Career Opportunity:

We are currently recruiting a PERE Fund Manager Accountant for our team in London office. The successful candidate will demonstrate an eagerness to learn and have a flexible approach to their work. It is anticipated that the successful candidate will spend a material amount of their time working directly for our clients at their respective London offices.

You will have the following responsibilities:

• Assist the client services team to deliver services across the client estate as demand requires.
• Assist and lead projects to improve efficient of client delivery.
• Assist Client Services Managers to review client fees and analyse scope creep if necessary.
• Attend social events with clients and advisors.
• Preparation of the monthly and quarterly reporting pack.
• Working closely with the Portfolio team to produce fund quarterly valuation packs.
• Preparation of FCA returns for the funds and FATCA filings.
• Liaising with the auditors regarding the audit of the annual statutory financial statements.
• Producing financial information for Exec Committee meetings.
• Supporting fund investment acquisitions and exits process.
• Liaising with the CFO or FD of underlying portfolio companies to ensure alignment of income models on a periodic basis and quarterly investment confirmation process.
• Play a key role in the quarterly IRR projections process, including reviewing/maintaining models and providing sensitivity or scenario analysis.
• Monitor and maintain fund Carried interest models.
• Ad hoc Analysis and projects.
• Support the local Fund Accounting and Transfer Agency teams to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with applicable accounting standards, regulatory reporting/filing obligations and funds investors reporting requirements.
• Oversight on the Transfer Agent activities and coordination with the Fund Accounting and corporate secretarial activities.
• Assist the Head in managing the team, providing feedback, and implementing the agreed actions to help the team grow, both individually and collectively.
• Coordinate board and statutory meetings, including reviewing meeting’s minutes (BoD, BoM, AGM) and legal documents.
• Assist clients during the onboarding process with incorporating various legal entities, ensuring the client KYC and acceptance procedures is enforced, maintaining, and monitoring the compliance framework throughout the entire client lifecycle.
• Manage and develop client relationships, serving as the primary contact for existing clients and prospect clients during the onboarding process.
• Establishment and periodical review of client SLAs, KPIs, KRIs and client satisfaction heatcharts, throughout the entire client lifecycle, by conducting periodical relationship meetings.
• Take ownership and responsibility for operational problems, identify solutions, manage both tactical and strategic aspects of the work.
• Identify business development opportunities within the existing client base, either via cross-selling or upselling initiatives.
• Collaboration and relationship management with other service providers in the fund industry, such as auditors, consulting & law firms, AIFMs, depositaries and banks
• Participate in the improvement of processes and procedures to ensure high level of controls are maintained and appropriately documented.
• Involvement in AML/KYC due diligence measures -both initial and ongoing- as a first line of defense.

Your skills:

• Minimum 10 years professional experience with Private Markets instead of PERE. Experience in accounting firms, big audit firm or asset managers.
• Experience with client facing roles is needed and the chosen candidate will need to anticipate spending at least half of their time at client offices working directly for alternative asset managers.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure, keep within tight deadlines and multi-task.
• Strong motivation to work in a quickly growing, dynamic and challenging environment.
• Experience and knowledge of illiquid alternative asset classes.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, UK GAAP. Working knowledge of US and Lux GAAP will be an asset, but not mandatory.
• Be team-oriented.
• Entrepreneurial spirit with a proven ability to implement new processes and procedures.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
• Knowledge of E-Front will be considered as an asset.
• Valid work permit for the UK.

What we offer:

At Centralis, we work in a dynamic, human-size, multi-cultural environment. We attach great importance to the personal fulfilment and professional development of our employees. We offer you an interesting and rewarding job, an attractive salary package and a number of benefits, including training support and flexibility. 

Should you be interested, please send your application letter, together with your curriculum vitae, in English, by clicking on the "apply here" button below.