Accountant 3 - Fund Accounting

Job Description

The Role

A senior preparer position responsible for delivering comprehensive fund accounting services for complex portfolios. This role handles a full spectrum of complexity levels (low, medium, and high) with minimal supervision, focusing on sophisticated accounting processes and detailed client deliverables. The position requires strong technical expertise and the ability to lead preparation of complex financial reports while maintaining high quality standards. 

What You'll Do

• You'll execute complex fund accounting activities, including capital calls, distributions, investor notices, and bookkeeping for complex transactions.
• You'll prepare periodic financial reports for complex clients while ensuring accuracy, quality, and compliance with accounting standards.
• You'll document accounting procedures, conduct self-reviews, and maintain high-quality deliverables across all assigned work.
• You'll identify and report potential operational risks, contribute to process improvements, and support continuous enhancement initiatives.
• You'll participate in training and knowledge-sharing programs, track work progress through timesheets, and perform additional duties to support business needs.

What We Offer

• Comprehensive remuneration: Motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile 
• Pension Scheme: Generous employer contribution with the ability to allow and increase employee contributions   
• Annual leave: All our employees are entitled to 22 days paid leave. Enhanced maternity and paternity, including shared parental leave and adoption leave 
• Flexible working: We recognise the value of working flexibly and is keen to ensure all employees enjoy an excellent work-life blend. As such, we are open to conversations with employees related to setting up flexible working arrangements 
• Support and development: We will ensure you have the right training, tools and development plan to grow and improve your skills every day

Qualifications

About You

• You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field, or have completed ACCA Level 2 or ACA, with at least 4 years of professional experience, including a minimum of 2 years in fund accounting.
• You demonstrate expertise in preparing complex financial statements and applying accounting standards, policies, and procedures with minimal supervision.
• You possess strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Excel, combined with exceptional attention to detail to ensure accurate and timely deliverables.
• You have excellent organizational, multitasking, communication, and documentation skills, enabling you to manage complex workloads and clearly articulate processes and operational risks.
• You are a proactive, results-driven, and adaptable professional who works independently, collaborates effectively with team members, supports knowledge-sharing initiatives, and maintains high standards of professionalism and quality.

Additional Information

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT

As a forward-looking business, sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining meaningful, long-term relationships with all our stakeholders, including our employees, clients, and local communities, while also reducing our impact on our natural environment.

There is always more we can, and should do, to improve, whether in relation to our people, our clients, our planet, or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape. We're committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.

Our learning and development programmes and systems (including PowerU and MyCampus) enable us to invest in growing our employees' careers, while our hybrid working approach supports our employees in achieving balance and flexibility while remaining connected to colleagues. We want to empower our 5,500+ employees, from 94 nationalities, speaking 41 languages across 25 countries, to each achieve their potential. Through IQ-EQ Launchpad, we support female managers launching their first fund, in an environment where only 15% of all private equity and venture capital firms are gender balanced.

We're committed to growing long-term relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients' sustainability and success leads to our sustainability and success. We're emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.