Senior Investment Accountant (SimCorp Dimension)

WHAT MAKES US, US

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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

SimCorp is a leading provider of software solutions to the investment management, asset servicing, insurance, and pension fund industry globally.

Our main product SimCorp Dimension is used by over 180 Tier 1 and Tier 2 client’s globally and is famed for being a fully integrated enterprise offering in the market.

Simcorp’s Business Services offering provides our clients with Fund and Investment Accounting where we take responsibility for the Fund, Investment accounting and reporting outcomes and success.

We are looking for a Senior Fund Accountant to join our international team, dealing with a wide range of funds and instrument types. The person will be responsible for maintaining fund accounting processes and client relationships. The role involves ensuring quality delivery of accounting outputs and compliance with SLAs.

Key Responsibilities:

• The Senior Fund and Investment Accountant will maintain daily fund accounting processes, validate closing outputs, resolve exceptions or provide commentary of those outside agreed tolerances.

• They will also assist with client implementation, ensure adherence to service level agreements, and facilitate service reviews.

• In-depth experience of Fund and Investment accounting including components and calculation of NAV, complex funds (single and multiclass, fund of funds, mutual, hedge and Private equity funds), fee structures, share class ratios, look-through, fund transaction types, accruals, and fund administrators’ reconciliations.

Model of work: hybrid (2 days / a week from the office).

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Manage and/or perform day to day fund accounting processes including fee accruals, fund administration reconciliations and NAV calculations.

• Perform validation of period end closing output and provide exception resolution and or commentary where the output falls outside agreed tolerances.

• Primary contact for assigned Fund Accounting clients/portfolios including change requests and query handling.

• Assist with implementation and onboarding of new Fund and Investment Accounting clients.

• Facilitate periodic service review meetings with clients.

• Delivery of client requirements in line with SLAs with critical focus on quality and service delivery.

• Collaborate with other business units to support and drive forward Simcorp’s operational efficiency and technology driven automation.

• Provide senior level review and support for daily, monthly, and year end periods in accordance with multiple accounting frameworks.

• Provide internal and external knowledge sharing on Fund Accounting outputs and processes.

• Support implementation and testing of new accounting frameworks, instrument scope expansion and accounting software upgrades.

• Track and assess accounting and regulatory requirement changes and assist in implementation and testing of the solutions.

• Bring real world Fund and investment accounting knowledge and experience to assist with continuous process and reporting improvement.

• Service Level Agreement adherence and KPI monitoring.

WHAT WE VALUE

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