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Role summary:
- We are seeking an Assistant Manager, reporting to a Manager within the Alternative Asset Services Division of Apex, to have responsibility for the administration and overseeing the accounting of a client portfolio.
- Also, including the development and mentoring of the more junior team members and providing the highest quality of customer service. Working closely with the lead relationship manager and Director to provide quality and efficient services to all customers within the portfolio.
Key responsibilities:
- Be responsible for managing a client portfolio including all aspects of administration & overseeing the accounting aspects
- Supervise and mentor a number of junior staff members, some of whom would typically be studying towards professional qualifications
- Working with the Manager and Director to ensure the planning, coordination and completion of NAVs
- Management Reporting and Statutory Reporting of corporate entities to ensure the team complies with all of its accounting and regulatory obligations and requirements including listing requirements and client reporting
- Preparation and implementation of entity customer specific procedures in relation to the administration and reporting requirements
- Act as point of contact with auditors in respect of the planning and coordination of audits and assisting with and running audits for clients
- Ensuring reporting complies with entity and statutory requirements including local law, relevant GAAP or IFRS and other reporting principals
- Ensure that client responsibilities are managed effectively
Skills / Experience:
- Professional qualification – CA(S) or equivalent
- Minimum one year post articles experience
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in the fund industry
- Excellent communication and organisation skills
- Legal and regulatory requirements for example Anti-Money Laundering laws etc.
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Ability to prioritise work and meet strict deadlines
- Motivated and driven
- Fund related accounting experience will be an advantage
- Private Debt, Capital Markets, Real Assets or Private Equity knowledge will be a distinct advantage
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Role summary:
- We are seeking a Manager, reporting to an Associate Director within the Alternative Asset Services division of Apex, covering financial reporting obligations to support the growing alternative assets team, with a particular focus on the development and mentoring of the team members. Also, including implementing procedures and processes for the Cape Town office and the private debt team and providing the highest quality of customer service. Given the divisional responsibilities outlined below, the candidate will require to have significant experience and expertise.
Key responsibilities:
- Joint responsibility for assisting in the development of the Alternative Asset Teams in Cape Town and for the day-to-day financial reporting and management of portfolios of clients across these teams;
- Assisting in the Management of specialised services teams on all aspects of financial reporting, including working directly with Apex's customers to ensure their structures are run efficiently in compliance with the relevant laws and contractual obligations, and being involved with the management team to strategically build the Alternative Asset business;
- Working with the management team and Directors to ensure the planning, coordination and completion of NAVs, Management Reporting and Statutory Reporting of the structures to ensure the team complies with all of its accounting and regulatory obligations;
- Ensuring quality control prior to the further review and approval of Apex's authorised persons including payments, calculations and transactions;
- Preparation and implementation of entity customer specific procedures in relation to the reporting requirements;
- Ensuring reporting complies with entity and statutory requirements including local law, relevant GAAP or IFRS and other reporting principles;
- Development and maintenance of divisional and departmental policies and procedures, and support implementation of new structures;
- Ensuring that all day-to-day matters required to be completed are performed in a timely and satisfactory manner including monitoring tasks and delegating these across the relevant managers team; Support the implementation of new structures;
- Act as primary point of contact with auditors in respect of the planning and coordination of the audits;
- Be able to provide sound, quality, and technical guidance to clients and assist with the training of junior staff;
- Perform other duties as necessary to support the strategic development of the client team including client meetings, new business pitches and new business proposals.
Skills / Experience:
- Professional qualification – CA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent;
- Ideally three - four years’ experience in a similar relevant capacity in the finance industry;
- An understanding of regulatory and financial reporting regime and IFRS;
- Ability to motivate and influence a team, high level of managerial skills.
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The Role:
- The role of the Portfolio Lead leads the information technology portfolio discipline for a business group globally. Supports the planning and scheduling of projects, change management, project metrics production and analysis within the Portfolio.
- The position reports into the Global Head of Technical Project Management and helps plan annual portfolios based on business needs, manage portfolio health, risks, dependencies, and compliance, and develop standard project/program delivery methodologies to be used across all BUs and regions.
Key duties and responsibilities:
Resource Management
- Day to day management of a team of project managers – recruitment, line management, team morale, career progression & training of a team of PMs.
- Accountable for PM teams ongoing deliverables – providing technical expertise - ensuring project documentation is in place, reviewing quality of project plans and project data, ensuring milestone dates are met, ensuring changes are captured, risks & issues are being logged, etc.
- Measuring teams performance – work with PMO to provide metrics on the teams delivery performance across the projects
- Responsible for budgets – managing people cost and project cost ensuring ensuring costs are in line with agreed budgets.
- Resource management - work with Apex’s resource manager re allocation and utilisation of project team across projects.
Portfolio Management Controls and Communication
- Day to day management of the overall portfolio and work stream plans
- Identify, managed and escalate risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies
- Identify, manage and escalate project variances to maintain baseline
- Complete impact analysis and “What if “ scenario planning as required
- Setup plan review/ status meetings with internal teams and 3rd parties
- Organises and present status reviews to management team
- Produce summary level reports for senior management presentation
- Liaise with management from a resourcing perspective to ensure resourcing plans aligned
- Ensure planning documentation maintained and of adequate quality
- Ensure planning quality gates in place and achieved
- Ensure efficient communication with all senior level stakeholders
- Work with IT teams – IT Ops, Dev, BA, QA, etc. to understand current issues around project planning/delivery and put plan in place to address same.
