Fund Accounting Associate

**Fund Accounting Associate**

Stanford Management Company (SMC), the University’s investment office, invests the Merged Pool, which includes substantially all of the University’s investable endowment assets. The investment portfolio is designed with the dual goals of preserving the purchasing power of the Endowment for future generations of Stanford students and scholars and enabling a robust annual disbursement to the University’s operating budget. SMC primarily relies on carefully chosen external partners to select individual securities, allowing Stanford to benefit from specialized knowledge in asset classes that reward superior active management.

**CORE DUTIES**:

- Provide constituents with relevant, accurate, and consistent information for investment oversight and decision making.
- Maintain the integrity of accounting and investment data for Merged Pool investments.
- Monitor all investment approvals and activity, accurately record activity, and serve as the primary interface with internal and external parties.
- Maintain strong control environment to comply with established policies and controls. Recommend process and control improvements as needed.
- Process, review, and analyze investment valuations and transactions. Perform complex reconciliations to ensure consistency with custodian records.
- Participate as a member of a project team, support new initiatives. Make decisions determining approach to managing and completing processes.
- Work closely with Investment Team, other teams across SMC, the University and other external service providers to identify and resolve issues.
- _Other duties may also be assigned_

**MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**:
**Education & Experience**:

- Bachelor’s degree and three years of applicable experience in the areas of investment operations, accounting, and/or investment management, fund administration, or a combination of education and relevant work experience.

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**:

- Demonstrated quantitative and analytical skills, including performance, attribution, and financial analysis.
- Experience with performance and attribution systems.
- Understanding of securities industry including derivatives and other complex financial instruments as well as security asset classes, investment processing, business protocol, and reporting standards.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with accounting systems.
- Strong professional communication skills, including ability to prepare materials for and clearly and effectively communicate information to internal and external audiences, client groups, and management.
- Strong project management skills and demonstrated initiative with strong attention to detail.

**Certifications and Licenses**:

- None

**WORK **ENVIRONMENT**:

- Hybrid work schedule

**PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS**:

- Constantly sitting.
- Frequently perform desk-based computer tasks, use telephone, writing by hand, sort/file paperwork.
- Occasionally stand/walk, lift/carry objects weighing 11-20 pounds.
- Rarely reach/work above shoulder.
- _Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job._

**WORKING CONDITIONS**:

- Routine and extended working hours during peak cycles.

**WORK STANDARDS**:

- Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
- Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.
- We are not able to provide relocation or sponsorship for this position.

**Why Stanford is for You**
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