Senior Associate - Financial Reporting
Summary
Senior Associate prepares financial statements, regulatory reports, and audited packages for clients, ensuring compliance with IFRS and other GAAPs while liaising with auditors and operations teams.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Report to the Group Financial Reporting Manager.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal team members.
• Prepare client-specific reporting as and when required.
• Prepare regulatory reporting, such as Management Accounts, draft financial statements and audited financial statements and/or financial reporting packages as required.
• Adapt to and execute changes to regulatory requirements related to your job description.
• Prioritize tasks and assignments to meet deadlines and escalate concerns to direct manager.
• Gain familiarity and competence with departmental and team procedures and applicable systems.
• Monitor team inbox for client queries and identify appropriate responsible party.
• Ensure that client needs are addressed and resolved in a complete and timely manner, initiate corrective action when service levels fall short of standard.
• Liaison with auditors where applicable.
• Assist operations team where required.
• Assist the Head of Operation, Group Managers and Senior Management with policy development and implementation and maintenance of SOC I internal controls.
• Commitment to high level of client service.
• Any other cognate duties relating to the proper service of client companies and other duties as may be assigned by the Head of Operations / Group Manager.
Qualifications / Skills Required:
• 4-5+ years’ working experience in similar industry, primarily involvement of financial statements (and audited) preparation + experience in audit and exposure to diverse types of fund structures, VCCs, PCCs and SPC’s, Group FS & consolidation will be a definite advantage.
• Partly qualified accountant – at least level 2 fully completed.
• Passionate about financial markets and reporting.
• Exposure to any Fund accounting software.
• Good knowledge of IFRS and willingness to gain working knowledge of other GAAPs such as UK GAAP, US GAAP, Lux GAAP and SFRS.
• Strong interpersonal and time management skills and adaptability to a challenging environment
• Maintain good working relationships and open dialogue with other department heads. Assisting your colleagues in the best interest of the Group.
• Highly proficient in MS Excel and MS Word, previous experience in any fund accounting software will be an advantage.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.