Investment Operations Accountant

3 days ago

Beckenham, Greater London, United Kingdom Foresters Financial Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Investment Operations Accountant to join our Financial Operations team at Foresters Financial. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in enhancing our unit pricing, investment accounting, and operational capability and control environment.

Key Responsibilities
  • Support the team by independently operating daily investment operations processes, including appropriations, treasury, trade placement, unit pricing, and fund valuation.
  • Act as a senior professional in the team, reviewing all inputs into the ledger originating from investment and treasury systems, signing off reconciliations, and enhancing and developing a robust and effective control environment.
  • Enhance strategic capability within the Investment Operations area through the delivery of a significant process improvement and change portfolio, including a system upgrade, delivering a catalogue of identified best practice procedural improvements, and enhancing controls and operational processes such as fund tax, fund rebates, and box management.
  • Assume responsibility for all investment accounting and reporting tasks, acting as a subject matter expert for the accounting of unit-linked funds and retail investment products.
  • Take a lead in internal projects, such as deep dives into asset liability matching reconciliations, shareholder and policyholder dual accounting intrafund and intercompany positions, and reviewing rebate arrangements on managed portfolios.
  • Deliver organic idea generation, actionable management insights, and best practice recommendations as pertains to all things Investment Operations and Treasury, exploring automation, API's, SFTP integrations, and onboarding of systems to reduce and eliminate dependency on manual processes.
  • Support key stakeholders in the wider business to understand and interpret financial results, management information, and contribute to regulatory reporting outputs, such as Solvency II reporting.
Requirements
  • Significant experience in an investment accounting and reporting function, familiarity with unit-linked funds and retail investment products.
  • 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 (e.g. InvestPro, pControl, HiPortfolio).
  • Strong reconciliation experience, including control account reconciliations, trade and settlement reconciliations, variance analysis, and root cause analysis.
  • A good understanding and appreciation of financial and operational controls, with experience of designing, implementing, and operating controls on an ongoing basis and building and maintaining robust control frameworks.
Desirable Skills
  • Passionate about process improvement and the utilisation of technology and tools to automate and improve processes, e.g. AI, Python.
  • Good understanding of the key participants in the trade and pricing lifecycle for unit-linked funds, including transfer agents, custodians, fund managers, price disseminators, dealing platforms, and Investment systems.
  • Good working knowledge of the post-trade operating environment, including corporate actions, asset servicing, cash settlement reconciliations, and fund accounting and reporting.
  • Experience of sourcing prices from Bloomberg and/or valuing portfolios of baskets of derivative instruments.
  • Experience of preparing management information for governance and oversight forums, e.g. tracking error, adhered to strategic asset allocation, KRIs, and performance monitoring.
  • Familiarity with the ABI's Guide to Best Practice for Unit Linked Funds.
  • Familiarity with unit pricing concepts, including hierarchical pricing, box management.

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