Alternative Administration: Team Leader (Prescient Fund Services)

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Team Leader, you will take on a people leadership and review function with specific duties including:

• To supervise the team and their allocation of funds including any reallocations of current and new funds (part of the active production schedule management process on an ongoing basis).
• To review daily valuations before release to the Fund Manager and Clients
• To release payments as presented for signoff and release.
• To mentor, train and coach fund accountants in the team.
• To perform, supervise and allocate additional functions, like authorisation of payments, audit liaising, preparation, queries, distributions, and projects.
• To assist in managing key functions and relationships with the Regulated Hedge Fund Space client base.
• Incorporate the daily Hedge Fund model into ISAE3402 environment / documentation of controls.
• Adherence to strict daily deliverable timelines.
• Implement measures to reduce risks and errors in the Fund Accounting teams (including incident reporting feedback sessions).
• To liaise with internal stakeholders for queries, projects and requests – included and not limited to Prescient departments and teams, Prescient Finance, IT, Compliance and Internal Audit functions, ensuring all requests are resolved; and control objectives and changes are properly communicated and dealt with by the Operational Teams.
• Provide client service and delivery to all Private Equity clients. You will need to liaise with external stakeholders and clients for queries, projects, and requests.
• Interact and collaborate with the internal Implementation team in relation to onboarding new funds into the Production Teams and dealing with new requests, regulatory changes and client build requests.
• To assist in rolling out the Prescient Fund Services strategy to the teams in collaboration with the Head of Alternative Administration

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• BCom / Honours (Accounting) is required. Any post graduate accounting studies are preferred.
• Previous experience of working with a Fund Administration accounting system essential.
• Excellent Excel skills.