Client Assistant Accountant - Funds

As a Client Assistant Accountant, you'll support the day-to-day management of private equity, real estate, credit, or debt fund clients, ensuring accurate fund accounting, investor reporting, financial statement preparation, cash movement communication, and timely delivery of client reporting requirements while building strong stakeholder relationships and driving operational excellence. What you'll do - You'll manage designated fund clients, serving as a key point of contact while building strong relationships with clients, CFOs, financial controllers, and internal stakeholders - You'll prepare and review quarterly and annual financial statements, reports, and fund transactions in accordance with applicable accounting frameworks, including UK GAAP and IFRS - You'll calculate, review, and communicate investor drawdowns, distributions, and cash movements, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely issuance of investor notices - You'll oversee client deliverables by coordinating timelines, monitoring progress, resolving issues proactively, and ensuring deadlines and reporting requirements are consistently met - You'll apply strong organizational, prioritization, decision-making, and process improvement skills while collaborating with team members, taking ownership of deliverables, and contributing to operational efficiency and risk reduction 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 - Wellbeing: Additional social benefits such as private health and dental cover, life assurance, discounted gym membership, eye test and corporate GP - Annual leave: All our employees are entitled to 25 days paid leave, plus all UK public holidays. Enhanced maternity and paternity, including shared parental leave and adoption leave - Flexible working: We recognize 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 - Support and development: We will ensure you have the right training, tools and development plan to grow and improve your skills every day - You hold a higher-level education qualification, IATI qualification, or an equivalent accounting credential, with progress toward ACCA or ACA professional certification - You have passed at least five ACCA exams or CAP1 ACA exams, and where applicable, possess a minimum of two years of accounting or professional experience to meet exemption requirements - You have experience preparing and reviewing working paper files, financial statements, and related disclosures, or can demonstrate a strong accounting foundation through prior experience and continuing professional development - You have proven experience managing client relationships, addressing client queries, and resolving issues effectively while maintaining strong stakeholder engagement - You possess intermediate Excel skills and can apply strong analytical, organizational, and accounting capabilities to support financial reporting and client deliverables