Job Summary
As a Fund Accounting Team Leader within our team, you will be at the forefront of managing and reviewing the Net Asset Value (NAV) and other related activities. This role provides you with the opportunity to directly contribute to the valuation of our mutual fund clients. You will be actively involved in the production and review of both NAV impacting activities and regulatory reports, ensuring accuracy and quality. This position offers a unique chance to enhance your skills in regulatory requirements and client reporting.
Job Responsibilities
- Reconcile cash and asset breaks between accounting and custody.
- Prepare daily activities in line with SOPs and within agreed client deadlines and SLAs.
- Review your own activities before submitting them to the reviewer.
- Analyze client accounting records and raise queries, escalating potential issues when necessary.
- Escalate concerns about any anomalies that could lead to audit findings for clients.
- Assist in resolving team queries and serve as a reference point for junior team members on technical, accounting, and audit-related matters.
- Interact with stakeholders to address any accounting-related queries that may arise.
- Identify and act on opportunities to improve processes, including developing and recommending changes, and encourage the team to suggest ideas for efficiency.
- Adhere to all risk and control checks, follow all required checklists and SOPs, and ensure they are current at all times.
- Use all firm resources judiciously for business needs only.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Be able to work within a team and build key internal relationships across locations with partner sites.
- Have very strong attention to detail in review of documents and analytical review capabilities in relation to Fund Accounting numbers & reporting.
- Knowledge and understanding of Mutual Funds and NAV.
- Possess the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines at peak delivery times.
- Be able to implement change, seek efficiencies and manage initiatives along with your daily workload.
- Risk, control and procedure oriented. Have analytical & prioritization skills and be capable of making judgments.
- Have good written and verbal communication skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:
- The candidate have 3+ years’ experience in a Fund Accounting/custody or a good understanding of financial markets having worked in them.
- Post graduate with knowledge of Finance/Accounting will be added value.
Same Posting Description for Internal and External Candidates