Fund Accounting, Associate

**Description**:
As an Associate in Fund Accounting, you will report to a Vice President and primarily assist in accounting, reporting, treasury, audit, and tax functions for assigned private equity funds, including primary and secondary brackets, direct investment funds, clean energy funds, structured products, private credit funds, and Luxembourg investment vehicles.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Prepare and review quarterly financial accounts for Client-managed funds in adherence to relevant accounting standards
- Gain understanding of client reporting needs and existing report structures, ensuring accurate deliverables
- Maintain accounting records, ensuring data accuracy and familiarity with Colmore's processes for maximum efficiency
- Produce timely and precise year-end support files for annual audits as necessary
- Draft quarterly and annual financial statements in compliance with UK GAAP, US GAAP, Canadian GAAP, and Lux GAAP
- Coordinate with auditors and tax advisors to facilitate audit and tax engagements and ensure timely completion
- Document and update accounting procedures and templates as needed
- Complete regulatory returns for different jurisdictions as required
- Understand the cash management functions of the funds and liaise with other departments and clients for timely settlements
- Support the treasury team as needed, including bank reconciliations, cash management reports, liquidity monitoring, and invoice/payment processing

**What you’ll bring to us**:

- Preferred experience in the financial services industry
- Professional accounting qualification preferred but not mandatory
- Accounting degree is required
- Preferred experience in private equity.
- Working experience with UK or US GAAP is required; Canadian GAAP or LUX GAAP is beneficial but not mandatory
- Experience with FIA (Front Invests Analytics) is optional
- Strong proficiency in accounting databases and report generation

Qualifications are not as essential as experience. If you feel you have work examples and projects that illustrate what we need, we’re happy to have a conversation.

**Why join us?**:
**About Us**

You will be joining the world’s leading data and insights provider for the alternative assets market. We empower the global financial community with critical information and leading analytics solutions to help them make faster and smarter investment decisions, and to make them with confidence. A forward-thinking company, we lead our industry through innovation. We trust in the power of data, and we use it to increase transparency in alternatives. We believe that access to information leads to more investment in the ideas and infrastructure that build strong communities.

**Our Culture**
We centre our culture in our teams members growth, sparking their curiosity and fuelling their career adventures. We celebrate and recognise contribution, high performance and strong collaborative behaviours. We’re building and growing our learning programs, frameworks and tools to help people thrive and it's an exciting time to join us. We support our internal communities and donate our time, knowledge and support to the communities that surround our offices globally.

**Equal opportunities**

Preqin is an equal opportunity employer, with diversity at the heart of our business. It is the policy of Preqin to ensure equal employment and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

**About Colmore**:
You will be joining the world’s leading data and insights provider for the alternative assets market. We empower the global financial community with critical information and leading analytics solutions to help them make faster and smarter investment decisions, and to make them with confidence. A forward-thinking company, we lead our industry through innovation. We trust in the power of data, and we use it to increase transparency in alternatives. We believe that access to information leads to more investment in the ideas and infrastructure that build strong communities.