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Job Description
Finance Technology is seeking a Vice President to lead the data and engineering capability supporting Fund Accounting. Based in Mumbai, this individual will partner closely with Fund Accounting, Enterprise Data, Automation & Reporting, and other technology teams to deliver scalable, controlled, and reliable data solutions. The ideal candidate brings a strong combination of Fund Accounting and Fund Finance domain expertise and significant hands-on data and engineering experience. This individual should understand how fund accounting data is created, transformed, reconciled, controlled, reported, and consumed, and have the technical depth to lead the target-state design and delivery of data pipelines, transformations, data models, reconciliation frameworks, and reporting solutions. This is a hands-on leadership role. The VP will lead a Mumbai-based team of Data Solution Engineers and Data Analysts while remaining engaged in solution design, technical decision-making, and complex data problem-solving. Primary Functions And Essential Responsibilities - Finance & Fund Accounting Data Leadership
- Lead the data capability supporting Fund Accounting and Fund Finance, with responsibility for delivering reliable, scalable, and well-controlled data solutions.
- Partner closely with Fund Accounting and Fund Finance stakeholders and the Finance Tech team to translate business needs into clear data requirements and technical solutions.
- Provide strong functional leadership across fund accounting data, including NAVs, balances, transactions, capital activity, allocations, fees, waterfalls, financial reporting, reference data, and reconciliations.




- Partner with Enterprise Data, Reporting, and other technology teams to establish effective engineering practices, delivery alignment, and clear technical accountability across shared solutions. Data Solutions Engineering & Technical Leadership
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across the design, build, testing, deployment, and support of Fund Accounting data solutions.
- Define technology target-state architecture and technical design aligned with enterprise architecture and standards.
- Provide technical depth to review and challenge solution designs, data models, SQL and Python/PySpark implementations, and participate directly in complex troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
- Drive strong engineering practices across testing, CI/CD, observability, performance, resiliency, documentation, lineage, and production support.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual Finance processes and convert recurring data and reconciliation challenges into scalable solutions. Enterprise Data & Reporting Partnership
- Partner closely with Enterprise Data Engineering to leverage enterprise platforms, pipelines, governed data products, and engineering standards.
- Partner with Data Governance to establish appropriate data ownership, quality standards, lineage, and controls.
- Ensure Fund Accounting data is appropriately structured, controlled, and reliable for downstream consumption across reporting, analytics, extracts, and applications.
- Partner with centralized Reporting / BI teams, with the Fund Accounting data capability responsible for business/data requirements and reporting-ready data, and Reporting / BI responsible for technical report and dashboard development. Team & Delivery Leadership
- Build, lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Mumbai-based team of Data Solution Engineers and Data Analysts, including hiring,



capability development, and succession planning.
- Own delivery of Fund Accounting data initiatives from requirements and solution design through implementation, testing, release, and production stabilization.
- Establish a high bar for technical quality, analytical rigor, controls, documentation, and operational ownership.
- Build strong partnerships across Finance, Technology, fund administrators, vendors, and global teams. Qualifications Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Finance, or a related field. Experience Required
- 10+ years of relevant experience across data engineering, Finance Technology, Fund Accounting Technology, or related roles within asset management or financial services.
- Strong functional knowledge of Fund Accounting and Fund Finance, including fund structures, NAVs, investor accounting, capital activity, allocations, fees, waterfalls, reconciliations, and financial reporting processes.
- Significant hands-on data engineering experience, including advanced SQL and strong experience with Databricks/Snowflake, Python/PySpark, ETL/ELT, data modeling, data pipelines, APIs, and modern cloud data platforms.
- Experience implementing data-quality, reconciliation, validation, monitoring, lineage, and control frameworks for financial data.
- Experience with fund or investor accounting platforms such as Geneva, Investran, or comparable solutions and data integration with third-party fund administrators.
- Experience working within enterprise data architecture and partnering effectively with centralized Data Engineering, Data Governance, and Reporting functions.
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing engineers and analysts while remaining technically engaged in solution design and complex problem-solving.
- Robust communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to operate effectively across Finance and Technology audiences. Reporting Relationships Head of Investment Systems *There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.*

📌 VP, Finance Technology (Mumbai)
🏢 Ares Management
📍 Mumbai