Client Accountant – Shared Services

A new and exciting opportunity in our Mauritius office, as we’re growing our shared services company, Accuro Group Services Ltd, whilst partnering with the other jurisdictions in the Group to deliver high quality client accounting services including book-keeping for Geneva and Jersey.

We are looking for Client Accountants with experience within trust accounting as well as private equity asset accounting field to join, a growing, vibrant and dedicated team based in our Mauritius office and partnering with the relationship management teams in our other Accuro offices (Jersey, Geneva and London).

Our Business:

Accuro is an independent, award-winning, and progressive trust and private office business, striving to be the best in the world and for the world in the fulfilment of our mission: to care for families and their wealth responsibly across generations. When we founded Accuro, our vision was to change our industry for the better. We believe that the traditional way of preserving wealth is no longer viable. Today, the key to responsible trust management is understanding families and their complex dynamics, as well as the world we live in.

From our Board to our newest recruits, everyone has a role to play in moving Accuro forward, delivering exceptional service for our clients, challenging our industry, and striving to do good for all our stakeholders: our employees, our clients, the planet and all its people.

At Accuro we share our success with all of our team. This is why we have ensured that a share of the business is held for the benefit of all our staff with whom annual profits are shared.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for the delivery of client accounting activity for our clients for our clients from our other international offices. The role will be a technical expert for accounting standards and ensure the quality production of the financial statements for companies and private equity assets.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Accountants across the different offices to assist with quality and timely delivery of all accounting services to a portfolio of clients within agreed budgets and in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Ensure to have a thorough understanding of each client in the team’s portfolio.
• Maintain and update timely and accurate accounting records by recording and posting transactions manually and using the interface in the client’s general ledger.
• Ensure timely completion of all periodic bookkeeping and reconciliation tasks including maintenance of suspense items within agreed budgets and in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Ensure setup and processing of newly set-up, transferred entities and closed entities General Accounting.
• Any other accounting tasks as may be required from time to time.

Qualification and Experience:

• Accustomed to working with overseas jurisdictions and different types of structures.
• Prior working experience with private equity asset accounting is mandatory.
• Exposure to trust accounting is essential.
• Fully/Partly ACCA Qualified with a minimum of 6 years of experience in the offshore sector and shared services.

Skills required:

• Have a reasonable knowledge of international accounting practices and principles as applied in the offshore industry.
• Be fully conversant with both manual and computerised accounting systems (preferably Business Central) and possess a good knowledge of spreadsheet applications.
• Appreciation of the general principles of Trust and Company Law and practice.
• Must be a self-motivated and well-presented team player.
• Possess good organisational skills, be methodical, proactive, thorough and attentive to detail.
• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to work under pressure and to ensure team meets specific deadlines/project objectives.
• Possess good oral and written communication skills in English.

If you are interested in this role or would like more information, please do contact us directly: [email protected] and visit our website Accuro.com to learn more about us.