Title: Fund Accountant
Rate: 31.72/hr. on W2
Location: Boston, MA 02210
Expected Duration: 6-month contract with possible extension and conversion to FTE
Posting description
As an Analyst in our Securities Valuation team, you will be responsible to capture and validate security prices that are used to calculate and submit a mutual fund’s Net Asset Value (NAV) for a number of clients. you will be spending your time for analyzing pricing movements against market expectations and liaising with pricing vendors to resolve issues and minimize risks associated with it by adopting a process improvement attitude. You would be the perfect fit for us if you have great attention to details, ability to deliver time-sensitive tasks, and a passion to drive solutions across organizational boundaries. Securities Valuations offers the opportunity to work within a hybrid environment.
Job responsibilities
- Ability to process and review security level prices provided by different pricing vendors
- Compare and contrast price changes with what the market anticipates
- Communicate with pricing vendors to solve problems and reduce risk
- Resolve internal client queries promptly and professionally
- Escalate all issues promptly and effectively to supervisor
- Contribute to ongoing developments of the pricing control process
- Ability to work accurately under pressure and meet deadlines.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Mathematical mindset demonstrating strong numerical skills
- Bachelor’s degree with preference in Finance, Accounting, or Economics
- Demonstrate an understanding and interest in stocks, bonds, options, derivative, and financial markets and products
- Intermediate to Advanced MS Excel skills, including pivot tables and v-look ups
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative and cross-functional environment
- Ability to synthesize large amounts of information to inform decisions in order to drive work forward
- Demonstrate ability to effectively communicate within a team environment and interact across departments.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Ability to work flexible working hours to cover occasional late finishes as demanded by the business.
- Demonstrate client focus, strong communication skills, and follow-up skills
- Ability to question, elicit, and drill down into both qualitative and quantitative data and concepts
- Ability to drive Business Results and define and measure Value Creation
5-10 years96
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Download ResumeTitle: Fund Accountant
Rate: 31.72/hr. on W2
Location: Boston, MA 02210
Expected Duration: 6-month contract with possible extension and conversion to FTE
Posting description
As an Analyst in our Securities Valuation team, you will be responsible to capture and validate security prices that are used to calculate and submit a mutual fund’s Net Asset Value (NAV) for a number of clients. you will be spending your time for analyzing pricing movements against market expectations and liaising with pricing vendors to resolve issues and minimize risks associated with it by adopting a process improvement attitude. You would be the perfect fit for us if you have great attention to details, ability to deliver time-sensitive tasks, and a passion to drive solutions across organizational boundaries. Securities Valuations offers the opportunity to work within a hybrid environment.
Job responsibilities
- Ability to process and review security level prices provided by different pricing vendors
- Compare and contrast price changes with what the market anticipates
- Communicate with pricing vendors to solve problems and reduce risk
- Resolve internal client queries promptly and professionally
- Escalate all issues promptly and effectively to supervisor
- Contribute to ongoing developments of the pricing control process
- Ability to work accurately under pressure and meet deadlines.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Mathematical mindset demonstrating strong numerical skills
- Bachelor’s degree with preference in Finance, Accounting, or Economics
- Demonstrate an understanding and interest in stocks, bonds, options, derivative, and financial markets and products
- Intermediate to Advanced MS Excel skills, including pivot tables and v-look ups
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative and cross-functional environment
- Ability to synthesize large amounts of information to inform decisions in order to drive work forward
- Demonstrate ability to effectively communicate within a team environment and interact across departments.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Ability to work flexible working hours to cover occasional late finishes as demanded by the business.
- Demonstrate client focus, strong communication skills, and follow-up skills
- Ability to question, elicit, and drill down into both qualitative and quantitative data and concepts
- Ability to drive Business Results and define and measure Value Creation