Associate Director

Associate Director

At Ogier we thrive off recognising and recruiting great talent, across all our service lines. We're a

growing team, looking for an ambitious Associate director. 

This person needs to have extensive experience working in the Luxembourg Fund Administration

industry, be extremely knowledgeable of all Luxembourg domiciled funds and be able to support new business opportunities and undertake ongoing client relationship management for Fund Administration in the region.

Contributing towards the business as a whole in identifying process improvements, improvements in policies and procedures and any other service innovation changes that would improve the client experience.

Key Responsibilities

The role is responsible for ensuring that the organisation runs smoothly, compliantly, and efficiently, by

overseeing core administrative, governance, and internal control functions. The role acts as the operational backbone of the business, enabling front line teams to focus on clients and revenue and working closely with the Fund Administration Team locally and globally.

Corporate governance & oversight

• Supports corporate governance frameworks, policies, and decision making processes
• Ensures appropriate approvals, delegations of authority, and sign off structures are in place
• Maintain strong internal governance as complexity increases
• Implement and monitor defined KPIs/SLAs to efficiently monitor the operational outsourced
• activities to other jurisdictions

Operational management

• Oversee multiple outsourced Fund Accounting teams delivering accounting services for assigned
• clients, including NAV determination, preparation of reporting and Financials Statements
• Coordinate daily operations, payments, calls & Distributions
• Collaborate across teams to ensure operational effectiveness and achievement of unit goals and
• objectives
• Provide operational insight
• Liaise and maintain relationship with Stakeholders
• Drives consistency, efficiency, and scalability of all processes aligning with global model
• Manage the Billing process and cash collection to ensure accuracy, timeliness and consistency
• Oversee timely delivery of client KPI's utilising SLDs (ensuring SLD's are in place across all clients)

Risk & Compliance Coordination

• Works closely with Risk, Compliance, and Legal leadership to ensure:
• Regulatory obligations are met
• Internal controls are effective
• Operational risks are identified and mitigated

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Have a bachelor's degree in accounting or finance with a CPA qualification
• Minimum of 10+ years relevant accounting or Audit experience in Luxembourg
• To be successful, you will have an excellent understanding of accounting, the Luxembourg regulatory environment and AML framework
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Confidence is key for you to be successful, but you will also need excellent management and
• influencing skills to ensure you're a great role model and team player

About Ogier

Ogier is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We’re committed to making our recruitment process inclusive and comfortable for everyone. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities, and we strive to ensure equitable opportunities for all candidates. If you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage in your recruitment journey with us, please let us know, we’ll be happy to work with you to ensure you have the best possible experience.

Ogier provides legal advice on BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg law. Our network of locations also includes Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.

Legal services for the corporate and financial sectors form the core of our business, principally in the areas of banking and finance, corporate, investment funds, dispute resolution, private equity and private wealth. We also have strong practices in the areas of employee benefits and incentives, employment law, regulatory, restructuring and insolvency and property.

Ogier's corporate administration business, Ogier Global, incorporates and administers a wide variety of vehicles including public and private companies, partnerships and trusts.

Ogier is based in 13 jurisdictions including Beijing, BVI, Cayman Islands, Dubai, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Ireland, Jersey, London, Luxembourg, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.