Manager, Global Accounting - Guernsey

You will work closely with the senior leaders and other members of the Global Accounting team, on the provision of accounting services to a range of client entities of Governance Services (Jersey, Guernsey, UK and Cayman). 

The role will focus particularly on delivery of technically accurate accounts and periodic reports for a varied portfolio of clients (including, but not limited to, unit trusts, companies, partnerships and foundations) in accordance with agreed deadlines. The role includes client relationship management, mentoring and coaching of individuals in the accounting team and supporting global client administration colleagues.

A broad range of client types and technical accounting requirements ensures variety of work and provides excellent development opportunities.

About the role

In this role you will:

• Effectively manage the day to day activities of staff reporting to you, ensuring work is planned and allocated in order to meet client requirements including deadlines
• Collaborate with colleagues across all accounting locations, providing explanations, advice and accounting support as and when required
• Ensure work is completed efficiently and cost effectively
• Ensure timely update of central accounts status records for deadline monitoring and reporting purposes
• Adhere to policies and guidance on individual team member objective setting, periodic performance reviews and development plans
• Prepare and review accurate and timely financial statements including complex accounting work
• Prepare and review monthly, quarterly and semi-annual reports;
• Ensure accurate and up to date accounting records are maintained in client entity databases (Quickbooks, Viewpoint and Yardi)
• Ensure that you have a detailed understanding of the transactions you are dealing with and liaise with your line manager as required
• Build trusted relationships with clients, auditors and third party service providers
• Collaborate with client administration and other colleagues globally
• Ensure consistency of accounting service levels across all clients and deal swiftly with any identified issues
• Be familiar with and act at all times in accordance with the firm's policies and procedures
• Show an awareness of the integration of Governance Services across jurisdictions and with the law firm, operating in a unified, consistent and co-ordinated manner
• Maintain CPD levels required for your role & any professional bodies of which you are a member

About you - essential requirements

• Qualified ACCA/ACA or qualified by relevant experience with good up to date technical knowledge of UK GAAP and IFRS, including practical application
• Knowledge of US GAAP would be an advantage
• Previous experience of accounting systems, particularly QuickBooks, Viewpoint and Yardi would be an advantage
• Competent with Microsoft Excel
• Self-motivated and able to work with minimal day-to-day supervision
• Able to manage and prioritise tasks, time and people in order to meet deadlines
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• A positive and flexible approach
• An aptitude for data analysis/problem solving
• Interpersonal skills
• Professional, pro-active and service orientated approach
• Discretion and demonstrates good judgement
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Financial Reporting Manager

Are you looking for a new challenge in a fast-paced environment?  We're looking for a Financial Reporting Manager to join our ambitious, friendly in-house Finance team. 

Working with a small team of accountants, you'll have a varied and interesting workload.  You'll be working closely with the Head of Finance and Financial Controller, ensuring that the firm's financial data is prepared and presented accurately and in a timely manner. 

If the above interests you and you'd like to know more, we'd really like to hear from you.

About the role

• Preparing the Firms' annual consolidated financial statements, along with individual company financial statements.
• Monthly and annual consolidation of all group entities and subsequent Reporting & Analysis.
• Preparing monthly management accounts, including variance analysis
• MI Analysis and presenting findings.
• Preparing P+L, Balance Sheet and cashflow forecasts 
• Preparing departmental P&L reports monthly and preparing annual budgets.
• Presenting data to senior management, boards, partners and auditors.
• Tax computations and returns

About you

• Qualified Accountant, a minimum of five years' accounting experience is desirable. 
• Familiarity with multi-currency, multi-layered accounts and consolidations
• Commercial acumen 
• Expert analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills
• A collaborative, client focused approach to working
• Experience utilising a practice management system; Elite 3e, Viewpoint would be useful but not essential

Head of Finance Operations

Are you an experienced finance operations professional with a passion for driving efficiency, enhancing financial processes, and leading high-performing teams?

We are looking for a Head of Finance Operations, who will be responsible for managing the financial operations across the Mourant Group, including accounts payable, accounts receivable and cash management.

As part of the Finance Leadership team, you will work closely with the CFO and Head of Finance to ensure that the Group's financial operations are streamlined, efficient and compliant with all internal policies and external regulations. 

You'll provide support and leadership to the Finance Operations teams in Jersey, Guernsey, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg and Mauritius.  

The role requires a proven operational finance background, excellent leadership and people management skills and a thorough understanding of financial operations within a law firm and / or trust and corporate services provider setting. 

About the role

Finance Operations Leadership

• Lead the financial operations team, overseeing accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing and cash management.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of financial operations professionals, ensuring the team has the skills and resources to meet operational goals, and empowering the finance operations managers to effectively lead and develop their teams.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture within the Operations and wider group finance team, focusing on continuous improvement and professional development.
• Oversee the upgrade and implementation of financial management systems and tools, relating to finance operations.
• Ensure financial operations leverage technology to improve efficiency, reporting accuracy, and decision-making.

