Senior Associate, Fund Treasury

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated, technically strong, and collaborative professional to join Global Fund Finance as a Senior Fund Administrator. This individual will play a key role in strengthening Lord Abbett’s risk-based fund oversight model across financial reporting, regulatory reporting, NAV oversight, service-provider governance, and strategic fund initiatives. The successful candidate will operate as a senior member of the Fund Treasury team, bringing strong technical knowledge, sound judgment, analytical discipline, and the ability to work effectively across internal teams, service providers, auditors, and other stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support and enhance a robust, risk-based fund oversight model across U.S. mutual funds, interval funds, offshore/UCITS vehicles, and other fund structures.
• Perform and/or oversee analytical reviews of fund operations, including daily and monthly NAV oversight, fund expenses, distributions, borrowing/leverage facilities, reconciliations, and other key fund administration controls.
• Oversee State Street and Brown Brothers Harriman (accounting agents) in administering the day-to-day operations of the funds, including overseeing NAV calculations and reviews of key reconciliations.
• Coordinate and/or review fund-of-fund trade activity.
• Lead or support risk-based reviews of fund financial statements, tailored shareholder reports, and related disclosure documents.
• Review fund-related SEC filings, which may include Forms N-PORT, N-CEN, N-CSR, N-MFP, prospectuses, Statements of Additional Information, and other regulatory filings.
• Support disclosure controls and procedures in connection with Principal Financial Officer/Principal Executive Officer certifications.
• Support new product launches, fund reorganizations, mergers, liquidations, share class launches, fee changes, and other product or business initiatives.
• Assist in the identification of opportunities to streamline, standardize, and automate manual or duplicative processes across Fund Treasury.
• Help build dashboards, metrics, exception reporting, workflow tools, issue trackers, and reporting routines that improve transparency and accountability.

Requirements

• 5-10+ years of relevant experience in asset management, mutual fund administration, fund accounting, financial reporting, regulatory reporting, fund audit, and/or related fund oversight roles.
• Working knowledge of registered investment companies and U.S. GAAP for investment companies, with a desire to continue developing technical expertise.
• Experience supporting or reviewing fund financial statements, tailored shareholder reports, SEC filings, and/or disclosure controls.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to identify issues, assess risk, evaluate downstream implications, and recommend practical solutions.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively as part of a cross-functional team.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical matters clearly.
• Proficiency with Excel; experience with Power BI, data analytics, dashboarding, workflow tools, or automation initiatives preferred.

About the Company

Lord Abbett is a leading global independent, privately held investment management company. We are active managers and invest where we believe we have a repeatable edge and can deliver alpha for our clients. Our vision is to be the most respected asset manager in the world, admired for our people, our performance, our relationships, and our organizational agility. This inspires the three pillars of our culture:

• Principles-Based: We empower our leaders to create an environment of trust.
• Performance-Oriented: We inspire our people to embody our values: excellence, responsibility, transparency, and collaboration.
• Purpose-Driven: We instill a passion for always putting our clients' interests first.

We have been ranked #1 in Barron’s Best Fund Families for 2024 and have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments for five consecutive years.

Pay

Annual base salary for this role is $100,000 - $120,000. Actual pay may vary. Role may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus, determined by several factors including firm, team, and individual performance.

Benefits

Lord Abbett is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package to all eligible employees, including:

• Competitive total compensation
• Retirement plans
• Competitive health and well-being plans

To learn more about what we offer, please visit Careers | Lord Abbett.