Southern Ridges Capital is an investment firm managing fixed income, currency assets and derivatives by employing discretionary macro and relative value investment strategies. We are a fast-growing firm with a strong culture of collaboration and partnership. We take pride in striving to create a conducive environment for all professionals to succeed in their area of work. Southern Ridges operates out of 2 offices – Singapore and New York with headquarters in Singapore.
Product Controller and Fund Accountant
Fund Accountant Roles & Responsibilities:
- Shadow fund accounting. Perform weekly cash, position, PV and P&L reconciliation between fund administrator and our Portfolio Management System.
- Review fund administrator statements of weekly/monthly NAV, and review and approve investment transparency report.
- Work closely with Investor relations to prepare weekly and monthly estimates for investors once reconciliation is done and accounted for.
- Monitor and communicate with Traders on executing share class hedging exposure.
- Facilitate in fund accounting bookings on non-trading entries; review and confirm invoice for management and performance fees.
- Adhoc and yearly Fund Accountant matters. Review annual financial statements by Fund administrator, review and signoff annual and adhoc regulatory reporting filings prepared by fund administrator.
Product Controller Roles & Responsibilities:
- Generate daily P&L from portfolio management systems and reconcile with our managed account and fund admin’s official P&L, and investigate/resolve discrepancies with our managed account and fund administrators on all P&L related issues.
- Perform the P&L attribution of the fund and individual portfolio managers.
- Check data integrity of market data sources, understand the product valuations models and be able to troubleshoot any curves/market data issues.
- Work with Trading analyst/portfolio manager and operations to perform month-end sell-downs on non-USD currency cash balance.
- Review and signoff regulatory reporting fillings prepared by our fund administrator.
- Partner with various stakeholders (Fund administrator / External IT vendors / Internal IT team / Operations/ Trader Analysts/ PMs) to work on various projects to improve the process and add value to the firm.
Requirements:
- Degree with major in Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- 2- 4 years of working experience in Hedge fund’s Fund Accounting roles or Fund Administrator with exposure in Macro Products experience.
- Knowledge and experience in VBA excel and/or related programming languages (Python), able to articulate clearly business requirements to Technology team.
- Strong demonstration of being able to improve and scale workflow processes.
- Strong sense of ownership and ability to drive and lead in mini-projects and work with minimal supervision. Escalate when required. Pro-active, self-motivated, and a strong challenger mindset.
- Good time management and strong interpersonal skills in communication.