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  • Posted: Feb 3, 2017
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    Maitland is a global advisory and administration firm providing seamless multi-jurisdictional legal, tax, fiduciary, investment and fund administration services to private, corporate and institutional clients. Founded in Luxembourg in 1976, we specialise in complex, cross-border solutions, with 1,300 employees operating from 16 offices across 12 countries. W...
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    Senior Administrator Private Equity & Real Estate

    Job description

    Summary of the position

    The Senior Administrator, Private Equity and Real Estate (PERE) – will undertake a role performing administrative, accounting and secretarial activities in assisting with the operation of funds within the PERE Team.

    Outline of main duties and responsibilities

    The Senior Administrator, PERE Will Be Expected To
    • Assist and liaise with the Client Implementation Team to on-board new clients into PERE operations. This will include, but not be limited to, ensuring the correct documentation is in place to support the structure of the Fund, the gathering of Know Your Client (KYC) documentation and the compilation of a governance schedule relevant to the client;
    • Assist with the reporting templates and packages a client requires for specific reporting;
    • Assist with the establishment of funds. This will include setting up and maintaining the correct structure of the legal entity, investors, individuals, investments and organisations onto the FIS Investment platform;
    • Liaise regularly with the Maitland Corporate Secretary Teams;
    • Ongoing management of compliance and due diligence requirements;
    • Review of placing memorandum and understanding of Fund documentation; will include ensuring adherence to distribution and capital call policy, investment restrictions and administration of defaulting investors along with other Fund requirements;
    • Assisting with the set-up and ongoing management of the client Service Level Agreement (SLA) process;
    • Set up and maintenance of bank accounts;
    • Ensuring the correct support is obtained for all payments made from the Fund bank account and ensuring payments are in line with Fund documentation;
    • Co-ordination and liaison with fund advisers and investors;
    • Assistance in the choice of best practice reporting including Generally Accepted Accounting Practices (GAAP) and International Limited Partner Association (ILPA) recommendations;
    • Foreign Account Tax (FATCA) and Common Reporting Standards (CRS) administration and reporting;
    • Assistance with Annexure IV reporting; part of the Alternate Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) requirements;
    • Assisting with general fund administrative functions such as compliance with regulatory legislation , IT systems, and billing;
    • File administration, including the opening of files, filing documents, and putting files to records, generally ensuring files are kept in an orderly manner and up-to-date;
    • Dealing with all internal client administration requirements; and
    • Assist in any Ad hoc tasks.
    Skills And Experience Required
    • A minimum three years experience in an administration role within the Funds and/or Trust environment;
    • Experience in administration and client intermediary relationship management skills;
    • Highly organised, efficient and professional with excellent administrative and organisational skills;
    • Sound knowledge and experience in back office administration processes;
    • A sound working knowledge of MS Office & IT packages;
    • Have a confident , professional and an enthusiastic approach when dealing with clients and intermediaries of the business;
    • Be able to communicate clearly with staff and senior management; and
    • Work collaboratively and effectively with the PERE department’s Administration Manager, fellow colleagues and peers in the wider Maitland Group.

    Personal Characteristics
    • Driven to succeed;
    • A real ‘can do’ attitude and thrives in an environment of opportunity;
    • Innovative and uses Initiative;
    • Sets and achieves high levels of performance; and
    • Will take accountability for action.
    Reporting structure
    The Senior Administrator, PERE will report to the Administration Team Leader PERE and will be based in the Cape Town office.

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    Compliance Officer

    Job description

    An opportunity has arisen to appoint a Compliance Officer at our Cape Town office.

    Summary of the position

    The Compliance Officer will assist the Senior Compliance Officer and staff members in discharging their responsibility to comply with applicable legislative and regulatory requirements through the provision of compliance services and to identify, assess, manage, monitor and report regulatory compliance risks facing the organisation.

    Outline of main duties and responsibilities

    The Compliance Officer Will Be Expected To
    • Ensure the effective implementation of the Compliance Monitoring programme and undertake all aspects of monitoring activities;
    • Tracking of non-compliant findings with respective business unit function managers until resolved;
    • Monitor the efficiency and consistency of compliance controls and assist with the enhancement of procedures and controls;
    • Actively manage the mitigation of compliance breaches;
    • Maintain appropriate written procedures to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, regulations and group policies, and to monitor adherence to such procedures;
    • Prepare training material and deliver training in compliance with regulatory obligations and business procedures;
    • Prepare compliance reports to management and various committees and governance structures within the group;
    • Prepare reports to regulatory authorities;
    • Monitor changes in relevant legal requirements and other regulatory developments which may impact on the company and advise the Directors on their implications;
    • Provide advice to the Directors on the regulatory implications of new business areas and new products.

