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Job Description
You will be responsible for managing a portfolio of corporate services clients, delivering high-quality accounting and administration services while acting as a trusted relationship manager. Working closely with the Senior Client Manager and wider corporate services teams, you will ensure excellent client service, strong governance, and timely delivery, while support junior team members and contribute to continuous improvement across the team.
What you'll do
- You will manage an allocated portfolio of corporate services clients, providing accounting services, audit assistance, VAT preparation and filing, payroll review, bank account administration, and basic company secretarial support
- You will ensure the delivery of an excellent, timely, and compliant accounting and administration service in line with Corporate Governance standards
- You will provide guidance and first-level review of deliverables prepared by junior team members, supporting their development and ensuring quality outputs
- You will proactively support the Senior Client Manager in enhancing client service, improving processes, and strengthening team performance
- You will maintain strong technical knowledge, ensuring all key financial reporting updates are accurately applied to client deliverables
- You will build effective working relationships across UK and international teams, providing regular client overview reporting and escalating significant issues with proposed solutions
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
- Pension Scheme: Generous employer contribution with the ability to allow and increase employee contributions
- 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 recognise 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.
Qualifications
- You will be a qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA) with a strong background in client services within a corporate or professional services environment
- You will have experience managing multiple client portfolios and deadlines, delivering end-to-end accounting services
- You will demonstrate strong bookkeeping, management accounts, and financial statement preparation skills under UK GAAP and IFRS
- You will bring hands-on experience with VAT preparation and MTD filings, with payroll and consolidations experience an advantage
- You will have a solid understanding of Companies Act requirements, audit processes, and basic company secretarial matters
- You will possess excellent communication skills, strong Excel capability, and experience with accounting systems such as QuickBooks (Yardi desirable)
Additional information
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining long-term relationships with all our stakeholders – including our employees, clients, and local communities – while also reducing our impact on our natural environment.
There is always more we can, and should do, to improve – whether in relation to our people, our clients, our planet, or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.
Our learning and development programmes and systems (including PowerU and MyCampus) enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers, while our hybrid working approach supports our employees in achieving balance and flexibility while remaining connected to their colleagues. We want to empower our 5,800+ employees - from 94 nationalities, across 25 countries - to each achieve their potential. Through IQ-EQ Launchpad we support women managers launching their first fund, in an environment where only 15% of all private equity and venture capital firms are gender balanced.
We’re committed to growing relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients’ sustainability and success leads to our sustainability and success. We’re emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.
Company description
We’re a leading Investor Services group offering end-to-end services in administration, accounting, reporting, regulatory and compliance needs of the investment sector worldwide. We employ a global workforce of 5,800+ people across 25 jurisdictions and have assets under administration (AUA) exceeding US$750 billion. We work with 13 of the world’s top-15 private equity firms.
Our services are underpinned by a Group-wide commitment to ESG and best-in-class technology including a global data platform and innovative proprietary tools supported by in-house experts.
Above all, what makes us different is our people. Operating as trusted partners to our clients, we deliver intelligent solutions through a combination of technical expertise and strong relationships based on deep client understanding.
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