About this role
Primary Responsibilities: • Report to the Group Financial Reporting Manager. • Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal team members. • Prepare client-specific reporting as and when required. • Prepare regulatory reporting, such as Management Accounts, draft financial statements and audited financial statements and/or financial reporting packages as required. • Adapt to and execute changes to regulatory requirements related to your job description. • Prioritize tasks and assignments to meet deadlines and escalate concerns to direct manager. • Gain familiarity and competence with departmental and team procedures and applicable systems. • Monitor team inbox for client queries and identify appropriate responsible party. • Ensure that client needs are addressed and resolved in a complete and timely manner, initiate corrective action when service levels fall short of standard. • Liaison with auditors where applicable. • Assist operations team where required. • Assist the Head of Operation, Group Managers and Senior Management with policy development and implementation and maintenance of SOC I internal controls. • Commitment to high level of client service. • Any other cognate duties relating to the proper service of client companies and other duties as may be assigned by the Head of Operations / Group Manager.
Qualifications / Skills Required: • 4-5+ years’ working experience in similar industry, primarily involvement of financial statements (and audited) preparation + experience in audit and exposure to diverse types of fund structures, VCCs, PCCs and SPC’s, Group FS & consolidation will be a definite advantage. • Partly qualified accountant – at least level 2 fully completed. • Passionate about financial markets and reporting. • Exposure to any Fund accounting software. • Good knowledge of IFRS and willingness to gain working knowledge of other GAAPs such as UK GAAP, US GAAP, Lux GAAP and SFRS. • Strong interpersonal and time management skills and adaptability to a challenging environment • Maintain good working relationships and open dialogue with other department heads. Assisting your colleagues in the best interest of the Group. • Highly proficient in MS Excel and MS Word, previous experience in any fund accounting software will be an advantage. • Strong written and verbal communication skills.