    The Successful Candidate Will Have

    Skills and experience required

    Education
    • Degree level qualification, or equivalent, ideally in Business, Finance, Law or Compliance and Risk Management;
    • Hold a CPrac designation.
    Experience
    • At least 2-3 years relevant work experience in Compliance;
    • FSB FAIS approved as a Compliance Officer for Category I and II Financial Services Providers.
    Skills
    • Strong working knowledge of FAIS, FICA and a solid knowledge of the South African Regulatory Environment in the Financial services sector;
    • Well organized with the ability to work autonomously and deal with busy workload;
    • Self-motivated, mature and able to use initiative with a strong hands-on approach;
    • A discreet and confidential manner with confidence, persuasiveness and the ability to motivate colleagues;
    • Good clear and concise written and verbal skills;
    • The ability to communicate with staff at all levels of the business.
    Learning And Development
    • Personal development plan will be agreed on an annual basis;
    • Self learning;
    • Attendance to internal training including webinars, workshops and workgroups as may be required; Attendance at external seminars and training events as may be required.
    Reporting structure

    The Compliance Officer will report to the Senior Compliance Officer in Cape Town.

    Remuneration level

    Remuneration will be market related and commensurate with experience and seniority. In addition, the successful candidate will receive a competitive benefits package.

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    Manager Client Service Management TFS

    Job description

    The Manager – Client Service Management TFS Will Be Expected To
    • Assume leadership responsibility of the TFS CSM function, whose mandate is to deliver consistently high levels of client satisfaction, client relationship management and client engagement;
    • Lead the TFS CSM teams to develop an understanding of our clients’ operational and business strategies, their products and internal challenges, and to be able to convey these understandings into our TFS CSM and Product Teams. At the same time lead the TFS CSM teams to develop an understanding of Maitland’s products & services and internal challenges, and convey these in an appropriate manner to the clients, allowing the clients to better harness the power of the Maitland platform;
    • Co-ordinate the implementation of the TFS CSM strategy;
    • Ensure that there is an optimum TFS CSM platform in place;
    • Develop and implement an effective TFS CSM governance framework;
    • Develop and implement an effective TFS CSM toolset;
    • Actively supporting all Head of CSM RSA and the TFS CSM teams to develop consistent TFS CSM approaches, policies, processes etc.
    Management
    • Take active steps to ensure talent is retained and tenure increased in the TFS CSM teams by delivering quantifiably low voluntary staff turnover rates;
    • Demonstrate active performance management for all reports with top talent identified, evidence of the management of poor (and good) performance;
    • Manage and build out key performance indicators (‘KPIs’), targets and measures of success, manage performance against these and deliver towards them.
    Client Services Structure And Platform
    • Ensure an enduring, professional and valuable structure and platform is put in place in the TFS CSM function.
    Client Relationship Management
    • Establish and develop relationships with senior stakeholders at identified clients with a view on deeper bi-lateral strategic and operational comprehension between parties, client retention and rolling out pragmatic, considered solutions to issues that may cause client frustrations, operational risk or cost, or decrease Maitland’s Client Services capacity;
    • Be the escalation point for the TFS CSMs.
    Change Management
    • Work with the various CSMs, the TFS Product Head and his directs, ICT, and project office to deliver consistent and reliable support to clients in response to their change requests, delivered via a robust Change Management Process that is owned by the Product Heads.

    Profitability
    • Upskill and groom the TFS CSMs in order to maximize return on investment , create additional capability, capacity and financial gearing to enable the TFS P&L levels;
    • Provide suggestions to increase CSM effectiveness and/or efficiencies.

