Senior Fund Accountant

Objective of the job

The Senior Fund Accountant works closely with and reports to Fund Services Manager, and is responsible for management and financial accounting and reporting of assigned client portfolios. The Senior Fund Accountant will work cooperatively with the rest of the team in an effective manner to motivate and coach the team, to continuously meet clients’ expectations, to optimize the work processes and to maintain close contacts with key clients.

Responsibilities

Client Management

• Provide quality fund administration services for our clients, manage and maintain good and stable client relationships
• Actively interact with clients and counter-parties including legal counsels, auditors and tax advisors to meet key deadlines
• Assisting the Fund Services Manager in the operational onboarding of new clients including coordinating client acceptance/onboarding process, agreement on services delivery which is laid down in an SLA.
• Driving the execution of smooth onboarding of new clients by being responsible for providing complete client acceptance files “first time right” to the Compliance team.

Accounting

• Maintaining and enforcing adherence the policies and procedures of the Fund’s business line operating model
• Guiding the Fund Accountants in completing their work, and by extension acting as the first level of review
• Managing the capital call/ distribution notices, NAV statements, partners’ capital statements, management accounts etc. deliverables being produced by the team
• Review financial statements and ensure they are compliant with relevant accounting standards
• · Facilitate the annual audit of the funds with communication with auditors

Operational efficiency and team management

• Contribute and identify opportunity to the development and implementation of adequate and effective processes to improve the overall operations
• Assist in billing of service fees to clients and monitoring the collection of service fees from clients
• Provide technical training and share fund knowledge on fund structures and specifics to team members
• Pro-actively take on additional responsibilities and tasks from time-to-time as required by your Managers or clients
• Support the implementation of new process and procedure within the team

Required knowledge and experience

• University degree in accounting, finance, economics or related disciplines
• Preferably a qualified member with ACCA or equivalent
• Minimum 4 - 6 years' working experience in fund administration/fund house/fund audit
• Knowledge of fund operations for private equity and/or real estate funds (including valuation, accounting and payment procedures)
• Knowledge in Investran / Yardi / Geneva will be an advantage
• Previous experience in hedge funds would be a plus
• Previous experience in compliance and KYC procedures
• Strong knowledge of different types of fund structures and investment product knowledge
• Ability to work under pressure and meet a range of deadlines
• Excellent time management and client servicing skills