Investment Accountant Manager

Edenbrook; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Edenbrook is seeking an experienced Investment Accountant Manager to lead a high-performing investment accounting function in a complex financial services environment.

The role requires strong expertise in investment accounting across asset classes, IFRS 9, and UK GAAP, with proven ability to drive monthly, quarterly and year-end closes. You will provide technical leadership, manage external providers, and communicate complex accounting concepts to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Strong investment accounting knowledge across assets (fixed income, funds, etc).
• Deep IFRS 9 and UK GAAP expertise for investment accounting.
• Experience taking outputs to trial balance: journals, reconciliations, valuations, ledger substantiation.
• Proven experience leading finance teams and managing complex close deliverables.
• Ability to explain technical accounting, valuation, and control matters to finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead investment accounting production across monthly, quarterly and year-end closes.
• Own the investment accounting control environment with evidence-based improvements.
• Analyze investment results including yields, FX, spreads and asset mix drivers.
• Oversee valuation and pricing controls for complex or illiquid assets.
• Support new product/asset class implementations from accounting and controls perspectives.
• Drive process improvements, automation and standardisation to reduce manual workarounds.
• Manage performance and service delivery of offshore/outsourced providers.

Skills

Investment accounting

IFRS 9

UK GAAP

Trial balance execution

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Investment Accountant Manager to lead a high-performing investment accounting function within a complex financial services environment.

This is a senior role with responsibility for ensuring investment accounting outputs are accurate, timely, well-controlled and delivered through to trial balance, while providing technical leadership across investment accounting, valuation, financial control and reporting.

Key responsibilities:

• Leading investment accounting production through monthly, quarterly and year-end close cycles.
• Owning the investment accounting financial control environment, ensuring controls are effective, evidenced and continuously improved.
• Providing analytical review of investment results, including movement analysis and key market drivers such as yields, credit spreads, FX, inflation, duration and asset mix.
• Overseeing valuation and pricing controls for complex, illiquid and judgemental assets.
• Supporting the implementation of new investment products, asset classes and transactions from an accounting and control perspective.
• Driving process improvement, automation and standardisation to reduce manual workarounds and improve first-time quality.
• Managing the performance and service delivery of offshore/outsourced providers.

About you

• Strong investment accounting knowledge across areas such as fixed income, derivatives, funds, mortgages, private credit, property, infrastructure and other alternative or illiquid assets.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS 9 and UK GAAP investment accounting.
• Experience taking investment accounting outputs through to trial balance, including journals, reconciliations, valuations and ledger substantiation.
• Experience leading finance teams and managing complex close deliverables.
• The ability to explain technical accounting, valuation and control matters clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience