Senior Fund Administrator: Trades Duplications
4 days ago
**Role purpose**
To provide comprehensive trade support for Institutional Clients, Asset Managers, Mancos, and Insurance Companies outsourcing part or all of their operations to Curo Fund Services. The role involves reconciling various client stock and cash portfolios, ensuring alignment between investment accounting and asset servicing systems and custodian records, and resolving discrepancies in a timely manner.
**Key Responsibilities**
- **Trade Support and Lifecycle Management**
- Process all transactions across unit dealing, duplication administration, and international trade support.
- Manage trade lifecycles, including trade maintenance and support.
- **Reconciliation and Query Resolution**
- Perform daily, weekly, and monthly reconciliations of stock and cash portfolios.
- Investigate and resolve queries within agreed turnaround times.
- Reconcile accrued interest and ensure the receipting of all interest payments.
- **Compliance and Regulatory**
- Adhere to company policies, procedures, Client Service Level Agreements, and internal controls.
- Keep all process documentation updated, organised, and easily retrievable.
- Identify and escalate any operational risks or outstanding recon issues to the Team Leader or Manager.
- **Reporting and Analysis**:
- Produce Management Information System (MIS) reports on volumes, key controls, and system stress points.
- Support the team manager with incident escalations, drafting, and reviewing incident reports.
- **Client Interaction**
- Ensure timely and accurate processing of all instructions per client SLAs.
- Address client queries promptly and professionally.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, internal teams, and external counterparties.
- **Stakeholder Collaboration**:
- Foster existing business relationships to ensure effective and efficient delivery, working with compliance, and operations teams to gather necessary data and insights.
- Support and guide junior fund accountants, providing training and support to ensure accurate and timely completion of tasks.
- **Process Improvement**:
- Streamline fund administration processes to enhance efficiency and reduce errors.
- Identify and implement process improvements to address product, client, and trading growth demands.
- Implement and maintain robust internal controls to safeguard fund assets and ensure data integrity.
- Collaborate with other departments, such as legal, compliance, and portfolio management, to ensure smooth fund operations.
- **Ad-Hoc Tasks**:
- Perform ad-hoc accounting and reporting tasks as requested by clients or management.
- Ensure ad hoc requests are handled efficiently and accurately.
- **Training and Team Support**
- Train team members using the On-the-Job Training toolkit.
- Act as a backup for team members when required.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of procedures and ensure adherence during audit reviews.
**Competencies**
- **Problem-Solving & Analytical Skills**:Ability to identify, analyse, and develop effective solutions for complex issues using critical thinking and derive meaningful insights.
- **Judgement & Decision-making**: The ability to make informed, timely, and effective decisions through analysing information, weighing potential outcomes, and selecting the best course of action to resolve issues and capitalise on opportunities.
- **Attention to Detail**: The ability to thoroughly focus on the finer aspects of a task, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and quality in their work.
- **Effective Communication**:The ability to clearly convey information, ideas, and expectations through various channels, while also listening actively and understanding others' perspectives.
- **Risk Management**: The ability to identify, assess, and mitigate potential risks that could negatively impact an organisation, project, or process.
- **Stakeholder Management**:The ability to identify, engage, and maintain productive relationships with key stakeholders that have an interest in or influence over a project, initiative, or organisational outcome.
- **Time Management**: The ability to effectively manages time and resources to meet deadlines, prioritises tasks based on importance and urgency, balances multiple tasks and projects efficiently and handles interruptions effectively.
- **Adaptability**: The ability and willingness to be flexible, to adapt to and work effectively within a variety of changing situations and with various individuals and groups.
- **Client Focus**: The ability to prioritise and address the needs and expectations of clients or customers, ensuring their satisfaction and fostering long-term relationships.
**Qualifications and Experience**
- Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field.
- Diploma or coursework in South African Financial Market Instruments is an advantage.
- CPA or CFA designation advantageous.
- Good knowledge and understanding of the Financial Markets and Financial instruments
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