Remote Fund Accounting Analyst (Contract, Part‑Time)

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 103,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a remote Investment Operations & Fund Accounting Analyst for a part-time contract role averaging 15 hours per week. The candidate will support fund accounting, reconciliations, and corporate actions while ensuring accuracy and timely reporting.

Strong Excel skills are required to manage ledgers and NAV movements. Responsibilities include investigating trade breaks, processing corporate-action events, and communicating issues with clear narratives.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in fund administration or investment operations.
• Experience with fund accounting, reconciliations, corporate actions, trade support, or payment operations.
• Strong Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile ledgers against custodian/bank statements. Isolate and explain residual differences. Produce signed-off reconciliation with adjusting entries.
• Attribute NAV movements. Flag components outside tolerance and write variance commentary.
• Investigate trade breaks between systems. Identify root cause, classify the break, propose fixes, and draft investigation narratives.
• Process corporate-action events. Compute entitlements per account. Handle payment/transfer exceptions and match merchant/vendor descriptors to a canonical registry.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Skills

Fund accounting

Reconciliations

Corporate actions

Trade support

Payment operations

Excel skills

Job description

Mercor is seeking a remote Investment Operations & Fund Accounting Analyst for a part-time contract role averaging 15 hours per week. The candidate will support fund accounting, reconciliations, and corporate actions while ensuring accuracy and timely reporting.

Strong Excel skills are required to manage ledgers and NAV movements. Responsibilities include investigating trade breaks, processing corporate-action events, and communicating issues with clear narratives.