Fund Accountant

Fund Accountant
Swindon
Permanent
Hybrid Working

Our financial services client is seeking to recruit a Fund Accountant into their well-established Real Estate and Infrastructure Operations Team. In your role, you will have responsibility for the production of monthly management accounts and management information, along with financial statements and VAT and Tax reporting.

How you'll spend your time

As a member of the Real Estate & Infrastructure Operations team, you will provide a key role in the financial accounting, statutory accounting, administration, and management reporting function for the fund(s) you are allocated to and to act in a supporting role on other funds within the Client Accounting Team.In this varied role, the Client Accounting team has multiple interactions with both clients, external parties (such as fund administrators and auditors) and internal team members, including key interactions with the Real Estate Investments team.

The role will be sat within a team of up to 3 other Fund Accountants, reporting into a Deputy Client Accounting Manager and ultimately the Client Accounting Manager.

• To prepare monthly Management Accounts, including the analysis and reconciliation of Balance Sheet, Income Statement General Ledger items and completing Net Asset Value computations for communication to investors.
• To produce monthly Management Information, including Liquidity Forecasts.
• Coordination and control of quarterly investor / client communication ensuring completion within specified timescales.
• Provision of tax information to the relevant tax specialists and calculation of tax accruals.
• To complete the computation, general ledger reconciliation and on-line submission of quarterly VAT returns and payment of sums payable to HMRC (where applicable).
• To analyse loan covenant compliance and provide reporting to lenders (where applicable)
• To aid in the preparation of annual statutory Financial statements, including supporting documents/workings. To liaise with internal and external auditors to ensure audits are planned and executed accordingly, and financial statements are distributed to interested parties in accordance with required timescales.
• To aid in the review and implementation of Real Estate acquisition and disposals pipeline.
• To ensure continuous implementation and strict application of accounting standards and operational control
• Any other duties that are deemed necessary that may occur from time to time.

• Part Qualified Accountant - ACCA, CIMA or ACA
• Management Accounting experience
• Clear and concise communicator with experience of working with colleagues at all levels
• Solid financial accounting skills, including ability to analyse and interpret variances
• Self-starter, deadline-driven and can work on own initiative.
• Client Focus driven with proven experience

• Fully Qualified Accountant - ACCA, CIMA or ACA
• Experience in a Financial Services environment
• Fund Accounting/Property Fund Accounting experience