Investment Accountant
CA Financial Appointments
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Perform day-to-day operational processes for various investment accounting, data management and market data activities
- Work closely with the operational departments (NAV Pricing, Performance, Portfolio Administration) as well as Tax, Institutional Client Services, Legal & Compliance, IT, and Trading
- Liaising with data vendors (e.g. JSE/Bloomberg) on data quality and other queries
- Monitoring communications from data vendor regarding changes that may affect fund pricing process and inform business teams where necessary (e.g. Corporate Actions, Trading, Fund Accounting)
- Assisting with month-end pricing across all portfolios
- Monitoring and answering queries from the Institutional Data Management and Investment Accounting email queue
- Involvement in initiatives/project work that seeks to simplify and create efficiencies in existing processes
- Calculating daily interest accruals
- Assist with month-end pricing for portfolios
- Maintain benchmark static data
- Reconciling static data ensuring accuracy
- Daily monitoring of instrument classifications for reporting
- Minimum of either a newly qualified CA(SA) or an accounting or finance tertiary qualification with honours being preffered
- Minimum of 3 years of experience within a similar role or financial services articles
- Must have a strong technical understanding of instrument valuation and pricing
- Experience in working with these systems would be advantageous: Charles River Investment Management Solution (CRIMS), IHS Markit, Fundamental Portfolio Manager (FPM)
- Self-starting and proactive
- Strong problem solving skills
- Strong numeric ability
- Good team player with can-do attitude
- Accuracy and attention to detail
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