Senior Fund Accountant
Isle of Man
Contract
Our client seeks a Senior Fund Accountant to join their team on a 12-month contract.
Role Profile:
Responsibility for the production and delivery of accounting and related financial services to a designated portfolio of fund administration clients (the “Portfolio”).
Key Responsibilities
- Generally, to act as an ambassador for the Company in all dealings with clients and other business partners
- To assume responsibility for the delivery of financial reporting and financial management services to the Portfolio
- To proactively assist clients in their financial management
- Support Portfolio clients in transactions, e.g. capital raising, acquisitions & disposals
- Ensuring the processes, controls, systems, and day-to-day operations relating to the Portfolio are effectively performed, to the extent that they are outsourced to the business
- To carry out accounting functions including financial statements preparation, records and returns and collation of related information of clients in the Portfolio.
- Ensuring all local and overseas tax and regulatory requirements are adhered to
- Managing the financial management function of clients in the Portfolio including liaising with local and global stakeholders e.g. auditors, client directors etc
- Monitor and review the fund accounting activities to ensure timely production and accurate NAV calculation and reporting
- Providing analysis and support for the management of client companies' investments as appropriate
- Providing coaching and mentoring of assistant accountants
- Supporting clients in the fulfilment of their financial and corporate regulatory obligations
- Ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards
Key Skills and Experience:
- Minimum ACCA, ACA qualified or Equivalent
- Good people skills: motivated, enthusiastic, hardworking, personable, capable of working independently, yet as part of a team
- Flexible, adaptable individual that always looks for new ways of working and enjoys being part of a growing, ever-changing environment
- Strong communication skills, written and verbal; ability to present in a professional manner to client Boards and other stakeholders
- Experience and detailed understanding of financial control environment
- Experience of public company reporting, including consolidations
- Experience of fund accounting, including valuations
- Working knowledge of applicable accounting standards, in particular IFRS
- Strong Excel skills and ability to work with different accounting packages
- Understanding of taxation systems, in particular VAT and cross-jurisdictional issues
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