6-month Internship - Accounting & Finance

Tower Peak Partners is a private markets investment firm launched in 2024, headquartered in London with offices in New York and Rio de Janeiro. The firm manages thematic investment funds for institutional investors and principal investments through its own balance sheet. Its investment themes capture opportunities in markets experiencing deep structural changes due to technological advancements, climate change, socio-economic trends, and policy developments.

The firm delivers investment strategies across private equity, venture capital, real assets, and intellectual property asset classes, supported by 4 dedicated investment teams with an average of 25 years of investment experience.

About the role

As the firm continues to scale, Tower Peak Partners is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Accounting & Finance Associate to work directly with the CFO. This role is central to maintaining the financial strength of the group and ensuring robust reporting, controls, and analysis across multiple jurisdictions. The role involves regular interaction with external service providers, administrators, accountants, auditors, and other partners. The Postgraduate Internship is offered in London for a period of 6 months. Interns demonstrating strong performance and alignment with the firm’s values may be invited to join the firm on a full-time basis following the internship.

Responsibilities

• Groupwide bookkeeping and financial operations: Assist with day-to-day bookkeeping across multiple group entities, maintaining ledgers, AP/AR, journals, and bank records. Coordinate with suppliers and external providers, and support implementation and optimisation of the firm’s accounting system, AccountsIQ.
• Financial control, governance and compliance: Support the CFO with internal controls, financial governance, process documentation, and statutory/regulatory filings. Prepare and organise materials for annual audits and liaise with external auditors.
• Financial modelling and analysis: Help build and maintain financial models, budgets, cash-flow analyses, and scenario tools. Support management reporting and KPI dashboards, including variance and ad hoc analysis for strategic decisions.
• Reconciliation and reporting: Perform regular bank, intercompany, and balance sheet reconciliations and assist with monthly, quarterly, and annual closes. Support preparation of consolidated financial reporting across the group.
• External partner engagement: Act as a supervised point of contact for external accountants, vendors, and administrators. Review outputs from service providers for accuracy and ensure smooth coordination with internal finance.

Skills and Characteristics

• Experience with AccountsIQ or similar accounting or ERP systems are an advantage.
• Exposure to investment management, private markets, or financial services is a plus.
• Familiarity with automation tools or a strong interest in applying technology to improve finance workflows.
• Understanding of, or interest in, multi-entity and multi-jurisdictional financial reporting.
• High integrity, discretion, and professionalism when dealing with sensitive financial information, combined with a strong ownership mentality and the ability to work independently.

Qualifications

• Excellent academic credentials from a leading university, ideally in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline; progress towards a professional accounting qualification is an advantage.
• Good working knowledge of accounting principles and financial statements, with a genuine interest in developing further technical expertise.
• Strong skills in spreadsheets and analytical tools and an interest in developing financial modelling capabilities.
• Organised and detail-oriented, with a structured approach to financial data, reconciliations, and documentation.
• Proactive, eager to learn, and comfortable supporting multiple workstreams in a dynamic, growing organisation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to liaise with internal teams and external service providers under supervision.