Senior Fund Accountant

Business Unit: Fund Accounting – BNP Paribas Fund Administration Services Limited

Contract Type: Fixed-Term Contract (12 months)

Location: Sandyford, Dublin/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

• 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 onshore Senior Fund Accountant (SFA) role is responsible for the validation and release of the Nav price for funds completed offshore and the management of client interaction, including responses on queries and the sending of reports.

The validation process involves oversight of the Nav Pack completed by our offshore teams and a high level review of any exceptions in our exception based system prior to Nav price release. Client queries, monthly reporting requirements and adhoc client report requests are managed by the SFA through Hobart, a query management tool.

SFA's are expected to have daily engagement with a number of different stakeholders in the valuation process, such as internal Transfer Agency, Depository, Client Service Management teams, and external Investment Managers, Management Companies, Auditors and brokers.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and respond to queries from our offshore teams received via Outlook
• Escalate or communicate issues/queries on a NAV with a client, IM, broker or any other external or internal team where required
• Attend daily touch point calls with onshore and offshore teams. (to note there could be two daily touch point calls)
• Manage allocated deliverables through active engagement with offshore teams
• Review and release of super exceptions in PControl ensuring valid comments are input by the offshore Nav team and relevant back up is saved down, where needed, as part of the NAV Pack
• Update team allocation tracker regularly throughout the day
• Communicate and collaborate regularly throughout the day with fellow SFA's via the team Skype chat
• Take ownership of any queries received in Hobart/ team Outlook DL that relate to allocated deliverables
• Respond to assigned queries received from clients, IM's or any other external/internal team in Hobart by EOD with an aim to close all queries within 24 hours where possible
• Escalate queries to a Team Leader/Assistant Manager where required
• Communicate and highlight client issues to the relevant CSM
• Complete monthly balance sheet reviews as per team allocation
• Take ownership of additional assigned daily/monthly adhoc tasks including but not limited to review of monthly admin and quarterly board packs, monthly fee reviews and completion/review of monthly OCR
• Assist the Financial Reporting team with audit and semi-annual financial statement queries, taking ownership of FA queries on allocated funds
• Responsible for cross training team members on tasks and any unique aspects of client reviews/queries when requested by the Team Leader to ensure adequate support and coverage on the team
• Review and comment on aged cash/position breaks, stale prices file for allocated funds and represent the team in weekly department Rec Committee meetings
• Attend monthly team meetings in order to provide feedback on deliverables/processes

Qualifications & Experience required for this roles

• A minimum of 2-3 years Fund Accounting experience with final Nav release experience preferred
• Good outlook and excel knowledge
• Good knowledge of Fund accounting, including Custodian and Prime Brokers/Counterparty activities
• Leadership skills, including mentoring, assessment, training, and development planning
• A good understanding of mutual and hedge fund investment types, strategy, and performance fees
• Experience of dealing directly with clients and other external stakeholders
• Prior experience using accounting systems such as Multifonds preferred but not essential
• 'End to end' of valuation process experience preferred but not essential
• A third level qualification preferably in a business or accounting related discipline
• Excellent organisational skills

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