Senior Investment and Fund Accountant

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Join some of the most innovative thinkers in Fin Tech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to Sim Corp!

At its foundation, Sim Corp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

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Sim Corp is a leading provider of software solutions to the investment management, asset servicing, insurance, and pension fund industry globally.

Our main product Sim Corp Dimension is used by over 180 Tier 1 and Tier 2 client’s globally and is famed for being a fully integrated enterprise offering in the market.

Simcorp’s Business Services offering provides our clients with Fund and Investment Accounting where we take responsibility for the Fund, Investment accounting and reporting outcomes and success.

We are looking for a Fund and Investment Accountant to join our international team, dealing with a wide range of funds and instrument types. The role involves ensuring quality delivery of accounting outputs and compliance with SLAs.

• The Fund and Investment Accountant will assist in maintaining daily fund accounting processes, validate closing outputs, identify and investigate exceptions outside agreed tolerances.
• Maintain outputs in line with service level agreements and participate in service reviews.
• They will gain exposure to new fund and investment accounting client implementations.
• Experience of Fund and Investment accounting including various investment instruments, investment general ledger, calculation of NAV, fund types, fund fees, accruals, and fund administrators’ reconciliations.

Model of work: hybrid (2 days / a week from London or Paris office).

• Assist in performing day to day fund accounting processes including fee accruals, fund administration reconciliations and NAV calculations.
• Perform validation of period end closing output and provide exception identification and investigation where the output falls outside agreed tolerances.
• Primary contact for assigned Fund Accounting portfolios.
• Assist with implementation and onboarding of new Fund and Investment Accounting clients.
• Participate in periodic service review meetings with clients.
• Delivery of client requirements in line with SLAs with critical focus on quality and service delivery.
• Collaborate with other business units to enhance Simcorp’s drive for operational efficiency and technology driven automation.
• Provide support for daily, monthly, and year end periods in accordance with multiple accounting frameworks.
• Participate in knowledge sharing on Fund Accounting outputs and processes, Investment Accounting and Sim Corp Dimension system.
• Support implementation and testing of new accounting frameworks, investment instruments and accounting software upgrades.
• Assist with continuous process and reporting improvements in Fund and investment accounting.
• Service Level agreement adherence and KPI monitoring.

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest:

• Minimum of two years Fund or Investment accounting experience.
• Pursuing an Accounting or finance degree/or Fund or Investment Accountant qualified by experience.
• Experience of Fund and Investment accounting including various investment instrument types, investment general ledger, calculation of NAV, fund types, fund fees, accruals, and fund administrators’ reconciliations.
• Awareness of security types including Bonds, Equities, Funds, Derivatives, Alternative Investments, FX forwards, Options, Repos…