Role: Client Accountant – Family Office
Reports to: Senior Client Accountant
Direct reports: None
Job Level: 4
Job Purpose:
To provide strategic oversight with a dedicated focus on servicing a high net worth family office client. The role involves managing a broad range of accounting responsibilities to ensure the timely and accurate completion of statutory filings, financial reporting, and client deliverables.
This includes the preparation of statutory annual accounts, quarterly management accounts, and bespoke client reports, all delivered with the utmost confidentiality, precision, and responsiveness expected in a family office setting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Preparation and filing of financial statements in accordance with applicable accounting standards.
- Preparation of quarterly management reporting within a strict deadline and any other ad hoc financial reporting as required.
- Assist with the preparation of Guernsey Tax Returns, UK Tax Returns and other territories.
- Ensure timely receipt of all client signed financial statements that may have been completed by third parties.
- Support client facing colleagues with accounting matters.
- Ensure all investment valuations and accounting records are fully reconciled.
- Ensure all activities comply with relevant regulatory requirements and internal policies.
- Stay updated on changes to regulations and industry best practices.
- Act as an Authorised Signatory.
- Review and automate processes and deliverables and assess the best systems to use for automation.
Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s):
- Statutory accounts signed off within 3 months of year end or sooner if required for additional reporting purpose e.g. AGM, statutory filing.
- Client accounts signed in accordance with service level agreement.
- Quarterly updates with internal business partners of financial performance.
- Ensure accounting deadlines are met.
- 80% utilisation rate.
- Ensure 100% timesheet completion.
- Meet all filing/annual review/accounting deadlines.
- Attend all mandatory training throughout the year.
Experience and Qualifications
- A minimum of 5 years accounting experience within the Trust/Family Office environment.
- Must hold a relevant professional qualification (ACA/ACCA or similar).
- Excellent computer skills including proficiency in Excel, Word, and Outlook.
- Knowledge of Acumen or similar beneficial.
- Strong communication, accounting / analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Work under pressure, independently, effectively prioritise, manage time & workload to meet clients’ needs.
- Proactive, motivated, team player with a flexible attitude to complete additional tasks.
Behaviours and Competencies
Operational Excellence:
- Demonstrates the ability to make decisions based on insight and knowledge.
- Accountable for ensuring high standards of delivery to clients.
- Actively engages with customer to understand needs and will place a high priority on client service and satisfaction.
- Prioritises client issues and addresses them accordingly.
- Will keep up to date with business trends/ changes in law that will impact their role.
Client Excellence:
- Proactive in identifying opportunities and seeking solutions.
- Manages expectations so clients always feel valued.
- Takes responsibility for delivering superior products and services.
- Implements improvements to client service.
Commercial Awareness:
- Understands relevant local regulatory requirements.
Interpersonal Skills:
- Manages internal and external stakeholders' expectations with regards to delivery, escalating concerns as appropriate.
- Is able to deal with conflict in a controlled manner and can clearly communicate effective solutions.
- Build credibility across all stakeholder groups and is able to engage with individuals across all areas of an organization on areas of specialism.
Compliance:
- Act in a professional manner and produce accurate and timely work.
- Act with the highest level of integrity at all times and in the best interests of Aspida.
- Will be clear, open and transparent in communications with colleagues and customers.
- Promptly report any issues (or possible issues) you identify to your manager (or an appropriate member of the senior management team) for consideration and resolution.
- Never make any statement that is misleading, false or deceptive.
- Manage internal and external stakeholders' expectations with regards to delivery, escalating concerns as appropriate.
I understand, acknowledge and accept the details contained within.
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