Senior Associate - Financial Reporting

Primary Responsibilities:
•    Report to the Group Financial Reporting Manager.
•    Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal team members.
•    Prepare client-specific reporting as and when required. 
•    Prepare regulatory reporting, such as Management Accounts, draft financial statements and audited financial statements and/or financial reporting packages as required.
•    Adapt to and execute changes to regulatory requirements related to your job description.
•    Prioritize tasks and assignments to meet deadlines and escalate concerns to direct manager.
•    Gain familiarity and competence with departmental and team procedures and applicable systems. 
•    Monitor team inbox for client queries and identify appropriate responsible party.
•    Ensure that client needs are addressed and resolved in a complete and timely manner, initiate corrective action when service levels fall short of standard. 
•    Liaison with auditors where applicable. 
•    Assist operations team where required. 
•    Assist the Head of Operation, Group Managers and Senior Management with policy development and implementation and maintenance of SOC I internal controls. 
•    Commitment to high level of client service. 
•    Any other cognate duties relating to the proper service of client companies and other duties as may be assigned by the Head of Operations / Group Manager. 

Qualifications / Skills Required:
•    4-5+ years’ working experience in similar industry, primarily involvement of financial statements (and audited) preparation + experience in audit and exposure to diverse types of fund structures, VCCs, PCCs and SPC’s, Group FS & consolidation will be a definite advantage.
•    Partly qualified accountant – at least level 2 fully completed.
•    Passionate about financial markets and reporting.
•    Exposure to any Fund accounting software.
•    Good knowledge of IFRS and willingness to gain working knowledge of other GAAPs such as UK GAAP, US GAAP, Lux GAAP and SFRS.
•    Strong interpersonal and time management skills and adaptability to a challenging environment
•    Maintain good working relationships and open dialogue with other department heads.  Assisting your colleagues in the best interest of the Group. 
•    Highly proficient in MS Excel and MS Word, previous experience in any fund accounting software will be an advantage.
•    Strong written and verbal communication skills.