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Job Summary
BNY is seeking a Senior Fund Accountant to support mutual fund onboarding and conversion activity within a fund accounting operating environment. This role is responsible for overseeing fund conversions from legacy accounting platforms, supporting new business implementations, and ensuring accurate daily accounting, reconciliation, and NAV-related outputs throughout the conversion lifecycle.
The role operates on a hybrid schedule in Lake Mary, FL (4 days onsite, 1 day remote). Standard hours are generally 8:00 AM–5:00 PM ET.
Key Responsibilities
- Record-to-Report (R2R) Support: Assist in end-to-end accounting processes related to mutual fund conversions, including daily accounting support, reporting, and transition-related financial activities.
- General Ledger & Journal Entries: Prepare and review accounting entries associated with mutual fund activity, ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial data and related accounting workflows.
- Account Reconciliations: Perform and review reconciliations between legacy fund accounting systems and Eagle during parallel conversion periods, ensuring discrepancies are researched and resolved before go-live.
- Financial Data Analysis: Analyze and investigate reconciliation breaks, including items such as interest accruals, price differences, and other fund-level exceptions, to ensure accurate accounting results.
- Financial Close Support: Support key accounting cycle activities tied to daily and period-end fund accounting requirements, ensuring timely and accurate reporting throughout the conversion process.
- Regulatory & SOX Compliance: Support accounting processes in accordance with SOX controls, regulatory requirements, and established risk and control standards.
- Client Onboarding & Fund Conversion: Support onboarding of new mutual fund business and conversion of existing funds from legacy platforms into Eagle, including fund setup, parallel run oversight, reconciliation validation, and transition-to-live coordination.
- Audit & Reporting Support: Assist with audit requests, ad hoc reporting, and special projects related to fund accounting, onboarding, and conversion activities.
- Process Improvement & Metrics: Support continuous improvement efforts across conversion and reconciliation workflows, including tracking issues, identifying process gaps, and enhancing operational efficiency.
Qualifications
- 5-10+ years of relevant experience in fund accounting or mutual fund accounting
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
- Strong understanding of mutual fund accounting concepts, including daily subscriptions and redemptions, holdings, pricing, valuations, and NAV production
- Experience supporting accounting platform conversions, client onboarding, or parallel accounting runs
- Strong reconciliation experience, including ability to identify, investigate, and resolve accounting breaks
- Advanced Excel skills (data analysis, reconciliations, reporting)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Experience working in a time-sensitive, client-focused financial services environment
Preferred Experience
- Experience with Eagle, particularly fund setup, conversion activity, and post-conversion support
- Deep mutual fund accounting experience within asset servicing, asset management, custody, or banking environments
- Understanding of terminology and operational processes across fund accounting platforms and service providers
- Exposure to derivatives products and related accounting considerations
Why Join Us
This role provides the opportunity to play a key part in strategic mutual fund onboarding and conversion initiatives at BNY. You’ll work on high-priority new business and legacy platform conversions, gain hands-on exposure to Eagle and mutual fund accounting operations, and contribute to successful client transitions in a collaborative, experienced team environment.
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