Langham Hall
Accounts Assistant
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The Company
Langham Hall was formed to provide premium quality accounting, fund administration, and investor reporting services, together with a selection of consultancy services, to real estate and private equity fund clients. Services now cover AIFMD Depositary, Host AIFM, compliance, and company secretarial.
Established in London in 2006, it now has offices in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, New York, Jersey, Guernsey, and Luxembourg, with over 800 staff looking after $200bn of assets under administration and depositary. We administer more than $230 billion across 750+ funds and provide depositary oversight on a further $200 billion across 300 AIFs. With around 900 professionals in ten offices across Europe, the US, and Asia, we combine expertise, integrity, and technology to deliver insight and lasting impact while developing the next generation of industry professionals.
The Company is the fastest growing in its sector and continues to expand rapidly. Langham Hall was the first in its sector to be nominated and to win the BVCA “Best Specialist Professional services Firm of the Year” and has since won numerous awards. There are exciting opportunities for people joining Langham Hall at this stage of its evolution.
Role Overview
This is a great opportunity for a driven and talented individual to make a real difference as part of a dedicated and professional team. The Accounts Assistant will work on a range of payment process matters providing administration, reconciliation, and operational service duties.
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This is a position best suited to an enthusiastic individual, who has a strong attention to detail and who works well both independently and in a team.
We welcome applications from those returning from a career break or maternity leave.
Essential duties and responsibilities
- Be responsible for the input of payments provided to you by the administration teams and working within the prescribed timeframes to ensure payment deadlines are met and payments are delivered to a high quality.
- Resolve Accounts payable related client queries in a professional and timely manner.
- Be proficient with all banking platforms, with regards to input of payments and operation of the accounts.
- Daily cash management tasks across a number of bank accounts. To be familiar with banking and payment processes; billing and cash collection, formatting, and systems.
- Review the efficiency of our current payments process and make recommendations for improvements.
- Be responsible and manage the upload of all payment spreadsheets.
- Maintain cashbooks by ensuring any reconciling items within the payments process are investigated and cleared in a timely manner.
- Work collaboratively with the Operations Team to review a shortlist of new payment platforms.
- Create new beneficiary templates for regular suppliers and investors.
- Ensure all invoices are recorded, coded, and uploaded to SUN systems, Xero, Yardi, and any other software Langham Hall will operate.
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Technical knowledge and skills required
The candidate will receive the training and coaching required; it is not required that the candidate hold any material prior experience in fund administration.
The candidate will be expected to:
- Write business correspondence and deal with routine emails and enquiries from client teams.
- Develop the ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from other team members and clients.
- Receive training on bookkeeping and be expected to apply this in practice by interpreting supporting documentation sent by client teams and clients.
Skills and Experience
The candidate must have:
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work within a team, and also the ability to use initiative and work independently.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
Training on internal systems, controls, and procedures will be given, however, it is essential that the job holder has proven computer literacy skills which include being proficient in MS packages, especially Word and Excel. Prior experience of SUN systems, Xero, and Yardi would be advantageous but not necessary.
Qualifications
Minimum A-level education completed.
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