Job Description

Job Title:          Senior Fund Accountant (Contract Maternity Cover)

Jurisdiction:          Guernsey

Department:          Client Accounting

About Us

Suntera Global is a multi-jurisdictional provider of fund, corporate and private wealth services. We believe in empowering responsible ambition through the professional delivery of fund, company and trust administration as well as outsourced compliance, escrow, accounting, and tax services. We have over 400 specialists supporting a global client base from offices in the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Hong Kong, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Luxembourg, Malta, and the US. For more information visit suntera.com.

About the Role

A fixed term contract for 8/9 months, covering maternity leave as a Senior Fund Accountant. You will report to the Head of Client Accounting and play a crucial role in providing efficient accounting services for various fund structures as well as supporting the wider team. Key responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with CRM Team: Work closely with the CRM team, to seamlessly integrate accounting services for clients within the client services.
• Client Reporting: Preparation of accurate, well presented client deliverables including year-end financial statements, investor capital account statements, drawdowns, distributions, and equalisations.
• Audit: Preparation for external audit and management of deliverables.
• Quality Control and Guidance: Provide technical guidance and review within the Client Accounting team. Ensure consistent and effective application of accounting procedures.
• Investor Relations: Coordination and responses to investor queries requiring financial information;
• Participation in Meetings: Attend Board and shareholders' meetings where financial reporting matters are considered.

About You

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACA) with 3 or more years of relevant Fund accounting experience.
• Strong knowledge of offshore financial services industry and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to set priorities and manage deadlines, escalating issues where necessary.
• Thrive independently and in a team, with strong communication skills.
• Strong IT skills with experience using NAVOne an advantage.

Key People

The team members, line managers and hiring managers the candidate may interact with during the hiring process and on the job.

• Stuart Simon, Finance Director
• Dene Reardon, Head of Client Accounting
• Jess Savident, Senior Fund Accountant
• Joe Kimber, Senior Fund Accountant

Financial Controller

As part of the Summit Group, we are an independent fiduciary services company providing a bespoke personalised service to wealthy individuals, families and institutions.

With key operations in Guernsey, Jersey, Geneva and Dubai, across the group we are currently 150 people of which c. 40 are based in Guernsey. Our team has a wide experience of dealing with wealth and estate planning for private individuals and complex structures for both individuals and institutions across the world.

Role overview

The role of the Guernsey Financial Controller is to be responsible for the Aquitaine corporate accounting department. In addition to the traditional role of ensuring robust financial controls and producing timely management information, a key part of this role will be to partner the management team providing commercial insights as the business continues to grow.

The ability to create strong working relationships with both the local management team and the Group finance team will be critical to the success of this role.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Embed and oversee financial controls and processes to ensure accurate, timely financial information
• Manage the Guernsey finance team to ensure effective prioritisation of all key deliverables, and maximising the use of technology to deliver efficiently
• Partner the management team providing commercial insights into business performance
• Prepare monthly board packs for the local management team and Group Finance providing commercial analysis on performance
• Lead the annual budgeting and forecasting process
• Ensure efficient working capital management, leading on the billing process and working closely with the management team to ensure timely collection of cash
• Prepare the annual financial statements and lead the Guernsey audit process
• Ensure compliance with the GFSC regulatory liquidity requirements at all times
• Attend management / Board meetings as required
• Be an active member of the wider Group Finance community, contributing to finance initiatives
• Identify opportunities to automate financial processes

Person Specification

• Qualified Accountant with previous commercial experience of working in a Fiduciary or Professional services organisation.

• Strong financial and management reporting experience. The ability to provide the right level of business intelligent information to drive and influence business activity.
• It will be essential that the candidate understands and has experience of accounting for WIP

• Must demonstrate restless curiosity and be able to get to the bottom on an issue
• Accurate with good attention to detail
• Be able to work under tight timelines
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Enjoyment of working within a busy team within the Firm
• Enjoys technology with advanced Excel skills and strong experience of maximising the benefit from accounting software packages

Reports to:       Group CFO and Guernsey MD

Direct reports:    Alison Tayler

Signatory:      Not Applicable

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Role holder

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Line Manager

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Betway Group

Accountant

Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, Guernsey ·

Hybrid  Full-time  Associate

About the job

The Department:

The Guernsey Branch’s Finance Department is responsible for Betway Group’s marketing expenditure across multiple entities.

Purpose of the role:

The successful candidate will assist in all aspects of the financial management and reporting duties for marketing, as well as reporting to higher management and stakeholders throughout the organisation.

The Accountant is an integral role that will support and guide an international team during monthly, quarterly and year-end close cycles; be point for internal and external financial audits; coordinate internal control and operational policies; and other duties as assigned.

You will be responsible for:

Financial reporting:

Monthly management reports:

• Check to ensure that data is posted correctly by product, region, and brand,
• Match open items in vendors and customers,
• Investigate anomalies and open items timeously,
• Run weekly open item reports and follow up on long outstanding items,
• Post invoices, accruals and prepayments.
• Post intercompany and intergroup billing,
• Proactively resolve any queries raised,
• Petty Cash reconciliations.

Analytical reporting:

• Preparation of monthly income statement and balance sheet with relevant commentary,
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations,
• Ensure all evidence for SOX Compliance Controls and Reconciliations is completed.

Corporate Governance:

Audits

• Assist with the preparation of the quarterly and annual audit files,
• Effectively communicate with auditors to ensure all audit queries are adequately resolved.

SOX compliance

• Ensure that all controls are adhered to, documented, and implemented for SOX compliance.

