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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 whilst 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. As assistant manager in Langham Hall’s London fund accounting team, the individual will be responsible for servicing the needs of a portfolio of real estate clients.
The candidate will liaise with the CFO and finance teams of client funds, third parties (including auditors) and any other external advisors necessary to ensure all issues are resolved and deadlines met.
There will also be a number of other responsibilities including tracking financial performance of the fund and assisting with calls and distributions, interpretation of agreements, assessing client profitability, dealing with accounting and other client related issues.
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The candidate will also have the opportunity to be involved in the take-on and setting-up of clients within our business, giving exposure to a wide variety of high quality clients.
This is a position best suited to a technically minded person who enjoys the challenge of providing technical and operational solutions to our clients.
Essential duties and responsibilities
Managing a small team of Fund Accountants
- Circa up to 10 team members, with 2-4 direct reports
- Ensuring client work is delivered efficiently and on budget
- Reviewing profitability, scope creep and ensuring work is completed by appropriate level of staff
- Ensuring information received from third parties is sufficient and of a high standard
- Workload planning and staff development, including appraisals and objective setting
- Review of deliverables to clients, including financial statements, cash flows and associated notes including liaison with client over transaction related issues
Each sub-team will have a portfolio of clients
- UK & pan-European funds
- UK/Lux/Jersey structures
- 10’s millions – 1 billion+
Majority quarterly reporting, 1 month
- Drafting internal procedures and other internal documents
- Organising take-on and set-up of new clients, including:
- Analysis of client needs
- Appropriate staffing and workload balancing
- Maintaining and developing existing client relationship through good management of team and deliverables
- Analysing financial information underlying the financial statements, including the treatment of business transactions
- Responsible for identification of scope and monitoring compliance with company procedures
- Preparation of asset level management reporting for the client and seeking new ways to provide informative and concise information
- Calculation of deal and fund level IRRs and other performance metrics
- Dealing with year-end audit issues including ensuring preparation of relevant files and resolving issues
- Submitting recommendations for improving the Langham Hall's accounting operation including review of profitability and identification of new products or billing opportunities on existing clients
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Ad hoc projects to assist the principals with growing the business
Technical knowledge and skills required
- A good understanding of agreements associated with real estate fund structures and interpretation of terms used including LPA, debt, sale and purchase agreements, leases etc
- A good understanding of UK GAAP, IFRS, US GAAP and other relevant accounting standards, preferably gained within a funds environment
- Understanding the reporting and other accounting challenges faced by private equity and real estate businesses
- Ability to prepare and review large multi-jurisdictional consolidations
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and performance measurement reports at asset and fund level
- Ability to present information and respond to questions from groups of managers and especially clients
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of situations for which there may be little precedence
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Experience / qualifications
- Qualified ACA, ACCA or equivalent, with at least 1 year's post qualification experience
- Several years’ experience of financial services either within general practice or a financial services firm, preferably connected with funds
- Real estate experience is required
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