Fund Accountant needed at Apex Group

Role Summary

• Fund Accountant must manage to perform fund valuations within the Institutional Funds space. The Fund Accountant will be required to administer the funds efficiently, accurately and within daily deadlines as well as setting up and ensuring checklists and standards are adhered to.

Job Specifications:

• Generation and distribution of daily valuation files. 
• Responsibility for income distribution and TER calculations and providing them to clients timeously. 
• Reviewing all processes to assess continuous improvement and automation opportunities and presenting recommendations to management. 
• Responsible for all the daily processes that goes into the fund valuation. 
• Communicating and responding to queries internally and from the client, working with the Senior and Team Leader in resolving such queries. 
• Dealing with client queries and audit queries. 
• Communicating and answering any queries on the funds from the team. 
• Performing valuation quality assurance reviews and ensuring consistent quality of output. 

The main responsibilities of the role will be to:

• Update the Apex systems with all the daily prices and the verification of these prices.
• Verify on a daily basis that all systems have been updated through external price feeds and that the data is correct.
• Input on a regular basis into the update of process documentation to record any changes in procedures or additional responsibilities allocated to the individual.
• Achieve deliverables against agreed deadlines and manage expectations with clients.
• Ensure all queries are identified and actioned timeously, per SLAs with clients.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with external and internal clients.
• Assist Team Leaders and Specialists with ad hoc projects as the need arises.
• Stand in as a back-up for colleagues.

Skills Required:

• Experience in Asset Management portfolio administration and pricing is preferred. 
• Experience with investment products (including Unit Trusts, Multi-Manager, Segregated Portfolios, ETF’s, Pooled products) either locally or internationally an advantage. 
• An excellent working knowledge of MS office & IT packages (particularly Excel); 
• Knowledge of Invest One, Decalog and Xceptor an advantage. 
• Good understanding, knowledge and experience of back-office administration processes and accounting. 
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal); 
• Confident, enthusiastic and self-motivated. 
• A track record of achievement; and 
• To work independently in meeting deadlines and still work within a team environment track record of achievement. 

Minimum Requirements

• Have minimum of 6-12 months experience as a fund accountant or a similar background. 
• A BCom or similar, accounting, economics or investments background