Senior Fund Accountant - South Africa

SS&C Technologies; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Professional development reimbursement

Competitive holiday scheme

Competitive benefits

Diversity & Inclusion

Hands-on training

Job summary

SS&C GlobeOp, a division of SS&C Technologies, seeks a Senior Fund Accountant to lead accounting and reporting for a growing private markets client base. You will oversee fund administration teams, onboarding, and deliverables across jurisdictions, with strong emphasis on NAV, financial statements, and investor reporting.

Strong communication and leadership are essential. The role requires experience in private markets accounting, excellent client service, and the ability to collaborate with

Qualifications

• Experience in accounting, with a focus on Private Equity/Real Asset/Hybrid/Credit funds.
• Excellent client relationship and project management skills.
• Strong team leadership, training, delegation and work review experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact at all levels.
• Strong working knowledge of accounting principles, general ledgers and financial statements.
• Strong knowledge of private markets, NAV calculations, investor reporting and capital activities.
• Ability to lead across cross-team interactions and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee teams supporting fund administration services to clients.
• Manage client implementation and onboarding.
• Coordinate with internal departments across jurisdictions to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate knowledge of accounting and manage the fund audit process.
• Develop and maintain Private Equity client reporting calendars.
• Oversee maintenance of client ledgers and records.
• Plan NAV calculations, financial statements, capital statements, drawdowns and distributions.
• Review ledgers and trial balances for multiple fund clients under IFRS/UK GAAP/US GAAP/local GAAP.
• Aggregate, maintain and reconcile key business and client metrics.
• Develop robust review procedures around deliverables.
• Manage the year-end audit process with clients and auditors.

Skills

Accounting

Private Equity

Real Asset

Hybrid team leadership

Client relationship

Project management

IFRS

US GAAP

UK GAAP

Education

Accounting qualification (ACCA/ACA/CIMA/CPA/CA)

University degree in Accounting or Business

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Job Title - Senior Fund Accountant

Get To Know Us:

SS&C GlobeOp, a division of SS&C Technologies, is one of the world’s largest administrators with core competencies in private equity, hedge funds, funds of funds and managed accounts. SS&C has been providing outsourcing and fund administration services since 1995.

Key differentiators for our business are significant staff expertise and high employee retention rates, ownership of underlying technology and impeccable client service. Our growth is largely driven by referrals from satisfied clients.

A leading innovator in alternative investment technology solutions and services, SS&C is also home to the industry’s largest fund administrator: SS&C GlobeOp, helping funds of all sizes from start-ups to today's largest funds.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

Job Description Summary

Within this role you will be responsible for providing the accounting and reporting function for our growing private markets client base. Working for a private markets fund manager would be an advantage. The successful candidate will be expected to have solid written and verbal communications skills, a proven ability to multi-task, and outstanding organisational and problem-solving skills.

How you will make an impact:

• Manage and oversee teams supporting fund administration services to clients.
• Manage client implementation and onboarding.
• Manage client deliverables and coordinate with different internal departments in multiple jurisdictions to ensure deadlines are met.
• Demonstrate knowledge of accounting and manage the fund audit process.
• Develop and maintain Private Equity client reporting calendars.
• Oversee the maintenance of client general ledgers and other records.
• Plan and oversee preparation of NAV calculations, audited and unaudited financial statements, partner capital statements, management fee calculations, drawdowns, distributions and the underlying work papers.
• Review and maintenance of general ledgers, sub ledgers and trial balances for multiple fund clients, according to various accounting standards (IFRS/UK GAAP/US GAAP/local GAAP).
• Aggregation, maintenance and reconciliation of key business and client metrics.
• Develop/maintain robust review procedures around deliverables.
• Manage the year-end audit process, in collaboration with the clients and auditors.

Development Value:

• Opportunity to broaden exposure by working on investment accounting, fund administration, client servicing and investor servicing.
• Opportunity to work with a global team to develop private markets and associated services in EMEA.
• Ability to implement new processes and technology to support new business initiatives, improve control and increase operating efficiency.
• Develop and demonstrate the ability to work under pressure in a high growth environment, implement high quality processes with strong focus on process development.
• Coordinate private markets services across internal functions.
• Opportunity to work alongside some of the largest global investment managers.
• Networking and communicating across Private Markets and associated internal and external businesses; interacting with Risk & Controls, Legal, Implementations and Sales.

Required Knowledge/Experience:

• Experience in accounting, with a focus on Private Equity/Real Asset/Hybrid/Credit funds
• Excellent client relationship and project management skills
• Strong team leadership, training, delegation and work review experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization
• Strong working knowledge of accounting principles, general ledgers and financial statements.
• Strong knowledge of private markets, net asset value calculations, investor reporting, capital activities, etc.
• Team player with the ability to lead – this will be very important as cross-team interaction is critical to the smooth running of the group.
• Strong client service focus, including the ability to effectively respond to client needs.
• Advanced computer skills, especially Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to adapt quickly to new systems and procedures.
• Experience of fund administration preferred
• Experience of Private Markets fund preferred

Qualifications:

• Accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA, CA or similar).
• Experience in accounting (preferably including private markets accounting or partnership accounting).
• University degree (B.A., B.Sc., B.B.S.) in Accounting or Business (preferably majoring in Accountancy or another Financial-related program).

Competencies:

• Results: Meet internal and external demands and deadlines demonstrating ability to operate on initiative in a controlled environment.
• Communication: Disseminate relevant information to all key stakeholders.
• Foresight: Ability to analyse a situation (and its potential solution) and think through all steps to its conclusion.
• Motivation: A positive attitude and a drive to ‘get the job done’.
• Knowledge of US GAAP/UK GAAP and IFRS