Citco Canada | Manager, Fund Accounting – Hedge Funds

Responsibilities

• You will form part of a professional team responsible for a range of complex hedge funds and clients and manage a team of accountants, maintain client contacts plus interact with colleagues from other Citco offices.
• Review Monthly/Weekly NAV accounting work.
• Assist staff with their work whenever the need arises.
• Act as liaison with the client on matters relating to the preparation of the monthly reporting package.
• Prepare responses to the client on any number of issues and queries which they are requesting from time to time.
• Review administrative/accounting procedures and recommend solutions in order to work towards a more efficient NAV production process.
• Monitor compliance of various SLA agreements with the client/other Citco Offices.
• Assist and support new fund setups, conversions and migrations.
• Support the conversion of all new clients.
• Ensure adherence to all internal and external audit standards.
• Ensure all control checklists are up to date and utilized.
• Work with other managers to ensure efficient allocation of staff and workflow.
• Assist with implementing training initiatives.
• Assist with other ad hoc report requests and operations metrics as required by management.
• Review Daily/Weekly P&L/NAV estimates
• Act as liaison with the auditors
• Negotiate SLA with client/ other Citco Offices
• Keep Senior Management abreast of all material issues affecting the processing of deliverables

Requirements

• Solid understanding of accounting entries and allocations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated financial reporting/analytical/organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to work in a changing, fast-paced work environment
• Strong customer relationship skills
• Exposure to systems implementations and work flow process initiatives

Citco

Founded in 1948 by A.A.G. Smeets, Citco first worked for private clients and multinational companies in the years after the Second World War, and launched its fund administration business in 1968. The group, whose parent company is The Citco Group Limited, has been majority independently owned since its start. It now serves alternative asset managers, asset owners, investors, banks and corporates with fund administration, middle office, banking, tax and regulatory, corporate secretarial and entity management services.

• Industry: Asset servicing for the alternative investment industry: fund administration, middle office, banking, tax and corporate services
• Headquarters: The Citco Group Limited, a privately held group with offices worldwide