Job Description
Company Description
We’re a leading Investor Services group offering end-to-end services in administration, accounting, reporting, regulatory and compliance needs of the investment sector worldwide. We employ a global workforce of 5,800+ people across 25 jurisdictions and have assets under administration (AUA) exceeding US$750 billion. We work with 13 of the world’s top-15 private equity firms.
Our services are underpinned by a Group-wide commitment to ESG and best-in-class technology including a global data platform and innovative proprietary tools supported by in-house experts.
Above all, what makes us different is our people. Operating as trusted partners to our clients, we deliver intelligent solutions through a combination of technical expertise and strong relationships based on deep client understanding.
Job Description
As an Associate Manager within our Fund Accounting team, you will be responsible for handling complex, day‑to‑day accounting matters and serving as subject matter experts within their domains. For areas still developing, you will collaborate closely with your manager, who sets training and development goals for all staff. You will play a key role in delivering on‑the‑job training and coaching, ensuring team members advance as quickly as their talent allows. You will be accountable for producing accurate, well-presented work that meets established quality standards, while partnering with Managers across various expertise areas to deliver the best solutions for clients and provide tailored training for staff needs. Additionally, you will actively support the Manager in management reporting and overall team development.
What You’ll Do -
- Work Management & Quality Control: Maintain accurate work‑planning status, ensure compliance with methodologies, regulations, and software standards, and deliver error‑free, high‑quality fund accounting work while escalating issues appropriately.
- Team Leadership & Development: Delegate tasks effectively, set deadlines, coach and train staff, identify skill gaps, provide feedback, encourage creativity, resolve conflicts, and foster an open and motivating team environment.
- Performance Monitoring: Oversee team workload and quality, answer queries, support problem‑solving, track team goals, monitor performance metrics, and report progress to the Manager.
- Operational & Client Responsibilities: Participate in client billing discussions, raise ad hoc invoices, help maintain low debtor balances and strong cash collection, and support management reporting requirements.
- Policy & Compliance: Adhere to internal policies including WFH conventions, protect information assets under ISMS, collaborate with the Manager for planning and staff matters, and be willing to work outside standard hours to ensure deliverables are met.
What We Offer
- Comprehensive remuneration: Motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile
- Discretionary annual bonus scheme based on company and individual performance
- Auto–enrolment pension scheme with employer and employee contributions based on age bracket
- Comprehensive private medical insurance for employees and immediate family
- Annual leave: All our employees are entitled to 22 days paid leave.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity, including shared parental leave and adoption leave
- Flexible working: We recognise the value of working flexibly and is keen to ensure all employees enjoy an excellent work-life blend. As such, we are open to conversations with employees related to setting up flexible working arrangements
Qualifications
- Degree holder with a full professional accounting qualification (such as ACCA or ACA), plus at least 6 years of relevant Fund Accounting experience and 1 year of people‑management experience.
- Strong mastery of accounting standards including IFRS and relevant GAAPs.
- Proven experience managing senior-level client operational relationships and a solid understanding of performance metrics.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PFS‑Paxus, with excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and French.
- Additional advantage: familiarity with tools such as Investran, PFS Paxus, and 5‑Series (Microgen).
Additional Information
Sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining long-term relationships with all our stakeholders – including our employees, clients, and local communities – while also reducing our impact on our natural environment.
There is always more we can, and should do, to improve – whether in relation to our people, our clients, our planet, or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.
Our learning and development programmes and systems (including PowerU and MyCampus) enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers, while our hybrid working approach supports our employees in achieving balance and flexibility while remaining connected to their colleagues. We want to empower our 5,800+ employees - from 94 nationalities, across 25 countries - to each achieve their potential. Through IQ-EQ Launchpad we support women managers launching their first fund, in an environment where only 15% of all private equity and venture capital firms are gender balanced.
We’re committed to growing relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients’ sustainability and success leads to our sustainability and success. We’re emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.
