Analyst Accounting Oversight

If you are a high-energy individual with a strong work ethic, outstanding communication skills, and enjoy working in a team atmosphere, we would like to speak with you.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Includes the following, other duties may be assigned as needed:

• Oversight and Valuation
  • Perform NAV Oversight and review pricing exceptions and corporate actions to ensure Fund NAVs are accurate
  • Monitory and report potential fund issues or violations
  • Custody/Accounting reconciliation review

• Treasury
• Monitor segregation and cash/borrowing accounts to ensure adequate coverage is maintained; report issues to management
• Monitor Fund’s defaulted, restricted, and illiquid positions
• Calculate Funds’ dividend distributions
• Reporting
• Prepare certain Pricing Committee and Board of Trustees reports, including quarterly compensation statements for the Trustees
• Prepare semi and annual financial statements for SEC and shareholder reporting
• Review monthly N-PORT filings to the SEC
• Solvency Reporting
• Prepare Fund expense payments and forecast profitability

Supervisory Responsibilities              

None

Qualifications

• Interest for investing and an understanding of financial markets
• Knowledge about different asset classes (equity, fixed income) and investment products (mutual funds, ETFs)
• Quantitative orientation; track record of data analysis

• Exposure to financial systems and software packages
• Advanced knowledge of Excel; experience using computer software, including Bloomberg

Education and/or Experience                                            

• Bachelor Degree in accounting is preferred but other business degrees will be considered
• Internship in financial organization preferred
• 1+ year of related industry experience preferred; not required

General Competencies                                           

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Ability to work independently and take a task to completion
• Understanding how to prioritize projects and when to escalate issues
• Track record of hands-on problem solving
• Ability to analyze data
• History of successful multitasking
• Strong communication skills
• History of successfully working in teams

Language and Communication Skills                                           

• Strong communication skills, sharing important information with other departments
• Candidate needs to work with peers, portfolio managers and third party representatives

VanEck is committed to treating all applicants and employees fairly and to providing equal opportunity in compliance with applicable federal, state and local laws. VanEck does not and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, color, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, covered-veteran or military status, genetic information, and/or any other factor protected by law.