Job Opportunities at SANNE

Role summary:

• We are seeking a Fund Accountant, reporting 
 to a Manager within the Alternative Asset Services Division of Apex, to have responsibility for the preparations of accurate portfolio valuations on a timely basis. You will typically be responsible for the preparation/overseeing of a number of client portfolios (underlying accounting, financial statements preparation, regulatory requirements), the development and mentoring of more junior team members and providing the highest quality of service to our customers.

Key responsibilities:

• Working with the manager and Director to ensure the planning, coordination and completion of NAVs;
• Management Reporting and Statutory Reporting of corporate entities to ensure the team complies with all of its accounting and regulatory obligations and requirements including listing requirements and client reporting;
• Assist with the development and mentoring of trainee fund accountants;
• Liaising with fund managers, brokers, and custodians to communicate information and resolve issues on a timely basis;
• Ensure that client responsibilities are managed effectively and to agreed client, best practice, regulatory and statutory deadlines;
• Assisting the external auditors to ensure the audit function is executed on a timely and efficient basis;
• Performing any additional responsibilities that may be required in the support of the on-going management and development of the division;
• Preparation of monthly, quarterly, annual NAV’s;
• Preparation of management accounts and IPD’s; and
• Preparation of annual statutory financials statements.

Job requirements

Skills / experience:

Commerce degree with:

• Financial Accounting 3
• Taxation 1
• Auditing 1 OR Internal Auditing 2 or Internal Control & code of Ethics;
• Corporate Law 1 OR Commercial Law 2
• Management accounting;
• SAIPA OR CIMA or AG(SA) qualified
• Proficient in MS Excel; structural and detail orientated;
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills;
• Ability to prioritize work and meet strict deadlines;
• Excellent communication and organisation skills;
• Motivated and driven
• Fund related accounting experience will be an advantage
• Private Debt, Capital Markets, Real Assets or Private Equity knowledge will be a distinct advantage.

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Role summary:

• We are seeking a Manager, reporting to an Associate Director within the Alternative Asset Services division of Apex, covering financial reporting obligations to support the growing alternative assets team, with a particular focus on the development and mentoring of the team members. Also, including implementing procedures and processes for the Cape Town office and the private debt team and providing the highest quality of customer service. Given the divisional responsibilities outlined below, the candidate will require to have significant experience and expertise.

Key responsibilities:

• Joint responsibility for assisting in the development of the Alternative Asset Teams in Cape Town and for the day-to-day financial reporting and management of portfolios of clients across these teams;
• Assisting in the Management of specialised services teams on all aspects of financial reporting, including working directly with Apex's customers to ensure their structures are run efficiently in compliance with the relevant laws and contractual obligations, and being involved with the management team to strategically build the Alternative Asset business;
• Working with the management team and Directors to ensure the planning, coordination and completion of NAVs, Management Reporting and Statutory Reporting of the structures to ensure the team complies with all of its accounting and regulatory obligations;
• Ensuring quality control prior to the further review and approval of Apex's authorised persons including payments, calculations and transactions;
• Preparation and implementation of entity customer specific procedures in relation to the reporting requirements;
• Ensuring reporting complies with entity and statutory requirements including local law, relevant GAAP or IFRS and other reporting principles;
• Development and maintenance of divisional and departmental policies and procedures, and support implementation of new structures;
• Ensuring that all day-to-day matters required to be completed are performed in a timely and satisfactory manner including monitoring tasks and delegating these across the relevant managers team; Support the implementation of new structures;
• Act as primary point of contact with auditors in respect of the planning and coordination of the audits;
• Be able to provide sound, quality, and technical guidance to clients and assist with the training of junior staff;
• Perform other duties as necessary to support the strategic development of the client team including client meetings, new business pitches and new business proposals.

Job requirements

Skills / experience:

• Professional qualification – CA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent;
• Ideally three - four years’ experience in a similar relevant capacity in the finance industry;
• An understanding of regulatory and financial reporting regime and IFRS;
• Ability to motivate and influence a team, high level of managerial skills.

