Asst Finance Manager, Portfolio Monitoring, Venture Capital

A really exciting opportunity to join a global Venture Capital firm based in central London. With over £10bn AUM, this firm continues to grow. This role supports the front office team providing them with key Financial information for both current investments and future ones. This is a highly commercial Finance role suiting a fully qualified accountant in a non-conventional accounting role

The Role

• Support the investment process to ensure that transactions close on time
• Liaise with key stakeholders (deal teams, risk, tax, legal, treasury, fund accounting)
• Monitor deployment and realisations, and support forecasting thereof
• Take an active role in deal management, particularly around funding and overseeing fund accounting, and including capital contributions and distributions
• Support the preparation of quarterly reports, including Investor (LP) Reports, Valuations Reports and Fund Performance Reports
• Perform quarterly valuations on existing portfolio companies.
• Work with portfolio company and finance teams to analyse performance and variances
• Drive insights from investment performance reporting to support the decision making of the leadership team; look for ways to improve such reporting
• Take the lead on behalf of the firm in the ongoing project to implement a portfolio reporting and monitoring solution
• Work with the team to maintain market coverage and deal pipeline metrics
• Analyse pipeline to project deployment pace and reconcile to projections
• Prepare monthly/quarterly financial and management reports for the firm: expense variance reports, travel analyses, other expenses analyses
• Support preparation of annual budget and forecast and quarterly management company performance report (budget vs actual)
• Handle bank-related matters/issues and liaise with Group Finance on payments
• Oversee the process of annual local tax audit
• Coordinate with auditors on statutory audit of funds and registered companies
• Track industry performance benchmarks and measure fund performance
• Support the technology agenda together with the rest of the business
• Provide ad-hoc support to our investment team and portfolio companies
• Work closely with the rest of the ecosystem to share best practices and ensure consistent approach across all groups

Requirements

• You will be a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Have excellent academic credentials. You must have a degree
• Likely to be newly/recently qualified from a top 20 accounting firm
• Experience working with Venture Capital funds would be highly advantageous
• Experience in Transaction Services a real plus and/or experience working within FP&A for an asset management business