<p>Seeking a senior consultant to assess and recommend the most appropriate assurance framework for an alternative asset manager. The advisor will evaluate SOC 1 (Type 1 vs. Type 2), AUP, and internal assurance options, considering investor expectations, industry practices, operational risks, costs, and implementation effort.</p><ul><li>Assess the firm's operating model, control environment, and outsourced service provider arrangements.</li><li>Advise on the benefits, trade-offs, costs, and timing associated with SOC 1, AUP, and internal assurance approaches.</li><li>Provide market insights on assurance practices and investor expectations across the asset management industry.</li><li>Develop a recommendation and implementation roadmap, including key workstreams, stakeholders, risks, and dependencies.</li></ul>
<p>Our client is a prominent global asset management and investment advisory firm seeking a consultant with experience reviewing and validating valuation models used for structured finance products, including Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs), Asset-Backed Securities (ABS), Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS), and CDOs.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Perform independent reviews and validation of valuation models used for ABS, MBS, CDOs, SPVs, and other structured finance products.</li><li>Assess model methodologies, cash flow projections, and key assumptions, including prepayment, default, recovery, and loss rate curves.</li><li>Evaluate model governance, controls, documentation, and compliance with internal policies and regulatory expectations.</li><li>Partner with valuation, risk, audit, and quantitative teams to identify model risks, validate outputs, and recommend remediation where necessary.</li></ul>
<p>The HR Internal Audit team is seeking an experienced professional to partner with audit leadership and deliver specialized training on <strong>employee benefits and retirement plans</strong>. The training will help auditors strengthen their understanding of regulatory requirements, industry practices, governance frameworks, operational risks, and emerging trends across benefits programs. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise within large, complex banking environments and be able to translate technical subject matter into practical audit considerations.</p>
<p>Our client is a major financial institution looking for a skilled Fund Accounting Consultant to join their team on a long-term contract basis. In this role, you will oversee a team responsible for delivering high-quality accounting, administration, and investor services to investment companies and advisors. This position requires a strong ability to manage client relationships, resolve complex issues, and implement solutions tailored to evolving business needs.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Lead and manage a team of administrators responsible for accounting, administration, financial reporting, and regulatory compliance for investment companies, including hedge funds, private equity funds, and CLOs.</p><p>• Lead month-end close processes, including journal entries and account reconciliation.</p><p>• Help develop/implement new processes to align with regulatory and industry changes.</p><p>• Perform complex accounting reconciliations and calculations for various investment types </p><p><br></p>
<p>Robert Half Financial Services is recruiting for a Risk Manager role for a global Broker Dealer firm located in downtown Manhattan, New York. Our client requires 5+ years of Market/Counterparty Risk at a Broker Dealer/Capital Markets firm or Bank, with knowledge of Equities/Derivatives, VaR, Margin Rules/Limits, and Risk Modelling. This role is hybrid remote requiring 4 days per week in the downtown Manhattan New York office, but does require 5 days in during the first few months.</p><p><br></p><p>The Risk Manager position will be responsible for managing and overseeing all areas of counterparty risks, market risks, and systematic risks globally. Covering intraday, in near real time, for making decisions on counterparty and market related limits changes. Also setting and monitoring associated limits and expected to be highly proactive to ensure margin requirements are appropriate.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><ul><li>Providing risk oversight for business activities and risks arising in global institutional trading and prime brokerage businesses.</li><li>Understanding market and credit risks within products (incl. cash equity, options, and futures) together with market structure and regulation. </li><li>Developing quantitative counterparty risk exposure analysis, including VaR Margin and regulatory bilateral margin rules.</li><li>Working with businesses to analyze and approve client margin and various risk limits.</li><li>Understanding basic equity trade flows in terms of clearing and settlement to assist with risk managing issues that may arise. </li><li>Employing counterparty credit analysis to calibrate right size exposures.</li><li>Daily management and analysis of customer portfolio exposure and limits. </li><li>Monitoring all operational risk, including breaks and fails and working daily with operations team to resolve.</li><li>Conduct client pre-trade risk analysis of financing and trades to support approval decisions.</li><li>Stress testing client portfolios and providing oversight of limit utilizations where relevant.</li><li>duct regular risk assessments, which involves analyzing risks as well as identifying, describing, and estimating the risks affecting the business.</li><li>Business Continuity Planning and Incident Response Management for all related entities globally.</li><li>Actively manage the firm’s risk exposures through regular Risk Committee meetings.</li><li>Ensuring the global risk framework and associated procedures are implemented and followed. </li><li>Lead in the development of new and enhanced risk management approaches—creating new tools, working with vendors and refining existing tools and technology.</li><li>Coordinate Market Access Rule related product level governance forums, working groups and committees.</li></ul>