    Growth
    • Support Maitland’s dynamic organic and inorganic growth through alignment with the Business Development teams to ensure optimal TFS CSM capacity for profitable, competitive new business that can be efficiently implemented to deliver high service quality in a well-controlled manner.
    Industry Recognition
    • Be an ambassador for and represent Maitland at industry events and selected industry bodies.
    One Firm Culture
    • Work with the Head of CSM RSA, other Product CSMs, and other key stakeholders towards a “One Firm” mentality and approach especially where clients buy 2 or more of Maitland’s products.
    The Successful Candidate Will Have

    Skills and experience required
    • Extensive and proven experience of Client Service Management within the broader Fund Administration and Financial Services industry, preferably 10+ years within both domestic and globally recognised firms;
    • Proven project management capability with a practical hands-on approach and the ability to ‘get things done’;
    • Strong business acumen with excellent numeracy skills and a logical and analytical approach.

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    Assistant Compliance Officer

    Job description

    An opportunity has arisen to appoint an Assistant Compliance Officer.

    Summary of the position

    The Assistant Compliance Officer will assist the Compliance team and staff members in discharging their responsibility to comply with applicable legislative and regulatory requirements through the provision of compliance services and to identify, assess, manage, monitor and report regulatory compliance risks facing the organisation.

    Outline of main duties and responsibilities
    • Assist in the effective implementation of the Compliance Monitoring programme and undertake all aspects of monitoring activities;
    • Track non-compliant findings with respective business unit function managers until resolved;
    • Assist in monitoring the efficiency and consistency of compliance controls and assist with the enhancement of procedures and controls;
    • Assist in actively managing the mitigation of compliance breaches;
    • Assist in maintain appropriate written procedures to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, regulations and group policies, and to monitor adherence to such procedures;
    • Assist with the preparation of training material and deliver training in compliance with regulatory obligations and business procedures;
    • Assist in the preparation of compliance reports to management and various committees and governance structures within the group;
    • Assist in the preparation of reports to regulatory authorities;
    • Assist with monitoring changes in relevant legal requirements and other regulatory developments which may impact on the company and advise the Directors on their implications;
    • Provide assistance to the Compliance team on the regulatory implications of new business areas and new products.
    Education

    Skills and experience required
    • Degree level qualification, or equivalent, ideally in Business, Finance, Law or Compliance and Risk Management;

    Experience
    • 1-2 years relevant work experience in Compliance is preferable;
    Skills
    • Knowledge of FAIS, FICA and knowledge of the South African Regulatory Environment in the Financial services sector;
    • Well organized with the ability to work autonomously and deal with busy workload;
    • Self-motivated and able to use initiative with a strong hands-on approach;
    • A discreet and confidential manner with confidence, persuasiveness and the ability to motivate colleagues;
    • Good clear and concise written and verbal skills;
    • The ability to communicate with staff at all levels of the business.
    Learning And Development
    • Personal development plan will be agreed on an annual basis;
    • Self learning;
    • Attendance to internal training including webinars, workshops and workgroups as may be required;
    • Attendance at external seminars and training events as may be required.

    Reporting structure

    The Assistant Compliance Officer will report to the Team Leader – Compliance in Cape Town.

    Remuneration level

    Remuneration will be market related and commensurate with experience and seniority. In addition, the successful candidate will receive a competitive benefits package.

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    Group Information Technology Head

    Job description

    An opportunity has arisen to appoint a Group Information Technology Head to be based in our Cape Town office.

    Summary of the position

    The Group Information Technology Head is responsible for a large Information Technology environment. Responsibility includes providing leadership and supervision on data-centre/server, application administration (Monitoring, Supporting, Operations and Reporting), network operations, infrastructure, asset/inventory management, software administration, database administration, availability and capacity management.

