Senior Specialist - Fund Accounting at Apex Group

• The Senior Specialist-Hedge Funds will be expected to assist the Fund Accounting division responsible for all South African priced funds including Unit Trusts, Priced Pooled, Priced Segregated as well as South African Hedge Funds in terms of business processes and applications. The individual will be required to assist with issues coming out of the operations, review of processes and improvement thereof. This individual will also be required to be responsible for projects aimed at improving the processes within Fund Accounting.

Skills Required

 The Senior Specialist will be expected to:

• Improve Fund Accounting’s daily and monthly processes and using automation and technology.
• Assist with bespoke processes and the standardization of Fund Accounting processes to enable automation of processing volumes for all SA priced funds.
• A qualification in Accounting, Data science or data analytics is preferred (B.com specializing in data science and statistics or equivalent).
• 4-5years working with financial data in an investment space.
• Be primary liaison with ICT regarding applications used by Fund Accounting and development requirements.
• Management of project delivery including end-to-end testing and implementation within Fund Accounting.
• Provide solutions for complex client requirements including client engagement, investigation and testing.
• In addition, the individual should have experience with the various fund types either locally or internationally.

 IT and Systems Skills and Knowledge:

• Advanced level experience in using Excel, InvestOne and other related systems.
• Proven competence and an aptitude for working with systems such as "Copilot for business"

Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Identify problems and solve effectively using process automation
• Confident, enthusiastic and self-motivated.
• A track record of achievement.
• Analyze and solve problems.
• Assist in process improvement.
• Establish and manage relationships.
• Liaise with clients and system developers.

Knowledge.

• Strong understanding of investment product knowledge.
• Strong understanding of Financial Markets, instruments and systems.
• Advanced Excel skills,
• Proficiency in process automation