Fund Servicing Associate - Pension Utility

Are you ready to take your career to the next level in the world of fund accounting? You'll play a pivotal role in maintaining the integrity and accuracy of accounting and securities records for private equity assets. Your expertise will shine as you manage client relationships, oversee pension fund asset valuations, and ensure the precision of valuations.

As a Fund Servicing Associate within the Fund Accounting team, you will maintain accurate accounting and securities records for private equity assets, manage client queries and relationships, oversee pension fund asset valuations, and ensure the accuracy of valuations. You will liaise with global Fund Managers, manage team processes for client contributions and withdrawals, and support supervisors in delivering top-quality operations. You will also document procedures, identify control requirements, and provide training for new hires.

• Maintain of accurate accounting and securities records for each private equity asset, ensuring all prescribed controls are adhered to for each fund accounting process (e.g. position reconciliation, asset pricing, security trading, income & expense processing etc.).
• Manage client query / relationship management with the help of oversight team.
• Overviewing UK / US based pension funds by performing asset valuations / validations to ensure the accuracy and timeliness.
• Responsible for ensuring that all valuations produced out of this department are correct and understood. Identifying the major value movers and validating them through set procedures.
• Liaise with various Fund Managers across the globes, who manage the funds of clients. Fund Manager's accounting data need to be reconciled with internal accounting outputs.
• Manage the team processing contribution and withdrawals for these clients.
• Ensure adherence of operational procedures to complete task in an accurate and timely manner.
• Support the supervisors in the objective to provide top quality operations in support of this global business.
• Documenting procedures and identify requirements for additional controls.
• Provide training of new hires.

• Graduate/Post-graduate
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to work in a deadline driven environment
• Client focused
• Uses initiative & readily questions
• Strong analytical skills
• Control oriented
• Proficiency with computers
• Exhibits a 'can do' attitude
• Good written & spoken English communication skills

• 5 years or more in Banking / Financial services industry or with accounting firm.
• Experience in an automated processing environment. With people management skills
• Good understanding of security types and their accounting treatment
• Awareness of stock market practices & data vendor systems (e.g. Bloomberg)
• Knowledge of the processes of a fund's Custodian Bank and Investment Manager
• Analytical with good problem-solving skills. Committed approach with the ability to communicate effectively within a small team
• Flexibility - support department projects and work overtime during peak production periods