Client Accountant
Description
Key responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day financial reporting services to a portfolio of clients and structures, ensuring compliance with internal policies and procedures;
- Preparation of financial statements in compliance with GAAP (IFRS, US GAAP, FRS 102 and LUX GAAP);
- Preparation of accounting files, including checklists to support the effective review of the financial statements;
- Work closely with the sending locations to ensure that accounting records are accurate and transactions and activity within the portfolio are understood and incorporated into the disclosures as appropriate;
- Complete all day-to-day matters in a timely and satisfactory manner;
- Ensure high quality service delivery;
- Ensure any discrepancy is monitored and resolved professionally;
- Process review, client and audit comments and support the process to ensure the completion of milestones and deadlines;
- Identify and close out accounting issues promptly;
- Prepare accounts review checklists to support the effective review of financial statements and save signed copies of the checklists on appropriate drive;
- Perform other duties to support the Manager and team as may be necessary from time-to-time.
Skills / experience
- 1-2 years’ working experience;
- Qualified, Graduate or partly qualified Accountant;
- Passionate about financial markets and reporting;
- Good knowledge of IFRS and willingness to gain working knowledge of other GAAPs such
as UK GAAP, US GAAP, Lux GAAP and SFRS;
- Experience/exposure of accounting for structures holding alternative assets, including Real
Estate assets; Debt & Private Equity;
- Exposure in working with other Teams across the Globe;
- Well organised and can work within tight deadlines;
- Excellent spoken and written English.