Vendor Management
- Manage external vendors to ensure they deliver to time and budget deliverables.
- Act as escalation pointy for the Project managers with vendors.
- Assist the Project Managers in the managing of external vendors to ensure on time and to budget delivery.
Experience and Knowledge:
- Bachelor's degree required; Advance degree in IT related field or MBA preferred.
- 10+ Years Project Management experience in a large multi-unit global organization required.
- 5+ years supervisory experience overseeing projects and global teams.
- Project Management Accreditation (APMP, PMI, Prince 2 or equivalent) -preferred.
- Programme management skills in complex IS and business environments, including ability to coordinate multiple teams in various locations and time zones.
- Deep project management experience managing large-scale, global implementations.
- Experience working on projects in the financial services industry would be an advantage.
- Must possess extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of Project and Programme Management methodologies and tools.
- Passion for leading teams and implementing change.
- Demonstrated leadership skills. Strong negotiation and team-building skills with the ability to create consensus around decisions and mitigate conflicts among different teams.
- High communication skills required at all levels. Must be able to interact with senior leadership. Excellent command of verbal and written communication (English). Effective presentation style for all levels of stakeholders.
- Strong problem solving, decision making, issue analysis and resolution skills.
- Highly organized.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities with internal clients.
- Ability to work well in a fast paced multicultural global work environment.
- Demonstrated ability to work with multiple stakeholders and manage competing priorities with internal clients.
- Ability to gather and address both business and technical requirements. Must be highly motivated.
- Proficient in MS Office products including MS Project.
What you will get in return:
- A high level of visibility within a large organization on an upwards trajectory.
- Opportunity to work with a diverse, agile and global team.
- Exposure to all aspects of the business and cross-jurisdiction.
- The opportunity to innovate, bring discipline to brand activity and really make a difference.
- A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business.
- Work for a fast developing and one of the worlds leading independent fund administrators;
- Opportunities for professional development.
- Positive and hospitable work environment.
- A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business.
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Role Summary:
- The Fund Accounting Account Manager is responsible for managing a portfolio of Private Equity funds overseeing the NAV Calculation and completing first level checks and reviews required for all accounting related tasks as well as some investor reporting tasks. They will be required to support the CSL offices as and when needed.
- This includes processing accounting info from booking stage to the final NAV stages, the preparation of yearly financials as well as the drafting and review of calls and distribution notices and CAS. There may be requirement to be the point of contact of clients on all accounting related tasks.
- The candidate is responsible for managing the day to day operations of the team and assist his manager in delivering terms of the Group’s target operating model and ensuring a proper control environment so as to be able to deliver quality and timely outputs to CSLs offices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing day to day activities in line with internal and external SLA timeframes
- Interacting with Private Equity Principals and related stakeholders
- Reviewing, understanding and discussing fund governing documents with staff and clients
- Taking responsibility for all aspects of operations and controls, including setting up funds on accounting platforms either Investran, Efront or Allvue, processing transactions, and drafting NAVs and financials, amending NAVs for comments received from CSL or clients, preparation and issuing of investor reports, and performing review and quality work.
- Responding to investor, client and internal enquiries
- Providing periodic reports and feedback to upper management
- Adhering to Investor Services procedures and policies in line with regulations globally and Apex’s group policy
- Assisting with the processing of investor requests.
- Checker duties
- SME for private equity accounting with some experience on waterfall calc / subsequent closes etc.
- Participation in ad hoc projects in addition of day to day duties
- Working as part of a larger global team in the case of outsourced activities
Competencies:
- A background in a fund accounting team, for alternative funds at a top tier institutional fund administrator
- Detailed knowledge of Private Equity Fund Administration systems
- Able to adapt quickly to challenging and changing priorities
- Up to date accounting standards (IFRS/ US GAAP) and Fund industry knowledge
- Strong planning and organisational and entrepreneurial skills
- Basic knowledge of Investor services / Transfer Agency, banking and hedge fund accounting concepts
- Strong communication (verbal and written) and problem-solving skills
- Must be able to work with all levels within the organisation
- Strong multi-tasking skills
- A detailed understanding of Private Equity Fund structures and the fund administration business
- The ability to work to tight deadlines
- Good interpersonal skills to develop working relationships with colleagues, clients, other divisions/ offices of the bank and professional intermediaries
- Effective time management
- Display high levels of accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to remain calm at busy times
- Ability to identify opportunities for process improvements
- Ability to escalate where appropriate
- Ability to self-motivate and work as part of team
- Ability to take on board constructive feedback
- Flexible in dealing with changing priorities
- Strong excel knowledge
- BCOM Honours in Accounting / CA Accreditation advantageous
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The successful candidate will join the Fund Services team as an Assistant Vice president and will be closely working with Clients and Client Service Managers based in Asia/UK/US region in connection with the performance of duties related to the administration of Real Estate Funds. Candidate should have 8 plus years of relevant experience in the Real Estate Fund Accounting and NAV calculations. Candidate must be well versed in Yardi and should have relevant experience in Property Accounting, Client relationship management, Team management, Process improvements, Preparing Financials and other Client reporting
Reporting
- The position reports to VP – RE Fund Accounting
Job specification
- Review and sign off Management Accounts and various client reporting that include booking journal entries/accruals/adjustments and various fund level fee calculations.
