Description:
The Senior Fund Accountant has responsibility for the accurate and timely delivery of fund accounting services, with a significant focus on unit pricing and reporting activities.
In this role, the Senior Fund Accountant works with clients, internal and other external stakeholders as a subject matter expert to facilitate excellent client delivery.
Primary Role Responsibilities
- Delivery of accurate unit prices and reporting, in accordance with timing specified in client SLAs.
- Review and approve unit prices, exception reporting and other client reporting generated by offshore teams for client delivery.
- Review and approve client instructions for fee processing, cash and rebalancing, static data setups and ensures no adverse impacts to unit prices.
- Main point of contact for client queries.
- Main liaison point with Registry on unit reconciliation differences.
- Work with internal teams to reduce and interrogate reconciliation differences and identify themes to be addressed.
- Ensure consistency across client reporting; unit pricing and accounting packs are aligned.
- Ensure controls are maintained at all times and procedures and escalation protocols are adhered to.
Other Contributions
- Participate in transversal projects and transitions as the subject matter expert from Fund Accounting and facilitate collaboration and excellent client delivery.
- Assist internal teams with their queries to achieve the best outcomes for the bank.
What is required for you to succeed?
- 5+ years industry experience in a custodian or similar fund accounting role with unit pricing and some understanding of the full-service model including tax and regulatory reporting.
- Technical accounting ability: Knowledge of fund accounting, unit pricing, reporting and tax and related operational risk and compliance requirements of the client service function.
- You have the ability to provide pragmatic and commercial solutions in problem solving.
- The successful candidate has an inquisitive and questioning mindset and good time management skills, with the ability to meet critical deadlines in the area.
- Demonstrated quality focus ensuring reports and the handling of queries or issues meet the requirements of departmental or client Service Level Agreements.
- Operating from a customer-focused work ethic, you have the ability to think with an improvement focus, always looking to enhance the service you and the team provide.
- Effective communication skills and good interpersonal skills. You have experience in liaising and working effectively with colleagues across various teams, including offshore teams.
- You have the ability to question or escalate issues for resolution. You actively seek to resolve queries or reconciliation items for the clients you support, ensuring appropriate treatment. You ensure work completed meets compliance standards in terms of signoff.
- You enjoy participating fully in a team, assisting with the technical growth and development of team members where possible.