Team Leader: Fund Accounting

Applications Close 06 October 2026

Cape Town, South Africa

Operations Manager, Investment Management

• Undergraduate degree in Commerce, Finance or Accounting. CA (SA) preferred

• 8+ years’ experience in investment management or related industry
• 5+ years’ management experience

Ris Cura complies with the Employment Equity Act and will fill all roles in accordance with our Employment Equity strategy and to the specification of the business area. Applicants who have not heard back from Human Resources within one month of the closing date should consider their application unsuccessful.

• Responsible for the management of the financial accounting and reporting function that is responsible for producing and distributing accounting and regulatory reporting for clients.
• Ensures controls and procedures are in place and properly recorded.
• Monitors compliance by the team.
• Guides and supports the team as an escalation point for technical knowledge. Addresses gaps in knowledge through training.
• Manages performance of direct reports and deliverables of the Fund Accounting team.

• Checking that Fund Accounting team’s processes and procedures for producing fund accounting and performance reporting are followed and completed within defined deadlines.
• Provide support for technical knowledge for the team. Guide them with resolving reconciliation differences and investigations.
• Review team deliverables before sending to clients, including:
  • Daily reconciliation of investment accounting records to different sources
  • Monthly reconciliation of unitisation data to asset manager data
  • Monthly client performance reporting
  • Fund Fact Sheets
  • Quarterly Regulatory reporting (eg. SARB Asset Allocation Reports)
  • Quarterly Total Investment Costs (TIC) calculations
• Resolving queries and escalations related to activities performed by the Fund Accounting team.
• Work closely with the Administration, Trade Rebalancing and Client Servicing teams to ensure that client portfolios are accurately reconciled and reported on.
• Ensure controls and procedures are in place and monitor compliance by the team.
• Proactively raise issues and address promptly to resolve gaps and prevent reoccurrence of errors.
• Ensure that staff are trained and equipped to perform their duties. Proactively identify training needs and ensure that training is conducted.
• Coach and mentor all direct reports. Identify development areas and guide team members in growing their careers.
• Manage team performance and address disciplinary matters that may arise.
• Participate in the recruitment and onboarding activities of new team members
• Preparing monthly data and management report packs.
• Assist in preparing proposals, client report-backs and other ad hoc queries / reports.
• Attend external meetings to address queries related to the deliverables produced by the Fund Accounting Team.
• Drive documentation of processes and procedures for the Fund Accounting team.
• Address gaps in knowledge through conducting training for Trade Rebalancing Team and other Operations teams.
• Initiate, drive and support internal improvement initiatives within the Invest department to ensure continuous business improvement.
• Perform user acceptance testing of enhancements and change requests on systems and applications used by the team as required

• Ability to delegate effectively, plan for and meet deadlines.
• Manage priorities for the Administration team.
• Easily adapt to changes in the business environment.
• Use initiative, be pro-active and with problem solving abilities.
• Think in a structured way and can document processes
• Attention to detail.
• Quick learner.
• Communicate clearly and professionally, both verbally and in writing.
• Strong numeric and analytical ability.
• Interpret, analyse and able to handle large quantities of data.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Liaising with Asset Managers and Fund Administrators.
• Knowledge of concepts relating to unitisation.
• Understand pension fund and investment management industry trends.
• Able to work independently but also be a team player.
• Willing to put in long hours when needed.

• Fund Accounting Team Members
• Internal teams such as Transition, Trade Rebalancing, Client Servicing, Analytics and Portfolio Management Team
• Systems Development Team and external systems development companies
• External parties such as Asset Managers, Auditors and Employee Benefit Administrators

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