    Outline of main duties and responsibilities

    Responsibility For Risk Management
    • Manage the relationship with customer, other internal IT teams and IT service providers or partners that provide IT services for the group;
    • Ability and willingness to hold on-call responsibilities to respond to system issues after hours;
    • Manage application-specific production support processes, coordinating the involvement of business and/or IT development resources in problem resolution as necessary;
    • Assist Operations Maintenance team with problem triage, categorization, root cause analysis and ability to duplicate a problem;
    • Ensure appropriate prioritization for scheduled maintenance, including coordination of priorities across IT infrastructure when required;
    • Working with business stakeholders to ensure appropriate change management is applied into the production environment according to relevant policies and processes;
    • Working with the Problem and Incident manager to provide leadership in critical issue resolution;
    • Manage the process of introducing and transitioning new services (or enhancements to existing services);
    • Ensure that business requirements to support Operations Maintenance activities are in place to support the design and operation of the production systems;
    • Plan and prioritize IT initiatives within the operations group to support ICT Strategy;
    • Drive continuous improvement in the areas like: Availability, Capacity, Scalability, Security, Interoperability, Maintainability, Performance, Low Cost of Ownership, Extendibility, Reliability;
    • Motivate and take ownership of proposed enhancements, upgrades etc.;
    • Ensure appropriate monitoring capabilities to provide advance incident/event notification and performance/availability metrics in compliance with SLAs;
    • Collect, analyze and report on SLA and Operations Maintenance metrics data for IT environment;
    • Manage and approve all corrective actions within domain;
    • Management of a staff in line with HR policies including but not limited to setting of KPI’s, training and career planning, leave scheduling, optimal workload allocation and team structure, reduction of risks due to key man dependencies, ensuring appropriate resources levels and skills, performance management;
    • Manage the release calendar for all Operations Maintenance activity;
    • Ensure governance, security and audit compliance;
    • Manage/verify BCP/DR capabilities and coordinate scheduled BCP/DR exercises;
    • Reporting and analysis of ICT Operations including trend analysis of incidents/requests;
    • Oversight of all projects directly impacting the relevant environment or making use of direct reports to support the attainment of project goals and objectives;
    • Accountable for the timely resolution of all incidents within domain in accordance with the Incident management process, using escalation as necessary.
    Skills And Experience Required

    Qualifications and Requirements:
    • Bachelor’s degree or 5 or more years of IT operations management experience;
    • 3 or more years of experience leading distributed teams and/or managing workloads for team members;
    • Solid knowledge and understanding of ICT Operations and Service Management;
    • Prior experience with supporting Windows 2008 server, VMware based server/client virtualization, MS SQL, ORACLE, Unix, Networks, storage;
    • Strong oral and written communications skills including presentation development and delivery for clients.
    Experience In Designing And Operating Operations Processes
    • Experience with the delivery of high availability systems in a 24x7x365 environment;
    • Experience with the delivery of large scale batch;
    • Experience with event monitoring and issue resolution;
    • Extensive understanding of Disaster Recovery and IT Service Continuity, Availability and Continuity management processes and techniques;
    • Experience on managing work across a multi-vendor, multi team environment;
    • Experience in Risk Management and risk mitigation;
    • Demonstrated ability to manage well under pressure and to operate in a decisive and inclusive manner;
    • Experience in budgeting and Financial Management;
    • Experience in managing/oversight of multiple concurrent projects.
    Competencies
    • Problem solving;
    • Analytical thinking;
    • Planning and organising;
    • Decision making;
    • Leadership;
    • Technical knowledge.
    Reporting structure

    The Group Information Technology Head will report to the Group Chief Information Officer.

    Remuneration level

    Remuneration will be market related and commensurate with experience and seniority. In addition, the successful candidate will receive a competitive benefits package.

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    ICT Business Partner

    Job description

    An opportunity has arisen to appoint an ICT Business Partner to join our offices in Cape Town office.

    Summary of the position

    The ICT Business Partner (ICTBP) is an experienced IT professional, who has broad experience in various ICT areas of expertise and the business environment.

    The ICTBP serves as the business relationship link between business units and ICT at the executive, senior manager and operational level, in conjunction with the Business Architect and the Head of Information Systems. The ICTBP provides highly valued strategic consulting level support and guidance through key ICT initiatives.

    The individual builds valuable relationships with internal and external clients and transfers requests and solutions to/from the business unit. The added value of the business partner is the detailed knowledge of the internal clients and their external clients’ needs, key employees and business processes.

    The ICTBP provides support in delivering technology products/solutions that meet the needs of the business and focuses on strategic initiatives and planning activities for their business area. The ICTBP is proactive and anticipatory in their thinking. The business partner facilitates the high level planning and execution of business initiatives through the interaction between business and ICT. They serve a lead role in enabling the business to achieve their objectives through the effective use of technology.

    The business partner is fully dedicated to the operational and strategic needs of their internal clients.

