Client Accountant – Funds

IQ-EQ; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Private health and dental cover

Life assurance

Discounted gym membership

Eye tests

Flexible working

Career progression & learning

Job summary

IQ-EQ is seeking a proactive accounting professional to act as the day-to-day front office contact for designated private equity, real estate, credit, or debt fund clients in the UK. You will contribute to a supportive team, manage tasks, and ensure deliverables are completed on time.

You will build client relationships, handle queries, and deepen your technical accounting knowledge through NAV calculations and regulatory reporting requirements, while supporting junior team members and driving

Qualifications

• Higher education qualification (e.g., IATI) and ACCA/ACA/CIMA or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Act as day-to-day front office contact for designated private equity, real estate, credit, or debt fund clients.
• Gain experience across fund structures, asset classes and investment strategies.
• Build strong client relationships and own client deliverables, queries and reporting deadlines.
• Strengthen accounting knowledge through complex fund structures, financial reporting, NAV calculations and regulatory requirements.
• Understand the fund lifecycle from day-to-day accounting to investor reporting.
• Work with clients, investment managers, auditors and stakeholders to develop communication and relationships.
• Take ownership of portfolio and manage competing priorities to deliver high-quality service.
• Tackle diverse accounting challenges and identify process improvements.

Skills

Team player

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Eye for detail

Education

Higher education qualification (e.g., IATI)

ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified

3+ years in professional office environment

Strong accounting expertise with reviewing working papers and financial statements

Experience managing client relationships

Intermediate Excel skills

Tools

Excel

Job description

Every day brings a new challenge so you’ll need to be a team player at heart, with an eye for detail and great organisational skills so you can prioritise your day to ensure deadlines are met and timelines are adhered to. Your primary responsibility will be to act as a day-to-day front office contact for your designated private equity, real estate, credit, or debt fund clients. You will be a part of a supportive team, own your tasks and proactively manage your deliverables and resolve any issues that may arise.

What you will do

• Funds – Gain experience across a variety of fund structures, asset classes and investment strategies, broadening your expertise and commercial understanding
• Client Ownership & Relationship Management – Build strong client relationships, act as a key point of contact and take ownership of client deliverables, queries and reporting deadlines.
• Technical Accounting Development – Strengthen your technical accounting knowledge through complex fund structures, financial reporting, NAV calculations and regulatory requirements
• End-to-End Fund Oversight – Develop a thorough understanding of the fund lifecycle, from day-to-day accounting and reconciliations to financial statements and investor reporting
• Commercial & Client-Facing Experience – Work closely with clients, investment managers, auditors and other stakeholders, developing valuable communication and relationship management skills
• Autonomy & Responsibility – Take ownership of your portfolio, manage competing priorities and play an active role in delivering a high-quality service to clients
• Varied & Challenging Work – Move beyond routine processing and tackle a diverse range of accounting challenges, with opportunities to improve processes and add value to clients

What we Offer

• Comprehensive remuneration - Motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile
• Pension Scheme - Generous employer contribution with the ability to allow and increase employee contributions
• Wellbeing - Additional social benefits such as private health and dental cover, life assurance, discounted gym membership, eye test and corporate GP
• Annual leave - All our employees are entitled to 25 days paid leave, plus all UK public holidays. Enhanced maternity and paternity, including shared parental leave and adoption leave
• Flexible working - We recognise the value of working flexibly and is keen to ensure all employees enjoy an excellent work-life blend. As such, we are open to conversations with employees related to setting up flexible working arrangements
• Clear Career Progression – Access structured development opportunities, with the potential to progress into senior accounting, client management or leadership positions
• Continuous Learning & Professional Development – Expand your skill set through hands‑on experience, technical training and support towards relevant professional qualification
• A Platform for Long-Term Growth – Build a well‑rounded skill set combining technical accounting expertise, client management and commercial awareness to support your long‑term career ambitions

Qualifications

• You will hold a higher education qualification (e.g., IATI) and be ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified, qualified by experience, or equivalent.
• You will bring 3+ years of experience in a professional office environment, ideally within financial services or an accounting practice managing multiple client relationships.
• You will demonstrate strong accounting expertise, including reviewing working papers and financial statements (with disclosures) or equivalent experience supported by CPD.
• You will have proven experience managing client relationships and resolving issues directly with clients in a professional manner.
• You will support and mentor junior team members while applying intermediate Excel skills to enhance efficiency and accuracy in you

Additional information

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT

As a forward-looking business, sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining meaningful, long-term relationships with all our stakeholders – including our employees, clients, and local communities – while also reducing our impact on our natural environment.

There is always more we can, and should do, to improve – whether in relation to our people, our clients, our planet, or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.

Our learning and development programmes and systems (including PowerU and MyCampus) enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers, while our hybrid working approach supports our employees in achieving balance and flexibility while remaining connected to their colleagues. We want to empower our 5,500+ employees - from 94 nationalities, speaking 41 languages across 25 countries - to each achieve their potential. Through IQ-EQ Launchpad we support female managers launching their first fund, in an environment where only 15% of all private equity and venture capital firms are gender balanced.

We’re committed to growing long-term relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients' sustainability and success leads to our sustainability and success. We’re emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.

Company description

ABOUT IQ-EQ

Is a global investor services group with deep expertise in private markets. We support investment managers, asset owners and global businesses with the administration, compliance, governance, data and reporting that their structures depend on.

Across 25 jurisdictions, our 6,500+ professionals combine technical strength, connected technology and human understanding – the IQ and the EQ – to free clients from operational complexity and give them the peace of mind to focus on their core business activities.

Our IQ is our technical, regulatory and operational expertise, underpinned by data, technology and coordinated global delivery. Our EQ is our human partnership: understanding the business behind the numbers, the culture behind the structures and the individuals behind the screens.

With more than US$950 billion of assets under administration, our global client base includes 13 of the world's top 15 private equity firms and 19 of the top 25 private debt firms.

One relationship connects our clients to the right expertise as needs evolve, helping them move forward with clarity and confidence, wherever they operate.

To find out more about IQ-EQ visit iqeq.com.