Supervisor, Fund Valuation-13063766

Job Description 

Brief Description of the Organization

 Citi, the leading global financial services company, has some 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com or www.citi.com.  

Description

 

• Ensuring the funds administered by the team are accurately priced and the fund prices are released timely in accordance with the SLA specifications. 
• Ensuring the fund valuation process is performed in accordance with the audit standards provided and in compliance with investment fund regulations. 
• Acting as a key contact to client’s inquiries as well as other internal and external business parties on regular business operations. 
• Assigning and reassigning funds and duties to team members when required to ensure funds are valued on a timely basis. 
• Resolving problems related to regular business operations. 
• Ensuring the fund information dissemination and reporting to clients and other internal and external parties are completed accurately and timely. 
• Ensuring all problems or discrepancies are identified, escalated and resolved on a timely basis. 
• Reviewing, with the assistance of senior fund accountants if applicable, on all reconciliation and reports prepared by team members.
• Reviewing, with the assistance of senior fund accountants if applicable, the preliminary and final valuation packages. 
• Reviewing, with the assistance of senior fund accountants if applicable, monthly working paper packages as well as the semi and annual audit working paper packages 
• Liaising with custodians for issues related to income entitlements, trade transactions, cash reconciliation etc. 
• Assisting in special projects, where required. 
• Providing training and coaching to Fund Accounting team members. 
• Guiding Fund Accounting team members through monthly, quarterly and annual distribution cycles. 
• Striving for continuous process improvement and implementation of best practices.
• Being proactive in developing solutions that assist the Fund Accounting team in meeting the needs of our stakeholders. 
• Being able to work with Fund Taxation team, Financial Reporting team, Corporate action and Pricing team and all other internal business operations within the company. 
• Providing performance appraisals to the team members periodically. 
• Completing monthly reporting and other tasks assigned on timely basis.

Qualifications

 

• A minimum of 5 years of Mutual or Hedge fund accounting experience. 
• Post-secondary education, University degree in an Accounting or Finance related discipline or enrolment in an accounting or professional designation (CGA, CMA, CPA, CFA) 
• Good knowledge of the fund accounting process as well as the investment fund industry and its current developments 
• Proven coaching, management and leadership skills. 
• Strong problem solving skills - Strong Microsoft Excel and Word skills. 
• Good written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive, open, flexible and willing to go the extra mile to provide the best service possible. 
• Experience with multi-class, multi-managed funds, multi-currency, derivative instruments such as forward, options and futures. 
• Experience on reviewing preliminary and final valuations and fund distributions. 
• Knowledge of the Mpower system is preferred. 
• Knowledge of TAS, Unitrax and Report Manager will be an asset. 
• Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines. 
• Must be able to work well as part of a team as well as independently. 
• Ability to learn quickly (able to learn/comprehend product details)

  

Primary Location

: NAM-Canada

Schedule

: Full-time

Education Level

: Associate's Degree/College Diploma

Shift

: Day Job

Employee Status

: Regular

Travel

: No