Assistant Manager - Fund

Are you a qualified Fund Accountant looking for greater progression and career development? Are you tired of feeling that your talent is underutilised? If you are a career focused Accountant looking to further your management capabilities, this established real estate Fund team could offer you the opportunity to step up.

Joining a team of 3 Managers, you'll have the support of experienced peers as well as the support of an experienced Senior Manager.

As Assistant Manager, your duties will involve:

• Managing a small team of Fund Accountants - managing workload planning and staff development, including appraisals and objective setting
• Ensuring client work is delivered efficiently and on budget
• Reviewing profitability
• Review of deliverables to clients, including financial statements, cash flows and associated notes including liaison with client over transaction related issues
• Drafting internal procedures and other internal documents
• Organising take-on and set-up of new clients, including:
  o Analysis of client needs
  o Appropriate staffing and workload balancing
• Maintaining and developing existing client relationship through good management of team and deliverables
• Analysing financial information underlying the financial statements, including the treatment of business transactions
• Preparation of asset level management reporting for the client and seeking new ways to provide informative and concise information
• Calculation of deal and fund level IRRs and other performance metrics
• Dealing with year end audit issues including ensuring preparation of relevant files and resolving issues

Experience required:

• ACA or ACCA qualified
• A good understanding of agreements associated with real estate fund structures and interpretation of terms used
• A good understanding of UK GAAP, IFRS, US GAAP and other relevant accounting standards, preferably gained within a funds environment
• Understanding the reporting and other accounting challenges faced by private equity and real estate businesses
• Ability to prepare and review large multi-jurisdictional consolidations
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and performance measurement reports at asset and fund level
• Ambitious, driven and tenacious personality - this is a high growth business with fantastic career progression opportunities

For more information, please contact Cheryl Aust at Investigo London.