Fund Accountant - Private Debt

Inseriert am: 17.06.2020

Fund Accountant - Private Debt

LGT Private Debt is affiliated with LGT Capital Partners and operates as its private debt competence center focused on arranging and underwriting private debt investments for sponsored buy-outs of mid-market companies on a pan-European basis. Set up in 2005, the team of 41 includes 23 investment professionals based in Paris and London, has completed over 100 transactions, and now has approximately EUR 2.2 billion of funds under management.
LGT Capital Partners is a leading alternative investment specialist with USD 60 billion in assets under management and more than 550 institutional clients in 39 countries. An international team of over 500 professionals is responsible for managing a wide range of investment programs focusing on private markets, liquid alternatives and multi-asset class solutions. Headquartered in Pfaeffikon (SZ), Switzerland, the firm has offices in New York, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vaduz, Dubai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney.

Stellenbeschreibung

As a Fund Accountant, your expected tasks and responsibilities include (and are not limited to):

Financial control and reporting:

Taking ownership in delivering timely and accurate quarterly and annual fund reporting for the designated LGT’s managed funds including investor reporting and Board presentations;

Maintaining financial control over the underlying general ledgers and performing all other accounting related tasks across multiple entities within LGT’s managed funds (covering UK, French and Luxembourg incorporated entities);

Recording and reconciling specific asset principal and investment income activity in line with detailed revenue recognition policies;

Ensuring that all financial information is prepared on an accurate and timely basis. Also ensuring the ongoing integrity and completeness of the underlying financial systems and data;

Maintaining and producing accurate periodic performance analysis including asset / fund level track record information and other specific KPI metrics (IRR, MM, etc.);

Assisting in the preparation and delivery of annual statutory financial statements in accordance with the appropriate GAAP and liaising with external auditors for the funds;

Assisting in the preparation of financial information to meet the periodic obligations under AIFMD;

Preparing tax reporting documentation from underling fund data;

Responding to periodic and ad-hoc tax and investor reporting queries from external LPs and co-investors.

Fund administration:

Performing the necessary fund administration tasks to generate and issue capital calls and fund distributions (including the calculation of carried interest accruals, management fees and income linked distributions);

Working closely with the treasury team on asset and fund cash flow related matters.

Unsere Anforderungen

Bachelor or Master degree in finance and accounting or STEM based subject;

Qualified ACA, CIMA or ACCA;

At least 2-3 years post qualified relevant working experience in a private equity or private debt fund institution is essential;

Experience as Fund Accountant for entities within a limited partnership fund structure is necessary;

Strong IT skills (MS Office), in particularly Excel;

Experience with Investran is highly desirable;

Experience with WSO and/or Loan IQ is beneficial;

Excellent language skills in English; other languages, especially French would be beneficial;

Strong analytical skills with good attention to detail and high degree of quality;

Proactive communication and good organization skills to priorities workload and keep key stakeholders informed;

Ability to work accurately and productively under pressure and tight deadlines;

Self-motivated, team player with an independent working style.

Please submit your application until 30 June 2020.

We will only consider direct candidate applications.

For further information please contact our HR Manager Ms Sandra Wichert, +44 (0)20 7484 2518.

Kontaktinformationen

If you are interested in becoming an integral part of a successful alternative investment management team in an international, multicultural working environment, we will be pleased to get to know you soon.
For further information please contact our HR department.

Sandra Wichert
LGT Private Debt (UK) Ltd.
Human Resources