CA(SA) Financial Reporting Fund Accountant

Recruiter:

Rory Mackie & Associates

Job Ref:

1011425053

Date posted:

Friday, October 10, 2025

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

About our client’s team:

You will be primarily responsible for the oversight over fund accounting and financial reporting and related functions for all our client’s funds, domiciled in various jurisdictions globally, as performed by the third-party administrator.

Responsibilities:

Provide oversight of the third-party fund administrator responsible for the outsourced fund accounting and financial reporting functions
Be responsible for the review of statutory financial reporting and project management of the report, account and audit process, including liaising with the third-party administrator, auditors, printers and typesetters for the various fund ranges
Keep up to date with regulatory changes in the various regions and project management of implementation thereof into the financial reporting processes
Prepare and review fund Board Papers including budgets and monitoring of costs on an ongoing basis
Review industry and regulatory reporting across various fund jurisdictions such as Ongoing Charges, Portfolio Turnover Ratios, transaction cost calculations and Cost Transparency Initiative templates
Take responsibility for fund accounting accounts payable function, to ensure all fund related costs are correctly calculated and allocated, duly authorised and payments processed
Support the business processing product changes, including fund merger and amalgamation activity
Maintain relationships with internal stakeholders across the investment, client and operational teams, providing technical assistance and understand, resolve and respond to queries in an effective manner
Assist the business with implementing product changes from a fund accounting perspective
Assess and review KPIs and overall services level of the administrator, in terms of the agreed SLAs
Develop, implement and maintain effective systems, processes and procedures to ensure service standards are met, reducing risk and improving efficiency

You should consider applying if you have:

New qualified CA(SA), with previous asset management auditing experience
Experience at a global auditing firm
Experience in the mutual funds industry or a financial reporting role would be beneficial

Some of the attributes we look for in a person are:

The ability to build and maintain meaningful relationships
The ability to ‘approach and own’ and continuously looks for opportunities to develop
Driven by results
Intellectual curiosity
Recognise that the engine of career growth is driven by the individual

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