Fund Accounting - Officer

We are seeking a seasoned Fund Accounting Manager to oversee day‑to‑day administration services, ensuring timely delivery of high‑quality deliverables that meet client service level agreements and agreed quality standards.

• Oversee valuations for specified clients and ensure all relevant checks to the funds’ NAVs, including benchmarks and reasonability reports, are completed.
• Maintain managerial oversight of all operations conducted by the Fund Group.
• Act as the escalation point for technical issues encountered in daily business, ensuring prompt resolution.
• Ensure staff are sufficiently trained and available to service clients and deliver quality service.
• Monitor errors, breach potential losses and complete loss‑breach documentation, ensuring remediation actions and training are implemented.
• Attend service calls as required and plan confirmed projects accordingly.
• Act as the primary liaison for all Fund Accounting activities, continually reviewing the operating environment and implementing improvements where necessary.
• Collaborate with Client Relationship Managers to understand current and future state gaps, business impacts, and to support project initiatives.
• Serve as a subject‑matter expert during client visits or projects requiring technical knowledge of the process.
• Log and resolve enquiries, escalating queries within agreed timescales.
• Manage a team of staff, providing training, coaching and development aligned with their career paths.
• Lead projects, perform team and department level analysis of processes, and run initiatives related to all aspects of the business at the departmental level.

Location:

Riyadh, KSA (may include other Middle East domicile funds).

• Primary degree or a professional/accounting qualification (or equivalent).
• Four or more years of experience in fund administration services or a related area of the financial services industry.
• Proven experience managing a team in a financial services environment.
• Proficiency in MS Office tools, particularly Word and Excel.
• Strong numeracy and literacy skills.
• Excellent communication, organisational and report‑writing abilities.
• Fluency in Arabic and English (spoken and written); ability to translate and review statements for operational needs.
• Confidence in dealing with all situations, fostering collaboration and teamwork.
• Talent development, self‑motivation, enthusiasm and flexibility.
• Leadership and motivating skills, trustworthiness and self‑reliance.

• Permanent contract of employment from day one.
• Premium life insurance package and private pension plan.
• Employee savings plan.
• Wide range of soft‑skills training, technical workshops, language classes and development programmes.
• Opportunities to volunteer your time through company‑driven initiatives, employee networks, and organisations of your choice.
• Variety of well‑being programmes.
• Technical or leadership career pathway options.