- Review and sign off Interim/Annual NAV packs/Financials for Real Estate Funds/Properties including the consolidated accounts/financials for SPVs and Properties.
- Contribute to expansion and integration of Yardi technology platforms, with a focus on Yardi as the core Real Assets Software Platform
- Contribute to and execute Real Assets strategic product roadmap, performing program management and overseeing project team delivery
- Perform/review Fund/Property/Lease set-up, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable related activities in accounting platform (Yardi).
- Assist in managing Yardi set-up, implementation and testing with internal IT, CFS & SPV’s stakeholders
- Maintain a pro-active customer focus at all times, monitor the timing and quality of client deliverables and interact with Management and Clients
- Handle migration of Real Estate Funds from onshore location independently and ensure SLA targets are met.
- Review real estate fund client’s partnership agreements, PPM’s and other materials and participate in the implementation of fund structures onto the accounting system.
- Monitor compliance of various agreements with clients, including the Service Level Agreement.
- Train and support team members in their development.
- Operate as a contact point for clients; able to respond to and resolve queries or escalate where necessary and act as a liaison with various internal /external parties – i.e. auditors, legal counsel.
- Assist in client audit procedures, process wire transfer payments on behalf of clients, prepare and analyse complex Excel spreadsheets and liaise with property management companies.
Skills Required
- experienced in reviewing and preparing general ledgers and financial statements
- Need to have knowledge of Lux GAAP, IFRS and US GAAP
- Excellent communication skills and proficiency in English (both verbal and written).
- Self-motivated, bright and diligent individual who is driven to meet deadlines.
- Sound judgment, problem solving and analytical skills..
- Good experience in managing large teams and handling performance appraisal.
- Advanced in MS Excel, Proficient with MS Word, MS PowerPoint..
- Relevant Experience – Minimum 8 years of public/private real estate accounting work experience
- Post graduate in Business Management, CA/CMA/CFA/CPA/ACCA
What you will get in return:
- A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business
- Exposure to all aspects of the business, cross-jurisdiction and to working with senior management directl
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Role Summary:
- The Senior Fund Accountant is responsible for the deliverables for a portfolio of Private Equity funds, mainly the NAV Calculation and financial statement preparations. He/She may be involved in first level checks and reviews required for all accounting related tasks as well as some investor reporting tasks. They will be required to support the CSL offices as and when needed.
- This includes processing accounting info from booking stage to the final NAV stages, the preparation of yearly financials as well as the drafting and review of calls and distribution notices and CAS. There may be requirement to be the point of contact of clients on all accounting related tasks.
- The candidate would ultimately be responsible in assisting his/her manager in managing the day to day operations of the team so as to contribute to the group’s target operating model whilst ensuring a proper control environment is in place to ensure quality and timely deliverables to CSLs offices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Interacting with Private Equity Principals and related stakeholders
- Reviewing, understanding and discussing fund governing documents with managers, colleagues and clients
- Taking responsibility for all aspects of operations and controls, including setting up funds on accounting platforms either Investran, Efront or Allvue, processing transactions, and drafting NAVs and financials, amending NAVs for comments received from CSL or clients, preparation and issuing of investor reports, and performing review and quality work.
- Responding to investor, client and internal enquiries
- Adhering to Investor Services procedures and policies in line with regulations globally and Apex’s group policy
- Assisting with the processing of investor requests.
- Checker duties
- Able to work on some complex Private Equity structures.
- May be required to assist the Account Manager in managing the day to day activities in line with internal and external SLA timeframes
- Working as part of a larger global team in the case of outsourced activities
Competencies:
- A background in a fund accounting team, for alternative funds at a top tier institutional fund administrator
- Good knowledge of Private Equity Fund Administration systems
- Able to adapt quickly to challenging and changing priorities
- Up to date accounting standards (IFRS/ US GAAP) and Fund industry knowledge
- Strong potential to grow and take more responsibility within the team
- Basic knowledge of Investor services / Transfer Agency, banking and hedge fund accounting concepts
- Good communication (verbal and written) and problem-solving skills
- Good multi-tasking skills
- A good understanding of Private Equity Fund structures and the fund administration business
- The ability to work to tight deadlines
- Good interpersonal skills to develop working relationships with colleagues, clients, other divisions/ offices of the bank and professional intermediaries
- Effective time management
- Display high levels of accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to remain calm at busy times
- Ability to identify opportunities for process improvements
- Ability to escalate where appropriate
- Ability to self-motivate and work as part of team
- Ability to take on board constructive feedback
- Flexible in dealing with changing priorities
- Strong excel knowledge
- BCOM Honours in Accounting
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Role Summary:
- The Fund Accountant is responsible for the deliverables for a portfolio of Private Equity funds, mainly the NAV Calculation and financial statement preparations. They may be involved in investor reporting tasks. They will be required to support the CSL offices as and when needed. This includes processing accounting info from booking stage to the final NAV stages, the preparation of yearly financials as well as the drafting and review of calls and distribution notices and CAS.
Key Responsibilities:
- Learn the Company’s Private Equity Fund Accounting processes.
- Become familiar with the different accounting platforms either Investran, Efront or Allvue, so as to be able to process transactions, and draft NAVs and financials, amending NAVs for comments received from CSL or clients, preparation of investor reports, and performing quality work.
