Product Controller and Fund Accountant Analyst

at  SOUTHERN RIDGES CAPITAL PTE LTD

Southern Ridges Capital is an investment firm managing fixed income, currency assets and derivatives by employing discretionary macro and relative value investment strategies. We are a fast-growing firm with a strong culture of collaboration and partnership. We take pride in striving to create a conducive environment for all professionals to succeed in their area of work. Southern Ridges operates out of 2 offices – Singapore and New York with headquarters in Singapore.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Degree with major in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related discipline with basic understanding of financial products.
• 1- 2 years of working experience in Product Control or Hedge fund’s Fund Accounting roles or Fund Administrator with exposure in Macro Products experience will have an added advantage.
• Knowledge and experience in VBA excel and/or related programming languages (Python), able to articulate clearly business requirements to Technology team.
• Strong demonstration of being able to improve and scale workflow processes.
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to drive and lead in mini-projects and work with minimal supervision. Escalate when required. Pro-active, self-motivated, and a strong control focused mindset.
• Good time management and strong interpersonal skills in communication.

• Shadow fund accounting. Perform weekly cash, position, PV and P&L reconciliation between fund administrator and our Portfolio Management System.
• Review fund administrator statements of weekly/monthly NAV, and review and approve investment transparency report.
• Work closely with Investor relations to prepare weekly and monthly estimates for investors once reconciliation is done and accounted for.
• Monitor and communicate with Traders on executing share class hedging exposure.
• Facilitate in fund accounting bookings on non-trading entries; review and confirm invoice for management and performance fees.
• Adhoc and yearly Fund Accountant matters. Review annual financial statements by Fund administrator, review and signoff annual and adhoc regulatory reporting filings prepared by fund administrator.

Other additional responsibilities also include but not limited to:

• Generate daily P&L from portfolio management systems and reconcile with our managed account and fund admin’s official P&L, and investigate/resolve discrepancies with our managed account and fund administrators on all P&L related issues.
• Perform the P&L attribution of the fund and individual portfolio managers.
• Check data integrity of market data sources, understand the product valuations models and be able to troubleshoot any curves/market data issues.
• Work with Trading analyst/portfolio manager and operations to perform month-end sell-downs on non-USD currency cash balance.
• Review and signoff regulatory reporting fillings prepared by our fund administrator.
• Partner with various stakeholders (Fund administrator / External IT vendors / Internal IT team / Operations/ Trader Analysts/ PMs) to work on various projects to improve the process and add value to the firm.