Senior Client Accountant at TMF Group

Job Purpose

• To provide support to the Manager / Director on an ongoing basis to ensure seamless delivery of client deliverables.
• To safeguard customer relations by ensuring that work is undertaken efficiently and effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Review bookkeeping done by the Client Fund Accountants on a regular basis
• Review management information packs prepared for the client on a periodic basis
• Ensure all supporting documentation is stored in line with the internal policies
• Liaise with the auditors and act as primary point of contact
• Perform initial review of all financial statements for all client entities in the portfolio
• Assist with the monitoring and control of all incoming communication to ensure that it is directed to an appropriately skilled member of the team
• Oversee and control outgoing client communications to ensure correspondence, calculations and presentation of work is of a high standard at all times
• Assist with the monitoring and sign-off on processes carried out in accordance with the procedures and checklists
• Ensure all work complies with the Fund’s documentation, the Company’s policies and procedures and any regulatory requirements.
• Ensure personal compliance with policies and regulations
• Oversee and ensure that the rules, regulations and procedures are adhered to at all times
• Assist with the coaching, development and training of staff
• Develop and maintain effective relationships between individual members of the team
• Develop the capabilities of team members in order to facilitate motivation and empowerment
• Undertake and assist with the bookkeeping workloads as necessary and when required

Experience and Qualifications

• Education and qualifications’ to at least degree level.
• Previous financial statement preparation experience within a financial institution and ideally in a Private Equity Administrative area
• A professional qualification – CA(SA)/ACCA/ACA or ICSA or other similar level qualification or has achieved part-qualified status