Investment Accounting Specialist

4 days ago


Cape Town, South Africa Candidate Connect Full time

Great team in a **Cape Town** asset manager seeks an** Investment Accounting Specialist** for their **Institutional Accounting **team.

This is an EE designated opportunity.

**Key areas of responsibility**:

- Ensuring 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.
- Liaising with data vendors (e.g., JSE/Bloomberg) on data quality and other queries
- The setting up of system parameters in Markit for instruments when created
- Collaboration with the relevant IT domain teams to maintain, develop and enhance the market data infrastructure
- 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
- Creation of instruments as required by the front or middle office teams.
- Investigation of instrument data inconsistencies and validation errors.
- 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.

**Qualifications and experience required**:

- Degree in Commerce, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering
- CFA (or studying towards qualification)
- Strong academic track record
- 2+ years' experience within asset management
- Experience in working with: Charles River Investment Management Solution, IHS Markit, Fundamental Portfolio Manager
- Technical understanding of daily market data is preferred.
- Advanced Excel
- Interest and ability to navigate IT systems
- Have a high attention to detail.
- Highly analytical, and naturally curious



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