Job Title: Senior Fund Accountant - Hedge Funds
Business Unit: Fund Accounting – BNP Paribas Fund Administration Services Limited
Contract Type: Fixed-Term Contract (12 months)
Location: Parkmore, Galway (Hybrid)
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
Sustainable Finance
BNP continues to demonstrate the Bank’s steadfast commitment to supporting its clients in their growth ambitions by expanding market reach across assets, delivering excellence in bond markets, and showing the way in sustainable financing.
Role
The Senior Fund Accountant (SFA) role is responsible for the validation and release of hedge fund Net Asset Valuations. The SFA checks the work of Fund Accountants and provides final release to the market or investment manager. The SFA is responsible for ensuring that all checks and controls have been performed on a valuation. The SFA is often the first point of contact for clients regarding valuations.
Key Responsibilities
- Review of fund NAVs on a daily, weekly and monthly basis, tasks include:
- Review of fund transactions, eg. Security trading, investor activity, etc.
- Ensuring all income accruals and corporate actions are accounted for and validated
- Review of all foreign exchange contracts
- Review of price movements, including stale / static pricing
- Adherence to client agreed NAV delivery deadlines
- Approval and sending of fund invoices / cash instructions
- NAV impact analysis and justification
- Monitoring all cash and security reconciliation items on a daily basis
- Ensuring all agreed reporting is completed & sent to the client
- Attendance and participation in team / departmental meetings
- Assist with the completion of month end processes for delivery to clients
- Ensure that client Service Level Agreements are applied across all funds with deliverables met on a timely basis
- Ensure any information required by the Auditors or Trustees is available within the timeframe agreed with your Team Leader
- Assist and train other team members with queries / questions as they arise. Inform the Team Leader where necessary of any issues
- Thorough knowledge of hedge fund security types, including CFD, CDS, IRS, MBS/ABS, Swaptions, Fixed Income, Exchange Traded Instruments, Forwards etc., and their accounting treatment
- Assist with the further development of the fund accounting process and systems to meet future market and client developments
- FA resource for the on boarding of new business, ensuing that FA systems and accounting requirements are in place
- Understanding of fund operating documents, prospectus, pricing policy, agreements
Qualifications & Experience required for this role
- A minimum of 2-3 years Fund Accounting experience incorporating the above key responsibilities
- A minimum of 1 year NAV review experience
- Good working knowledge of relevant legislation and regulatory requirements
- A thorough knowledge of Hedge Fund accounting, including interaction with Prime Brokers and Middle Office
- A thorough knowledge of performance fee methodologies (Equalisation, Series, etc)
- Knowledge of the completion of month end processes for delivery to clients
- Thorough knowledge of share class hedging
- Knowledge of data vendors such as Bloomberg, IDC, etc
- Knowledge of accounting systems Multifonds an advantage
- An awareness of the needs of clients and an ability to deliver an excellent client service
- Multi-manager, Multi-currency, Pooling, Fund of Hedge Fund and Structured product experience desirable
- A third level qualification preferably in a business or accounting related discipline
- Good time management and interpersonal skills
- Self motivated
- Highly computer literate
- Strong numerical / analytical skills
Management excellence
BNP continues to foster top-class people management practices within our strong people focused culture, therefore all BNP Paribas people managers must adhere to the group Management Charter which strives for excellent in people management behaviours and competencies.
Why work with us?
- We are a bank for a changing world and aim to build positive change together with our employees.
- We are a team of passionate people who genuinely care about what we do and the impact our work delivers to our clients. We operate in a highly collaborative, open-minded environment that embraces innovation and creativity.
- Our remuneration and benefits packages are generous, with competitive salaries, a discretionary bonus scheme, company pension contribution, comprehensive private healthcare packages, and numerous other benefits.
- We have a genuine commitment to work-life balance throughout the whole organisation. We are also committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and actively promote equal opportunities.
- Development and mobility is actively encouraged. We are a learning company - there is real opportunity to grow, develop and expand your skills, experience and career path.
- We are a global company operating in over 60 countries with over 180,000 employees from over 150 nationalities. In Ireland we have 550 employees across Dublin and Galway working in Corporate Institutional Banking (CIB) and BNP Paribas Security Services (BP2S) and Greenval.
Compliance Culture
We believe in promoting clear rules to foster a strong culture of compliance and ethics. We would expect any incoming member of staff to respect all financial security related legislation, including: anti-money laundering (AML); countering the financing of terrorism (CFT); international financial sanctions and embargoes (IFS); anti-bribery and corruption (ABC); KYC; ongoing client related data screening; and transaction monitoring. BNP Paribas have clear policies on these topics which all staff are expected to familiarise themselves with upon successful entry to the Group.
Equality and Diversity
BNP Paribas is an equal opportunities employer and proudly cultivates a diverse workforce. We believe that diversity of experience enhances our service offering to clients and leads to a better working environment. We encourage applcations from the best candidates regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, parental and caring status, or religious belief.
By submitting your application, you agree to BNP Paribas completing a background check and screening in advance of any potential offer being made
