Senior Investment Accountant

A great opportunity to join a highly successful Financial Services business who pride themselves on creating a collaborative, creative and respectful culture. This Senior Investment Accountant role is a newly created position to the business which means the successful candidate can make it their own.

This role encompasses traditional financial control responsibilities (such as supporting investment pricing, maintain ledgers and reconciliations), and will also play a lead role working closely with the Head of Finance to improve controls and customer experience.

Key Responsibilities & Duties

• Calculate unit pricing for each of investment funds.
• General ledger and journal ownership for areas related to investments.
• Maintain qualitative and quantitative understanding of treasury, fund performance and asset management charges.
• Reconciliations - perform daily, monthly, quarterly and annual reconciliations including investment systems and general ledgers.
• Work closely with Finance Control manager and Team leader to close month end
• Reporting - Provide monthly reporting and ad hoc reporting/information to management.
• Payments - Manually processing both UK and foreign payments.
• Update and prepare valuation reports.
• Provide support and cover for other members of the Finance department.
• Ensure appropriate procedures and controls are documented and up to date.
• Working with and as part of wider finance control team, including ad hoc support where required.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Ideally ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified but we will consider QBE candidates
• Experience of working in a unit pricing environment for a financial or professional services provider
• Experience in improving processes and procedures
• Understanding of financial accounting concepts including journal posting gained through fund/ investment accounting experience
• Strong reconciliation experience including; control account reconciliations, trade and settlement reconciliations, variance analysis and root cause analysis
• A good understanding and appreciation of financial and operational controls with experienced of designing, implementing and operating controls on an ongoing basis