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About the Role
Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for private equity, real estate, credit, or debt fund clients, managing fund accounting activities, client deliverables, investor transactions, and financial reporting while fostering strong client relationships and ensuring regulatory and reporting compliance.
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, ensuring compliance with applicable reporting frameworks such as UK GAAP and IFRS, as well as fund legal documentation and LPAs.
- Oversee and review investor drawdown and distribution calculations, ensuring accurate recording, allocation, communication, and processing of all investor and fund cash movements.
- Take ownership of client deliverables by coordinating timelines, monitoring progress, resolving issues proactively, prioritizing competing deadlines, and ensuring 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 to drive successful client outcomes.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in a professional office environment, ideally within financial services or an accounting practice managing multiple client relationships.
- Proven experience managing client relationships, communicating effectively with stakeholders, and resolving client issues in a professional and timely manner.
- Support and mentor less experienced team members.
- Utilize intermediate Excel skills to analyze data, manage financial information, and enhance team performance.
Skills
- Accounting knowledge
- Reviewing working paper files and financial statements, including disclosures
- Managing client relationships
- Effective communication with stakeholders
- Client issue resolution
- Mentoring
- Intermediate Excel skills
Location
- 25 jurisdictions
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid working approach
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience
Education Level
- Higher-level education qualification
- IATI qualification, or equivalent
- ACCA, ACA, or CIMA qualified (or qualified by experience with equivalent expertise)
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, plus all UK public holidays
- Enhanced maternity and paternity, including shared parental leave and adoption leave
- Support and development through training, tools, and development plans
About the Company
- IQ-EQ is a global investor services group with deep expertise in private markets.
- They support investment managers, asset owners and global businesses with the administration, compliance, governance, data and reporting that their structures depend on.
- Across 25 jurisdictions, their 6,500+ professionals combine technical strength, connected technology and human understanding – the IQ and the EQ – to free clients from operational complexity and give them the peace of mind to focus on their core business activities.
- With more than US$950 billion of assets under administration, their global client base includes 13 of the world's top 15 private equity firms and 19 of the top 25 private debt firms.
- Sustainability is integral to their strategy and operations.
- They are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for their people.
- Their learning and development programmes and systems enable them to invest in growing employees’ careers.
- They want to empower their 5,500+ employees to achieve their potential.
- They are committed to growing long-term relationships with their clients and supporting them in achieving 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.