- Adhering to Investor Services procedures and policies in line with regulations globally and Apex’s group policy
- Assisting with the processing of investor requests.
- Able to work on some of the not too complex Private Equity structures.
- Working as part of a larger global team in the case of outsourced activities
Competencies:
- A background in a fund accounting team, for alternative funds at a top tier institutional fund administrator
- Knowledge of Private Equity Fund Administration systems would be an advantage
- Able to adapt quickly to challenging and changing priorities
- Up to date accounting standards (IFRS/ US GAAP) and Fund industry knowledge
- Strong potential to grow and take more responsibility within the team
- Basic knowledge of Investor services / Transfer Agency, banking and hedge fund accounting concepts
- Good communication (verbal and written) and problem-solving skills
- Good multi-tasking skills
- A good understanding of Private Equity Fund structures and the fund administration business
- The ability to work to tight deadlines
- Good interpersonal skills to develop working relationships with colleagues, clients, other divisions/ offices of the bank and professional intermediaries
- Effective time management
- Display high levels of accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to remain calm at busy times
- Ability to identify opportunities for process improvements
- Ability to escalate where appropriate
- Ability to self-motivate and work as part of team
- Ability to take on board constructive feedback
- Flexible in dealing with changing priorities
- Good excel knowledge
- BCOM Accounting Degree
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The successful candidate will join the Fund Services team as a Senior Associate and will be closely working with Clients and Client Service Managers based in Asia/UK/US region in connection with the performance of duties related to the administration of Real Estate Funds. Candidate should have 0-4 years of relevant experience in the Real Estate Fund Accounting and NAV calculations. Candidate preferred to have Yardi experience and should have relevant experience in Property Accounting, Client relationship management, Preparing Financials and other Client reporting.
Reporting
- The position reports to AVP – RE Fund Accounting
Job specification
- Performs Fund Accounting/Property Accounting related activities of Real Estate Funds/Properties.
- Performs Net Assets Value calculations and Financials of the Real Estate Funds / Properties for verity of client needs as well as different fund structures.
- Perform Management Accounts and various client reporting that include booking journal entries/accruals/adjustments and various fund level fee calculations.
- Perform and sign off Interim/Annual NAV packs/Financials for Real Estate Funds/Properties including the consolidated accounts/financials for SPVs and Properties.
- Perform Fund/Property/Lease set-up, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable related activities in accounting platform (Yardi).
- Verifies complex fund transactions, audit comments within scheduled timeframes and resolves exceptions on a timely basis.
- Ensure that you comply with all controls, checklists and general company policies.
- Collection/verification of relevant information for Fund/Property/Lease set-up and to facilitate the Net Assets Value calculation and preparation of NAV pack.
- Prepare Cash/Position/Market Value/Inter-company Reconciliations.
- Ensure all scheduled work is completed by agreed deadlines and flag any service delivery issues to Management as early as possible.
- Identify and implement process improvement techniques to improve the process efficiency and team productivity.
- Support in migration of Real Estate Funds from onshore location independently and ensure SLA targets are met.
- Support conversion of Real Estate Funds from other accounting applications to Yardi.
- Managing the client relationships for the Funds and individually handle the deliverable requirements on daily/weekly/monthly/Quarterly basis.
- Liaising with Onshore team, clients and Auditors on various requirements and ensure all supports are provided to the auditors to get the financials approved on the agreed timeline.
- Support operations on projects related to Automations / Work migrations / Conversions etc.
Skills Required
- Experience working in Fund Accounting, Property Accounting, NAV calculation and Financial Statement preparation of Real Estate Funds.
- Experience in Transition of Real Estate Funds from onshore locations.
- Worked on on-boarding new clients and develop reporting templates for the clients
- Good Experience in handling the client relationships and should be good in written and oral communication.
- Good conceptual knowledge in accounting principles and financial statement preparation.
- Experience in handling audit requirements and ad hoc client requirements in Real Estate Fund accounting.
- Good experience working on Yardi Voyager, MS Office and Macro enabled workbooks.
- Relevant Experience – 0-4 years of experience preferably into Real Estate Fund Accounting and Property Accounting.
- Post graduate in Commerce, MBA Finance, CA/CMA/CFA
What you will get in return:
- A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business
- Exposure to all aspects of the business, cross-jurisdiction and to working with senior management directly
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This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated professional to join our global ESG Ratings and Advisory team as a Senior Associate - Content Editor and Reviewer. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring the application of internal policies and procedures to the client deliverables, research, marketing materials, and other related tasks. This role demands a multi-faceted skillset that encompasses rigorous numerical analysis, high-quality communication (verbal and written), and the ability to work effectively without supervision to contribute to the team’s objectives.
We look to recruit bright, articulate, and numerate candidates who are not afraid of a challenge and are prepared to work hard and love what they do. Every member in the team plays a part in making our business what it is today and the more we grow, the more important that becomes. Whatever your career path, ambition, or skillset you will be joining an entrepreneurial environment and become part of a globally connected team. We don’t just want you to succeed, we want you to flourish.
The Role & Key Responsibilities:
- The editorial function is a vital part of our communication with clients to ensure that we deliver high-quality reports with accurate, engaging, and clear content.
