Senior Fund Accountant

Sydney
Asset Management
Permanent

Our client is a large global financial services firm with a rapidly growing asset services business. This is a permanent role as a Senior Fund Accountant in their Sydney office. 

Reporting into the Fund Accounting Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for oversight of the Unit Pricing and fund accounting for all Clients. The role has responsibility over the hard Close / month end process. The consultant will also be involved in implementation of new clients along with restructures and transitions for existing clients. 

Key Responsibilities:

The Senior Fund Accountant plays an important role in supporting the service delivery of the Fund Administration team and acting as a mentor to the Fund Accountant. The Senior Fund Accountant verifies and reviews the work of the Fund Accountants who prepare and produce accurate and quality reporting in line with SLA targets. Specifically the generation of:

• Regulatory reporting
• Statutory reporting
• Unit pricing reports
• Accounting reports

Experience:

• 4+ years of experience in fund accounting unit pricing and knowledge of tax services and prior reviewing/ oversight experience.
• Technical accounting ability. Knowledge of fund accounting, reporting and related operational risk and compliance requirements of the client service function.
• Systems experience: Hi-Portfolio, PControl unit pricing system and MS Word & Excel.

For this role, only candidates holding a AUS PR or AUS Citizen will be considered

You must also have Australian Fund Accounting Experience, and already be based in Australia