Senior Fund Accountant

at  BNP Paribas

Job Title: Senior Fund Accountant
Business Unit: Fund Accounting – BNP Paribas Fund Administration Services Limited
Contract Type: Fixed-term Contract
Location: Sandyford, Dublin
About BNP Paribas
At BNP Paribas, we center our values on what drives the company forward. Our driving forces are Agility, Client Satisfaction, Compliance Culture and Openness.
Agility: we want to behave more simply to embrace useful innovation and digital transformation.
Client Satisfaction: we believe that our success lies in being the customers’ and clients’ preferred choice.
Compliance Culture: we believe in promoting clear rules to foster a strong culture of compliance and ethics
Openness: we promote open-minded attitudes towards our stakeholders. We aim for everyone in Group to feel included, to have their say and be empowered
Our strengths are based off four key areas of Stability, Expertise, Responsibility and Good Place to Work
Stability: we build upon our solid, long-term oriented management, our diversified and integrated business model and our international footprint.
Expertise: we build upon our recognized and expanding knowledge of our teams.
Responsibility: we build upon our culture of responsibility and integrity to ever better serve the interest of our customers
Good Place to Work: we foster a stimulating workplace where people are treated fairly and with respect

ROLE:

The onshore Senior Fund Accountant (SFA) role is responsible for the validation and release of the Nav price for funds completed offshore and the management of client interaction, including responses on queries and the sending of reports.
The validation process involves oversight of the Nav Pack completed by our offshore teams and a high level review of any exceptions in our exception based system prior to Nav price release. Client queries, monthly reporting requirements and adhoc client report requests are managed by the SFA through Hobart, a query management tool.
SFA’s are expected to have daily engagement with a number of different stakeholders in the valuation process, such as internal Transfer Agency, Depository, Client Service Management teams, and external Investment Managers, Management Companies, Auditors and brokers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Monitor and respond to queries from our offshore teams received via Outlook.
Escalate or communicate issues/queries on a NAV with a client, IM, broker or any other external or internal team where required.
Attend daily touch point calls with onshore and offshore teams. (to note there could be two daily touch point calls)
Manage allocated deliverables through active engagement with offshore teams.
Review and release of super exceptions in PControl ensuring valid comments are input by the offshore Nav team and relevant back up is saved down, where needed, as part of the NAV Pack.
Update team allocation tracker regularly throughout the day.
Communicate and collaborate regularly throughout the day with fellow SFA’s via the team Skype chat.
Take ownership of any queries received in Hobart/ team Outlook DL that relate to allocated deliverables.
Respond to assigned queries received from clients, IM’s or any other external/internal team in Hobart by EOD with an aim to close all queries within 24 hours where possible.
Escalate queries to a Team Leader/Assistant Manager where required.
Communicate and highlight client issues to the relevant CSM.
Complete monthly balance sheet reviews as per team allocation.
Take ownership of additional assigned daily/monthly adhoc tasks including but not limited to review of monthly admin and quarterly board packs, monthly fee reviews and completion/review of monthly OCR.
Assist the Financial Reporting team with audit and semi-annual financial statement queries, taking ownership of FA queries on allocated funds.
Responsible for cross training team members on tasks and any unique aspects of client reviews/queries when requested by the Team Leader to ensure adequate support and coverage on the team.
Review and comment on aged cash/position breaks, stale prices file for allocated funds and represent the team in weekly department Rec Committee meetings.
Attend monthly team meetings to provide feedback on deliverables/processes.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED FOR THIS ROLE:

A minimum of 2/3 years Fund Accounting experience with final Nav release experience preferred.
Good outlook and excel knowledge.
Good knowledge of Fund accounting, including Custodian and Prime Brokers/Counterparty activities.
Leadership skills, including mentoring, assessment, training, and development planning.
A good understanding of mutual and hedge fund investment types, strategy, and performance fees.
Experience of dealing directly with clients and other external stakeholders.
Prior experience using accounting systems such as Multifonds preferred but not essential.
‘End to end’ of valuation process experience preferred but not essential.
A third level qualification preferably in a business or accounting related discipline.
Excellent organisational skills.