About this role

Our Company

As a part of Brookfield’s $416B credit platform, Oaktree is a premier credit manager emphasizing an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investing across credit, equity, and real estate.

Oaktree is committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought. Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.

Oaktree is wholly owned by Brookfield, a leading global investment firm with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Brookfield owns and operates high-quality businesses and real assets that provide essential services and form the backbone of the global economy. It invests on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate, and credit.

For additional information, please visit Oaktree’s website at http://www.oaktreecapital.com/

Our Company

For additional information, please visit Oaktree’s website at http://www.oaktreecapital.com/

The Vice President will play a key leadership role in building and developing the Global Opportunities, Value Opportunities and Emerging Markets Opportunities fund accounting team in Hyderabad. The role will combine technical fund accounting oversight with people leadership, capacity planning and the staged transition of work into the team.

The Vice President will initially support the review of selected co-investment funds and overflow assignments from other Oaktree offices. As the team develops, the role will support the assessment and phased transition of suitable, relatively straightforward preparation work from third-party service providers to the in-house team. The Vice President will work closely with the strategies’ fund accounting leadership, Hyderabad leadership, fund accounting teams in other offices, internal partners and external service providers to deliver accurate, timely and well-controlled reporting.

Responsibilities

- Team Leadership and Development: Build, lead and develop a high-performing team of fund accountants across varying levels, including input into hiring, onboarding, training, performance expectations and ongoing feedback.
- Resource and Capacity Planning: Assess resourcing requirements, allocate work across the team, monitor capacity and recommend changes needed to support current and anticipated workloads.
- Review Support: Partner with fund accounting teams in other Oaktree offices to onboard reviews for selected co-investment funds and overflow assignments, with clear ownership, timelines, escalation protocols and quality standards.
- Transition Management: Support a controlled, phased transition of appropriate fund preparation activities from third-party service providers to Hyderabad, beginning with the most straightforward funds and expanding as team capability and capacity develop.
- Fund Accounting Oversight: Oversee the review of monthly and quarterly close activities, including cash and investment reconciliations, portfolio activity, pricing and valuation support, expense accruals and management fee calculations.
- Review partner and investor allocations, incentive calculations, capital calls, distributions and other capital activity in accordance with governing documents.
- Financial Reporting: Review quarterly and annual financial statements and related reporting prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, together with supporting schedules and audit deliverables.
- Review fund and client-specific performance calculations and consolidated information across the strategy, as applicable.
- Investment and Transaction Support: Understand the accounting and operational implications of distressed and opportunistic credit investments, including restructurings and other complex or event-driven transactions, and coordinate the appropriate treatment with relevant stakeholders.
- Cash and Liquidity Management: Oversee cash planning and liquidity monitoring for assigned funds, including commitments, drawdowns, distributions and the timely resolution of cash or position breaks.
- Service Provider Oversight: Review the quality and timeliness of work performed by external fund administrators, support issue resolution and service-provider discussions, and help assess activities that may be suitable for future transition in-house.
- Controls and Governance: Maintain effective financial reporting controls, review evidence and process documentation, and ensure procedures remain current as responsibilities move between teams or providers.
- Relationship Management: Coordinate with the investment team, client services, legal, tax, treasury, valuation, data management, auditors and other internal and external stakeholders to resolve issues and meet fund requirements.
- Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve workflows, strengthen controls and increase operational scale. Collaborate with Technology and Reporting and Performance teams on automation and reporting solutions, including Power BI or similar tools where appropriate.
- Respond to ad hoc requests from Opportunistic Credit leadership, the investment team, client services and other stakeholders, and perform other duties as required.

Qualifications

- At least 14 years of relevant accounting or audit experience within public accounting, investment management, fund administration or a combination of these environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing teams, managing capacity and allocating work across competing priorities.
- Strong knowledge of alternative investment fund accounting, including closed-end funds, co-investment vehicles and complex credit investments.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and investment company accounting, including NAV processes, reconciliations, capital activity, allocations, management fees, incentive calculations and financial reporting.
- Experience reviewing work performed by external fund administrators and supporting service transitions or the development of an in-house operating model.
- Ability to understand and resolve complex accounting and operational issues associated with distressed, opportunistic and event-driven investments.
- Proven ability to lead process improvements, document standard operating procedures and implement effective controls and review standards.
- Strong project-management skills and the ability to plan and execute transitions in a measured, well-controlled manner.
- Experience with Geneva and Geneva World Investor is preferred.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and working knowledge of Word, Teams and PowerPoint; experience with Power BI or similar reporting and visualization tools is a plus.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, decision-making and communication skills, with strong attention to detail.

Personal Attributes

- Relationship Building: Works effectively with diverse teams and builds confidence with colleagues, senior stakeholders and third-party service providers.
- Communication: Communicates clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, and adapts messages to the needs of different audiences.
- Independence and Collaboration: Operates effectively with limited supervision while working collaboratively across offices, functions and service providers.
- Flexibility and Organization: Prioritizes high volumes of work, adapts to changing demands and timelines, and maintains quality in a fast-paced environment.
- Driving Results: Takes ownership, follows issues through to resolution and balances immediate delivery needs with longer-term team and process development.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required. ACA or CPA is a plus.

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment.

This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors.

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

For positions based in Los Angeles

For those applying for a position in the city of Los Angeles, the firm will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.