Client Manager, Accountant – Capital Markets

Job Description

As a Client Manager, Accountant – Capital Markets, you will be responsible for managing a portfolio of capital markets clients, delivering high-quality accounting, financial reporting, and administration services. Acting as a key client contact, you will build strong relationships with clients and stakeholders while ensuring the timely delivery of financial information, regulatory reporting, and corporate services. You will work closely with Client Directors and cross-functional teams to enhance service delivery, maintain technical excellence, and support the continued growth of the business.

What you will do

• You will manage a portfolio of capital markets clients, acting as the primary point of contact and ensuring the delivery of high-quality accounting, financial reporting, and administration services.
• You will prepare and review financial statements, management accounts, VAT returns, and regulatory filings, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery in line with client and regulatory requirements.
• You will build and maintain strong relationships with clients, auditors, advisors, and internal stakeholders, providing proactive support and ensuring an exceptional client experience.
• You will support audit processes, bank account administration, payroll reviews, and Central Bank reporting requirements while maintaining robust governance and control standards.
• You will contribute to process improvements, technical knowledge sharing, and the continuous enhancement of client service delivery across the Corporate Services team.

What we offer

• Comprehensive remuneration and pension: motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile
• Wellbeing: additional social benefits such as private health and dental cover, life assurance, discounted gym membership, eye test and corporate GP
• Annual leave: our employees are entitled to 25 days paid leave plus all Ireland public holidays
• Enhanced maternity and paternity, including shared parental leave and adoption leave
• Flexible working: we recognise the value of working flexibly and want 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

Qualifications

• You are a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or equivalent) with experience managing multiple client deliverables within a client services, accounting, or financial reporting environment.
• You have strong experience preparing financial statements under Irish GAAP and IFRS, together with bookkeeping, management accounts, VAT preparation, and financial reporting activities.
• You have experience working with capital markets structures, SPVs, securitisation entities, or similar corporate structures, with knowledge of relevant regulatory and reporting requirements being highly advantageous.
• You possess strong technical knowledge of accounting standards, financial statement disclosures, and corporate reporting requirements, with exposure to Companies Act obligations and regulatory filings.
• You have excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and build strong client relationships.
• You are proficient in Microsoft Excel and have experience using accounting systems such as QuickBooks, SAP, Xero, or similar financial reporting platforms.

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 their 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.