Assistant Department Head Client

What You Can Expect At BBH:
If you join BBH you will find a collaborative environment that enables you to step outside your role to add value wherever you can. You will have direct access to clients, information and experts across all business areas around the world. BBH will provide you with opportunities to grow your expertise, take on new challenges, and reinvent yourself—without leaving the firm. We encourage a culture of inclusion that values each employee’s unique perspective. We provide a high-quality benefits program emphasizing good health, financial security, and peace of mind. Ultimately we want you to have rewarding work with the flexibility to enjoy personal and family experiences at every career stage. Our BBH Cares program offers volunteer opportunities to give back to your community and help transform the lives of others.

At Brown Brothers Harriman, we believe no job is too big or small for any of us to handle if it helps our clients. We value passionate, committed people who enjoy collaborating with others to find new solutions to complex business challenges. We are looking for the type of person who speaks their mind, truly listens and steps outside their role to add value wherever they can. Someone who is driven to get things done and views obstacles as an exciting challenge that demands a creative solution. Above all, we seek someone who takes great pride in their work and is inspired and motivated by their role in protecting and enhancing our client’s financial well-being.

If you are looking for an entrepreneurial environment where you can learn and thrive, Brown Brothers Harriman is the right place for you.

Join us as Assistant Department Head Client Service-Alternatives

In this role you will be part of a senior management team overseeing the operations of Accounting, Consolidation & Financial. Reporting for the Alternative Funds servicing business line. This position requires Accounting,

Consolidation & Financial. Reporting experience, leadership, initiative, creativity, and management skills including a keen eye for risk control and process management. In addition, this position requires excellent client service and communication skills and previous experience in illiquid alternative asset classes.

**Responsibilities**:
1.Client Service and Operations- Ensure cross functional service excellence, focusing on accounting, consolidation and financial reporting deliverables- Support new business on-boarding, identifying the new and different and escalating- Work with product and operational colleagues to define effective, risk controlled and scalable processes- Participate in Business Development activities, supporting in RPF meetings etc.- Lead client meetings/visits representing BBH senior SME for Accounting, Consolidation & Financial Reporting- Build and maintain strong internal, client, audit and other business relationships

2. Management:
- Direct management of a staff of 2-4 CSMs and their teams (10 - 15 professionals each) servicing a significant number of clients- Regular performance appraisals for direct reports- Salary and bonus planning- Mapping employee career development plans- Succession planning at all levels- Recruitment of staff- Acting as a mentor and coach to staff

**Requirements**:
- BS in a business degree program; MBA a benefit- 8/10 years operational experience in corporate or group accounting environment or in an audit / consulting environment.- 7+ years management experience- Experience in group accounting procedures and financial consolidation- Experience in IFRS compliant Financial Reporting and extensive knowledge of IFRS- Experience working on multiple client relationships- Demonstrable client service skills- Excellent presentation skills- Independent thinker and worker- Excellent motivator- Communicate openly and sincerely and conduct oneself with the highest respect for the client and all BBH support areas- Ability to recommend and implement change- Ability to manage multiple priorities- Experience working on system implementation projects.

What We Offer:
- A collaborative environment that enables you to step outside your role to add value wherever you can- Direct access to clients, information and experts across all business areas around the world- Opportunities to grow your expertise, take on new challenges, and reinvent yourself—without leaving the firm- A culture of inclusion that values each employee’s unique perspective- High-quality benefits program emphasizing good health, financial security, and peace of mind- Rewarding work with the flexibility to enjoy personal and family experiences at every career stage- Volunteer opportunities to give back to your community and help transform the lives of others