Financial Operations Accountant, SQL and Finance Systems - Private Equity and Infrastructureons Accountant - PE and Infrastructure

A London-listed private equity and infrastructure investor is adding a qualified accountant to its Group Finance Operations team. The team is built deliberately as half accountants and half technologists, and this hire is the bridge between the two: an accountant first, with the SQL and systems skills to automate the reporting rather than rebuild it every quarter. Very little of the work runs in Excel. NetSuite and eFront feed Workiva for reporting and Anaplan for forecasting, Power BI sits alongside, and Snowflake arrives over the next eighteen months. The team already uses Copilot and ChatGPT Enterprise day to day. What you'll do

• Financial and management reporting across a range of investment funds, from third-party funds with external investors to carried interest vehicles, under IFRS and the partnership agreements.
• Review financial statements and investor reports for management, external investors and carry participants.
• Work with the deal teams through acquisitions, disposals, refinancings and other capital events, flagging the accounting, tax, treasury and systems implications early.
• Build and improve the reports themselves: write the queries, automate the routine, and move the next process off a spreadsheet.
• Work with fund administrators, auditors and tax advisers, and with the Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal and Investor Reporting teams. The three things that matter

1. Accounting. ACA, ACCA or CIMA, around two years qualified, with fund accounting or funds audit experience in private equity, infrastructure, real estate or a similar investment setting.
2. SQL. You have written queries and built reports yourself, not only used them. Expect to be asked how many reports you have built.
3. Finance systems. Hands-on time with an accounting, reporting or planning platform such as NetSuite, eFront, Workiva, Anaplan or Power BI, ideally including an implementation or a migration. The specific tools matter less than the systems mindset. Beyond those three, the team wants someone bright and commercially minded who is comfortable working directly with investment professionals. Why it's worth a look

• A finance function being rebuilt on modern data infrastructure, with a live AI programme.
• High volume but steady: the work is scheduled across the year rather than spiking at month end.
• Accountants here sit close to the deal teams and the investment decisions. To apply, use the button on this page or message Michael Muir at Buy Side Recruitment directly.