Senior Manager

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Apex Group Full time

Senior Manager - Offshore Fund Accounting

Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Date Posted: Jun 13, 2023

**Description**

**Recruitment of **senior Manager** - **Offshore Fund Accounting**

An opportunity has arisen for **a** Senior Manager - Offshore Fund Accounting **to join our Cape Town office as part of **Offshore Fund Accounting** department under the Fund Valuation and Accounting SA business unit.

**Summary of the position**

The Senior Manager - Offshore Fund Accounting role includes the functional leadership for the delivery of core fund accounting and financial reporting services to clients of the Offshore Fund Accounting department and will focus on managing, measuring and driving the effectiveness of the department to ensure effective, efficient and timely delivery of these services.

These services will include but are not limited to all fund NAV calculation activities, income distribution calculations, payment authorisations, financial statement preparation, regulatory reporting and reporting to clients, depositories and client directors.

**Outline of main duties and responsibilities**

The **Senior Manager **- Offshore Fund Accounting** will be expected to:

- Provide strategic leadership to the department, ensuring close collaboration and alignment of operating model with other departments within the Fund Administration division.
- Drive the further maturity of the department into a global servicing hub, that provides centralised operational services meeting the requirements of each jurisdiction serviced.
- Serve as the primary accountable owner for service quality of the department to external and internal clients and for any material escalations from clients relating to service delivery.
- Drive the implementation of efficiencies in the operational area by improving the technical skills of people, improving the controls of processes, and increasing the automation of operations with technology;
- Drive the implementation of an operational quality control framework in the department in line with the functional and regulatory requirements and in order to minimize operational risk;
- Deliver high standards of service quality to external and internal clients in accordance with agreed Service Level Agreements;
- Ensure service delivery issues and challenges in the department are managed and dealt with in a timely and efficient manner.
- Ensure all operational controls, policies, and standard operating procedures relevant to the department are adhered to.
- Develop strong and trusted relationships with external and internal clients, and set and maintain the standard for the quality of the departments engagement with clients;
- Monitor operational risk for the department by ensuring incidents are managed and dealt with in a timely and efficient manner.
- Implement internal controls to strengthen control framework and to reduce operational and business risks for the department.
- Ensure audit findings relating to department are appropriately responded to and addressed in a timely manner.
- Manage operational costs for the department to ensure alignment with budgets;
- Ensure Offshore Fund Accounting clients are accurately and timeously invoiced to ensure alignment with budget;
- Ensure experienced staff are recruited at Manager and lower level in department to discharge daily functional activities of their responsible teams
- Manage and build out key performance indicators (‘KPIs’), targets and measures of success for the department and manage performance against these; and deliver towards them;
- Produce monthly management reporting packs for Offshore Fund Accounting department to the Service Head detailing key performance indicators for your area.

**Skills and experience required**:

- Extensive experience of operational leadership within the broader Fund Administration and/or Financial Services industry;
- A minimum of 8 years work experience in this sector and a minimum of bachelor’s degree;
- A relevant accounting qualification (e.g. CA, ACCA, CIMA) or an equivalent investment management qualification (e.g. CFA) is mandatory;
- Proven leadership with at least 3 years of management experience and skills obtained to manage various operational teams that ensures delivery against department strategic targets and objectives;
- Project management capability with a practical hands-on approach and the ability to ‘get things done’;
- Strong business acumen with excellent numeracy, logical and analytical approaches, with the ability to work and manage deliverables independently;
- Strong technical knowledge of the middle and back office services and processes, and a good understanding of the upstream and downstream processes and risks;
- The ability to design new processes and conceptualize and assist in the development of systems to support those processes;
- Knowledge of IFRS reporting standards to provide support to financial reporting teams and to liaise with client/auditors/Service Head

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