Assistant Accountant Private Equity

Assistant Accountant, European Private Equity

This role comes with study support for the ACCA or CIMA and hybrid working

My client are a leading European Private Equity firm and buyout investor, focused on portfolio companies in Europe with more than €5 billion of assets under management.

Responsibilities

• Assist in production of monthly management accounts - inputting invoices into accounting system, preparing and posting various nominal ledger entries, bank reconciliation
• Review costs for variances to budget
• Reviewing management accounts for subsidary offices
• Prepare and post the monthly prepayments and accruals
• Accounts payable - organising approval and payment of weekly invoices (suppliers, credit card, expenses, travel invoices)
• Manage monthly payroll cycle, submitting documents to payroll company, pension contributions submission
• Assist finance team with cash management and cash requirement projections
• Review employee expenses
• Assist in completion of the monthly dashboard
• Assist in preparation of the annual budget and reforecast
• Complete quarterly VAT returns
• Manage out of pocket expenses to be recharged back to portfolio companies
• Assist external auditors with the preparation of statutory accounts at year end
• Assistance with preparation of board packs

Experience and Qualifications required

• Part qualified ACCA/CIMA/CPA/AAT
• 1-2 years accounting experience coming from accountancy practice, industry or a financial services firm
• Systems & IT competence
• Experience using Sage
• Good Excel skills

Personal skills

• Good communication skills
• Ability to work well both independently and as part of a team
• Good organisation skills and ability to meet deadlines at key times in the financial year
• Good attention to detail
• A desire to learn and take ownership of workload and projects
• Ability to multitask
• Ability to work with personnel at various levels of seniority both internal and external to the organisation