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Role summary:

• We are seeking a Senior Fund Accountant, reporting to a Manager within the Alternative Asset Services division of Apex, to have responsibility for the preparations of accurate portfolio valuations on a timely basis. You will typically be responsible for the preparation/overseeing of a number of client portfolios (underlying accounting, financial statements preparation, regulatory requirements), the development and mentoring of more junior team members and providing the highest quality of services to our customers.

Key responsibilities:

• Working with the assistant manager, manager and director to ensure the planning, coordination and completion of NAVs, Management Reporting and Statutory Reporting of corporate entities to ensure team complies with all of its accounting and regulatory obligations and requirements including listing requirements and client reporting;
• Assist with the Supervision and mentoring of a number of trainee fund accountants and fund accountants;
• Liaising with fund managers, brokers, and custodians to communicate information and resolve issues on a timely basis;
• Ensure that client responsibilities are managed effectively and to agreed client, best practice, regulatory and statutory deadlines;
• Assisting the external auditors to ensure the audit function is executed on a timely and efficient basis;
• Performing any additional responsibilities that may be required in the support of the on-going management and development of the division;
• Preparation of monthly, quarterly, annual NAV’s;
• Preparation of management accounts and IPD’s; and
• Preparation of annual statutory financials statements.

Job requirements

Skills / Experience:

Commerce degree with:

• Eligible to register as a CA(SA); no post article experience required;
• Proficient in MS Excel;
• Structural and detail orientated;
• Good analytical and problem solving skills;
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills;
• Ability to prioritise work and meet strict deadlines;
• Excellent communication and organisation skills;
• Motivated and driven;
• Fund related accounting experience will be an advantage;
• Private Debt, Capital Markets, Real Assets or Private Equity Knowledge will be a distinct advantage.

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Role Summary

• You will be a part of the Group Data Engineering Squad developing our modern data platform to improve business process, efficiencies, and providing superior client digital services as well as supporting the scaling of our operational model. As a permanent member of our Data Engineering squad, your focus will be to help implement our Data Strategy by building out our cloud based modern data platform and architecture used to assist with application integrations along with providing a centralised data and analytics platform for downstream data analytics, both internally and externally client facing.

Key Responsibilities

• Working as part of a squad, delivering through agile methodologies;
• Working in collaboration with customers, partners, and peers to identify data requirements;
• Helping break down large problems into smaller iterative steps;
• Contribute to defining the prioritization of your squad’s backlog;
• Build out the modern data platform (data pipelines, data integrations, data preparation, data models, analytical and reporting marts) based on business requirements using agreed design patterns ;
• Help determine the most appropriate tool, method and design pattern in order to satisfy the requirement;
• Proactively suggest improvements where they see issues;
• Prepare our data in order to surface it for use within APIs ;
• Document, support, manage and maintain the modern data platform built within your squad;
• Provide guidance and training to downstream consumers of data on how best to use the data in our platform;
• Support and build new data APIs;
• Contribute to evangelizing and educating within Apex about the better use and value of data.

Job requirements

Skills / Experience

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills ;
• Critical Thinking and research capabilities;
• Strong problem-solving skills;
• Ability to plan, and manage your own work loads ;
• Work well on own initiative as well as part of a bigger team;
• Working knowledge of Agile Software Development Lifecycles;
• Data Warehousing and Data Modelling ;
• Data Lakes (AWS Lake Formation, Azure Data Lake);
• Cloud Data Warehouses (AWS Redshift, Azure Synapse, Snowflake);
• ETL/ELT/Pipeline tools (AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, FiveTran, Stitch);
• Data Message Bus/Pub Sub systems (AWS SNS & SQS Azure ASQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ);
• Data Programming languages (SQL, Python, Scala, Java);
• Cloud Workflow Service (AWS Step Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Camuda);
• Interactive Query Services (AWS Athena, Azure DL Analytics);
• Traditional Microsoft BI Stack (SQLServer, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS) ;
• Reporting and visualisation tools (Power BI, QuickSight, Mode ).

