Assistant Vice President, Expense Management & Analysis

As a member of the team responsible for expense management, your primary duties will involve source and train newly formed team on existing expense processes. You will be tasked with creating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and monitoring exception reports to identify inconsistencies. Additionally, you will document key processes and risks to identify gaps in our service model for excellent internal customer support, and plan remediation efforts to address these gaps. In collaboration with budget owners, you will be expected to build a team that understands and documents business and standard vendor relationships. You will act as a subject matter expert on vendors and services being provided, advise cost center administrators and expense approvers on consistent and appropriate corporate and fund coding, and partner with expense owners to work with vendors to improve invoices for efficient processing. Furthermore, in collaboration with Fund Accounting, you will build a team that understands and documents various fund expense considerations and requirements. You will act as a subject matter expert for each strategy's nuances and fund chargeback capabilities per the legal documents. Your responsibilities will also include reviewing all fund invoices and T&E for completeness and appropriateness of instructions prior to approval for allocation and advising cost center administrators and expense approvers on changes needed to allocation instructions provided. Moreover, in collaboration with Corporate Accounting, you will build a team that understands and documents appropriate spend category/GL considerations for expense coding. You will serve as a liaison between expense owners and Corporate Accounting for coding questions and maintain spend category to GL mapping and descriptions for guidance. Additionally, in collaboration with Corporate Finance, you will build a team that understands and documents budget considerations regarding expense coding. Your role will involve helping ensure expenses are coded to appropriate expense owners, assisting Cost Centers and Corporate Finance with expense reclasses in Workday, and supporting expense level projects within Workday to ensure solutions are systematic, efficient, and maintainable. As the ideal candidate, you should preferably have experience within Public Accounting and Investment firms, with a focus in consulting, audit, and/or corporate finance functions. You should have a track record in business analysis and process improvement, strong analytical skills, and the ability to understand and resolve complex problems. Experience with large datasets and expertise in tools such as Workday, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio is preferred. Your personal attributes should include strong relationship building skills, effective communication abilities, independence and collaboration experience, a strong work ethic, flexibility, organization, intellectual curiosity, the drive for results, and sound judgment. Furthermore, it is important to note that our firm follows an Equal Opportunity Employment Policy. For positions based in Los Angeles, qualified applicants with a criminal history will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.,