- Review drafts, paying particular attention to the following elements in text and graphics: language, grammar, and spelling; adherence to internal writing/editing style; factual accuracy; clarity and consistency.
- Ensure reports and editorial comments are accurate in terms of content, argument, and logic.
- Contribute to enhancing our research production and client deliverables.
- Create thought leadership, presentation, and documents, for private market investors and other stakeholders.
- Generate creative ideas and recommendations in the pursuit of new and improved products and services.
- The role involves extensive on-the-job learning and candidates must be self-motivated.
- Work independently in collaboration with a wide team of analysts across regions.
Skills Required:
- Master’s degree or diploma in journalism would be an advantage.
- The editor must have a meticulous grasp of the English language and proven writing skills, including the flair and confidence to restructure authors’ drafts.
- 1-5 years of experience as a Research Editor/Copy Editor/Editor and Reviewer for financial news services, credit agencies, newspapers, online publications, or consulting firms who have experience in writing, editing, and proofreading. Experience in writing on ESG, Corporate/Business, and Leadership is preferred.
- Experience in business journalism and writing opinion articles for industry leaders will be an added advantage.
- The ability to engage, build rapport, and influence a wide range of stakeholders, internal and external, for the good of our philosophy to drive positive change for people and the planet.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, time management, and prioritization.
- IT skills: Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) to a high level is essential.
- Professional skills: the ability to effectively research both quantitative and qualitative data; knowledge of sustainability issues and challenges within the financial sector will be a plus.
- What you will get in return:
- A genuinely unique opportunity to help support the development and delivery of a pioneering product.
- Significant day-to-day responsibility to contribute to the team and demonstrate your own abilities.
- Learning opportunities across a variety of research-based skills and sustainability topics.
- Experience with a highly respected multinational organisation in the financial sector.
- Make a meaningful contribution to the improvement of businesses, communities, and the environment around the world.
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A Senior Associate in the ESG team will be responsible for sophisticated data research, analysis and reporting. They will be required to utilize Apex ESG’s proprietary tools to evaluate the ESG performance of assets as well as conducting independent research and development to improve Apex ESG’s products and services, whilst assisting in significant market engagement, through demonstrations to clients and prospects. This role demands a multi-faceted skillset that encompasses rigorous numerical analysis, high quality communication (verbal and written) and the ability to work effectively independently without supervision to contribute to team objectives.
We look to recruit bright, articulate, and numerate candidates who are not afraid of a challenge and are prepared to work hard and love what they do. Every member in the team plays a part in making our business what it is today and the more we grow, the more important that becomes. Whatever your career path, ambition, or skillset you will be joining an entrepreneurial environment and become part of a globally connected team. We don’t just want you to succeed, we want you to flourish.
The Role & Key Responsibilities:
- Lead research initiatives and product development into ESG topics that are important to the Apex ESG client base.
- Conduct sophisticated research and analysis on ESG standards, data and trends.
- Analyze ESG data, evaluating its quality and performance to draw insights useful for investors and decision-makers as an authority on the subject.
- Produce recommendations for improving ESG performance of investments and investment managers using our ESG products and services.
- Contribute to the improvement of existing, and creation of new, ESG products to help stakeholders across the private markets.
- Be creative in generating ideas and recommendations in the pursuit of new and improved products and services.
- Create thought leadership and engagement tools, presentations and documents for private market investors and other stakeholders.
- Engage with clients and partners in the financial sector to help them understand ESG concepts and performance in the Private Equity, Real Estate and Infrastructure sectors.
- Be proactive and independent in task management and contributing to the objectives of the team.
- Support the delivery of the world’s first ESG rating and reporting tool focused on the private markets.
- Drive initiatives to improve the sustainability performance of the Apex Group itself.
Skills Required:
- Master’s degree in a relevant field.
- Preference for candidates with at least 12 months relevant experience working in ESG advisory and/or consultancy.
- Significant experience in undertaking data analysis and research projects at either a consultancy, financial institution and/or similar organisation.
- The ability to engage, build rapport and influence a wide range of stakeholders, internal and external, for the good of our philosophy to drive positive change for people and planet.
- Personal qualities of integrity, good communication and a passion for sustainability.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, time management and prioritization.
- Personal skills: self-motivated to work independently whilst contributing to team objectives.
- Passion: interest and a hunger to address sustainability challenges and drive positive societal change.
- IT skills: Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) to a high level is essential; with knowledge of more advanced applications and programming languages beneficial.
- Professional skills: ability to effectively research and report on technical ESG topics; quantitative and qualitative data collection, analysis and reporting; knowledge of sustainability issues and challenges within the financial sector.
- What you will get in return:
- A genuinely unique opportunity to help support the development and delivery of a pioneering product.
- Significant day-to-day responsibility to contribute to the team and demonstrate your own abilities.
- Learning opportunities across a variety of research-based skills and sustainability topics.
- Experience with a highly respected multinational organisation in the financial sector.
- Make a meaningful contribution to the improvement of businesses, communities, and the environment around the world.
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The Role & Key Responsibilities:
The purpose of this position is to take responsibility for a portfolio of client entities and provide support to the team and team managers of the Company by being proactive in their approach to ensure that they uphold the policies and procedures of the Company as a whole. The Associate should be prepared to develop a sound understanding of all applicable laws, regulations and rules associated with the Guernsey team’s business activities. You are required to be a strong team player with a commitment to deliver outstanding client service.
