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About the Role
As a Client Accountant, you will be the primary day-to-day contact for fund clients, managing fund accounting, client deliverables, investor transactions, and financial reporting. You will foster strong client relationships and ensure compliance with regulations and reporting standards.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day relationships with designated fund clients, acting as the primary front-office contact.
- Maintain effective communication through regular engagement with CFOs, financial controllers, and other stakeholders.
- Review quarterly and annual financial statements, reports, and fund accounting activities for compliance with UK GAAP, IFRS, fund legal documentation, and LPAs.
- Oversee and review investor drawdown and distribution calculations, ensuring accurate recording and processing of all investor and fund cash movements.
- Coordinate timelines, monitor progress, resolve issues, prioritize deadlines, and ensure high-quality, timely completion of all reporting requirements.
- Mentor and support team members.
- Contribute to process improvements and risk reduction initiatives.
- Demonstrate strong relationship-building, teamwork, decision-making, resilience, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in a professional office environment, ideally within financial services or an accounting practice managing multiple client relationships.
- Strong accounting knowledge, with experience reviewing working paper files and financial statements, including disclosures, or equivalent expertise.
- Proven experience managing client relationships, communicating effectively with stakeholders, and resolving client issues professionally and timely.
- Ability to support and mentor less experienced team members.
- Intermediate Excel skills for data analysis and financial information management.
Skills
- Client relationship management
- Financial reporting
- Fund accounting
- Investor transactions
- Regulatory compliance
- Reporting compliance
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Decision-making
- Resilience
- Organization
- Stakeholder management
- Excel
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Higher-level education qualification
- IATI qualification
- ACCA qualified
- ACA qualified
- CIMA qualified
- Qualified by experience
Salary/Compensations
- Motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile
Benefits
- Additional social benefits such as private health and dental cover
- Life assurance
- Discounted gym membership
- Eye test
- Corporate GP
- 25 days paid leave
- All UK public holidays
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Shared parental leave
- Adoption leave
- Training, tools, and development plan
About the Company
- IQ-EQ is a leading Investor Services group offering end-to-end services in administration, accounting, reporting, regulatory, and compliance needs for the investment sector worldwide.
- Employs a global workforce of 6,500+ people across 25 jurisdictions with assets under administration exceeding US$857 billion.
- Works with 13 of the world’s top-15 private equity firms.
- Services are underpinned by a Group-wide commitment to ESG and best-in-class technology, including a global data platform and proprietary tools.
- Driven by the Group purpose: to power people and possibilities.
- Sustainability is integral to strategy and operations, focusing on long-term relationships with employees, clients, and communities, while reducing environmental impact.
- Committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and diverse culture.
- Invests in employee career growth through learning and development programs.
- Supports employee balance and flexibility through a hybrid working approach.
- Empowers employees to achieve their potential.
- Supports women managers launching their first fund through IQ-EQ Launchpad.
- Committed to growing client relationships and supporting their objectives.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.