Senior Fund Accountant
- Mauritius
- Not disclosed
- Permanent
- Added 04/11/2025
- Closing 04/12/2025
- Dana Schierhout
Manage fund financials, ensuring timely, accurate reporting while meeting client accounting requirements and compliance standards.
Job Description
Responsible for the planning and preparation of financial reports for a portfolio of funds, ensuring reporting deadlines are met and the delivery of client accounting requirements are in compliance with the company's contractual obligations.
Main Responsibilities
- Develop an understanding of all entities within the fund structure, the nature of their transactions and reporting requirements.
- Develop and maintain a process to ensure the timely delivery of client accounting requirements in relation to financial reports and accounts for all entities in allocated portfolio.
- Ensure that current accounting standards (UK GAAP, IFRS or US GAAP) and best practice principles are applied to the accounts production process and kept current as such standards and principles develop.
- Establish reporting procedures for new funds and other entities based on fund documents and client reporting requirements.
- Provide guidance and support to administration team to ensure that the bookkeeping arising from transactions is performed in a timely and accurate manner.
- Calculate Net Asset Values in accordance with individual funds' requirements.
- Liaise with clients and other professional advisers to agree timetables for the production of accounts.
- Attend board meetings and other client meetings to present accounts and discuss accounting related matters.
- Liaise with auditors to ensure the timely completion of audits for fund and fund related entities.
- Ensure that regulatory and statutory reporting requirements are met.
- Ensure company's policies and procedures are used and adhered to within the accounts team and contribute to the continuing development of those policies and procedures.
- Attendance at client meetings in place of or as well as the Senior Manager, to advise the client on administrative matters and to ensure that any requests from the board are adequately adhered to.
- Any other such duties that might be reasonably required for this role.
- ACCA/ACA fully qualified and/or be experienced by virtue of relevant experience
- Finance Industry and or Accounting/Auditing experience within or with exposure to the Private Equity/Real Estates/ Corporate environment is desirable
- Solid and pragmatic accounting skills and technical accounting knowledge
- Excellent presentational, written and verbal communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Excellent organisational and planning skills including managing expectations which will include determining that which is important versus that which is urgent
- Advanced Excel skills and strong IT skills
- Professionalism and ability to win the respect of clients
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- Ability to interact with colleagues at all levels
- The drive to make continuous improvements
- Flexibility to adapt as the role develops
Bolt Talent Solutions (Pty) Ltd
- 1st Floor, La Promenade, The Trademark, MU, 80829, Moka, Mauritius