As a Fund Servicing Associate within the Fund Accounting operations team, you will be responsible for timely and accurate delivery of NAV for Clients who have outsourced their Fund Accounting to JPM. This role involves understanding and executing end to end activities that comprises of daily NAV calculation and EOD Client reporting.
Job Responsibilities:
- Oversee the accurate and timely production of the Fund's daily and monthly accounting activities and net asset value calculation of the funds for various clients
- Review all financial statements prior to production and ensure that timely and accurate sign offs are in place from various constituents of the valuation process.
- Establish policies, procedures and guidelines which comply with internal and external controls to ensure that the statements and work to continuously strengthen the controls environment
- Develop and implement efficient and standardized workflows within his team as well as various points of hand offs.
- Be an effective leader capable of motivating, developing and supporting staff and training and managing the team
- To understand Training Needs / Solutions and implement the same to maintain team skill sets and mobility
- Relationship management with Clients (including JPM partner locations) by means of service delivery and proactive approach towards client requirements
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:
- Over 7+ years of Pension funds industry experience with a minimum of three years in fund accounting. Management experience is desirable
- Securities industry knowledge including dividends, principal & interest, corporate actions, trading activity and account reconciliation processes.
- Ability to multi-task and work in a fast paced environment, manage through a changing landscape
- Demonstrated relationship management skills with the ability to manage by influence to promote change
- Highly developed and demonstrated problem solving, analytical & numeric and verbal/written communications skills are essential
- Strong knowledge of industry developments and trends
Preferred Qualification:
- Minimum Bachelor's degree, Chartered Accountant/MBA/Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics is preferred
People and Communication
- Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills including the ability to communicate strategic messages clearly and consistently with the team, making linkages to individual goals and accomplishments
- Strong relationship management and partnership with a large array of constituents; ability to manage by influence to promote change
- Leadership with proven ability to manage by influence to promote change
- Proactive in identifying and escalating issues
- Leadership / Teamwork: Builds effective teams committed to organizational goals; fosters collaboration among team members and among teams
- Manage Disagreements: Brings substantive conflicts and disagreements into the open and attempts to resolve them collaboratively; strives for win/win solutions