Associate Fund Accountant

Key Responsibilities:

Fund Accounting & Product Knowledge

• Handle bonds interest calculations, swaps financing, F&O, equity, and leveraged loans.
• Process journal entries, trial balances, payables/receivables, GAV/NAV calculations, investor allocations, and financial statements as per GAAP.
• Verify prices, income, and interest rates using Bloomberg or other market data sources.

Reconciliations & Collateral Management

• Perform cash, position, and trade reconciliations across all fund and instrument types (forex, equity, options, derivatives, swaps).
• Identify and resolve reconciliation discrepancies, including aged exceptions and breaks.
• Liaise with internal teams and external constituents for reconciliation resolution.
• Review fund administrator reconciliations and manage trade/cash/position/mv/ote discrepancies.
• Assist in developing reconciliations for new products or prime broker relationships.
• Collateral management through interpretation of counterparty statements.

Stakeholder Management & Process Improvement

• Communicate effectively with upstream data providers, accounting/operations colleagues, and other business partners.
• Escalate potential risks and provide process improvement ideas to reduce non-value-added work.
• Adhere to quality SLAs while performing reconciliations.