Investment Accountant Manager

We are seeking an experienced Investment Accountant Manager to lead a high-performing investment accounting function within a complex financial services environment.

This is a senior role with responsibility for ensuring investment accounting outputs are accurate, timely, well-controlled and delivered through to trial balance, while providing technical leadership across investment accounting, valuation, financial control and reporting.

Key responsibilities:

• Leading investment accounting production through monthly, quarterly and year-end close cycles.
• Owning the investment accounting financial control environment, ensuring controls are effective, evidenced and continuously improved.
• Providing analytical review of investment results, including movement analysis and key market drivers such as yields, credit spreads, FX, inflation, duration and asset mix.
• Overseeing valuation and pricing controls for complex, illiquid and judgemental assets.
• Supporting the implementation of new investment products, asset classes and transactions from an accounting and control perspective.
• Driving process improvement, automation and standardisation to reduce manual workarounds and improve first-time quality.
• Managing the performance and service delivery of offshore/outsourced providers.

About you

• Strong investment accounting knowledge across areas such as fixed income, derivatives, funds, mortgages, private credit, property, infrastructure and other alternative or illiquid assets.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS 9 and UK GAAP investment accounting.
• Experience taking investment accounting outputs through to trial balance, including journals, reconciliations, valuations and ledger substantiation.
• Experience leading finance teams and managing complex close deliverables.
• The ability to explain technical accounting, valuation and control matters clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience

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