Senior Fund Accountant

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Senior Fund Accountant

Location: South Africa (Cape Town)

Get To Know Us:

SS&C is leading the way.  We continue to look for todays and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation to name a few. 

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

What You Will Get To Do:

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Fund Accountant to join our team at SS&C Administrative Services SA (PTY) LTD. This role involves comprehensive oversight of fund accounting operations, ensuring accuracy and compliance for a diverse portfolio of funds.

We are also looking for a candidate that is proactive in their approach to identify opportunities to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of our fund accounting processes. As well as implement best practices and leverage technology to improve workflows to maximise efficiency.

Here are some of the Key Responsibilities:

NAV Calculation:

• Oversee the accurate calculation of daily, weekly, and monthly Net Asset Values (NAVs) for investment funds using the Hi-Portfolio & pControl platform.
• Ensure all fund accounting processes are completed in accordance with established procedures and deadlines.
• Verify and reconcile fund holdings, cash balances, and other financial data.
• Processing investor cashflows and performing unit reconciliations and ensure continuous alignment with Transfer Agency unit holders registry
• Accurate capture of Audit, Management as well as Performance Fees
• Ensure accurate production of Unit trust Income Distributions

Hi-Portfolio & pControl (or similar) Accounting Platform & Systems:

• Utilize the Hi-Portfolio and pControl platform for fund accounting and NAV calculations
• Ensure accurate data entry and maintenance within the accounting systems
• Ability to troubleshoot queries raised by clients
• Be proficient in Microsoft Excel and some knowledge of PowerBI
• Have some level of knowledge of Finswitch

Compliance and Regulatory:

• Ensure daily NAV prices are produced in line with regulatory and industry standards
• Ability to interface with Auditors and the ability to produce control environment documentation and packs in relation to daily processes
• Ability to maintain, adhere to and operate within prescribed risk mitigation standards

Process Improvement:

• Identify opportunities to enhance efficiency whilst maintaining completeness, accuracy and validity
• Implement best practices and be able to leverage technology to improve existing workflows
• Be able to document process enhancements within existing SOP (standard operating procedure) repository

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Work closely with internal operations teams, clients as well as third parties to gather necessary data and insights to ensure continued business operational processes 
• Collaborate with external service providers such as Custodians, Transfer Agents to resolve any queries which may arise
• Ability to provide training to fellow team members and new joiners as and when required

What You Will Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Accounting, Finance, Investment Management, or a related field.
• 3 – 5 years of experience in fund accounting, investment administration, or financial services.
• Experience in hedge funds, unit trusts, private equity, or pension funds is beneficial.
• Familiarity with investment systems such as HiPortfolio is an advantage.
• Knowledge of asset management environment, including but not limited to financial markets and instruments.
• Prior experience of implementing a practical use of AI to existing and future processes to enhance efficiency would be desirable.
• Highly skilled in the use of MS Excel as well as all other MS Office suite products

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.