Overview
The Fund Accountant processes and reconciles investment transactions, maintains security master records, and supports accurate NAV reporting across multiple asset classes.
What you'll do
- Process and validate investment transactions across Equities, Fixed Income, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Retirement Funds, ABS and MBS.
- Perform daily trade processing and reconciliation of trades, cash and positions.
- Process and review corporate actions including dividends, interest payments, and bond redemptions.
- Process and review spot and forward FX transactions.
- Calculate bond interest, mortgage paydowns, collateral movements, and cross-currency dividends using Bloomberg/IDC.
- Perform and review security setup and maintenance based on market data and client instructions.
- Review record date reconciliations, entitlement adjustments, subscription/redemption reconciliations, and cash wire validations.
- Investigate and resolve reconciliation breaks with custodians and internal accounting systems.
- Process and review income and expense accruals.
- Review variation margin and its adjustments.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of NAV and operational impacts.
- Maintain operational accuracy while meeting SLAs, regulatory requirements and internal controls.
- Perform root cause analysis and recommend process improvements.
- Participate in automation, UAT, system implementations, and SOP documentation/review.
- Collaborate with global stakeholders and mentor junior team members where applicable.
- Perform complex activities in bank loan trades, FX deliveries postings, GL offsetting TIPS, TBAs and subscription redemption reconciliation.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, commerce, or related discipline.
- 5-6 years of experience in Investment Banking, Fund Accounting, Asset Management, or Financial Services.
- Strong understanding of capital markets, mutual funds, fund accounting, trade lifecycle, investment operations and reconciliation.
- Technical skills: Bloomberg, IDC or similar market data platforms; Microsoft Excel.
- Behavioral competencies: analytical thinking and problem-solving; attention to detail and accuracy; strong communication and stakeholder management; ownership, accountability, and customer focus; ability to work under deadlines.
Details
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
- Flexible working in US shift.
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