Our team is looking for a skilled professional to lead the financial reporting function in EMEA.
This role involves overseeing the delivery of accurate and timely financial statements, coordinating client audits, and ensuring compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) across the investment funds managed by our organization.
The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction and driving the success of our organization. They will be responsible for designing, evolving, and enhancing the financial reporting operating model, fostering an efficient, consistent, risk-mitigating control environment across all financial reporting teams.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Lead Subject Matter Expert: Act as the lead subject matter expert in financial statement production, supporting the financial reporting teams to ensure client financial statements comply with IFRS, US GAAP, Lux GAAP, and all relevant accounting standards along with complex technical queries.
2. Client Financial Statement Production & Audits: Prepare annual, quarterly, and other fund financial statements. Deliver high-quality service to clients through accurate, timely completion of all assigned tasks. Liaise with external auditors and deal with audit queries, managing the audit process. Execution of the financial reporting process controls, conducting internal reviews, and managing external reviews. Quality Control for financial statements, review, and approve workbooks for new entity setup, including the review of the first set of financial statements.
3. Client Relationships: Develop and manage client relationships, always ensuring alignment with our client service excellence culture.
4. Sales Pitches: Contribute financial statement technical expertise support to support the sales process.
5. Continuous Process Improvement and Efficiency: Ongoing review of operating model, identify enhancements, and process improvements, and deploy solutions.
6. Regulatory Reporting: Responsible for ensuring adherence to Irish Financial Regulatory filings, MMIF, Monthly NAV Returns, SPV returns, etc.
Requirements:
1. 15+ years' experience within a financial reporting team within funds or audit of fund clients in an audit firm.
2. Experience in a strategic or change management position.
3. ACA qualified.
4. In-depth knowledge of the Funds industry.
5. In-Depth knowledge of the Microsoft suite.
6. Excellent communication skills (oral and written).
7. Strategic thinker, comfortable with a leadership role.
8. Ability to implement and evaluate strategies for improving operational excellence.
9. Demonstrable relationship-building skills both internally and externally and across all levels.
10. Team player.
11. Solutions-focused with strong attention to detail.
Benefits:
* Healthcare for yourself, your spouse, and any dependents up to the age of 18 years.
* Pension Scheme.
* Tax Saver Travel Benefits.
* Bike to Work Scheme.
* On-site Gym with Fitness Classes and 1:1 PT Sessions.
* Club Supplement.
* Education Assistance.
* Competitive Family & Annual Leave Entitlements as well as 2 Paid Volunteer Days per year.
* Life Assurance.
* Annual Employee Share Participation Scheme.
Our organization values a healthy work-life balance and offers flexible working hours and a hybrid working model.