Management Accountant Private Equity
Carnegie Consulting
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Preparation of the quarterly management accounts and assisting with the finance report, including presentation of financial information, commentary on budgetary variances and other non-financial data
- Preparation of month-end working files and balance sheet reconciliations, including purchases, sales and nominal ledgers
- Preparation of departmental expense reporting and commentary on variances against budget
- Business partnering with budget holders; building relationships with business heads to better understand the needs and cost drivers of their departments to assist with budgeting and forecasting full-year cost outcomes
- Assisting with annual budgeting and quarterly reforecast processes
- Review of quarterly management fee workings from the Funds team and preparation of invoices
- Preparation of quarterly regulatory reporting requirements and FCA reporting, quarterly VAT return submissions and National Statistics returns
- Monthly Abort fee reporting and quarterly cash reconciliation
- Assisting with preparation of annual audit files for statutory auditors, and preparation of statutory accounts for entities within the House structure
- Maintenance of records and quarterly reconciliations of firm’s co-investments in the funds
- Supervision of fortnightly UK and Offshore payment runs (prepared by the Admin team) with focus on input of purchase invoices, accuracy of general ledger postings, VAT treatment and payment detail
- Supporting House finance admin team
- Proactively seek out process improvements and efficiencies and help drive changes
- Ad-hoc project work on various areas of House finance
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified likely to be someone working at a mid-tier accountancy practice
- Accounts preparation experience is essential for this role
- Exposure to financial services clients is highly desirable
- Strong knowledge of Excel
- High level of numeracy
- Ability to interpret written information