Private Equity Fund Accounting Lead

086 NT Mgmt Services Ireland Ltd; Limerick; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust in Limerick seeks a Manager to lead the Private Equity Fund Accounting team, ensuring high-quality service and timely client reporting. The role emphasizes risk awareness, people leadership, and collaboration with clients and auditors.

You will drive offshore team development and automation initiatives, while maintaining rigorous SLAs and standards in a dynamic financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Holds a recognised Professional Accounting Qualification with extensive post QE experience.
• Detailed knowledge of Irish/UK GAAP/US GAAP and IFRS.
• Working knowledge of the Irish regulatory/tax regime as it relates to Fund Accounting and Financial Reporting.
• Knowledge of or willingness to quickly gain knowledge of Private Equity Fund Administration.
• Client service orientation.
• Ability to lead and develop a team.
• Good attention to detail.
• Demonstrates willingness to support with daily BAU where necessary to support the team and to help others outside team.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Excellent MS Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Managing an ever expanding Private Equity team within our Limerick operation.
• Deliver high quality service to clients – both internal and external - by accurate, timely completion of all assigned tasks and requests for information.
• Organise workload and Team members in an efficient and effective manner.
• Look to meet and improve the preparation of client reporting.
• Seek to learn quickly and strive to continually improve service offered.
• Create and maintain a respectful and productive work environment.
• Deliver training /coaching effectively.
• Understand risk in own team, help others to understand this and to recognise that risk is everyone’s responsibility.
• Active liaison with clients and external auditors, dealing with audit queries.
• Ensuring agreed client service levels and regulatory filing deadlines are met.
• People management, leading the team, addressing partner issues and development of both direct and indirect reports on the team, providing objective and regular feedback to staff.
• Assist the Department in the annual targets of the business including the development of the offshore team and the automation of the Private Equity’s accounting platform Investran.
• Has responsibility for assisting with the development and execution of the department’s strategic plans, goals and priorities.
• Responsible for the delivery of high quality service to each of the clients assigned to their team.
• Liaises with new clients to determine fund structure and level of detail required to support striking of NAV.
• Communicates effectively with clients, investors and associated parties on fund activities.
• Keeps abreast of current activities in the Private Equity market as well as industry and regulatory developments.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Client service orientation

Problem solving

MS Excel

Communication

Team leadership

Education

Professional Accounting Qualification

Irish/UK GAAP/US GAAP IFRS knowledge

Tools

MS Excel

Investran

Systems development

Job description

Northern Trust in Limerick seeks a Manager to lead the Private Equity Fund Accounting team, ensuring high-quality service and timely client reporting. The role emphasizes risk awareness, people leadership, and collaboration with clients and auditors.

You will drive offshore team development and automation initiatives, while maintaining rigorous SLAs and standards in a dynamic financial services environment.