Senior Fund Accountant - SA CIS Fund Accounting
- Employer
- CO MGSAL Apex Fund Services South Africa
- Location
- South Africa Cape Town, Apex House ZA, South Africa
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- Feb 11, 2025
View more categoriesView less categories
- Job Role
- Accountant
- Sector
- Finance
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
You need to sign in or create an account to save a job.
The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world's largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.
Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.
That's why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower' you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.
Take the lead and we'll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.
For our business, for clients, and for you
Description
Senior Fund Accountant - SA (CIS) Fund Accounting manage, to perform fund valuations within the Institutional Funds space. The Senior Fund Accountant will be required to administer the funds efficiently, accurately and within daily deadlines as well as setting up and ensuring checklists and standards are adhered to.
Job specification
.
Skills Required:
Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.
That's why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower' you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.
Take the lead and we'll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.
For our business, for clients, and for you
Description
Senior Fund Accountant - SA (CIS) Fund Accounting manage, to perform fund valuations within the Institutional Funds space. The Senior Fund Accountant will be required to administer the funds efficiently, accurately and within daily deadlines as well as setting up and ensuring checklists and standards are adhered to.
Job specification
- The main responsibilities of the role will be to:
- Update the Apex systems with all the daily prices and the verification of these prices.
- Providing mentorship and guidance to junior fund accountants, and reviewing all fund valuations
- prepared by them and ensuring the accurate calculation of fund valuations.
- Generation and distribution of daily valuation files.
- Responsibility for income distribution and TER calculations and providing them to clients timeously.
- Reviewing all processes to assess continuous improvement and automation opportunities, and
- presenting recommendations to management.
- Responsibility for maintaining and continuously updating the process of documentation.
- Communicating and responding to queries internally and from the client, assisting team leaders and
- managers in resolving such queries.
- Dealing with client queries and audit queries.
- Communicating and answering any queries on the funds from the team.
- Performing valuation quality assurance reviews and ensuring consistent quality of output.
- Management and oversight of production schedule and client deliveries in the team leader's absence.
- Assisting Implementation of projects, checks and controls to mitigate risk.
- Co-ordination of the induction program for new joiners.
.
Skills Required:
- The successful candidate will have:
- Have minimum of 1-2 years' experience as a fund accountant.
- A BCom or similar, accounting, economics or investments background.
- Experience in Asset Management portfolio administration and pricing.
- Experience with investment products (including Unit Trusts, Multi-Manager, Segregated Portfolios, ETF's,
- Pooled products) either locally or internationally an advantage.
- IT and Systems Skills and Knowledge.
- A good working knowledge of systems or an aptitude for working with systems, specifically Invest One.
- An excellent working knowledge of MS office & IT packages (particularly Excel);
Get job alerts
Create a job alert and receive personalized job recommendations straight to your inbox.
Create alert