Fund Accountant
- Mauritius
- Not disclosed
- Permanent
- Added 04/04/2024
- Closing 04/05/2024
- Maeva Duval
The opportunity to join a seasoned Pan-African Private Equity firm with a 20 year history!
The opportunity to join a seasoned Pan-African Private Equity firm with a 20 year history and proven a proven track record of developing new investment opportunities as well as actively adding value to investments across the life cycle of ICT assets.
Specific Responsibilities:
A. Financial Reporting and Accounting functions.
Building and enhancing internal stakeholder relationships to deliver comprehensive, up to date and complete financial accounting information to facilitate decisions of the Managing Director and various Boards of Directors.
Overall responsibility for the preparation of monthly management accounts, ensuring the recording of all financial transactions. Reviewing the accounting records and information in detail as prepared by Management Company.
- Maintenance of user access to the records and systems
- Backup of accounting information to ensure continuity of operations
- Review, each month, the general ledger accounts to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the monthly transactions processed
- Review of financial reports
- Monthly/Quarterly reporting of financial information
- Preparation of monthly management accounts and to assist with the consolidated management accounts
- Management of debtors and creditors
- Consider the implementation and appropriateness of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for financial transactions
- Ensuring the appropriateness of the selection and implementation of accounting policies
- Preparation and review of the annual financial statements to ensure the appropriate accounting policies and disclosures to accurately portray the financial position of the company for the reporting period.
- Assist with the preparation and compilation of the annual budget.
- Monthly monitoring of income against budget and determination of reasons for variances.
- Oversee the planning and management of the annual audit. Engaging with the audit partner and manager in terms of a negotiated fee, timing of the audit and providing of the relevant information required for the audit.
Policies and Procedures
- Assist Managing Director with ensuring the design and implementation of controls for Finance and Risk related processes
- Set-up of internet banking applications, and maintenance thereof
- Review of cash management, ensuring adequate liquidity
- Assisting with regulatory reporting
- Tax compliance. Overall responsibility for:
- Review and filing of annual income tax returns
- Review and submission of monthly payroll returns
- Drawdowns
- Assist MD with review of calculations for drawdown notices
- Payroll
- Preparation, review and sign-off of payroll and related payments
- Expenses
- Review and approval of expenses claims, ensuring controls implemented are adhered to
- General
- Assist with the preparation and review of valuations for Fund entities
- Review of the bi-annual valuation certificates
- Provide assistance where required in terms of new transactions, agreements or opinions
- Provide information as required to investors
- Assist with requests for customised detailed analysis of portfolio and performance monitoring
- Provide assistance where required with setting up of operations in Africa
- Assist MD with various processes related to the Risk Function:
- Assist with the preparation and review of quarterly Risk Assessment questionnaires and in developing various tools to monitor certain financial risks within the Portfolio including currency risk management, monitoring portfolio leverage, etc.
- Assist MD with creating Microsoft Power BI tools to analyse and report on various metrics for the company and portfolio.
- Overall responsibility for releasing payments for the company
- Assist MD with management of Cash-Flow and Debt
- Strong ability to take initiative
- Advanced Microsoft Excel Skills
- Power BI experience
- Good corporate citizenship, including positive contribution to culture, morale, Convergence Partners profile
- ACCA qualified (recently qualified or with 1 to 2 years of experience)