Financial Accountant

A leading real estate investment firm is looking to hire a Financial Accountant into their London team. The company is looking for a qualified or part qualified accountant with industry experience or moving out of Audit for the first time (FS clients). The role is 5 days a week in Central London and is a socialable, non-corporate working environment, providing a number of attractive benefits.

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Responsibilities:

• Reviewing quarterly management accounts, financial statements and other documents produced by fund administrators and assisting with the financial statements preparation process

• Taking ownership of the accounts payable process including logging invoices and initiating payments

• Preparing sales invoices for management fees

• Preparation and submission of basic VAT returns

• Review of corporation tax returns and other regulatory filings

• Using accounting software (Xero) to record day-to-day transactions for the fund manager/investment advisor

• Preparation of year end management accounts of the fund manager/investment advisor and assistance with the year end audit.

• Assisting with the year-end Fund audit process as the point of contact between the audit team and fund administrators, and assisting with collating information requests and providing calculations/support

• Assisting in the financial management of the portfolio companies on an ad hoc basis

• Assisting with investor drawdowns and distributions

• Liaising with external depository team to ensure regulatory compliance of the funds

• Setting up bank accounts

• Setting up companies and relevant VAT and corporation tax registration

• Collating KYC requests for service providers

Requirements:

• Understanding of UK GAAP and IFRS
• ACA, ACCA or CIMA Qualified (or close to completion)
• Ability to present information and respond to questions from managers, investors and service providers
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft excel and word

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