Fund Accountant (Hybrid) - Cape Town R26K - 29K Per Month

GLOBAL Investment Firm - Fund Accounting Opportunity

Join a dynamic team of Fund Accounting professionals! If you have a passion for the financial services and investment world and desire to further your accounting career within this profession, we want to hear from you. You are a numerically inclined analytical thinker with solid accounting skills, attention to detail, and a problem-solving mindset, eager to learn and grow your career.

Responsibilities:

1. Collating, calculating, processing, investigating, and checking fund information to produce Net Asset Values for specific Funds within defined deadlines and regulatory requirements.
2. Capturing investment trades.
3. Performing accurate Net Asset Value calculations including expense and accrual calculations.
4. Conducting weekly/daily cash and stock reconciliations, investigating and resolving any reconciling differences.
5. Managing daily cash (including preparing payment and transfer instructions) and updating cash transactions.
6. Performing daily/monthly asset pricing.
7. Monitoring sources for Corporate Actions and updating the system.
8. Capturing daily cash movements and trades, and updating transactions.
9. Investigating and answering queries from dealers, brokers, custodians, auditors, and clients.
10. Ensuring compliance with company policy, client service level agreements, and internal controls.
11. Conducting weekly/monthly compliance checks.
12. Sending out valuation emails to predefined distribution lists.
13. Completing quarterly statutory returns.
14. Accurately updating and maintaining relevant sections in the delivery matrix.

Education and Experience Required:

1. Accounting / Finance / Investments related Degree
2. Completed SAICA / SAIPA articles OR 1-2 years relevant experience in fund accounting / financial services / investment arena

Please Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.