Senior Fund Accountant
- Mauritius
- Not disclosed
- Permanent
- Added 19/06/2025
- Closing 19/07/2025
- Dana Schierhout
Lead NAV oversight, financial reporting, and team supervision for investment funds, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and client service excellence.
Purpose of Job
- The primary functions of a Senior Fund Accountant is to check and supervise the tasks required to successfully complete a NAV (Being an A Signatory).In certain circumstances a Senior Fund Accountant may also be required to perform these tasks. An additional function is to produce financial statements in accordance with the relevant accounting standards for an allocated portfolio of clients.
- Check and authorise payments (as an A Signatory) to ensure the payment has been correctly prepared and the correct instructions are going to be processed
- Check and approve valuations (as an A Signatory) to ensure all the required information has been captured and processed correctly resulting in the expected valuation movement.
- Supervise others to ensure the accuracy, completeness and timeliness in performing the following functions:
- Reviewing and ensure all documentation and controls are in place and being implemented for investment purchases and sales / distributions
- Setting-up and capturing of investments on the relevant accounting system
- Monitoring of distributions / sales proceeds receivable and capturing of these on the relevant accounting system and providing a reconciliation for same
- Preparation of accurate monthly/quarterly & annual accounts, including Statement of holdings for investors
- Preparation of accurate expense and accrual calculations, including management and admin fee calculation
- Performing weekly cash reconciliations and proper investigation and resolution of any reconciling differences
- Performing daily cash management (including preparing payment and transfer instructions) and updating the cash transactions on the relevant accounting system
- Capturing cash movements as well as trades and updating transactions in the relevant accounting system
- Investigating and answering queries with auditors and clients
- Ensuring compliance with company policy and procedures, client service level agreements and internal controls
- Sending out valuation e-mails to pre-defined distribution lists
- Completion and performing of other sundry administrative tasks, including filing of quarter end accounts
- Accurate Completion of statutory duties
- Accurately updating and maintaining relevant sections in the KPI spreadsheet
- Note: Although the primary function of a Senior Fund Accountant is checking and supervising the above tasks, in certain circumstances a Senior Fund Accountant may also be required to perform the above mentioned activities.
- Coach and supervise other team members (including training and coordinating the training of new team members) to ensure the team functions as a cohesive unit.
- Actively participate in ensuring all processes and procedures are properly documented and adhered to ensure no accounting errors occur and the team has latency in place.
- Query and issue resolution within the team (whether it’s the relevant accounting system or system issues, or client or custodian issues) to ensure no queries or issues result in an error, breach or client dissatisfaction.
- Investigate errors, complete the required error reporting process and implement the required remedial action in order to ensure the error is not repeated.
- Actively and continually identify and report high risk areas and gaps in processes to ensure the identification and escalation of risks and gaps.
- Participate actively in projects, specifically risk reduction and efficiency gain projects relevant to the related fund admin teams to ensure the successful implementation and completion of the specific Fund Admin project actions and timelines.
- In isolated instances or where there’s an emergency be able to provide cover and checking in other teams and for other clients/funds to ensure the relevant client’s deadlines are achieved.
- Produce financial statements in accordance with the company's policies and procedures accurately with the regulatory deadlines and the deadlines agreed with the client.
- To manage the client audit process according to an agreed timetable to ensure all parties are delivering as agreed and the manager is informed of any obstacles and/or delays.
- Quickly and diligently address client queries and questions to ensure resolution thereof and to establish and maintain a good working relationship with client.
- Maintain investor registers and ensure only authorized changes are made and that these are done in a timely manner.
- Subject to client approvals, respond to any investor queries that may arise.
- University degrees and/ or Professional qualification such as ACCA (Preferably full qualified or at least level 3 dependant on level of experience), CIMA, or any other relevant to accounting.
- Good accounting and investment product knowledge.
- Minimum of 5 to 8 years investment fund administration or related experience (an advantage but not a prerequisite).
- Ability to produce work accurately, on time and sometimes under pressure.
- Good technical knowledge of accounting standards (IFRS).
- Good communicator.
- Able to manage own time and projects.
- Ability to coach and mentor Fund accountants directly reporting into SFA.
- Excellent numeracy skills.
- Attention to detail and pro-active in nature.
- Exposure to VCC structures.
- Experience in open-ended investments funds.
Bolt Talent Solutions (Pty) Ltd
- 1st Floor, La Promenade, The Trademark, MU, 80829, Moka, Mauritius
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