Associate Fund Tax Accountant

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organisations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Get To Know Us:

SS&C Technologies is the world's largest independent hedge fund and private equity administrator, as well as the largest mutual fund transfer agency. SS&C's unique business model combines end-to-end expertise across financial services operations with proprietary software and solutions to service even the most demanding customers in the financial services and healthcare industries.

As part of the SS&C GlobeOp division, the Australian tax service team sits within the Global Tax team, which consists of over 150 tax specialists across 12 jurisdictions. The size of the Global Tax team continues to grow as the company expands its global footprint.

The Global Head of Tax is based in the USA and oversees the Australian tax operation through his direct report, the Head of Australian Tax. The Global Tax team has responsibility for producing/lodging accurate tax reporting and tax returns for alternative fund clients in each region.

The Global Head of Tax also manages and develops an advanced tax system called Tax BrightLine in the USA. Eventually, this software will roll out to other regions under SS&C's administration.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave and Well-Stocked Pantry
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised, including SS&C University
• Education: Paid further education opportunities for employees who are eligible
• Extra Perks: Bonus Scheme

What You Will Get To Do:

The Fund Tax Accountant is a newly created offshore Australian Tax role based in Malaysia, established to support the Australian Tax team in delivering high-quality day-to-day tax compliance services across alternative fund clients. Working within a growing and collaborative team, the role will assist with tax compliance deliverables, operational processes, client transitions, and project-related initiatives supporting the broader Tax Services function.

This position is ideal for a detail-oriented and proactive individual with a strong willingness to learn and develop within fund tax services. Responsibilities include preparing straightforward tax compliance calculations and returns, supporting process testing and template maintenance, enhancing standard operating procedures, and assisting with client onboarding, transitions, and continuous improvement initiatives.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong customer service mindset, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a positive can-do attitude, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment where client satisfaction is a key priority.

• Accurate and timely delivery of tax reporting deliverables.
• Preparation of tax compliance calculations, including but not limited to BAS returns, investor statements, AIIR, IAS, QTF and some simple tax distribution calculations.
• Assist in drafting tax policies and procedures for tax risk control purposes.
• Assist in attending and responding to client queries.
• Adherence to operational compliance and risk policies.
• Assist in the completion of projects, including testing tax templates.

What You Will Bring:

• Degree qualified in Business, Accounting or related discipline with 1 -2 years experience
• Near completion of CA/CPA or intention to take the program
• Experience in a fund tax role in professional practice is highly preferred
• Basic knowledge of Australian tax accounting principles for financial instruments, trusts (e.g. MIT or AMIT), hedged funds, private equity funds and company tax is advantageous but not essential
• Knowledge of fund accounting, reporting and related operational risk and compliance requirements of the client service function
• Can do and keen to learn attitudes
• Demonstrated history of being results-focused, excellent attention to detail and teamwork
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.