    Outline of main duties and responsibilities

    The Strategic Business Relationship Management Will Be Expected To

    Establish a strategic partnership relationship between ICT and the business
    • Act as the key liaison across all functional areas, including business units, the information technology department, and outside vendors;
    • Develop a detailed understanding of the business units’ objectives, strategies, critical success factors and the relationship between these and Maitland’s strategic objectives and relay these to the ICT teams;
    • Gain an understanding of Maitland’s clients’ pain points, requirements and expectations as these relate to technology and ICT service offerings;
    • Proactively support the delivery of ICT processes at the business unit side;
    • Ensuring the pipeline of work is accurately reflected to enable a portfolio view within Maitland of the workload scheduled.
    Demand Shaping and Value Management
    • Responsible for the development and implementation of solution roadmaps that are aligned to the business units’ and organisation’s needs;
    • Collaborate with management to develop annual budgets for respective business areas, focussed on ICT;
    • With the support of BPM and Business solutions, analyse business requirements and prepare recommendations and business plans;
    • Support the business case process, through evaluating the associated costs and benefits of alternative solutions to facilitate business decision-making;
    • Liaise with the ICT architecture and operations teams to ensure solution compatibility with company standards
    • Collaborate with the Project Management Office to ensure a robust pipeline process, incorporating prioritisation of candidate projects across the company and resource management capabilities;
    • Manage the work queue and prioriisation of business requests in ICT, including regular progress feedback and prioritisation discussions to ensure that ICT delivery aligns with the business needs;
    • Championing the business requirements and pressures in the ICT environment.
    Value Optimisation
    • Oversee the launch of solutions and help to maximize the positive impact on the business unit and organisation;
    • Ensure that value gained from delivered initiatives is captured, linked to to strategy and that variances can be analysed.
    Skills And Experience Required
    • Team Player;
    • Self-motivated, mature, able to use own initiative and with the ability to influence and challenge senior colleagues;
    • Excellent interpersonal skills, in particular with the ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels;
    • Strong personal work ethic including experience of being managed remotely;
    • A practical hands-on approach and the ability to get things done;
    • Strong analytical skills, including an understanding of business processes.

    Reporting structure

    The ICT Business Partner will report into the Senior Manager ICT Business Partners.

    Remuneration level

    Remuneration will be market related and commensurate with experience and seniority. In addition, the successful candidate will receive a competitive remuneration package.

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    Senior Specialist Fund Accounting TFS

    Job description

    Summary of the position

    The role of the Senior Specialist – Institutional Client Accounting (Traditional Fund Accounting) 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.

    Outline of main duties and responsibilities

    The Position Will Be Expected To
    • Improve Fund Accounting’s daily and monthly processes and update process documents accordingly;
    • Assist with bespoke processes and the standardisation of Fund Accounting processes to enable automation of processing volumes for all SA priced funds;
    • Provide solutions for Fund Accounting’s corrective actions to be implemented across the teams;
    • 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;
    • Participate and lead training applicable for the team.
    • Perform NAV finalisation process and Team Leader oversight as and when required;
    • Provide solutions for complex client requirements including client engagement, investigation and testing;
    • Own the NAV re-price process as and when required including the calculation of the BPS impact analysis.
    • Assist in aligning and re-designing South African Hedge Fund pricing, processes and reporting to new CISCA regulations.
    Skills And Experience Required
    • An accounting qualification (minimum B.Com or equivalent) together with either 5 years Fund Accounting experience;
    • 5 years plus Fund Accounting experience in asset management portfolio administration and pricing;
    • In addition, the individual should have experience with the various fund types either locally or internationally.
    • In depth knowledge of both CISCA and Hedge Fund accounting will be an advantage.
    IT And Systems Skills And Knowledge
    • Advanced level experience in using Excel, InvestOne, Decalog and other related systems;
    • Proven competence and an aptitude for working with systems.
    Skills And Abilities
    • Detailed understanding of funds and fee structures;
    • Previous experience in dealing with clients;
    • Previous experience in mentoring of junior and new staff;
    • Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal);
    • Confident, enthusiastic and self-motivated;
    • A track record of achievement.
    The Ideal Candidate Will Have The Following Competencies
    • Ability to analyse and solve problems;
    • work as part of a team;
    • assist in process improvement;
    • develop & implement policies & procedures;
    • identify problems and delegate effectively;
    • establish and manage relationships;
    • liaise with clients and system developers;
    Experience
    • CICSA knowledge and experience pricing Unit Trusts;
    • Hedge Fund experience an advantage;
    • basic investment product knowledge;
    • good understanding of Financial Markets, instruments and systems.

