UK Accounting & Reporting

Key duties and responsibilities

• Receipt of required data for the preparation of financial statements.
• Prepare and review financial statements for the UK Regulated funds adhering to the jurisdiction norms.
• Preparation of Financial statements of Hedge Funds, mainly in FRS/UK GAAP.
• Ensuring best practice are adopted and improving processes to gain efficiencies.
• Planning and organizing workload and helping prioritization of deliverable.
• Liaise with Auditors/Client/Trustees on any challenges which occur in reporting process.
• Ensuring client enquiries are answered in accordance with Apex service standards on an ongoing basis.
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and other requirements of the funds specifications.
• Benchmarking of production reports to best practices.
• Defining the timeline of financial statements preparation with clients and auditors.
• Receipt of required data for the preparation of financial statements.
• Calculation of Mid and Bid price for Portfolio.
• Reconciliation of Units creations and cancellations.
• Oversee/calculate TER/OCF calculations.
• Oversee Offshore reportable income calculations.
• Oversee/calculate Distribution calculation process.

Qualification and Experience

• Professional qualification, MBA (Finance), Bachelor of Commerce or any course specialized in accounting.
• Experience in Financial Reporting.
• Accounting and Reporting Industry.
• Experience with Hedge funds is strongly preferred.
• Should have knowledge of accounting principles and procedures, familiarity with financial markets & instruments.
• Experience of Financial Reporting in FRS/UK GAAP is preferred.

Skills Required

• Highly proficient in MS Excel and MS Word
• Strong accounting knowledge
• Strong knowledge in capital market and derivatives
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Leadership skills