Senior Associate

3 days ago

Cape Town, South Africa The Catalyst Group Full time

Hello

The world is a mess right now. So, we’re shaking it up even more - in a good way - and specifically in the financial fund management and admin service space. Just the words “finance” and “admin” sound pre-historic. But we’re adding faster thinking, intuitive tech and a great people touch to a field that’s been a bit sluggish of late. In short, Catalyst finds new ways to give clients what they really need, when they need it and in a way that is so simple and obvious - they didn’t even know how much they needed it until they met us.

Catalyst at a glance
- What: A high-tech, people-first, data-driven, digital fund administration firm for hedge and private equity funds.
- Who: Experienced alternative investment professionals taking fund services to a new
- How: A combination of relationship management, best-of-breed technology, integration, digitization and always-on automation.
- And: We’re already a front-runner of solutions in digital assets and alternative fund

The right fit

Fast thinking, top-end tech and phenomenal always-on client service aside, our culture is pretty much everything. Our edge lies in our people. So, when you meet us, you will either feel like you’ve found the home you never knew you were missing, or we rub you up the wrong way. It’s critical that we click.

We are a team of very different people. We’re talking folk who are into robotics, craft beer brewing, gin distilling, base-jumping and Ancient Greek history, to name just a few. But we are united by a very distinct culture that sparks and sparks well - particularly when it comes to the why, what and how of getting stuff done.

You will never hear the words ‘that’s not how it’s usually done”. But you will hear a lot of “How about?”, “Yes” and “Let’s do this infinitely better” (and probably a few other words that wouldn’t be polite to put into print).

But enough about us. Let’s talk about you.

Who we’re looking for
- Complete wholesale and fund specific reconciliations and GAV production;
- Be responsible for wholesale processes and data management tasks into the portfolio systems. These tasks include trade, position, price and corporate action data and process
- Take responsibility for the static data maintenance and management for the portfolio systems

What we need from you

On the daily

**Conduct various aspects of the Portfolio Services Function including but not limited to**:

- Responsibility for the accounting, valuation, and reporting of client funds that are complex in nature, providing full reconciliation of all cash, positions, interest and dividends to manager, broker and other sources;
- Produce fund specific cash, position, market value and position reconciliations;
- Produce, and support T+1 GAVs for clients with daily deliverables;
- Performing position reconciliations;
- Responsible for data entry, monitoring and exception clearing of trade, price, security and corporate action data;
- Resolving complex system-based queries impacting the accuracy of position and P&L valuations;
- Communicating and responding to queries from the North and South American offices, and assisting NAV leaders and managers in resolving such queries;
- Communicating and answering any queries on the funds from the team;
- Communicating and delivering reporting to the direct client, on a daily, weekly and/or monthly basis as required;
- Performing valuation quality assurance reviews and ensuring consistent quality of output;
- Continuous development towards attaining an expert knowledge of Advent Geneva Portfolio and General Ledger modules;
- Any other duties as may be assigned from time to time

The art of artful thinking
- Provide ad-hoc day-to-day support on requests that come
- Work with clients on any demand they may have that Catalyst can assist
- Share insights to enable development of new processes and procedures that will create business efficiency and support delivery of client excellence in service
- Maintain awareness of industry, regulatory, jurisdictional and other trends that could affect the business.
- Contribute to the creation, development and implementation of new products and solutions to accommodate changing customer needs.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with operations staff, business users, project and implementation managers to achieve desired and elegant solutions.

Skills & Experience
- A Bachelor’s degree / Diploma in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics or Finance or similar field
- A minimum of 3 years’ professional experience in the Fund Administration industry
- Basic SQL development and server maintenance experience;
- Intermediate knowledge of Geneva and other portfolio accounting systems;
- Intermediate knowledge of data management principals and systems;
- Advance knowledge of Excel;
- Knowledge of data management and vendor systems such as Bloomberg, Markit; IDC, Reuters, BVAL;
- Intermediate knowledge of complex financial instr

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