- Understand and interpret the Fund’s documentation and the relevant legal framework, regulations and anti-money laundering regulations.
- Follow Company procedures at all times.
- Assist in controlling and co-ordinating workloads in the section.
- Assist with the day-to-day work and training of Administrators in Centres of Excellence.
- Assist with overseeing quality and control and meeting time deadlines.
- Ensure work is undertaken in accordance with the company’s procedures & check lists and meets deadlines.
- Assist in ensuring all outgoing correspondence, calculations and presentation of work is of the highest standard.
- Liaise confidently and knowledgably with clients.
- Assist with the smooth running of the Investment, and Call and Distribution process.
- Liaise with key personnel in client groups to ensure that all operational issues are communicated effectively.
- Assist with ensuring all client requests are responded to effectively.
- Communicate any client related issues of concern to the section’s Line Manager.
- Attend and participate actively in regular team meetings.
- Make positive suggestions as to how effective changes can be made to improve the procession of workflow.
- Assist with maintaining on-going review and updating of procedures for the Company.
- To manage workloads effectively and efficiently.
- Ensure the compliance monitoring of the Funds are adhered to by all of the team.
- Undertake general administration tasks for the team’s client base
- Ensure various registers for the teams clients are maintained
Skills Required:
- Proactive approach to problem solving.
- A confident manner and the ability to communicate with clients effectively.
- A flexible approach to work and good time management skills.
- A strong team player with a commitment to deliver outstanding client service.
- An ability to work on own initiative and demonstrate leadership and supervisory. skills towards less experienced staff.
- An ability to work under pressure.
- Strong IT skills.
- Target Vocational Qualifications – ICSA, IDFA, AAT, CAT or similar.
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DIGITAL MARKETING SPECIALIST
- As a key role in the Demand Marketing team, the Digital Marketing Specialist will work closely with demand marketing managers and other marketing functions, with the ownership of planning, execution and reporting of digital activities, helping to increase growth and optimisation.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Oversee our digital marketing activity including the development and maintenance of Google AdWords/Display, LinkedIn Ads and Marketing Automation tool:
Google AdWords/Display:
- Liaise with Portfolio Marketing team and SEO Managers to determine primary and secondary key words and regularly update the key word bank.
- Collaborate with Demand Marketing Managers to regionalise / localise the key words and set up Google Ads accordingly.
- Review and optimise the ads on regular basis to maximise the ROIs.
- Provide regional/global performance reports of ads
LinkedIn Ads:
- Oversee and maintain the Linked Ad calendar to manage the traffic.
- Sanity check and launch the LinkedIn Ads created by the Demand Marketing Managers.
- Review and optimise the ads on a weekly basis to maximise the ROIs.
- Define, execute, analyse, and optimize A/B and multi-variant tests.
- Provide regional/global performance reports of ads
Marketing Automation – Pardot
- Liaise with external agency and in-house brand team to ensure templates are branded and optimised.
- Create Pardot assets, including lists, forms, landing pages, emails, automation rules, engagement studios, etc.
- Develop and execute email marketing campaigns based on that strategy - including the set-up, testing, scheduling, and deployment of one-time, recurring, and triggered campaigns
- Perform ongoing A/B and other testing to improve campaign performance.
- Regularly review Pardot assets and conduct cleansing when necessary.
- Collaborate with the Marketing Operations team to improve data quality.
- Collaborate with the Content Marketing team to ensure the integration of content across relevant digital channels.
- Work with Marketing Analytics Managers to measure and report performance of digital marketing campaigns and assess critical metrics and ROIs on a monthly, quarterly & yearly basis
Skills Required:
- A degree, or equivalent, ideally in Marketing or Business or another relevant field, or equivalent experience in a similar or related role(s).
- 2+ years of experience in Digital Marketing or a similar position preferred
- Good understanding & experience in of Digital Marketing (social media, Google Analytics, CRMs SEO/SEM, etc,)
- Experience of formulating, leading and evaluating multi-channel digital marketing strategies.
- A natural communicator, able to develop relationships with key stakeholders both within and outside of the marketing and comms team.
- A problem solver, someone who finds solutions that support business objectives and has creative ideas on how to continuously improve the ROIs.
- A strong understanding of cultural nuances and an authentic wish to align with the Group’s values and promote them across the region (We care, we promote respect, we are exceptional, we drive growth).
- Ability to handle time-sensitive projects and working to deadlines.
- Enjoy taking responsibility for multiple projects simultaneously and know how to keep yourself, and others around you, organised and focused on a plan.
- Strong relationship building and negotiation skills to manage internal stakeholders and work at a fast pace with the rest of the marketing team.
- Enjoy working with a diverse group of colleagues and stakeholders and the ability to work remotely from your colleagues and remain connected through regular calls and conversations.
- A natural aptitude for collaboration and thrive on working in a high-pressure environment.
- 1 year of experience with CRM and MAP tools - Salesforce and Pardot preferred.
What you will get in return:
- A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business.
- The opportunity to own the marketing strategy for the North Asia and Oceania region and demonstrate your ability to help drive the business toward achieving its local revenue targets.
- The chance to actually impact the business, be heard and implement your own ideas.
- Exposure to all aspects of the business, cross-jurisdiction and to working with senior management directly.
- A genuine career path and ability to help shape the demand marketing agenda.
