Fund Accountant, Stanbic IBTC Asset Management

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

Performs core fund accounting processes and reporting tasks independently. Resolve General Ledger (GL) and Net Asset Value (NAV) exceptions, delivering accurate outputs across client and audit deliverables.

Execute the day-to-day accounting functions of the managed funds of SIAML. These functions include keeping proper accounting records, reconciliations, valuations and generating fund prices, rendering returns to regulatory authorities.

The Fund Accountant is also expected to carry out the financial reporting and financial accounting functions of SIAML managed funds thereby ensuring that reports generated are in accordance with local and international accounting and regulatory guidelines. A successful execution of the job steers the generation of valuation for the mutual funds, provision of reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as preparation of the financials for the mutual funds.

Qualifications

• B.sc or equivalent Honours degree in Economics; Accounting, Finance; Actuarial Science, Statistics, Banking & Finance or any related field.
• A certification in ACA/ACCA is an added advantage
• Experience resolving GL exceptions by liaising across upstream teams (e.g., pricing, reconciliations, corporate actions), investigating data anomalies, and applying journal corrections in line with accounting policy.
• Experience working with financial market instruments and applying valuation logic to support NAV reasonability reviews and exception resolution.
• Fund accounting / investment reporting and asset management and / or support capability with technical accounting experience

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Checking Things
• Developing Expertise
• Documenting Facts
• Examining Information
• Following Procedures
• Interacting with People
• Interpreting Data
• Managing Tasks
• Meeting Timescales
• Producing Output
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Compliance
• Data Analysis and Inference
• Data Analysis
• Data Integrity
• Data Quality
• Exception Handling
• Risk Awareness
• Root Cause Analysis
• Technology Savvy