Controllers, AWM Mutual Fund Controllers, Associate, Jersey City

Job Description

The AWM Mutual Fund Controllers team is responsible for overseeing numerous SEC registered investment companies including open-end and closed-end mutual funds (both onshore and offshore) and ETFs. These funds include a wide array of strategies and products in an ever changing landscape. The AWM Mutual Fund Controllers team is responsible for the accounting, finance, and treasury functions of these products.

Responsibilities

• Manage the financial reporting process with external legal counsel, auditors, and funds’ accounting agents. Establish all accounting policies and perform financial statement analysis (including knowledge of US GAAP/IFRS).
• Establish and monitor financial control framework, both internally, and that of the funds’ external accounting agents.
• Large scale analytical procedures on various fund metrics that are necessary for sales and marketing materials, corporate profitability, and portfolio oversight
• Ensure accuracy of Fund’ Net Asset Values via control governance of external accounting agents.
• Oversight and coordination of funds’ major treasury functions.
• Analysis of funds’ dividends including insight to the organization on movement and factors that can increase and decrease these amounts.
• Assist with setting fund fees, in accordance with the firm’s pricing philosophy, for Registration Statements.
• Prepare written materials on recurring and ad-hoc basis for Board of Trustees and senior management (including updates to regulatory requirements, accounting and treasury policies, external accounting agent governance, Funds’ statistics, etc.).
• Drive strategic process change and new/enhanced capabilities by partnering with Technology. Consistently exposed to new proprietary and third party systems and software.
• Liaison with several groups including portfolio management, tax, legal, and sales on new product development and existing fund requirements
• Research various industry developments and share critical components with relevant teams
  
  

Requirements

• Basic financial product knowledge and general market awareness
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work both independently and in a team environment
• Self-starter with ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Highly-motivated with strong interpersonal skills
• Full working knowledge of Microsoft office suite of applications; knowledge of analytical tools such as Tableau and Qlik a plus
• 3-5 years of relevant work experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance (CPA/CFA preferred)
  
  

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this Jersey City, New Jersey, United States-based position is $85000-$140000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits

Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here .

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