- Opportunity to work with a diverse, agile and global marketing team.
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The Role & Key Responsibilities:
- To act as a member of the Client Compliance team, working alongside the Apex Guernsey Compliance department, contributing towards the development and enhancement of the overall Compliance function. This will include providing support to the operational business by providing compliance advice and guidance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Work with the Client Compliance team to ensure that Apex Guernsey administered client Licensees remains compliant with legal and regulatory requirements and best risk / compliance practice.
- Assist the Compliance function in encouraging a positive compliance culture within its administrative operations through close personal engagement with staff.
- Assist with the provision of compliance advice to the client administration teams.
- Assisting with provision of assistance to the client administration teams on the use of the GFSC online portals.
- Carrying out periodic testing as part of the Compliance Monitoring Programme and ensuring the timely resolution of findings.
- Assist with the compilation of GFSC regulatory returns and submissions.
- Assist with collating information and documentation for the auditors of administered client Licensees in a timely manner.
- Assist with the preparation of Compliance reports to the Boards of administered client Licensees.
- Maintenance of core regulatory registers including the gifts register, litigation register, breach register and regulatory correspondence registers.
- Carry out any other relevant duties in support of the Client Compliance team.
- Keeping abreast of key regulatory developments and industry standards.
Skills Required:
- Experience within a relevant compliance role (within a fiduciary or investment capacity).
- Ability to assess business requests accurately and promptly, delivering pragmatic and timely solutions to compliance related queries and / or identified risks.
- Keen attention to detail and good communication skills.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Competent analytical, research and investigative skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft software (including Word and Excel).
- Self-starting and capable of working both within the team and with light supervision.
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Role purpose
- As a Senior data engineer, you will be a driving force towards data engineering excellence.
- Working with other data engineers, analysts, and the architecture function, you’ll be involved in the building out of a modern data platform using a number of cutting-edge technologies, and in a multi cloud environment,
- You’ll get the opportunity to spread your knowledge and skills across multiple areas, with involvement in a range of different functional areas.
- As the business grows, we want our staff to grow with us, so there’ll be plenty of opportunity to learn and upskill in areas such as data pipelines, data integrations, data preparation, data models, analytical and reporting marts.
Also, whilst work is often following business requirements and design concepts, you’ll play a huge part in the continuous development and maturing of design patterns and automation process for others to follow.
Accountabilities and main responsibilities
In this role, you will be delivering solutions and patterns through Agile methodologies as part of a squad. You’ll be collaborating with customers, partners and peers, and will help to identify data requirements. We’d also rely on you to:
- Contribute to defining the prioritisation of your squad’s backlog
- Contribute to the continuous development and maturing of design patterns for others to follow
- Pick the most appropriate tool, method and design pattern in order to satisfy the requirement
- Prepare our data in order to surface it for use within APIs
- Provide guidance and training to other squad members
- Help design the documentation structures, support processes, and management techniques of maintaining a modern data platform
- Provide guidance and training to downstream consumers of data on how best to use the data in our platform
- Design, support and Build new data APIs
Qualifications and skills
Technical Skills:
- Modern, public Cloud based Data Platforms and Lambda Architecture (Azure/AWS)
- Microservices, API and Event Driven Architecture
- Data Warehousing and Data Modelling
- CI/CD Pipelines and Large-scale data deployments
- Data Lakes (AWS Lake Formation, Azure Data Lake)
- Cloud Data Warehouses (AWS Redshift, Azure Synapse, Snowflake)
- ETL/ELT/Pipeline tools (AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, FiveTran, Stitch)
- Data Message Bus/Pub Sub systems (AWS SNS & SQS Azure ASQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Data Programming languages (SQL, Python, Scala, Java)
- Cloud Workflow Service (AWS Step Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Camuda)
- Interactive Query Services (AWS Athena, Azure DL Analytics)
- Event and schedule management (AWS Lambda Functions, Azure Functions)
- Traditional Microsoft BI Stack (SQLServer, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS)
- Reporting and visualisation tools (Power BI, QuickSight, Mode)
- Data Governance Concepts and methodologies (Desirable)
- NoSQL & Graph DBs (AWS Neptune, Azure Cosmos, Neo4j) (Desirable)
- API Management (Desirable)
Core Skills:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Critical Thinking and research capabilities
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to plan, and manage your own work loads
- Work well on own initiative as well as part of a bigger team
- Strong ability to train others within your squad
- Familiar with agile methodologies and experience in working in that way
- High level of Data Literacy
- Competent in design patterns and data flows
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Responsibilities:
- Prepare and post journal entries to the general ledger
- Reconcile balance sheet and income statement accounts
- Verify income accruals, coordinate and issue client invoices and analyze monthly revenues
- Reconcile, validate, and report aging accounts receivables
- Record and reconcile payroll costs
- Prepare and reconcile monthly expense accruals and prepayments
- Maintain property, plant and equipment schedules
- Initiate, reconcile and record bank transactions
- Analyze expenses and forecast cash flows
- Record, classify and summarize financial transactions and events in accordance with IFRS
- Stay current and abreast of relevant IFRS developments that impact the firm
- Produce accurate monthly management accounts in a timely manner
- Analyze monthly variances
- Assist with the preparation of annual financial statements and note disclosures
- Liaise with business lines and provide support as necessary
- Support audit and tax preparation
- Assist with ad-hoc requests as needed
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Co-op terms an asset
- Completion or working towards an accounting designation (CA/CPA or equivalent)
- Working knowledge of IFRS 9, 15, 16 is a plus but not required
- Proficient with Excel, accounting systems and general IT
- Solid interpersonal skills, adaptable and resilient to different personalities
- Strong analytical, task, and detail-oriented skills
- Proven experience to meet month-end deliverables while consistently adhering to group deadlines. May require overtime during peak cycles.
