Job Description:

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Accountant to join a leading financial services firm on a permanent basis in their Edinburgh offices. The successful candidate will provide technical accounting oversight to their UK private asset book, involving direct and indirect real estate and infrastructure equity asset classes. You will have responsibility for a team. People management experience is a must.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Qualified or QBE Accountant to understand the preparation of statutory financial statements, management accounts, regulatory and VAT/CIS reports, etc.
• Experience of working directly with clients in on/offline situations
• Knowledge of Commercial Real Estate/infrastructure equity experience would be a big benefit
• Working knowledge of Yardi and/or Investran
• People management experience

Core Responsibilities:

• Provide expertise to accounting requirements across the asset class, fund structure and fund jurisdictions
• Assist with new technology repercussions of integrating these asset classes into the operating model
• Develop and maintain a good working relationship with client contacts and third parties such as audit firms, external technology providers and other third-party service providers
• Continually re-assess the operational risks inherent in the business, taking account of changing economic or market conditions, legal and regulatory requirements, operating procedures and practices, management restructurings, and the impact of new technology

Benefits:

• A highly competitive salary
• Wider Benefits package

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 15368

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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