About
Since 2004, we've been bringing investment ideas to life and connecting capital with the right people and opportunities. Today, we manage more than £2.5 billion for a broad range of investors across five key investment strategies: Private Credit, Social Housing, Clean Heat, Energy and Venture. These strategies underpin the innovative range of investments we offer to both private (retail) and institutional clients.
Responsibilities
•Own the end-to-end external audit process across the Private Credit business, acting as the primary liaison with KPMG and managing day-to-day communications, queries and deliverables.
•Maintain detailed audit timetables across multiple legal entities, with clear milestones, responsibilities and deadlines.
•Own the audit Prepared by Client (PBC) request lists, allocating deliverables across the Finance team and wider business, and reviewing submissions for completeness, accuracy and timeliness.
•Project manage the audit, tracking progress, outstanding queries and dependencies, providing regular RAG status reporting, and escalating risks and delays to drive actions to resolution.
•Coordinate audit completion activities, including final financial statements, accounting papers, representation letters and audit clearances.
•Track audit findings and management letter recommendations through to remediation, and challenge inefficiencies and repeat queries with KPMG and internal teams to improve audit readiness and reduce costs.
•Act as the key technical accounting resource across the Private Credit business, interpreting UK GAAP (particularly FRS 102) and ensuring accounting treatments are appropriate, consistently applied and properly documented.
•Research and prepare technical accounting assessments, position papers and recommendations.
•Lead accounting assessments on financial instruments, loan and lease modifications, restructurings, impairment, provisions and revenue recognition.
•Review lending and leasing accounting, including interest income, arrangement fees and accrued income, and, under FRS 102 Section 20, lease classification, finance lease receivables, operating lease assets, depreciation and residual values.
•Assess the accounting implications of new lending and leasing products, financing structures, FX and hedging arrangements.
•Maintain and enhance accounting policies, ensuring continued compliance with relevant accounting standards.
•Build technical accounting knowledge across the wider Finance team.
•Lead the preparation and review of UK GAAP statutory financial statements across multiple legal entities.
•Review accounting disclosures, supporting schedules, technical accounting judgements and complex accounting balances, transactions and adjustments.
•Ensure statutory reporting requirements are incorporated into the reporting process, improving its quality, consistency and efficiency.
•Work with the Financial Control team to ensure statutory accounts are supported by robust records and reconciliations.
•Build a strong financial control environment across the lending and leasing portfolios and associated entities, strengthening accounting controls, documentation, review and approval processes.
•Investigate complex accounting discrepancies, reconciliation differences and historical accounting issues, identifying root causes and recommending practical, sustainable solutions.
•Drive the development of robust balance sheet reconciliations.
•Identify emerging financial reporting risks and work with relevant teams to address them.
•Simplify and standardise accounting processes, reducing manual intervention and improving control effectiveness.
•Develop accounting procedures, technical guidance and training materials.
•Drive improvements to financial systems, data quality and automation, improving the efficiency and scalability of the Finance function while maintaining accounting integrity.
Requirements
•Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent).
•Big Four external audit experience, with demonstrable hands-on experience conducting financial statement audits.
•Excellent working knowledge of UK GAAP, particularly FRS 102, with practical experience assessing complex transactions and documenting appropriate accounting treatments.
•Strong experience auditing, preparing or reviewing UK statutory financial statements and associated disclosures.
•Experience managing or coordinating multiple statutory audits, including audit planning, timetables, submissions and stakeholder management, with a proven ability to drive outstanding actions through to completion.
•Strong understanding of financial reporting, accounting controls and balance sheet reconciliations.
•Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple competing deadlines.
•Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
•Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to explain complex accounting matters clearly.
•Advanced Excel skills and experience working with financial accounting systems.
•Proactive, accountable and comfortable taking ownership of deliverables independently.
Nice to have
•Experience working in, or auditing, investment management, private credit, banking, asset finance or leasing businesses.
•Knowledge of accounting for financial instruments under FRS 102 Sections 11 and 12.
•Experience with loan accounting, effective interest rate calculations, impairment assessments and financial instrument disclosures.
•Experience with lessor accounting, including finance and operating leases, residual value assessments and lease disclosures, and awareness of the recent amendments to FRS 102 Section 20.
•Familiarity with IFRS, particularly IFRS 9 and IFRS 16.
•Experience working across multiple legal entities or complex group structures.
•Experience of financial system implementations or process transformation, ideally NetSuite or another ERP.
Conditions
•You'll join a talented, collaborative team in a connected environment where ideas and initiative are valued.
•Be part of a growing and innovative team.
•Competitive salary, a comprehensive benefits package, and genuine opportunities for growth and progression.
•Opportunities for professional development and career progression.
•Every employee has access to AI tools, used as a co-pilot to improve efficiency and insight while keeping decisions grounded in thoughtful human judgement.
