Junior Fund Accountant

TalentCru

SUMMARY

Are you a numbers expert who loves solving complex financial puzzles?

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where accuracy, analysis, and attention to detail are critical? An exciting opportunity exists for a highly analytical and detail-oriented Fund Accountant / Financial Reconciliations Specialist. This role is ideal for a professional who enjoys working with large datasets, investigating discrepancies, and ensuring the integrity of fund-related transactions and financial reporting.

You will play a vital role in maintaining accurate financial records, driving reconciliation processes, analysing trends, and collaborating with multiple stakeholders to ensure financial excellence.

Our client is looking to employ a Junior Fund Accountant based in Edenvale

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Perform reconciliations between operational and financial systems, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution of discrepancies
• Prepare month-end journals, accruals, provisions, and fund-related accounting entries
• Analyse fund transactions, identify trends and anomalies, and provide actionable insights
• Calculate monthly profit and loss on terminated plans
• Maintain data integrity through ongoing validation and investigation of errors
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including Actuarial, Business Intelligence
• Policy Administration, Creditors, and Debtors teams
• Prepare management accounts, JV calculations and ensure pay-outs are processed accurately

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting is a must!
• Minimum of 3-5 years' relevant accounting experience.
• Experience working with large volumes of data in a high-performance environment
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Strong understanding of reconciliations, journal processing and financial reporting
• Highly proficient with financial systems and able to learn new technologies quickly.

APPLICATION

Applications can be sent to ***email_hidden***