Job title: Fund Accountant (Hedge Funds)
Job type: Permanent
Emp type: Full-time
Salary type: Annual
Salary: Negotiable
Location: Cape Town, Southern Suburbs
Job published: 11/04/2025
Job ID: 59831

Job Description

Join my client, a reputable financial services provider, as their Fund Accountant (Hedge Funds team). This role is end-to-end fund accounting with exposure to Unit Trust and Life accounting. The successful candidate will have 2-5 years’ experience with Unit Trust Fund Accounting/Pricing experience.

Responsibilities:

  • Processing and setting up of audit, trustee, custody and management fees 
  • Ensuring Variation Margin is processed correctly and matches the Clearing House Statement daily 
  • Ensure capturing/processing of all 3rd Party duplication trades to the accounting system timeously and accurately (ensure they match the third-party valuation reports) 
  • Ability to manage client cash flows (subscriptions and redemptions) and ensure units in issue reconcile to Transfer Agency 
  • Understand how total fund performance is calculated and impacted with each entry captured 
  • Monitor and perform income distribution calculations for each fund class 
  • Understand tolerance level checking against a benchmark and are familiar with what is deemed as an unacceptable asset and NAV fund price variance 
  • Handling queries efficiently to ensure resolution of both internal and external client queries (in conjunction with the Client Delivery team)

Requirements:

  • Minimum of 2-5 years of experience in Unit Trust Fund Accounting/Pricing is essential 
  • Relevant tertiary qualification

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