Graduate Fund Accountant | Investment Funds & Financial Services

Are you good with numbers, curious about investing and looking for something more interesting than a traditional graduate accounting role?

FundBase Group is looking for a smart, ambitious Graduate Fund Accountant to join our Sydney team.

This isn't a role where we want you simply processing numbers and following last year's spreadsheet.

We want someone who wants to understand why the numbers are what they are, how investment funds actually operate, how transactions flow through a fund and how accounting connects with investments, investors, tax, regulation and technology.

If you're intellectually curious, commercially minded and the sort of person who keeps asking “how does this actually work?”, we'd like to meet you.

About the role

Fund accounting sits at the centre of an investment fund.

As a Graduate Fund Accountant, you'll develop practical experience across the operation and administration of investment funds, working alongside people with backgrounds in funds management, accounting, financial services, compliance and technology.

Depending on the funds you're working with, you'll gain exposure to areas such as:

- Fund accounting and financial reporting
- Investment and cash reconciliations
- Transaction and capital activity
- Unit pricing and NAV calculations
- Investor applications, redemptions and distributions
- Management and investor reporting
- Annual accounts, tax reporting and audit support
- Fund administration and registry
- Working with investment managers, auditors, banks, custodians and other service providers
- Using technology and automation to make fund operations better

FundBase supports investment managers across strategies including listed equities, hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, private credit, property, infrastructure and alternative investments. That variety matters. Early in your career, we think learning across different funds, investments and business models is far more valuable than becoming very good at one repetitive process.

We are looking for brains, not just accounting credentials

Yes, you need to be comfortable with accounting and numbers.

But we're much more interested in finding someone who can think.

- Intellectually curious – You do not stop at knowing what to do. You want to know why.




- Analytical – You enjoy pulling something apart, spotting what does not make sense and working out the answer.
- Exceptionally detail-oriented – In investment funds, small errors matter. You take ownership of the accuracy of your work.
- Commercial – You understand that accounting is not performed in a vacuum. You want to understand the fund, its investments, its manager and its investors.
- Proactive – If you do not know something, you investigate, ask intelligent questions and learn.
- Comfortable with responsibility – We are a small team. You will receive support and mentoring, but you will also be expected to think for yourself and increasingly own your work.
- Interested in technology – We do not think the future of fund accounting is manually repeating the same processes forever. We want people interested in making those processes smarter.

What we're looking for You may be completing, or have recently completed, a degree in:

- Accounting
- Finance
- Commerce
- Economics
- A related discipline

An accounting major is helpful, but raw ability, curiosity and attitude matter more to us than having the perfect CV. Previous experience in accounting, investments or financial services is useful, but it isn't essential.

If you've spent your university years following financial markets, investing, building spreadsheets, analysing companies, playing with data or simply trying to understand how businesses work, tell us. We're interested.

Why FundBase?

FundBase was created to solve a problem in the investment industry: launching and operating a fund traditionally requires managers to coordinate a fragmented group of providers covering areas such as licensing, trustee services, compliance, custody, administration, registry, accounting, tax and technology. FundBase brings those capabilities together into an integrated fund infrastructure business.

We've also built proprietary technology around the way funds are actually established and administered,



connecting processes from investor onboarding and KYC through registry, transactions, fund accounting, investor reporting and tax reporting.

For a graduate, that creates something we think is fairly rare:

You get to see the whole machine.

Rather than learning one narrow accounting function inside a large organisation, you'll work in a small specialist team and see how accounting fits together with investments, fund operations, regulation, investors and technology.

Our team is deliberately small, with expertise across fund operations and administration, accounting, AML/CTF, investor onboarding, compliance, governance, technology and client service.

You'll learn from people who have actually established, managed and operated investment funds and financial services businesses.

What you'll get

- Hands-on exposure to the investment funds industry from the beginning
- Direct access to experienced financial services professionals
- Experience across multiple investment strategies and fund structures
- A small-team environment where good people can take on responsibility quickly
- Exposure beyond pure accounting into fund operations, financial services, technology and investments
- Genuine chance to contribute ideas and improve how things are done
- A specialist skillset in an important part of Australia’s financial services industry

Most importantly, you won't disappear into a graduate intake of 100 people. You'll be part of the team.

Who shouldn't apply

We're probably not the right place if you're looking for a highly structured graduate program where someone gives you a checklist every morning and tells you exactly what to do.

We're also not looking for someone who chose accounting simply because it seemed like the safe career option.

But if you're ambitious, numerate, curious about markets and business, and want a steep learning curve, we'd really like to hear from you.

How to apply

Please send us

- A short CV, maximum two pages
- A brief expression of interest, maximum one page

Don't send us a generic cover letter. Instead, tell us:

Why does working with investment funds interest you, and what is something you have taught yourself simply because you wanted to understand it?

We're much more interested in your answer to that question than a perfectly polished application.

📌 Graduate Fund Accountant | Investment Funds & Financial Services (Sydney)
🏢 FundBase Group Pty
📍 Sydney