- Company Name
- Capital Dynamics
- Job Title
- Financial Accountant - Private Equity - Contract
- Job Description
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Role: Financial Accountant (Private Equity)
Location: London or Birmingham
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract - 6 months
Stat date: April 2025
About Capital Dynamics:
Capital Dynamics is an independent global asset management firm focusing on private assets, including private equity (primaries, secondaries and co-investments) and clean energy.
Established in 1988, the Firm has extensive knowledge and experience developing solutions tailored to meet the exacting needs of a diverse and global client base of institutional and private wealth investors. Capital Dynamics oversees more than USD 14 billion in assets under management and advisement and employs approximately 150 professionals globally across 13 offices in Europe, North America, and Asia.
Role Purpose:
Capital Dynamics seeks to hire a Financial Accountant to join our Finance team in the London or Birmingham office.
This Accountant will support the preparation of the monthly management reporting and the year-end statutory reporting, which will include liaising with the auditors and other teams within Finance and the organization (locally and in our global offices), including Treasury, Legal and Operations.
Your responsibilities will include monitoring day-to-day transactional processing, reviewing month-end balance sheet reconciliations, preparing, and reviewing monthly reporting including group consolidation, cash flow reporting, and working closely with the Group Financial Controller, FP&A, Treasury and other finance colleagues to ensure robustness and consistency between data sets.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
Support the delivery of timely and accurate internal and external financial, regulatory, and management information for the areas within the role responsibility.
Prepare and review monthly audit files reconciling all balance sheet amounts to supporting documentation, flagging any risks/opportunities or potential risks/opportunities to senior management.
Support the preparation of the monthly Group consolidation.
Prepare the monthly IFRS management reporting for selected entities in the group, and Preparation of local GAAP statutory accounts.
Prepare and review monthly cost center P&L’s actuals versus budget reports and full-year forecasting, highlighting and potential risks or opportunities.
Support the preparation of the various VAT reporting.
Provide compliance with the regulatory capital calculations for the various jurisdictions.
Liaise with the auditors, ensuring smooth audit process and sign-off audits within 35 days of year end, and the Group audit completed within 60 days of year-end.
Manage and prepare all statutory financial statements ensuring that all submissions are on time, accurate and compliant.
Key Competencies:
Solid and thorough accounting knowledge of IFRS, (US GAAP and UK GAAP beneficial).
Understanding of the legal and regulatory compliance framework for the asset management industry (e.g. AIFMD, FATCA).
Understanding of controls, with an ability to critically evaluate them within a smaller organization.
Highly analytical with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to balance multiple deadlines.
Excellent attention to detail with a dedication to accuracy, quality, and integrity.
The ability to simplify complex issues for non-finance people.
Strong business collaborating pedigree.
Skills and Qualifications:
Educated to Bachelor’s degree level or equivalent.
Recently qualified - ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent.
Minimum of 5 to 8 years’ relevant experience, ideally working in a financial services organization – i.e. Private Equity, Venture Capital, Asset Management, Hedge Fund, Investment Bank, or a professional accounting firm.
Understanding of financial accounting controls, with an ability to critically evaluate them within a smaller organization; understanding of accounting procedures; IFRS, US GAAP, and UK GAAP beneficial.
Understanding of the legal and regulatory compliance framework for the asset management industry (e.g. AIFMD, FATCA).
Experience supporting the preparation or review of regulatory returns would be advantageous.
Diversity & Inclusion:
Capital Dynamics is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to creating a global diverse workforce. We are a global company with 24 nationalities represented across our staff in 13 offices, spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. We believe diversity and inclusion (“D&I”) is key to being better at what we do, and our initiatives are designed to attract, develop, and advance talented individuals, regardless of race, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, disability status or any other dimension of diversity. We welcome and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply to join Capital Dynamics.
