Description
Reporting into a Vice President, this role will primarily manage accounting, reporting, treasury, audit and tax functions of allocated private equity fund of funds (primary and secondary), direct investment funds, structured products, private credit funds and Luxembourg investment vehicles.
What you'll be doing:
- Oversee and review quarterly management accounts for Clients' managed funds on an accrual basis
- Develop the presentation of the accounts in accordance with the Clients' corporate branding guidelines
- Lead on Client reporting requirements, understanding the structure of the existing reports and Client deliverables
- Oversee and maintain accounting records and ensure accuracy and completeness of data
- Develop knowledge of Colmore's existing processes and procedures to ensure maximum effectiveness
- Ensure timely and accurate year-end support files for annual audits are prepared, as required
- Review draft annual financial statements in accordance with UK GAAP, US GAAP, Canadian GAAP and Lux GAAP
- Liaise with auditors and tax advisors to ensure delivery of completed "Provided by Client" lists and timely completion of audit and tax engagements
What you'll bring to us:
- A professional accounting qualification is desirable but not mandatory. A degree in accounting is necessary. A minimum of six years of experience is required
- Private equity knowledge preferred but not essential
- An understanding of fund/group structures
- Extensive working knowledge in a similar environment, ideally financial services
- UK or US GAAP working knowledge is essential and Canadian GAAP or Lux GAAP is desirable but not essential
- Excellent working knowledge of accounting databases/running reports
- Competent user of MS Excel and other MS products
Why join us?
We centre our culture in our teams members growth, sparking their curiosity and fuelling their career adventures. We celebrate and recognise contribution, high performance and strong collaborative behaviours. We're building and growing our learning programs, frameworks and tools to help people thrive and it's an exciting time to join us. We support our internal communities and donate our time, knowledge and support to the communities that surround our offices globally.
Equal opportunities Preqin is an equal opportunity employer, with diversity at the heart of our business. It is the policy of Preqin to ensure equal employment and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. You will be joining the world's leading data and insights provider for the alternative assets market. We empower the global financial community with critical information and leading analytics solutions to help them make faster and smarter investment decisions, and to make them with confidence. A forward-thinking company, we lead our industry through innovation. We trust in the power of data, and we use it to increase transparency in alternatives. We believe that access to information leads to more investment in the ideas and infrastructure that build strong communities.
