Fedgroup’s Alternative Asset Management business is growing, and we’re looking for a qualified CA(SA) to join the team as Assistant Financial Controller. Reporting to the Financial Controller, you’ll take ownership of financial reporting and control across a portfolio of lending funds and legal entities, covering month-end close and reconciliations through to annual financial statements, IFRS 9 and audit.

This role suits a technically strong Chartered Accountant who wants to build specialised expertise in lending and fund finance, with real responsibility from day one and a clear path towards a Financial Controller role.

What You’ll Do

Financial Reporting and Fund Accounting

• Own the monthly management accounts, journals, reconciliations and reporting packs for assigned funds and entities
• Ensure general ledger balances are accurate, fully supported and reconciled to the loan management system, bank and investor records
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies between finance and loan book data, addressing root causes
• Prepare annual financial statements and IFRS disclosures for assigned entities

Lending Finance and IFRS 9

• Review and validate the accounting for loan drawdowns, repayments, interest income, fees, funding costs, restructures and write-offs
• Prepare effective interest rate calculations, deferred fee schedules and modification accounting
• Drive the monthly ECL process, including reconciling model outputs to the loan book and ledger, preparing journals and explaining movements
• Report on portfolio performance, including yield, cost of funds, net interest margin, arrears and ECL coverage

Audit, Controls and Compliance

• Manage audit deliverables for assigned entities, including schedules, supporting documentation and responses to audit queries
• Prepare statutory, tax and regulatory reporting inputs
• Maintain audit-ready working papers throughout the year
• Take ownership of resolving control findings and strengthening the control environment

Budgeting, Treasury and Management Information

• Prepare budgets, forecasts and financial models for assigned funds
• Analyse profitability by fund, product and portfolio segment
• Support cash-flow monitoring, funding reconciliations, liquidity planning and covenant reporting
• Contribute to investor, board and credit committee reporting

Process Improvement and Stakeholder Collaboration

• Identify and implement improvements to reporting processes, reconciliations and finance systems, including automation
• Partner with Operations, Credit Risk, Treasury, Technology and fund principals
• Explain financial results clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders

What You’ll Bring

Qualifications and Experience

• Qualified Chartered Accountant, CA(SA)
• At least 2 years’ post-articles experience in financial reporting, financial control, audit or fund accounting
• Strong technical knowledge of IFRS, particularly IFRS 9
• Hands-on experience with management accounts, balance-sheet reconciliations, annual financial statements and audit
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with an ERP or general ledger system
• Lending experience within alternative asset management, private credit, banking or fund administration would be advantageous
• Exposure to loan management systems, Power BI or SQL would be a plus

Skills and Attributes

• High standards of accuracy, with a firm unwillingness to leave differences unexplained
• Ability to work independently and take full ownership of deliverables
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to link accounting movements to loan book activity and business performance
• Clear, confident communication with senior stakeholders
• Ability to manage competing deadlines across month-end, audit and reporting cycles
• A drive to improve processes and build scalable reporting

Why Join Us?
You’ll join a growing alternative asset management business where your work directly shapes reporting quality, financial control and decision-making. Working alongside an experienced Financial Controller, you’ll gain end-to-end exposure to the lending-finance cycle, including fund accounting, IFRS 9, treasury, forecasting and investor reporting.

Contact information

Wilma Allaoui