Advisory FAAS - Fund Accounting - Manager - Dublin/Cork

Grant Thornton Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton Ireland is seeking a senior fund accounting professional to join our FAAS team. The role focuses on NAV production, reconciliation, and enhancing fund administration for asset management clients.

You will work with Geneva and Investran environments, mentor junior staff, and contribute to delivering high-quality client work across engagements.

Qualifications

• Strong background in fund accounting within financial services.
• Experience with NAV calculations and related processes.
• 5-7 years of experience in fund accounting, preferably with a consulting firm or asset manager.
• Professional qualification in accounting or related field.

Responsibilities

• Provide fund accounting expertise on projects and NAV production.
• Assist with NAV calculations and related review processes.
• Improve NAV production and fund administration processes to reduce timelines and strengthen controls.
• Reconcile Prime Broker, Custodian or other counterparty data to client systems with detailed analysis.
• Mentor junior staff and develop client materials (process documents, templates, etc).
• Act as SME in Geneva and Investran to enhance client delivery.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Fund accounting

Communication skills

Excel skills

Education

Professional qualification in accounting

Tools

Geneva

Investran

Job description

A Career at Grant Thornton

If you are looking for a more fulfilling role in professional services, at Grant Thornton, we do things differently. We value fresh thinking, collaboration and diversity, building an inclusive working environment open to all. We are here to support you in the development of your career, provide flexibility where required and respect and value your experience.

Job Description

If you are looking for a more fulfilling role in professional services, at Grant Thornton, we do things differently. We value fresh thinking, collaboration and diversity, building an inclusive working environment open to all. We are here to support you in the development of your career, provide flexibility where required and respect and value your experience.

We want you to bring your authentic self to work and be at your best - it's how it should be.

The role

The candidate should have a strong technical background in fund accounting within the financial services industry and understand the challenges and trends, which affect this sector. This role will suit an ambitious, motivated person who is willing and interested in getting involved with helping the team grow. It involves working closely with FAAS teams and other senior personnel within Grant Thornton as well as providing work of the highest quality to assist our clients for our various engagements.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing our clients with expertise in fund accounting on various projects and engagements. This includes, but is not exclusive to, being able to seamlessly supplement fund accounting teams their NAV production process, supporting clients in system migration efforts and taking on new funds within our clients’ environment;
• Assisting with production and reviews of NAV calculations and related processes as the client engagement requires;
• Improving clients’ NAV production and other fund administration-related processes through reduction in timelines, or increasing the robustness of controls depending on requirements, i.e. going above and beyond client needs;
• Reconciliation of Prime Broker, Custodian or other Counterparty data to clients’ fund administration systems with detailed analysis and break resolution;
• Supporting and mentoring junior staff members to assist in enhancing our technical and soft skills within the team;
• Developing materials for clients’ benefit relating to engagements (process documents, project-related materials, reconciliation templates, etc);
• Acting as an SME in areas of prior experience (including experience processing in systems such as Geneva, Investran, etc) to enhance our client delivery.

Key Requirements

This is a technical role and a deep understanding of the fund accounting and general fund administration functions would be expected.

Strong experience in the asset management space, particularly in fund administration;

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to problem solve under pressure, often under tight time deliverable constraints;
• Ability to adapt quickly to various working environments our clients operate within;
• Strong experience in fund accounting, with the ability to converse with clients and our clients’ clients on a technical level;
• Experience in a variety of fund types / structures, with Private Equity, Private Credit and/or other closed-ended funds an advantage;
• Experience in a variety of fund administration systems an advantage (particularly Geneva/Investran), ideally including the ability to understand and execute fund setups and have a grasp of the technology landscape therein;
• End-to-end NAV calculation experience and intimate understanding of each component of the process in deriving a NAV;
• Financial Reporting knowledge and experience would be beneficial but not a prerequisite;
• Experience in reconciliations (design and implementation);
• Ability to analyse client operational environments and offer process improvement and automation solutions;
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to problem solve under pressure and adapt quickly to engagements within clients’ operating environments;
• In depth understanding in complex calculations inherent in fund administration, eg: performance fee calculations, waterfall calculations, distribution calculations, etc is an advantage;
• A passion for client service.

Experience, Skills And Attributes

• Deep knowledge of the financial services / asset management industry either directly or through practice;
• Appropriate professional qualification, which may be based in accounting or another appropriate discipline;
• Specific experience of having been part of large-scale projects in a multinational environment;
• 5- 7 years relevant experience in fund accounting, with time spent within a consulting firm, or administrator / asset manager;
• Self-motivated and ability to work within and lead junior staff;
• Ability to work towards a deadline within a project framework;
• Strong communicator, highly articulate with good report writing and excel skills;
• Mature and confident person with excellent interpersonal skills, particularly communication skills with the ability to mentor junior staff and impart technical knowledge;
• A self-starter with an ability to work on their own initiative, but knowing when to seek assistance and work collaboratively;
• Energy, enthusiasm and passion for a new challenge.

About Us

Grant Thornton Ireland is rapidly approaching 3,000 people, in 9 offices across Ireland, Isle of Man, Gibraltar and Bermuda. With a presence in over 149 countries around the world and a global network of 73,000 people, we bring our clients the local knowledge, national expertise and global presence to help them succeed - wherever they're located.

We are Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton Ireland work hard to support clients to act on the issues that matter. At GT, we work as trusted advisors, bringing local knowledge and national expertise, with a global presence, to help businesses succeed - wherever they are located. We make business more personal by investing in building relationships and empowering our clients to make the right decisions for their organisation now and for the future. Whether that is working with the public sector to build thriving communities, with regulators and financial institutions to build trust, or with a diverse range of businesses to help them achieve their goals, Grant Thornton Ireland work hard to support clients to act on the issues that matter.

At GT Ireland we don’t just predict your future, we build it

A Career at GT

Looking for a more fulfilling role in professional services? One where fresh thinking, collaboration and diversity are valued? At Grant Thornton we do things differently.

What does this mean for you?

A career in a more inclusive working environment, a more collaborative work culture, a more supported, flexible working role, more possibilities to grow and more opportunities to help shape the future for