Investment Accountant - City of Cape Town at CA Financial Appointments

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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