Specialist – Investment Accounting

Found in: Talent ZA 2A C2 - 2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Wenz Recruitment Full time

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE

  • The candidate will be responsible for performing the day-to-day operational processes for various investment accounting, data management and market data activities.
  • The candidate will work in Institutional Fund Operations, working closely with the other operational departments (NAV Pricing, Performance, Portfolio Administration) as well as Tax, Institutional Client Services, Legal & Compliance, IT, and Trading.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Market Data

  • Ensuring that the daily instrument valuation/pricing and exchange rate processes run accurately and timeously.
  • Ensuring that instrument price files are received from all local and foreign sources (exchange and vendor data).
  • Liaising with data vendors (e.g., JSE/Bloomberg) on data quality and other queries (eg. valuation).
  • The setting up of system parameters in Markit (MDS) for certain instruments as and when they are created by the front office team.
  • Collaboration with the relevant IT domain teams to maintain, develop and enhance the market data infrastructure to keep systems up-to-date and efficient.
  • Monitoring the end-of-day price reconciliation process and investigating any identified price/valuation discrepancies.
  • Managing and maintaining data contracts and vendor relationships.
  • Managing the benchmark data processes, including:
  • Creation of benchmarks as required by the Performance team.
  • Sourcing and scrubbing of daily and monthly benchmark data files.
  • Managing validation exceptions of benchmark data when required.
  • Maintenance of benchmark static data.

Institutional Data Management

  • Creation of instruments as required by the front or middle office teams.
  • Portfolio creation and classifications.
  • Maintenance of instrument static data for upstream and downstream usage.
  • Reconciling static data to market sources to ensure accuracy and consistency in data across all internal systems.
  • Investigation of instrument data inconsistencies and validation errors.
  • Monitor the BOD (beginning of day) processes.
  • Monitoring of communications from data vendor regarding any changes that may affect the fund pricing process and informing other business teams where necessary (eg. Corporate Actions, Trading, Fund Accounting).
  • Daily monitoring and updating of instrument classifications used for reporting.
  • Additional Activities
  • Assisting with month-end pricing across all portfolios.
  • Calculating daily interest coupon accruals.
  • Monitoring and answering queries from the Institutional Data Management and Investment Accounting email queue.
  • Involvement in initiatives/project work that seeks to simplify and create efficiencies in existing processes.

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

  • Chartered Accountant or
  • B Com or equivalent degree - Higher Diploma or Honours will be an advantage
  • A minimum of three years of experience in asset management (FS articles experience counts)
  • Must have a strong technical understanding of instrument valuation and pricing
  • Experience in working with the following systems would be advantageous:
  • Charles River Investment Management Solution (CRIMS)
  • IHS Markit
  • Fundamental Portfolio Manager (FPM)
  • A history of strong performance.

KEY ATTRIBUTES & COMPETENCIES

  • Strong numeric ability and a questioning mind
  • Accuracy and attention to detail
  • A self-starter with the ability to create efficient processes and controls
  • Ability to operate independently as well as in a team environment
  • Interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain strong working relationships with relevant stakeholders, both internally and externally, and to defend an opinion with rationale and logic
  • Ability to accept responsibility for all tasks done
  • Good time management skills, and the ability to manage heavy workloads and multiple tasks work flexible hours , particularly in the event of market vendor issues as well as follow a shift work schedule.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Very disciplined and methodical style of working
  • Determined, engaged and persistent proactive "can-do" attitude that inspires others to do great work

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