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AVP - Fund Accounting

Last update 13.09.2024

Job Title: AVP – Fund Accounting

Business Unit: Hedge Fund Services – Fund Administration

Contract Type: Permanent 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 Accounting and Valuation team (A&V) is responsible for overall production of the Net Asset valuation for both single manager and fund of hedge fund clients. The A&V team produces daily, weekly and monthly valuations for clients in adherence to HFS client service level agreements. The team independently reconciles, reviews and reports on trades, positions, cash and prices, controls general ledger postings and the final NAV review sign off process. The team maintains the client relationship and therefore frequent client contact is an important part of the groups remit.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Promote and maintain our high-quality client experience. Understand the needs of our clients, their requirement for accurate and timely reporting coupled with a proactive approach to client relationship management.
  • Help foster and cultivate a change culture where we strive to provide the highest quality service. As a manager you will help drive new product enhancements, develop best practice and support the build out of capacity and scale within the organization.
  • Responsibility for delivery of net asset valuation to a portfolio of both single manager and fund of fund clients in accordance with SLA.
  • Review final trial balance and all underlying portfolio information, accruals and expenses on funds to ensure that information on account is up to date and complete.
  • Act as signatory for the approval of payments when required in accordance with approved authorisation levels.
  • Liaise and work with the Investor Services team to ensure accurate recording of shareholder capital activity within Geneva ensuring full client sign off and NAV reporting of investor activity.
  • Analyse and review movements in the NAV, whilst understanding effects of P&L, sidepockets and hedging on shares class NAVs and partner balances.
  • Prepare, review and present Administrators reports for inclusion in Board meeting documentation in respect of appropriate funds.
  • Recommend opportunities to enhance client focused service delivery where appropriate.
  • Act as a point of reference/referral escalation point for colleagues, providing on the job training and coaching facilitation where required.

Qualifications & Experience required for this role:

  • Third level qualification with relevant professional qualification desirable.
  • 6-7 years’ experience in alternative fund services industry with a minimum 3 years at manager level
  • Proven experience in acting as a senior point of contact for clients.
  • Full working knowledge of Single Manager and Fund of Fund NAV preparation and review process.
  • Proficiency in use of Advent Geneva and New Transfer Agency System advantageous
  • Strong product knowledge with knowledge and exposure to equalisation an advantage.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and proven leaderships qualities.
  • Attention to detail and organisational skills.

Why Work with Us?

  • We are the 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 190,000 employees from over 150 nationalities. In Ireland we have approximately 500 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 applications 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.

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Why should I apply?

Basically, why would you want to join BNP Paribas over any other company?

BECAUSE YOU'RE THE KIND OF PERSON WHO WANTS...

  • What if we told you that working in our Group isn’t quite what you might think? At BNP Paribas, we do a multitude of different jobs that are constantly evolving to meet the expectations of our clients and society as a whole. Whether through everyday tasks or major projects, doing one of our jobs means making a personal commitment to taking sustainable action.

  • Feeling good about your job means bringing your whole self to work and being who you are. It’s also about having the resources you need to achieve a healthy work-life balance. Both of these are major commitments at BNP Paribas.

  • At BNP Paribas, developing your skills is as important to us as it is to you. And the skills you learn with us will help you through the rest of your working life.

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