Manager - Fund Accounting

Job Summary:

The Manager - Fund Accounting will be responsible for a full range of activities, which ensure the operational effectiveness and assigned client deliverables.  This role will be responsible for the provision of accounting, valuation, investor, risk management and corporate administration services for a group of highly complex investment funds, on behalf of a base of challenging institutional clients.  The Manager - Fund Accounting will have input into overall information systems design and implementation, help evaluate new and existing technologies to improve productivity, and design and participate in system upgrades.  The position will manage multiple projects and team members, while maintaining flexibility in meeting standard reporting deadlines as well as ad-hoc requests.

 
Essential Functions

NAV’s

• Review and understand the fund's offering memorandum and verify that offering memorandum agrees to fund set up and ensure ongoing operations adhere to offering memorandum details
• Liaise with investment managers, prime brokers and custodians in relation to trading activity as required for transaction processing and NAV preparation
• Review the NAV for a portfolio of complex investment funds on either a weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, and/or quarterly basis as specified by the client and as outlined in the administration agreement, which includes, among other things
• Review all cash items whether portfolio related, capital transactions or from non-portfolio and other income and expense items
• Review three-way reconciliation of cash and assets/liabilities to the investment managers and custodians (frequency depending on trading activity of the fund
• Review independent third-party pricing support where needed (i.e. from Bloomberg)
• Review and validate the partner/shareholder allocation calculations, including management and incentive fee calculations and the allocation of feeder specific income and expenses
• Review Estimated and Final NAV as required

Client Relationship Management

• Responsible for client relationship management and new business integration
• Meet tight reporting deadlines and demanding obligations of clients

Projects

• Assist with taking assigned projects from original concept through to final implementation
• Define project scope and objectives
• Create and maintain project schedules by developing project plans and specifications, estimating time requirements, establishing deadlines, tracking all phases of the project product/service lifecycle, providing timely reporting of issues that impact project progress, coordinating actions, and resolving conflicts
• Conduct project meetings to review established deliverables and deadlines

Business Analysis & Reporting

• Assist in developing tactical and strategic product, services and/or programs to support the organization’s goals (financial, quality, production, customer service, operational efficiency, etc.)
• Review, analyze and create detailed documentation of business systems and user needs, including workflow, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs
• Develop effective reporting tools for the organization
• Analyze the client deliverables against service standards and best practices
• Prepare routine reports (financial, quality, etc.)

Audit

• Liaise with the fund’s auditors at year end and interim periods to ensure sufficient information is provided to facilitate the timely completion of controls testing and substantive work to the auditors’ satisfaction
• Complete audit confirmation requests

Capital Events

• Review allocations for fund investors
• Review documentation prepared by team members, prior to issue
  

New Business

• Acquire or assist in new business conversions and reconciliation

Financial Statements

• Review preparation of fund audited financial statements prepared by team members and sign off for release to client
  

Compliance

• Monitor and ensure that the AML checks are being carried out in accordance with the procedures and legislation in force. This includes compliance with Performance of general administration relating to private equity funds
• Respond to Investor due diligence requests

Fees

• Review preparation/processing of fees by team members prior to issue to client

Quality Assurance Testing

• Develop and implement quality assurance practices and procedures, end user test plans and other quality assurance assessments
• Ensure that testing is conducted according to standards agreed upon by Harmonic and IT
• Responsible for the overall success of testing, including results verification and release sign off
• Coordinate groups of personnel who test, evaluate and validate new functions and applications, and identify issues in software and services
• Analyze services and makes recommendations for updates
• Provide sign-off to release code to production
• Ensure continuing operational quality by documenting bug fixes

Managerial Responsibilities

• Training of Fund Accountants, Senior Fund Accountants and Assistant Managers.
• Conduct performance reviews for direct reports

Other Responsibilities 

• Other job functions as required

Job Qualifications

• A university graduate with a professional accounting qualification (CA, CPA, CGA, CMA or equivalent);
• 5+ years experience in a similar or combined role working with complex securities and derivative products
• 4 years tenure with Harmonic

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required

• High level of expertise and technical knowledge of alternative investment products, the offshore financial services industry including system technology, portfolio valuation, accounting, share transfer and registration, prime brokerage, financing and custody
• A sound working knowledge of all Windows applications and knowledge of fund accounting applications
• Self-driven attitude and a strong work ethic
• Demonstrate a keen attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal skills and strong team orientation
• Experience of relationship management and client service
• Excellent time management, organizational and prioritization skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Good leadership & managerial skills with demonstrated ability to motivate team members