    Reporting structure

    The Senior Specialist – Fund Accounting (Traditional Fund Accounting) will report to the Manager – Priced Fund Accounting (Traditional Funds).

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    Manager Traditional Fund Accounting

    Job description

    Summary of the position

    The primary responsibility for this position is to manage the administration of Traditional funds within the Fund Accounting division. The individual will be required to manage and coordinate the output of the fund accounting teams, assisting with issues coming out of the operations, supporting the team leaders, monitoring of the performance of the teams, management reporting for the area, and to ensure processes are followed and standards are adhered to.

    Outline of main duties and responsibilities

    Production Activities
    • Timing and quality of outputs – ensure high standards of delivery of fund valuations in terms of timing and quality;
    • Operational risk management – ensure effective incident management process as well as proactive identification and mitigation of risks;
    • Productivity and efficiency – ensure effective monitoring, reporting and ongoing improvements in utilisation of production resources;
    • Contingency, continuity and capacity – ensure adequate resourcing and planning for common contingency scenarios such as individual staff absence, as well as for higher-impact business-wide contingency scenarios;
    • Process design and management – ensure up to date process documentation and checklist framework, which enables continuous improvement.

    Staff
    • Recruiting – ensure adequate resourcing in terms of capacity and skills. Headcount budgeting. Manage staff turnover;
    • Skills development and training – ensure adequate resourcing and ongoing improvement in terms of skills;
    • Performance management – ensure effective framework for individual performance monitoring, feedback and ongoing improvement within teams;
    • Team motivation and leadership – ensure effective leadership through frequent communication, clarity of objectives, frequent follow up and feedback.
    Client Servicing
    • Query resolution, new requests and audit support – ensure timely, professional and consistent response to clients and related external parties. Assist with management and rooting of external requests;
    • Client service level management and feedback – assist CRM team in client service level review and ongoing management;
    • Represent production teams in client meetings.

    Internal Supplier Management
    • Internal supplier relationship management – ensure high level of standard of input data in terms of timing, quality and efficiency, and collaborate with other departments to this effect.
    Project Activities
    • New business take on or existing business restructuring – ensure effective project planning and management. Plan resourcing and other production requirements;
    • Automation initiatives – includes project formulation (business case), internal promotion and prioritization, as well as implementation and progress oversight through to testing and live date.
    Other
      • Management reporting;
      • Promote company values and ethos.
    Qualifications

    Skills and experience required
    • A minimum of 3 – 5 years working experience in total of which and at least 2 years experience in Asset Management portfolio administration and pricing;
    • An finance or an audit background would be an advantage;
    • Very strong understanding of valuation and accounting principles;
    • Understanding of the investment management process;
    • Knowledge of investment fund products and fund structures;
    • Sound knowledge and experience of back office administration processes;
    • An ability to effectively conceptualise, design and implement new processes or challenge existing ones;
    • At least 1 year’s experience of successfully managing a team or teams;
    • Strong leadership qualities – ability to motivate teams of young professionals within a fast moving environment;
    • Candidate needs to possess very strong communication skills (written & verbal).
    Reporting structure

    This Manager – Traditional Fund Accounting will report to the Manager – South African Priced Funds.

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    Regulatory Reporting Specialist

    Job description

    Summary of the position

    The role will be part of the Risk and Regulatory solutions team and will report to Manager – Risk & Regulatory Solutions. The primary responsibility of this role is to assist Maitland’s clients with their regulatory filings e.g. AIFMD, Form PF, CPO-PQR etc, and also assist the team with risk and other complex reporting services. The individual will be required to meet client deliverables on an ongoing basis and ensure service quality standards are adhered to.

