Position Summary
Join Vanguard’s Global Fund Reporting team and play a key role in delivering accurate, compliant, and timely financial reporting for a growing global fund lineup. This position supports shareholder, regulatory, tax, and financial reporting activities while helping strengthen controls, improve processes, and oversee service provider deliverables. The role partners with internal stakeholders, auditors, and external service providers to ensure reporting quality, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence. Success in this position is measured by the accuracy of reporting, effective risk management, process improvement contributions, and the ability to resolve complex reporting issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform analytical reviews of fund financial reports to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Validate data received from third-party service providers and execute control procedures to identify and resolve discrepancies.
- Review financial reporting deliverables and support timely completion of key reporting deadlines.
- Monitor and support dividend, capital gain distribution, and tax reporting processes.
- Prepare and review fund financial statements for shareholder and regulatory reporting across multiple jurisdictions.
- Investigate reporting exceptions, analyze variances, and resolve issues that exceed established tolerances.
- Serve as an escalation point for reporting-related questions, issues, and operational challenges.
- Identify control gaps, document findings, and recommend solutions to strengthen the internal control environment.
- Maintain and enhance policies, procedures, and reporting workflows to improve efficiency, accuracy, and risk management.
- Monitor regulatory developments and assist with implementing reporting and disclosure changes as requirements evolve.
- Collaborate with auditors, business partners, and external service providers to support reporting and compliance activities.
- Facilitate certification activities and support strategic initiatives, operational enhancements, and special projects.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of related work experience.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Finance or Accounting degree preferred.
- Experience in fund reporting, financial reporting, accounting, audit, fund administration, or related financial services functions.
- Knowledge of financial statements, reporting controls, reconciliation processes, and financial data analysis.
- Experience reviewing and validating large sets of financial or investment-related data.
- Understanding of regulatory, shareholder, or financial reporting requirements within financial services.
- Ability to identify, investigate, and resolve reporting discrepancies and data quality issues.
- Experience collaborating with internal stakeholders, service providers, auditors, and cross-functional teams.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a regulated environment.
- Proficiency using reporting, accounting, financial analysis, or data management tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting mutual funds, investment funds, asset management, or fund administration environments.
- Knowledge of global fund reporting and cross-border regulatory reporting requirements.
- Experience working with third-party fund accountants, custodians, auditors, or service providers.
- Understanding of dividend distribution, capital gains distribution, or fund tax reporting processes.
- Professional certification such as CPA, CA, CFA, or a comparable financial designation.
- Background in process improvement, operational risk management, or internal controls.
- Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related educational background.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.