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General Information

Job ID
35793
Location
St Helier, Jersey
Work Types
Full Time
Categories
Client Accounting, Funds


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About TMF Group

TMF Group is a leading provider of critical administrative services, helping clients invest and operate safely around the world. We provide legal, financial and employee administration through TMF Group’s teams in 125 offices across 87 jurisdictions, covering 92% of world GDP and 95% of FDI inflow.

As we’re a global company with 12,000 colleagues, we actively seek out people with the talent and potential to flourish at TMF Group, whatever their background, and offer job opportunities to the broadest spectrum of people. Once on board we nurture and promote talented individuals, making sure that senior positions are open to all.


Discover the Role

In this role, you will be responsible for delivering a high standard of service to existing client entities. You will develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of fund and corporate structures, alongside in-depth knowledge of each fund’s investments and investor base.

You will work closely with the Senior Manager and Associate Director responsible for your assigned portfolio, acting as the key technical expert within each client fund team and ensuring the consistent application of best practices.


Key Responsibilities
  • Acting as the primary client contact for all financial reporting and accounting matters;
  • Managing the audit process: conducting detailed planning; being a central point of contact for all audit queries; ensuring the approaches adopted are appropriate and that issues raised are resolved expediently; ensuring that all parties are kept informed of the status and ensuring timely clearance for approving the accounts and ancillary documentation.
  • Planning workload, prioritising and managing own time accordingly, to ensure client service of the highest standard is consistently delivered;
  • Maintaining pro-active communication to ensure that the Senior Accountant Managers are kept appraised of status and to allow them to accommodate periods of absence and/or peak demand;
  • Demonstrating good attention to detail in all work that is undertaken to ensure the highest level of service is delivered to clients and ensuring that the team produces accounting data accurately, efficiently and within agreed timeframes;
  • Review all work performed by more junior members of the team relating to their assigned portfolio;
  • Working closely with counterparts on other teams to ensure seamless and coordinated client service delivery;
  • In addition to the duties listed above, the Accounting Manager may be requested to perform any other ad hoc duties or projects as requested.

Key Requirements
  • Holds a professional accountancy qualification; 
  • 3-5 years’ experience gained in either a financial reporting team or audit firm (preferably PERE but experience of other fund types is acceptable);
  • Detailed knowledge of and experience in fund accounting (preferably PERE but experience of other fund types is acceptable);
  • Extensive experience of financial statement preparation;
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with confidence in interacting directly with clients, auditors, and senior leadership;
  • Demonstrated capability to lead, coach, and develop team members;
  • Strong organizational skills, with the ability to meet tight deadlines;
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying efficiencies and process improvements.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely.

What’s in it for you?
Pathways for career development
  • Work with colleagues and clients around the world on interesting and challenging work;
  • We provide internal career opportunities so you can take your career further within TMF;
  • Continuous development is supported through global learning opportunities from the TMF Business Academy;

 

Making an impact

  • You’ll be helping us to make the world a simpler place to do business for our clients;
  • Through our corporate social responsibility programme, you’ll also be making a difference in the communities where we work;

 

A supportive environment 

  • Strong feedback culture to help build an engaging workplace;
  • Our inclusive work environment allows you to work from our offices around the world, as well as from home, helping you find the right work-life balance to perform at your best

We’re looking forward to getting to know you!