Senior Accountant - Private Wealth Accounting

Job Description

The Role

A review position responsible for ensuring quality and accuracy of private wealth deliverables across various complexity levels. While initially supporting preparation activities as needed, this role reviews financial information, complex client matters, and provides technical input while maintaining high standards of service delivery and regulatory compliance. 

What You'll Do

• You'll review periodic bookkeeping, reconciliations, financial statements, and disclosures to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with accounting standards.
• You'll validate tax and VAT computations, review FATCA/CRS reporting, and monitor regulatory deadlines to maintain compliance with statutory requirements.
• You'll verify complex client deliverables, coordinate critical client deadlines, and ensure the timely resolution of review points and outstanding matters.
• You'll handle complex technical accounting queries, address cluster review comments, and provide guidance on accounting and regulatory matters.
• You'll track review findings, escalate matters requiring specialized technical expertise, and support business needs through additional responsibilities as required.

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 are pursuing ACCA Level 3 or ACA, with at least 5 years of accounting experience, including expertise in private wealth or trust administration.
• You demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of financial reporting standards, regulatory compliance requirements, and the review of complex financial statements and tax/VAT computations.
• You possess strong analytical, decision-making, quality control, and process improvement skills, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and compliance across all deliverables.
• You have excellent leadership, mentoring, communication, and presentation skills, enabling you to effectively guide teams and engage with stakeholders.
• You are an accountable and detail-oriented professional who takes ownership of team outputs, upholds high standards of accuracy and compliance, and fosters a culture of continuous learning and quality improvement.

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.