Senior Fund Accountant | Private Equity

Recruiter
Marks Sattin
Location
Cranford, UK
Salary
Competitive salary
Posted
25 Feb 2021
Closes
28 Feb 2021
Ref
1989932758
Job role
Fund accountant
Experience level
Qualified accountant
With decades of experience in institutional investment across Private Equity, Infrastructure and Debt this multinational fund is ranked as one of the top environments to work in the Investment Management space.

They are looking to hire an experience fund finance professional to take on a broad, challenging and rewarding role; providing a full management and financial reporting service in relation to numerous investment funds, with both external investors and internal carried interest vehicles.

Your responsibilities will be varied and include:

  • Processing and review of portfolio transactions
  • Producing accounts, reports and other ad-hoc financial information for specified entities
  • Calculating and paying distributions to partners, including the GP's management fee and supporting allocations information, and calculating and call drawdowns from partners.
  • Providing advice for the treatment of investment portfolio transactions.
  • Developing models to provide forward-looking analysis for carry and fund distributions and using these for forecasts and accruals.
  • Develop and maintain good relationship with various internal stakeholders, especially with deal team, FIR and the wider Finance, Tax and Treasury team.
  • Contributing to the design, development and enhancement of systems, processes and reports for both new and existing entities in order to achieve best practice targets and add value to reporting.


There is also a strong emphasis on ad-hoc work and secondments to other areas of the business.

The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with post-qualified experience in fund accounting across in private equity using Investran. You will be eager, confident and an excellent communicator and strong excel skills are preferable.

The role is an ideal next step for either an accountant from a smaller fund who wants a step up, or an experienced candidate from a fund administrator looking for their first move in house.

Please apply directly or contact harris.asher@markssattin.com for a confidential discussion.