Fund Servicing Associate

Job Description
Lead the charge in maintaining precise accounting records for private equity assets, ensuring top-quality operations and client satisfaction in a dynamic financial environment.
As a Fund Servicing Associate within our Institutional Fund Accounting Services - Pension Utility Team, you will be responsible for overseeing the maintenance of accurate accounting and securities records for private equity assets, ensuring adherence to prescribed controls in fund accounting processes. In this role, you will manage client queries and relationships, oversee UK/US pension funds, and ensure the accuracy and timeliness of asset valuations. You will identify and validate major value movers, liaise with global Fund Managers, and reconcile their accounting data with internal outputs. Additionally, you will manage a team responsible for processing client contributions and withdrawals, ensuring operational procedures are followed accurately and timely. With your strong background in banking or financial services, excellent analytical skills, and experience in people management, you will be committed to providing top-quality operations support.
Job responsibilities:

• Maintain accurate accounting and securities records for each private equity asset, ensuring adherence to prescribed controls for fund accounting processes.
• Manage client queries and relationships with the support of the oversight team.
• Oversee UK/US-based pension funds by performing asset valuations and validations to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
• Ensure all valuations produced are correct and comprehensible.
• Identify major value movers and validate them through established procedures.
• Liaise with Fund Managers globally to reconcile their accounting data with internal outputs.
• Manage the team responsible for processing client contributions and withdrawals.
• Ensure adherence to operational procedures for accurate and timely task completion.
• Support supervisors in providing top-quality operations for the global business.
• Document procedures and identify additional control requirements, while providing training for new hires.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Graduate or Post-graduate degree
• Demonstrates meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to work effectively in a deadline-driven environment
• Client-focused approach
• Proactive in using initiative and readily questioning
• Possesses strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Control-oriented mindset
• Proficient in computer usage
• Exhibits a positive, 'can do' attitude
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in the banking or financial services industry, or with an accounting firm
• Experience in an automated processing environment
• Strong people management skills; with the ability to communicate effectively within a small team
• Solid understanding of security types and their accounting treatment
• Awareness of stock market practices and data vendor systems (e.g., Bloomberg)
• Knowledge of the processes involving a fund's Custodian Bank and Investment Manager
• Flexibility to support department projects and work overtime during peak production periods

About Us
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
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About the Team
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.