Assistant Fund Accountant
Assistant Fund Accountant
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Job Description
Whats In It For You
- Competitive salary
- Hybrid working
- Flexible working hours
- Annual Salary Review
- Pension
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Income protection & Critical illness
Purpose of the job
Responsible for assisting in the planning and preparation of financial reports for a portfolio of funds ensuring reporting deadlines are met and the delivery of client accounting requirements are in compliance with Ocorians contractual obligations.
Main responsibilities
- Work with the Fund Accountants and Managers to develop an understanding of entities within the fund structure the nature of their transactions and reporting requirements.
- Ensure that the bookkeeping arising from transactions is performed in a timely and accurate manner.
- Maintain a process to ensure the timely delivery of client accounting requirements in relation to financial reports and accounts for all entities in the allocated portfolio including the production of annual audited accounts; interim unaudited accounts; quarterly unaudited net asset valuations and capital statements.
- Work with the Fund Accountants and Managers to ensure that current accounting standards (UK GAAP or IFRS) and best practice principles are applied to the accounts production process and kept current as such standards and principles develop.
- Ensure that timetables for the production of accounts are followed.
- Attend client meetings to discuss accounts and related matters.
- Provide information to auditors to ensure the timely completion of audits for fund and fund related entities.
- Work with the Fund Accountants and Managers to ensure that regulatory and statutory reporting requirements are met in so far as they relate to the financial accounting responsibilities.
- Ensure Ocorians policies and procedures are used and adhered to within the accounts team.
- Any other such duties that might be reasonably required for this role.
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Qualifications :
Knowledge skills and experience
- Good grounding in accounting skills eg from an Accounting or Finance related degree and relevant experience.
- Significant progress towards completion of professional accounting exams and qualification.
- Good presentational written and verbal communication skills.
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- Organisational and planning skills including managing expectations which will include determining that which is important versus that which is urgent.
- Good Excel skills and strong IT skills.
Competencies
- Professionalism and ability to win the respect of clients.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to interact with colleagues at all levels.
- The drive to make continuous improvements.
- Flexibility to adapt as the role or the company develops.
Additional Information :
All staff are expected to embody our core values that underpin everything that we do and that reflect the skills and behaviours we all need to be successful. These are:
- We are CLIENT CENTRIC Clients are at the centre of our world and were committed to providing expertise and specialist solutions to meet their most complex challenges.
- We are AMBITIOUS We aim high. We think and act globally seizing every opportunity to delight our clients and support our colleagues wherever in the world they may be.
- We are AGILE We act on our initiative to get things done for our clients. Our independence gives us the flexibility and freedom to keep things simple efficient and effective.
- We are COLLABORATIVE With a curious mindset we ask the right questions to get to the right solution for our clients faster. We collaborate to win together and share our successes.
- We are ETHICAL We behave with integrity at all times and assume positive intent building trust through responsible actions and honest relationships.
Equal Opportunities for Everyone
Please let us know if theres anything we can do to make the process easier for you. You can reach us at .
Were an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age ethnicity religion sex sexual orientation gender identity family or parental status national origin or veteran neurodiversity or disability status.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
