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Investment Operations & Fund Accounting Analyst

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United States$75–$110 per hour
Hiring companyMercor
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About the role

You'll complete self-contained operations exercises from mock files (ledgers, statements, notices) and produce the analyst deliverable for each, graded against a rubric.

Details

Contract, hourly (~15 hrs/week), remote, US-based. Pay $75-110/hr based on experience.

Contract and Payment Terms

  • You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
  • This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
  • Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
  • Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.

Responsibilities

  • Reconcile ledgers vs custodian / bank statements; isolate and explain every residual difference; produce the signed-off rec with adjusting entries.
  • Attribute NAV movements, flag components outside tolerance, and write the variance commentary.
  • Investigate trade breaks between two systems; identify root cause, classify the break, propose the fix, and draft the investigation narrative.
  • Process corporate-action events and compute entitlements per account; handle payment / transfer exceptions (repair / return / escalate); match messy merchant / vendor descriptors to a canonical registry.

Required skills

  • 3+ years in fund administration or investment operations (fund accounting, reconciliations, corporate actions, trade support / middle office, or payment operations) at a fund administrator, custodian, asset manager, or bank ops.
  • Hands-on with reconciliations, NAV, trade breaks, corporate actions, or payment / settlement exceptions; strong Excel.

Preferred skills

  • CPA or IOC; fund-accounting systems (SS&C / Geneva / Multifonds / InvestOne); SWIFT / settlement systems.

Assessment requirements

A ledger-vs-custodian reconciliation that must tie out; a NAV variance attribution; a trade-break root-cause + narrative.

Eligibility

Work arrangement: Fully remote

Eligible countries: United States

  • Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

Compensation details

$75–$110 per hour.

  • Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
More about the hiring companyMercor
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