    Outline of main duties and responsibilities
    • Prepare detailed reports for Institutional clients that help them meet their regulatory obligations and remain compliant with regulators across different jurisdictions including hedge, traditional, private equity real estate clients;
    • Be conversant with and utilize data from internal accounting & transfer agency systems, financial reports & statements and investor records in order to prepare risk and regulatory reports for funds domiciled across various jurisdictions;
    • Gain knowledge on required regulatory legislations e.g. AIFMD, EMIR, Dodd-Frank etc. affecting the fund industry and apply those reporting and risk management concepts on reports delivered to clients;
    • Gain proficiency on 3rd party risk & regulatory technology platforms used in the function to produce and file regulatory reports;
    • Provide technical guidance on related regulations and their impact on reporting requirements to clients and internal staff;
    • Review and assess the existing processes, information systems, workflows and vendor relationships in order to identify areas of improvement;
    • Work independently and engage with teams across locations including but not limited to Luxembourg, Halifax, Richmond, Cape Town;
    • Assist the team with preparation of risk reporting when needed.
    Skills And Experience Required
    • Undergraduate degree in Finance (preferably with an accounting focus);
    • Proficiency in Microsoft excel and other database tools and knowledge of VBA & macros is preferred;
    • Qualification in financial risks or compliance reporting related subjects will be an added advantage;
    • 5 years of fund administration and 10 years of experience in the fund sector is desirable;
    • Knowledge of or willingness to learn the concepts related to Alternative industry, Financial regulations and Risk Management;
    • Sound understanding of business, investment and accounting processes;
    • System knowledge of Geneva, Analytics Master, InvestOne, Avatar, Silica, Spectra is advantageous.
    Soft Skills
    • Good communication and interpersonal skills;
    • Strong analytical skills with advanced level of proficiency in MS Excel;
    • Relevant professional risk qualification desirable;
    • Fluency in English;
    • Flexible, committed attitude, team player;
    • An ability to work well under pressure.

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    Fund Accountant Private Equity and Real Estate

    Job description

    Summary of the position

    The successful applicant will be expected to manage, administer, account and report for Private Equity and Real Estate funds within Institutional Client Accounting. The inidvidual will be required to administer the funds efficiently, accurately and within predetermined deadlines, as set out in the relevant Service Level Agreements.

    Outline of main duties and responsibilities

    The Successful Applicant Will Be Expected To
    • Completion of primary bookkeeping functions of the relevant funds. This includes but is not limited to:
    • Preparation and posting of the cash book, VAT and inter-company loan accounts;
    • Accounting for different types of financial assets and liabilities (including private equity investments and linked debenture units);
    • Accounting for investment properties and lease rentals received as part of operating lease agreements;
    • Preparation of standard monthly journal entries, including accruals / prepayments, bad debts provision;
    • Preparation of monthly general ledger reconciliations, including debtors, creditors, bank and VAT;
    • Review of Investment valuations and accounting to the trial balance;
    • Collating and verifying information from third parties;
    • Accounting for investor transactions including capital drawdowns, redemptions, allocations of monthly profit or loss;
    • Preparation of the monthly investor statements within the relevant reporting deadlines;
    • Communicating and responding to queries internally and from the client, assisting team leaders and managers in resolving queries.
    Qualifications Required

    Skills and experience required
    • An accounting qualification (minimum B. Compt / Com Accounting or equivalent), together with either 3 years relevant accounting experience in a similar industry or business type;
    • Preference will be given to candidates working towards a professional qualification such as CA(SA), ACCA or CIMA.
    Technical Skills Required
    • Up-to date working knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards and experience in preparation of accounts in accordance with those standards;
    • An understanding of funds and fund structures will be an advantage;
    • Accounting for tax, including VAT, income tax and calculations of deferred tax;
    • Experience in all aspects of multi-currency accounting; and
    • Excellent computer skills, and in particular a good knowledge of: Microsoft Office (2010) including Excel, Word, and Outlook email;
    • Sound knowledge of accounting packages, including multi-currency.
    Interpersonal Skills Required
    • A team player who can work independently toward meeting deadlines;
    • Good communication skills (both verbal and written);
    • Confident, enthusiastic and a self-starter;
    • A track record of achievement; and
    • Keen to progress their career by studying toward a relevant professional qualification.
    The Ideal Candidate Will Have The Following Competencies

    Ability
    • Strong accounting and analytical skills;
    • Understand accounting, economic and investment principles;
    • Communicate and respond to queries internally and from the client, assisting team leaders and managers in resolving such queries.
    Experience
    • the preparation of financial statements and budgets;
    • Working knowledge of fund accounting systems and an aptitude for working with systems.
    Knowledge
    • accounting principles;
    • financial and management accounting;
    • Good understanding, knowledge and experience of back office administration processes and account.

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