents and other statutory requirements. This includes review of quarterly unaudited reporting and annual audited financial statements along with investor capital statements.
• Keep abreast of all major accounting, regulatory and reporting changes that affect the funds.
• Assist with resolution of escalated investor-related queries and other ad-hoc reporting templates.

Distributions Coordination & Oversight

• Review and challenge distribution calculations and distribution lead sheets, ensuring consistency across the structure and alignment between Finance, Tax, and Accounting.
• Help operationalize new policies and workflows to optimize the distribution close process from a finance perspective.
• Liaise with KKR Deal Teams as required to support financial control matters relating to deal SPVs and aggregator entities

Internal & External Oversight

• Ensure standardization and oversight of Gurugram team deliverables within a consistent framework and control environment agnostic of third-party administrator or asset class.
• Provide oversight on fund administrator’s work mandate, SLAs, performance metrics, schedules, etc.

Projects

• Work with wider Finance Teams to ensure appropriate accounting, reporting, operational and internal controls across the organization. Identify process improvement opportunities and help provide solutions and implementations to maximize efficiency.
• Support the team’s key strategic initiatives and other ongoing firmwide transformation efforts such as technology and process re-engineering projects.
• Partner with Tax, Legal, and Treasury teams to support streamlining entity-related processes, including distributions, audits, compliance requirements, and cash movements

Professional Experience/Qualifications

The successful candidate will have at least 12+ years of relevant financial experience within fund accounting, with at least 3 years in a management role (Controller, Senior Manager, VP, etc). The successful candidate will possess the following:

• Strong investment company (ASC 946) fund accounting skills with US GAAP & IFRS knowledge; SEC reporting experience is a plus.
• Qualified Chartered Accountant preferred or advanced degree in Finance required.
• Strong interpersonal skills – ability to quickly build relationships and work well across teams.
• Investran and/or Geneva experience preferred.
• Third Party Fund administrator coordination experience, dealing with multi-jurisdictional structures preferred.
• Proven and proactive financial leader with a successful track record of managing and leading a fund accounting team.
• Outstanding business judgment; contributes to broader business matters and complex decisions.
• Exceptionally strong financial and analytical capabilities.
• Experience retrieving and analyzing entity reference data and GL data within Snowflake a plus.
• Ability to develop, motivate, and retain finance / accounting talent.
• Be committed to operating as a team-player on the team as well as in the context of the larger firm.

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