Associate Manager in London

The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world's largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers. Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.

Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion. That's why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply 'empower' you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience. Take the lead and we'll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.

Key responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day financial reporting services to a portfolio of clients and structures, ensuring compliance with internal policies and procedures.
• Preparation and/or review of financial statements in compliance with GAAP (IFRS, US GAAP, FRS 102 and LUX GAAP).
• Preparation and/or review of accounting files, including checklists to support the effective review of the financial statements.
• Work closely with the sending locations to ensure that accounting records are accurate and transactions and activity within the portfolio are understood and incorporated into the disclosures as appropriate.
• Complete all day-to-day matters in a timely and satisfactory manner.
• Ensure high quality service delivery.
• Ensure any discrepancy is monitored and resolved professionally.
• Process review, client and audit comments and support the process to ensure the completion of milestones and deadlines.
• Identify and close out accounting issues promptly.
• Prepare accounts review checklists to support the effective review of financial statements and save signed copies of the checklists on appropriate drive.
• Perform other duties to support the Manager and team as may be necessary from time-to-time.

Skills / experience

• 8+ years' working experience.
• Qualified/ Partly Qualified accountant.
• Passionate about financial markets and reporting.
• Good knowledge of IFRS and willingness to gain working knowledge of other GAAPs such as UK GAAP, US GAAP, Lux GAAP and SFRS.
• Experience/exposure of accounting for structures holding alternative assets, including Real Estate assets; Debt & Private Equity.
• Exposure in working with other Teams across the Globe.
• Well organised and can work within tight deadlines.
• Excellent spoken and written English.
• Experience in reviewing the work of others and coaching.

Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.

About Apex Group: We are dedicated to driving positive change in financial services while fuelling the growth and ambitions of asset managers, allocators, financial institutions, and family offices. Established in Bermuda in 2003, the Group has continually disrupted the asset serving industry through our investment in innovation and talent. Today, we set the pace in asset servicing and stand out for our unique single-source solution and unified cross asset-class platform which supports the entire value chain, harnesses leading innovative technology, and benefits from cross-jurisdictional expertise delivered by a long-standing management team and over 13,000 highly integrated professionals. We're a people-powered business, and our people are full of ambition. Together, we're inspired to lead the new era of data and tech enabled service. Bringing new products and services to market. Sharpening our client focus. Disrupting the market to exceed expectations. Innovating across a range of specialisms. With our focus on making a difference to our people, our planet and our society, you'll experience more here than you would at most other companies.