Ad Hoc:

• Ad hoc duties as may be required from time to time.
  

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The job holder may be required to complete any other reasonable duties in order to achieve business objectives.

Essential Requirements:

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or part-qualified (or AAT/IAB/ICB/ to Level 3),
• Minimum 3 years accounting experience in a similar role,
• General accounting system knowledge,
• Advanced knowledge of Excel,
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships,
• Effectively work as a team with relevant team members,
• Communicates clearly and effectively at all levels; both internally and externally to ensure expectations are met and potential problems escalated timeously,
• Excellent time management skills,
• Ability to plan and organize,
• Ability to handle large volumes of data,
• Ability to adapt to change.

Advantageous Requirements:

• Experience in Microsoft Dynamics Navision or Business Central,
• Experience in FloQast,
• Experience in IBM Planning Analytics/TM1/Cognos,
• Experience in reconciling data from sources outside of the accounting system.

Person Specifications:

• Ownership & accountability,
• Building relationships,
• Organisation & planning,
• Problem solving,
• Resilience,
• Stress tolerance,
• Communication,
• Teamwork.

*Please note we will apply relevance to our Talent Management and Talent Development Programme as part of our recruitment process.

*Shortlisted candidates may need to complete an assessment.

Job Description

Job Title:          Senior Fund Accountant (Contract Maternity Cover)

Jurisdiction:          Guernsey

Department:          Client Accounting

About Us

Suntera Global is a multi-jurisdictional provider of fund, corporate and private wealth services. We believe in empowering responsible ambition through the professional delivery of fund, company and trust administration as well as outsourced compliance, escrow, accounting, and tax services. We have over 400 specialists supporting a global client base from offices in the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Hong Kong, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Luxembourg, Malta, and the US. For more information visit suntera.com.

About the Role

A fixed term contract for 8/9 months, covering maternity leave as a Senior Fund Accountant. You will report to the Head of Client Accounting and play a crucial role in providing efficient accounting services for various fund structures as well as supporting the wider team. Key responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with CRM Team: Work closely with the CRM team, to seamlessly integrate accounting services for clients within the client services.
• Client Reporting: Preparation of accurate, well presented client deliverables including year-end financial statements, investor capital account statements, drawdowns, distributions, and equalisations.
• Audit: Preparation for external audit and management of deliverables.
• Quality Control and Guidance: Provide technical guidance and review within the Client Accounting team. Ensure consistent and effective application of accounting procedures.
• Investor Relations: Coordination and responses to investor queries requiring financial information;
• Participation in Meetings: Attend Board and shareholders' meetings where financial reporting matters are considered.

About You

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACA) with 3 or more years of relevant Fund accounting experience.
• Strong knowledge of offshore financial services industry and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to set priorities and manage deadlines, escalating issues where necessary.
• Thrive independently and in a team, with strong communication skills.
• Strong IT skills with experience using NAVOne an advantage.

Key People

The team members, line managers and hiring managers the candidate may interact with during the hiring process and on the job.

• Stuart Simon, Finance Director
• Dene Reardon, Head of Client Accounting
• Jess Savident, Senior Fund Accountant
• Joe Kimber, Senior Fund Accountant

Fund Accountant

With continued growth across the NSM Group, we are always on the lookout for bright individuals to join the team and we are looking for a Fund Accountant to join our Funds Company NSM Funds Limited, where we provide bespoke fund administration services to an array of sectors and fund structures, across multiple jurisdictions.

This is an opportunity for a driven and talented individual with relevant work experience to make a difference as part of a dedicated and growing team.

This highly numerical position will see you carry out day to day administration and accounting of Fund Structures under the direction of your line manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with all aspects of day to day administration and accounting matters such as calls and distributions, quarterly valuations, monthly and quarterly investor reporting and annual statement preparation of a range of funds, management companies and associated fund structures within the team and liaise with clients and intermediaries on a daily basis.
• Bookkeep all day to day operations of a variety of fund structures and preparation of periodic bank reconciliations.
• Maintain accurate records on databases of all bookkeeping and other related data.
• Assist with the completion of routine audit queries.
• Prepare manual and electronic payment instructions to settle entity expenses and complete investment transactions throughout structures including the bookkeeping.
• Complete NAV calculations.
• Develop and maintain strong, long-lasting relationships with clients and external parties, proactively manage client expectations and turnaround times.

Skills, knowledge, expertise

• Computer literacy skills are essential.
• Very good interpersonal skills are required to develop close working relationships with colleagues, clients and business contacts.
• Some technical financial services knowledge
• 2+ years of relevant financial services experience, studying towards a relevant professional qualification (preferably having commenced ACCA or ACA), ambition and enthusiasm.
• You are required to have the requisite Guernsey residential certificate/permit to apply for this role.
• Qualifications available: ACCA, ACA

Who we are

NSM Group is a fast growing company and staff get to experience a variety of responsibilities and inclusion in exciting initiatives beyond their day to day roles. At NSM we pride ourselves on the calibre of our staff and collaborative teamwork. We provide a great benefits package which includes pension contributions, private healthcare cover and discretionary bonus.

We are committed to helping our staff reach their full potential by supporting them with training and development opportunities. Many of our staff are studying for a professional qualification for which we cover costs and provide study leave.

Our Wellness Committee supports mental and physical health, co-ordinating a host of staff benefits ranging from exercise classes, through to nutrition awareness to massages.

NSM takes an inclusive approach to hiring and is a positive place to work, welcoming those who want to make a beneficial impact within our organisation, for our clients and in our communities.