Private Equity
An exciting opportunity for a qualified finance professional to join the team of a leading investment firm based in London. The role offers exposure across financial control, business partnering and process improvement, with the opportunity to help drive automation and operational excellence.
Description
As a Senior Financial Accountant, you’ll take ownership of the month-end close process, ensuring accurate financial reporting and providing ongoing commercial support to the business. You’ll prepare management reporting, support budgeting and forecasting, oversee cash flow and treasury activities, and ensure compliance with tax and regulatory reporting requirements.
Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you’ll provide commercial finance support while contributing to finance transformation initiatives. Part of the role in the day-to-day will focus on identifying potential technological tools, process improvement, leveraging ERP systems, AI and automation tools to improve efficiency and reporting quality.
Skills
The skills of the Senior Financial Accountant include, but are not limited to:
- A Big 4 trained ACA or equivalent qualified accountant.
- 3+ years’ post-qualified experience, including at least 2 years’ experience within industry (ideally within an investment fund, PE or an Asset Manager).
- Strong financial control and financial reporting experience.
- Excellent knowledge of FRS 102.
- Proactive approach with an interest in technology, AI and process improvement.
- Experience preparing management accounts and month-end reporting.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience using ERP systems.
- Exposure to financial services or a regulated environment is beneficial.
- Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills.
Apply
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Please note that due to the expected volume of applications, we will only be able to respond to those candidates whose experience closely matches the requirements of our client. We are sorry, but if you have not heard from us within the next ten days, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
From offices in London and Frankfurt we are active across Europe and widely recognised as one of the largest and most experienced private equity and growth capital search specialists. With a track record spanning four decades and thousands of successfully completed searches, we are proven experts across all levels of investment team hire – Associate, Principal and Partner – and have extensive experience of hiring into investor relations, portfolio/value enhancement and fund finance and accounting teams. Our client base is particularly diverse and covers all types of GP and LP: buyout funds of all sizes, growth & venture capital investors, real estate funds, co-investment vehicles, secondaries funds and fund of funds.