Accounts Payable / Receivable

• Ensure the accurate and timely processing of financial transactions in line with the firm's policies and approval limits
• Develop and implement efficient processes and systems for financial operations, enhancing productivity, maintaining control and reducing errors.
• Ensure that cash received into the business meets all required policies and is accurately recorded on a time basis. 

Billing and Revenue Control 

• Oversee the firm’s billing function, ensuring accurate and timely invoicing in line with client agreements and billing schedules.
• Work with the legal teams to ensure that WIP and debt are managed effectively, with bills issued and cash collected on a timely basis to optimise the firm's working capital "lock up" position 
• Set and monitor targets to support billing and cash collection
• Lead efforts to streamline billing processes and improve the efficiency of timekeeping and invoicing practices across the firm.

Cash Management 

• Oversee the reporting of the firm's cash positions on a daily basis and the management of liquidity to ensure the right amount of cash is in the right place at the right time. 
• Work with the Head of Finance to develop treasury management practices to optimise the firm's use of cash, while meeting its ongoing liquidity needs. 

Financial Control and Compliance 

• Ensure the firm’s financial operations comply with relevant legal and regulatory requirements, including client accounts rules (across all relevant jurisdictions) and any other applicable regulations.
• Implement and maintain strong internal controls around financial operations, safeguarding the firm’s assets.
• Collaborate with external auditors to ensure smooth and accurate audits.

About you - essential requirements

• Proven experience in financial operations in a law firm or professional services environment at a senior level
• "ACA", "ACCA" or "CIMA" qualification would be beneficial, but is not essential depending on relevant experience
• Demonstrable understanding of financial operations with the ability to analyse and improve processes
• Experience of managing accounts payable/receivable, billing and collections in professional services and of cash management and control
• Understanding of law firm regulatory environment in respect of cash and client money handling would be beneficial
• Good knowledge of technology and systems relevant to law and professional services (in particular, Elite and / or ViewPoint knowledge would be beneficial) 
• Previous leadership experience, with the ability to manage, mentor and develop a team
• Excellent organisation and planning skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• High attention to detail and accuracy

Finance Assistant – Guernsey

Overview of role

To provide support to the management of the business by maintaining accurate accounting records in respect of the Group and to assist with the Group’s annual budgeting process.  All tasks to be carried out efficiently and effectively, in accordance with Walkers' procedures.  To assist in the day to day running of the Finance function for the region working alongside the Senior Finance Manager, Head of CI Finance and Managing Partner. 

Duties, Responsibilities & Person Specification

• Prepare the schedule and prepare PDF batch of invoices to support payments
• Prepare monthly supplier and expenses payment run and ask me to approve it
• Post payments
• Operate as 4-eye reviewer of the batches prepared by the Finance Assistant and where necessary to make amends
• Enter payments / transfers on the banking platform
• Release payments in absence of Senior Finance Manager
• Reconcile the "Payroll" control accounts
• Schedule a session to review and investigate differences with Senior Finance Manager
• Update bad debt provision schedules
• Post bad debt provision journals
• Reconcile Intercompany accounts
• Post journal for Intercompany charges from other offices
• Notify other offices of our Intercompany charges to them
• Update prepayments schedules
• Prepare, upload and post prepayments journals
• Update accruals schedules
• Prepare, upload and post accruals journals
• Expenditure versus Budget reports (Marketing, HR, Ops)
• Assist with the prepare and submission of requests for information from national statistics office
• Assist with the preparation of spreadsheets and analysis spreadsheets
• Responding to audit enquiries
• Assist with the preparation of spreadsheets and schedules
• Discussions with budget holders to agree plans and costs

Education, Skills & Experience

• Previous experience desirable.  Preferably working toward a professional qualification or wishes to work towards a professional qualification.  Time barred accountants considered.

• Essential:        Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Professional Suite of products
• Desirable:        Aderant

Senior Administrator, Reward and Employee Value Proposition

With more major industry awards under our belt this year, over 100 partners and unprecedented growth, Ogier is a firm committed to our people, clients, innovation and doing things differently. 

We're a team of over 1,000 professionals working across 13 jurisdictions, each bringing unique perspectives and expertise. At Ogier, we champion diversity—encouraging different styles, opinions and ways of working. Innovation and collaboration are key to who we are, and we’re proud to foster a culture where support, personal development and progression are at the forefront. 

Our HR team plays a central role in making sure our people have every opportunity to thrive and perform at their best. We are now seeking a talented Senior Administrator to join our Reward and Employee Value Proposition (EVP) team to provide senior administrative support, with particular focus on reward elements (annual salary and bonus reviews, promotions and progression cycles), as well as supporting wider EVP projects.

