Fund Servicing Analyst (Financial Reporting & Tax)

Join our team as a Fund Servicing Analyst and play a key role in helping investment clients meet their Accounting and Tax regulatory reporting obligations. You'll prepare reconciled trial balances, deliver Financial Statements in line with Australian Accounting Standards, and produce critical tax outputs-from taxable income calculations for distributions to the Annual Tax Return, GST (Business Activity Statement), and other regulatory filings.

As the Fund Servicing Analyst in our team, you will be responsible for assisting clients meet their regulatory reporting obligations with respect to Accounting and Tax. It involves the preparation of a reconciled trial balance and subsequent set of Financial Statements in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards. Also it involves taxable income calculations for the purpose of distributions throughout the year and the preparation of the Annual Tax Return as well as the GST (Business Activity Statement) return and other regulatory filings. These reports are prepared for our Clients' Portfolios and are reviewed by our Clients' Auditors or Tax Agent. Each client has various deadlines including daily, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and yearly.

Job responsibilities:

• Provide support to preparers in the preparation of audit packs, distribution, tax returns, tax supplementary reports, financial statements and any other deliverables.
• Perform review or checks on deliverables prepared by team members. Ensure that deliverables for handled clients are prepared as needed and signed off on strict timelines to meet third-party (clients'/auditors') requirements in a timely manner, particularly when the team faces capacity constraints.
• Regularly coordinate/communicate with Sydney Financial Reporting and Tax teams through emails, or telephone for chasing dependencies and solving issues
• Make sure all Sydney Financial Reporting and Tax queries are responded to by the team timely and accurately
• Lead in the team's regular knowledge sharing and learning activities to achieve the team's goal of zero error in all its deliverables.
• Handling the task of as client's point-of-contact (POC) which basically makes sure all client nuances are properly and timely documented and applied in all its deliverables.
• Taking a lead role in projects related to the implementation of enhanced processes or productivity.
• Able to conduct trainings of new joiners on all the processes of the team when the need for mentoring arise.
• Regularly review SOPs to ensure they are duly updated and recertified by Sydney.
• Complete and pass all mandatory and product related trainings within the team's set deadline and ensure team members under supervision have complied to all mandatory trainings and completed all assigned administrative tasks and audit requirements.
• Conduct one-on-one session and coaching to team members.

• Must be a CA /CPA or Accounting Graduate.
• At least 2 years experience in finance, tax, audit field and/or fund management industry in a tax or accounting role.
• In depth understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting standards ie: International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) .
• Exhibits leadership behaviors.
• Displays strong decision making skills and
• Advanced analytical skills and strong attention to details
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, oral and written
• Able to lead a committee
• Must be amenable to work APAC/EMEA Hours