Senior Private Equity Fund Accountant

ACCA Careers; Morley St Peter; Sur place; GBP 42 000 - 65 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Northern Trust in the UK is seeking a proactive fund accounting professional to join the Private Equity Operations team. You will support accounting, client reporting, and investment activity for a large portfolio across multiple fund products, liaising with internal teams and the Investment Advisor to meet client KPIs.

The role requires prior fund accounting experience, ACA/ACCA part-qualification, strong organisational skills, and the ability to handle multiple priorities with excellent

Qualifications

• Previous experience of fund accounting or fund administration of private equity funds, credit funds or perpetual funds is necessary
• The ideal candidate would be at a minimum part qualified ACA or ACCA
• Be computer literate with proven ability to learn new systems and processes, with data literacy skills advantageous
• Possess excellent organisation skills with the ability to handle multiple priorities, escalating issues where necessary
• Have customer service orientation with a concern for quality including being effective in the use of a variety of communication methods; and
• Ability to problem solve and be a team player.

Responsabilités

• Providing a premier client service by building strong relationships with the Investment Advisor and any other third parties including working closely with the client to resolve queries and other teams within NT to ensure completion of client deliverables.
• Developing a thorough knowledge of your client and their bespoke requirements with regards to key processes performed in their systems.
• Own the monitoring of assigned mailboxes, pro-actively completing tasks and those assigned by management.
• Support basic training of tasks that are learnt on-the-job and support other team members with workloads and rotate tasks on a regular basis.
• Investments: Create and maintain investment and portfolio records in the client’s bespoke systems, including preparing and processing of purchases and disposals; recording of income receipts; monitoring monthly or quarterly valuations and understanding other types of complex investment transactions and restructurings.
• Accounting: Bookkeep valuations in structures, perform periodic reconciliations and prepare invoice coding for all fund products.
• Client reporting: Develop client specific knowledge to facilitate the preparation of regular reporting for the client’s senior management, finance, investor relations and deal team. This includes having detailed understanding of fund structures and the investment portfolio across fund products.
• Investor reporting: Complete adhoc queries for investors where quantitative data forms a part of the response and other stakeholder reporting, including supporting preparation and review of reports within set deadlines.
• Organisation of the Accounting Team: For various deliverables, ensure that client expectations are adhered to and that proactive communication is maintained throughout the process; identify system and process enhancements for discussion with the wider team; prioritise assignments, providing continuous feedback to the team and elevate issues appropriately.
• Other: Prepare and maintain accounts tracker for the fund products; monitor the accounts preparation, input and update SharePoint-based workflows; liaise with other Northern Trust departments and jurisdictions; maintain existing strong client relationships; deal with all queries in an efficient and timely manner and promote effective communication.

Connaissances

Fund accounting

ACCA/ACA (part-qualified)

Data literacy

Organization

Customer service

Problem solving

Formation

ACCA/ACA (part-qualified)

Description du poste

Northern Trust in the UK is seeking a proactive fund accounting professional to join the Private Equity Operations team. You will support accounting, client reporting, and investment activity for a large portfolio across multiple fund products, liaising with internal teams and the Investment Advisor to meet client KPIs.

The role requires prior fund accounting experience, ACA/ACCA part-qualification, strong organisational skills, and the ability to handle multiple priorities with excellent