You'll be responsible for undertaking a variety of project and administrative work (at a senior level) and will be expected to collaborate with colleagues across the business, in different jurisdictions and across all levels.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career in a forward-thinking, inclusive environment, where you’ll be supported to succeed and grow.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of the annual salary and bonus reviews, including:
  • co-ordinating the collation of data for salary benchmarking surveys in Jersey, Guernsey, UK
  • collaborating with the Resourcing Team to co-ordinate the annual collation of market data across all Ogier jurisdictions
  • monitoring review cycle timelines closely to ensure deadlines are met
  • managing the secure distribution of salary and bonus data into the business
• Support the delivery of the twice yearly promotions and progressions cycle, including monitoring deadlines, recommendations, liaising with HR Business Consultants and HR Operations to ensure processes and communications run smoothly
• Maintain Reward-related processes and policies, whilst following existing HR processes accurately
• Contribute to the business by identifying improvements in processes, policies and procedures
• Assist with administrative activity required for HR projects, including the set-up of new benefits as well as supporting changes to statutory regulations for reward, benefits and wider EVP matters
• Support the delivery of global annual benefit renewals, including data analysis and calculation of costings
• Update and maintain HR systems, records and reports with accurate employee data
• Undertake any additional duties as necessary to ensure the effective operation of the Reward and EVP team, together with the wider HR team
  
  

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Minimum of 3 years’ administration experience, ideally within a professional services environment
• Advanced MS Excel skills and excellent all-round IT proficiency
• Detail-oriented, analytical, and well organised
• Confident communicator with the ability to collaborate with colleagues across the business
• Self-motivated, flexible, and able to adapt to changing priorities
• Previous experience supporting reward or compensation activities is desirable, but not essential

About Ogier

About Ogier

Ogier provides legal advice on BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Irish, Jersey and Luxembourg law. Our network of locations also includes Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.

Legal services for the corporate and financial sectors form the core of our business, principally in the areas of banking and finance, corporate, investment funds, dispute resolution, private equity and private wealth. We also have strong practices in the areas of employee benefits and incentives, employment law, regulatory, restructuring and insolvency and property.

Ogier's corporate administration business, Ogier Global, incorporates and administers a wide variety of vehicles including public and private companies, partnerships and trusts.

Ogier is based in 13 jurisdictions including Beijing, BVI, Cayman Islands, Dubai, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Ireland, Jersey, London, Luxembourg, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.

Senior Accountant, Private Equity Accounting - Guernsey

A vacancy has arisen in our Private Equity (PE) Operations team. Northern Trust offers a first class service to a variety of PE clients and work as a closely to ensure deliverables are met.

You will be working as a key member within the administration team whilst providing additional support to the wider team that administers either a variety of clients or a very large client with an active investment portfolio.

Key components of the role include liaising with internal teams and the Investment Advisor, completion of various non-accounting tasks, completion of all aspects of accounting and dealing with ad-hoc queries as they arise, all within scheduled timeframes and ensuring that all client KPIs are met.

The key responsibilities of the role include:

• Providing a premier client service by building strong relationships with the Investment Advisor and any other third parties;
• Developing a thorough knowledge of your client and their bespoke requirements with regards to key processes;
• Working closely with the client to resolve complex issues and queries;
• Own the monitoring of assigned mailboxes, completing tasks assigned by management;
• Perform reviews of junior team members work.
• Complex accounts Preparation/Review under various GAAP/IFRS standards
• Investments: Update and maintain investment and portfolio records on behalf of clients, including processing of purchases and disposals; recording of income receipts; revising quarterly valuations and understanding other types of complex investment transactions and restructurings.
• Investor Calls/Distributions: Calculate call/distribution amounts for recommendation by client; liaise with client and investors regarding receipt/payment of monies; liaise with financial institutions receiving or making payment of fund and maintain accounting records.
• Company Secretarial duties (including, but not limited to): Assist in the preparation of company minutes and agendas; process investor transfers; maintain/update investor static information; review external payment workflows.
• Develop client specific knowledge to facilitate the delivery of ad-hoc queries. This includes having detailed understanding of fund structures and how they interact with one another.
• AIFMD and Solvency II Reporting: Review data exported from accounting systems and filing final reports with regulators / investors as applicable.
• Tax Reporting: Provide information for tax returns to internal and external tax professionals; review qualitative and quantitative data prior to supply of returns to investors; liaise with other internal departments such as CDD and Tax across numerous judications. Examples include FATCA & CRS; UK, German and US tax reporting.

Skills/ Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will benefit from having:

• Hold an accounting qualification (ACA or ACCA preferred) and be familiar with UK; US and Lux GAAPs.
• Those partially-qualified or with at least 2 years of relevant experience, preferably with debt instruments, will also be considered
• Have a general understanding of the Guernsey Company / POI / Partnership laws and possess an ability to keep up to date with all applicable legal developments
• Confidence in communicating directly with clients and other senior stakeholders
• Good team player, self-starter, flexible, with the ability to work under pressure with minimal supervision
• Able to demonstrate professional judgement and attitude in all aspects of work, including detailed self-review of own work.