Fund Controller - London, United Kingdom - Eames Consulting

Eames Consulting

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

A fast growing credit and special situations fund is seeking to appoint their first Fund Controller in a wide ranging role that offers oodles of long term career potential.

With a boutique and high performing culture, this is an ideal opportunity for anexperienced fund controller coming from a closed end funds background (either in-house or with a service provider) to join this firecracker of a fund, working hand in glove with their CFO to build out funds finance and operations.

Responsibilities:

_General_

Fund controller for various closed ended funds
Principal point of contact with administrator; reviewing work produced by the administrator's accounting team
Frequent catch ups to inform Luxembourg staff of new deals / upcoming sales / reporting deadlines
Setting up fund schedules and processes for ongoing operations
Internal reporting to the Board

_Day to day fund management_

Check capital call and distribution notices and review cash allocation schedules
Oversight of Capital Call Facility
Fund level cash management and forecasting
Review waterfall and equalisation calculations
Monitoring and managing hedging
Monitoring booking and cash flows for new investments and exits

_Reporting_

Liaise with administrator in respect of Fund Financials
Assist COO with Investor Questionnaires and ad hoc queries
Monitor investor reporting ensuring all is in line with LPA and side letters
Check management fee calculations
Run annual audit process
Maintain fund track records
Complete deal level and investor level performance calculations
Assist investment team with verification of quarterly valuations and IRR calculations

Your background:

Fully qualified accountant and likely to be at least 5 years PQE or equivalent
Experienced in Fund Accounting with particular emphasis on private, closed end fund vehicles
Ability to interact and manage third party service providers, specifically Administrator and financing relationships
Comfortable with fund performance calculations, management fee and carry calculations and projections, cash flow forecasts and models
Experienced in investor level and deal level performance calculations
Possess high levels of attention to detail/accuracy
Discretion with sensitive information
Ability to prioritize competing workflows effectively
Calm and measured under time pressure

Eames Consulting is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.