Potentiam Limited Accounting / Finance Jobs in Cape Town
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Potentiam is a global provider of highly qualified professionals to European SMEs from our offices in Romania, South Africa and India. We manage our staff’s career development and personal development training, all infrastructure, HR and payroll with our clients directly managing day-to-day staff responsibilities and role training and development.
Our client manages value-oriented and event-driven strategies in global equity markets with a focus on Europe. Founded in 2005, the asset management company is based in London, New York and Milan.
This is the ideal opportunity to build up knowledge to eventually having financial control over an international asset management firm and understanding the wider hedge fund industry.
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Duties & Responsibilities
Working with the CFO and a small UK-based team of accountants, deliver the finance function for the group of 4 entities
Accounts Payable (Manco and fund)
- SAP Concur
- Working with fund admin to settle fund payments
Accounts Receivable
- Recharges to the funds for expenses and research (RPA)
- Intra group service charges
Management Accounts and year-end audit (start to finish)
- Software: Twinfield, Base Cone
Year-end audits including financial statements
Fund accounts as it pertains to the expenses paid, including accruals/forecasting
Partner reporting, forecasting PL, Cash flows and Reg cap for up to 3 years
- Including detailed expense and income budgets per month per supplier/service
Co-ordinating/interacting with local suppliers on items that feed above
- Payroll, corp tax, VAT, brokers on insurance and benefit, company sec (support from UK team on international regulated activities until fully familiar)
- Transfer pricing support/reviews
- UK, USA and ITA
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Skills/Experience & background
- Financial Degree – (SAICA registered CA beneficial)
- 5+ years’ experience in a financial accounting / management accounting role, responsible for outputs for the full function of management accounting
- Experience working in an investment or asset management firm beneficial
- Mindset to systematise as far as possible, then automate
- Independent worker, able to think on their feed, pre-empting issues and coming up with solutions
- Attention to detail, and ability to create controls
- Advanced Excel, data base (advantageous)
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