Fund Accounting Specialist - Private Equity & Systems

Buy Side Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Pension scheme

Job summary

Buy Side Recruitment is partnering with a major private equity and infrastructure investor in London to appoint a Financial Operations Accountant into its group finance team. You will own a full fund accounting and reporting schedule across the firm's private equity and infrastructure vehicles and be the accountant in the room who is at home with the platforms that run the function.

The team is seven people and you will help develop the platforms, build reports, and automate what is still

Qualifications

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified, with around two years of post-qualification experience.
• Fund accounting in private equity, infrastructure or real estate, or at a fund administrator.
• A systems mindset. You can get your head around a new platform and you enjoy doing so alongside the day job. Prior experience of Anaplan, Workiva or eFront is not required
• An understanding of SQL. This is the one technical requirement, and the question you will be asked at interview is how many reports you have built
• Bright, commercially minded, and comfortable engaging stakeholders beyond the finance team

Responsibilities

• Own financial reporting across private equity and infrastructure vehicles, with the deal teams as your day-to-day stakeholders
• Work inside Anaplan, Workiva and eFront, and help shape how the function uses them
• Build reports and analysis, and automate what is still manual
• Bring an accountant's judgement to the systems conversations, and a systems mindset to the accounting ones

Skills

Fund accounting

SQL knowledge

Systems mindset

Stakeholder engagement

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification

Tools

Anaplan

Workiva

eFront

Job description

Buy Side Recruitment is partnering with a major private equity and infrastructure investor in London to appoint a Financial Operations Accountant into its group finance team. You will own a full fund accounting and reporting schedule across the firm's private equity and infrastructure vehicles and be the accountant in the room who is at home with the platforms that run the function.

The team is seven people and you will help develop the platforms, build reports, and automate what is still