Client Accountant - Fundsnew

Job Description

As a Client Accountant, you'll serve as the primary contact for private equity, real estate, credit, or debt fund clients, managing fund accounting, investor reporting, financial reviews, and client relationships while ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards and fund documentation.

What you will do

• You'll act as the day-to-day front-office contact for designated fund clients, proactively managing deliverables, coordinating timelines, building strong client relationships, and leading regular discussions with CFOs and financial controllers.
• You'll review quarterly and annual financial statements, reports, NAV financing activities, and complex fund structures, ensuring accurate accounting treatment and compliance with UK GAAP, Lux GAAP, IFRS, and fund legal documentation.
• You'll oversee and review key fund calculations, including management fees, carried interest models, IRRs, investor drawdowns, distributions, and multi-currency transactions, ensuring accuracy and consistency across all reporting processes.
• You'll manage investor and fund cash movement processes, including transaction reporting, intercompany activities, capital call and distribution notices, and the accurate allocation of proceeds to investors.
• You'll mentor and support team members, drive process improvements, and demonstrate strong organizational, prioritization, decision-making, resilience, stakeholder management, and team collaboration skills while taking ownership of client outcomes.

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
• Wellbeing: Additional social benefits such as private health and dental cover, life assurance, discounted gym membership, eye test and corporate GP
• Annual leave: All our employees are entitled to 25 days paid leave, plus all UK public holidays. Enhanced maternity and paternity, including shared parental leave and adoption leave
• Flexible working: We recognize 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

• You have a higher-level education, IATI qualification, or equivalent, and are ACCA, ACA, or CIMA qualified (or Qualified by Experience/equivalent).
• You bring 3+ years of experience in a professional office environment, ideally within financial services or an accounting practice, managing multiple client relationships.
• You have experience reviewing working paper files and financial statements, including disclosures, or can demonstrate a strong accounting background supported by relevant professional experience and continuing professional development (CPD).
• You have proven client relationship management skills, with the ability to resolve issues directly with clients and maintain effective stakeholder communication.
• You are proficient in intermediate Excel, have experience mentoring and supporting junior team members, and demonstrate strong collaboration, organization, and problem-solving skills.

Additional Information

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT 

Sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining 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 6,500+ employees - from 94 nationalities, across 24 countries - to each achieve their potential.  Through IQ-EQ Launchpad we support women 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 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.