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Role summary:

• You will be a part of the Group Data Engineering Squad developing our modern data platform to improve business process, efficiencies, and providing superior client digital services as well as supporting the scaling of our operational model. As a permanent member of our Data Engineering squad, your focus will be to help implement our Data Strategy by building out our cloud based modern data platform and architecture used to assist with application integrations along with providing a centralised data and analytics platform for downstream data analytics, both internally and externally client facing.

Key responsibilities:

• Working as part of a squad, delivering through agile methodologies;
• Working in collaboration with customers, partners, and peers to identify data requirements;
• Helping break down large problems into smaller iterative steps;
• Contribute to defining the prioritization of your squad’s backlog;
• Build out the modern data platform (data pipelines, data integrations, data preparation, data models, analytical and reporting marts) based on business requirements using agreed design patterns ;
• Help determine the most appropriate tool, method and design pattern in order to satisfy the requirement;
• Proactively suggest improvements where they see issues;
• Prepare our data in order to surface it for use within APIs ;
• Document, support, manage and maintain the modern data platform built within your squad;
• Provide guidance and training to downstream consumers of data on how best to use the data in our platform;
• Support and build new data APIs;
• Contribute to evangelizing and educating within Apex about the better use and value of data.

Job requirements

Skills / experience:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills ;
• Critical Thinking and research capabilities;
• Strong problem-solving skills;
• Ability to plan, and manage your own work loads ;
• Work well on own initiative as well as part of a bigger team;
• Working knowledge of Agile Software Development Lifecycles;
• Data Warehousing and Data Modelling ;
• Data Lakes (AWS Lake Formation, Azure Data Lake);
• Cloud Data Warehouses (AWS Redshift, Azure Synapse, Snowflake);
• ETL/ELT/Pipeline tools (AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, FiveTran, Stitch);
• Data Message Bus/Pub Sub systems (AWS SNS & SQS Azure ASQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ);
• Data Programming languages (SQL, Python, Scala, Java);
• Cloud Workflow Service (AWS Step Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Camuda);
• Interactive Query Services (AWS Athena, Azure DL Analytics);
• Traditional Microsoft BI Stack (SQLServer, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS) ;
• Reporting and visualisation tools (Power BI, QuickSight, Mode ).

go to method of application »

Role Summary

• We are seeking a Fund Accountant, reporting to a Manager within the Alternative Asset Services Division of Apex, to have responsibility for the preparations of accurate portfolio valuations on a timely basis. You will typically be responsible for the preparation/overseeing of a number of client portfolios (underlying accounting, financial statements preparation, regulatory requirements), the development and mentoring of more junior team members and providing the highest quality of service to our customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with the manager and Director to ensure the planning, coordination and completion of NAVs;
• Management Reporting and Statutory Reporting of corporate entities to ensure the team complies with all of its accounting and regulatory; obligations and requirements including listing requirements and client reporting;
• Assist with the supervision and mentoring of trainee fund accountants;
• Liaising with fund managers, brokers, and custodians to communicate information and resolve issues on a timely basis;
• Ensure that client responsibilities are managed effectively and to agreed client, best practice, regulatory and statutory deadlines;
• Assisting the external auditors to ensure the audit function is executed on a timely and efficient basis;
• Performing any additional responsibilities that may be required in the support of the on-going management and development of the division;
• Preparation of monthly, quarterly, annual NAV’s;
• Preparation management accounts and IPD’s; and
• Preparation of annual statutory financials statements.

Job requirements

Skills / Experience

Commerce degree with:

• Financial Accounting 3;
• Taxation 1;
• Auditing 1 OR Internal Auditing 2 or Internal Control & code of Ethics;
• Corporate Law 1 OR Commercial Law 2;
• Management accounting;
• SAIPA, CIMA or AG(SA) qualified;
• Proficient in MS Excel; structural and detail orientated;
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills;
• Ability to prioritize work and meet strict deadlines;
• Excellent communication and organisation skills;
• Motivated and driven;
• Fund related accounting experience will be an advantage;
• Private Debt, Capital Markets, Real Assets or Private Equity knowledge will be a distinct advantage;
• Fluent in German speaking and writing.