Employee Benefits Fund Accountant at Sygnia Asset Management

Job description

ROLE DESCRIPTION:

Sygnia is the fastest-growing multi-management company in South Africa. Join this dynamic company by becoming a part of their Employee Benefits Administration team.

DUTIES AND DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performing monthly accounting for the retirement funds
• Preparation of the schedules and reconciliations for the annual audit
• Preparation of the financial statements for the annual audit, including Schedule IB
• Resolution of audit queries
• Quarterly SARB and Regulation 28 reporting
• Reconciliation of the risk premiums on a monthly basis and payment thereof
• Management of the risk provider details (risk provider, rates, etc)
• Payment and accounting of monthly expenses of the funds
• Payment of other items in the funds as required
• Reconciling daily investment, disinvestment and switch instructions and authorising these instructions
• Performance of the asset-liability reconciliation per fund on a monthly basis
• Reconciliation of cash flows in the bank account
• Preparation and loading of manual journals as required

ROLE QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• CA(SA) with preferably two- three years post articles experience advantageous
• Previous financial services experience
• Previous experience with standalone retirement fund administration
• Previous experience with umbrella fund administration advantageous
• Previous experience with terminating fund administration advantageous
• Working knowledge and experience of Everest (administration system) beneficial
• Strong working knowledge of word processing, and spreadsheets (MSWord, Excel)

COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:

• Strong Attention to detail
• Good analytical/ problem-solving skills
• Proactive individual, who is willing take responsibility and accountability for allocated tasks
• Great at aligning performance for success
• You have superior and clear decision making skills
• You are not afraid of taking ownership

Closing Date: 06 August 2017

Should you not hear from us within 14 days after submitting your application, please do accept your application as unsuccessful.