Your new company
A National Financial Services provider looking for an Investment Reporting Control Accountant to join their team

Your new role

* Calculate unit pricing for each of their investment funds.
* General ledger and journal ownership for areas related to investments
* Maintain qualitative and quantitative understanding of treasury, fund performance and asset management charges.
* Help roll out planned key process enhancements, moving from process design to BAU
* Leverage systems to automate functions which are currently manual
* Reconciliations – perform daily, monthly, quarterly and annual reconciliations including investment systems and general ledgers.
* Work closely with Finance Control manager and Team leader to close month end
* Reporting – Provide monthly reporting and ad hoc reporting/information to management.
* Payments – Manually processing both UK and foreign payments.
* Update and prepare valuation reports.
* Provide support and cover for other members of the Finance department.Ensure appropriate procedures and controls are documented and up to date
* Working with and as part of wider finance control team, including ad hoc support where required.

What you'll need to succeed

* Experience of working in a unit pricing environment for a life insurer or professional services provider including hands-on systems experience with an Investment System
* Good understanding of the key participants in the trade and pricing lifecycle for unit linked funds
* Good working knowledge of the post trade operating environment including; corporate actions, asset servicing, cash settlement reconciliations and fund accounting and reporting
* Understanding of financial accounting concepts including journal posting gained through fund/ investment accounting experience
* Strong reconciliation experience including; control account reconciliations, trade and settlement reconciliations, variance analysis and root cause analysis

What you'll get in return
This role is paying a competitive salary DOE plus other benefits.

What you need to do now
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