- Strong problem-solving skills. Should be able to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner, while gathering and analyzing information thoughtfully.
- Strong adaptability skills. Should be able to adapt to changes in the work environment, manage competing demands, and deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and safe-guard sensitive, proprietary information
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Responsibilities:
- Prepare and post journal entries to the general ledger
- Reconcile balance sheet and income statement accounts
- Verify income accruals, coordinate and issue client invoices and analyze monthly revenues
- Reconcile, validate, and report aging accounts receivables
- Record and reconcile payroll costs
- Prepare and reconcile monthly expense accruals and prepayments
- Maintain property, plant and equipment schedules
- Initiate, reconcile and record bank transactions
- Analyze expenses and forecast cash flows
- Record, classify and summarize financial transactions and events in accordance with IFRS
- Stay current and abreast of relevant IFRS developments that impact the firm
- Produce accurate monthly management accounts in a timely manner
- Analyze monthly variances
- Assist with the preparation of annual financial statements and note disclosures
- Liaise with business lines and provide support as necessary
- Support audit and tax preparation
- Assist with ad-hoc requests as needed
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Co-op terms an asset
- Completion or working towards an accounting designation (CA/CPA or equivalent)
- Working knowledge of IFRS 9, 15, 16 is a plus but not required
- Proficient with Excel, accounting systems and general IT
- Solid interpersonal skills, adaptable and resilient to different personalities
- Strong analytical, task, and detail-oriented skills
- Proven experience to meet month-end deliverables while consistently adhering to group deadlines. May require overtime during peak cycles.
- Strong problem-solving skills. Should be able to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner, while gathering and analyzing information thoughtfully.
- Strong adaptability skills. Should be able to adapt to changes in the work environment, manage competing demands, and deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and safe-guard sensitive, proprietary information
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The Role & Key Responsibilities:
- As an Senior Associate you will be expected to provide support to the team and team managers of the Company by being proactive in their approach to ensure that they uphold the policies and procedures of the Company as a whole. You will work closely with the Financial Reporting functions in Guernsey to deliver first class service to a portfolio of private equity, real estate and venture capital investment fund clients.
The Role
- Preparation of management, interim and audited accounts for all the section's clients
- Preparation of investor capital account statements
- Prepare and monitoring the bookkeeping process and take ownership of client ledgers
- Assist in managing the client relationships and ensuring that a high level of service is delivered
- Build strong relationships between individual team members
- Liaising and supporting onshore team in order to meet any client deliverables
- Assist with planning of annual audits and liaise with clients to establish timetables for the receipt of valuations and advisers reports and other relevant information
- Preparation of carried interest and other calculations in accordance with the fund documentation
- Complete and ensure that the calculations and monitoring of capital adequacy of licensed entities is correct
- To assist with all aspects of general administration of clients including ad hoc queries
Skills Required:
- Conceptual knowledge in accounting principles and financial statement preparation
- Prior practical accounting experience in a financial institution or professional services firm
- Strong IT/system skills - Investran and eFront experience advantageous
- Sound understanding of applicable laws, regulations, and rules
- Self-motivated and able to work as part of team
- Good communication skills
- Think creatively and deliver pragmatic solutions
- Possess personal qualities of integrity and discretion
- Target Vocational Qualifications – ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CA or working towards these qualifications advantageous
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The Role & Key Responsibilities:
- To act as a member of the Client Compliance team, working alongside the Apex Guernsey Compliance department, contributing towards the development and enhancement of the overall Compliance function. This will include providing support to the operational business by providing compliance advice and guidance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Work with the Client Compliance team to ensure that Apex Guernsey administered client Licensees remains compliant with legal and regulatory requirements and best risk / compliance practice.
- Assist the Compliance function in encouraging a positive compliance culture within its administrative operations through close personal engagement with staff.
- Assist with the provision of compliance advice to the client administration teams.
- Assisting with provision of assistance to the client administration teams on the use of the GFSC online portals.
- Carrying out periodic testing as part of the Compliance Monitoring Programme and ensuring the timely resolution of findings.
- Assist with the compilation of GFSC regulatory returns and submissions.
- Assist with collating information and documentation for the auditors of administered client Licensees in a timely manner.
- Assist with the preparation of Compliance reports to the Boards of administered client Licensees.
- Maintenance of core regulatory registers including the gifts register, litigation register, breach register and regulatory correspondence registers.
- Carry out any other relevant duties in support of the Client Compliance team.
- Keeping abreast of key regulatory developments and industry standards.
Skills Required:
- Experience within a relevant compliance role (within a fiduciary or investment capacity).
- Ability to assess business requests accurately and promptly, delivering pragmatic and timely solutions to compliance related queries and / or identified risks.
- Keen attention to detail and good communication skills.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Competent analytical, research and investigative skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft software (including Word and Excel).
- Self-starting and capable of working both within the team and with light supervision.
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