Senior Fund Accountant - Private Equity

Our client is a leading global financial institution currently seeking a Senior Fund Accountant to help lead their Private Equity administration department. This role will support the Private Equity Manager and includes the technical support for all regulatory and statutory change, and the creation of an end-to-end operating model for Private Equity activities.

The ideal candidate will have 6+ years’ experience in Fund Accounting with an Alternative Assets focus, and ideally in Private Equity.

At the request of our client, only individuals with full and indefinite working rights will be considered.

Key responsibilities:

Operational leadership

• Active participation in senior client and relationship management meetings where required.
• Management, oversight, and controls for all processes related to recording of capital calls, distributions, valuations, and secondary purchases/sales.
• Validation for all activities related to transaction processing and carrying out ‘business as usual’ tasks.
• Operational leadership of change incorporating Client requirements, process reviews and providing technical expertise on process re-engineering.
• Full-service delivery in line with the clients SLA’s and internal KPI’s.
• Take charge of onboarding new clients, restructures, product development, statutory and regulatory change.
• Supporting the overall service delivery via cross-team co-operation.

Client Service

• First point of contact for all client queries in relation to all aspects of their Private Equity assets.
• Active participation in senior client meetings as well as technical escalation point for client issues or changes.
• Governance of Year-End financial reporting to meet specific client SLA terms.
• Ensure implementation of operational risk and legislative requirements in all output.

Commercial Focus

• Analysis, innovation, development and implementation of change and process improvement.
• Exposure to broad range of investing strategies.
• Maintain and monitor the Risk Control Framework for the services provided to clients, including formal supervision, and working closely with Risk and Compliance, identifying potential risks and developing controls to mitigate them.

Qualifications and Experience required for the role:

• Extensive experience within the financial services industry (alternative investment preferred).
• Proven track record within Fund Administration.
• Proven change management and process improvement capability, and the ability to create and implement solutions.
• A strong technical background incorporating aspects of valuation of Private Equity assets, impacts on fund accounting, unit pricing, and reporting.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Competent strategic thinker with the ability to create and implement solutions.
• Ability to foster and maintain strong interpersonal relationships both internally and externally.
• Strong technical background in Fund Administration incorporating all aspects of valuation of Private Equity, unit pricing, tax, accounting and reporting.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.