Job Description:
Are you a qualified accountant with experience from within an Investment Accounting, Fund Management or Audit background?
If so, our client, a global investment firm based in Edinburgh, has an exciting opportunity for a Fund Accounting Oversight Specialist to join them on a permanent basis.
Essential Skills/Experience:
* Highly experienced individual from an Investment Accounting, Fund Management or Audit background.
* Qualified Accountant or equivalent professional/academic qualification.
* Fund accounting and regulations knowledge (Ireland, Luxembourg, UK, Channel Islands).
* Product knowledge of fund structures - section 110, LP/GP, FCP, RAIF, ICAV, QIF, ELTIF, LTAFs.
* Stakeholder (external and internal) management skills.
* Ability and experience of communicating complex topics clearly and concisely.
* Expertise in private debt, alternative credit, leveraged finance, restructuring, real estate, private assets fund structures, money market funds.
* Instrument knowledge - Private equity / Private Debt / Derivatives / Fixed income.
* Accounting policies / GAAPs (IFRS).
* Experience of presenting to Committees and/or Boards.
* Strong people management skills with experience of supervising a team.
* NAV and Pricing knowledge.
* Good organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliverables to deliver work efficiently and effectively.
* Good problem solving and analytical skills.
* Ability to demonstrate company values.
* A self-starter with experience of working on projects.
* Fund costs and charges.
Core Responsibilities:
* Financial accounting oversight including liaison with administrators, internal teams, and reporting to fund boards.
* Overseeing and assisting in the development of junior members of the team.
* Fund accounting oversight including performance fees, income monitoring and costs and charges.
* Providing technical fund accounting advice to fund boards and projects.
* Ability to present to Boards and senior stakeholders clearly and succinctly at varying levels of detail.
* Capability to chair meetings and workshops with stakeholders.
* Proactive and delivery focused with excellent communication skills - both written and verbal.
* Reacting positively under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
* Have a genuine interest in learning and expanding their expertise and understanding of the challenges and developments impacting the Asset Management industry.
* Ability to develop strong working relationships internally and externally.
* Excellent attention to detail and determination to see initiatives through to completion.
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