Job description Senior Manager, Private Equity
Key Responsibilities
- New clients
- Provide services to a complex book of Private Equity clients.
- Project management of new client and investor onboarding.
- Act as central point of contact for the PE team with the CDD team.
- Ensure policies and procedures are followed and checklists completed in a timely manner.
- Technical guidance and support
- Assisting in the Management of specialised services teams on all aspects of financial reporting, including working directly with Apex customers to ensure their structures are run efficiently in compliance with the relevant laws and contractual obligations.
- Working with the management team and directors to ensure the planning, coordination and completion of NAVs.
- Ensuring quality control prior to the further review and approval of Apex authorised persons including payments, calculations and transactions.
- Preparation and implementation of entity customer specific procedures in relation to the reporting requirements and support the implementation of new structures;
- Ensuring reporting complies with entity and statutory requirements including local law, relevant GAAP or IFRS and other reporting principles.
- Provide technical guidance to client service teams where required.
- Management of KPIs & Relationship Management
- Reinforce positively throughout the team the importance of meeting KPIs.
- Establish build and maintain strong working relationships with relevant internal functions.
- Cover for other managers within the team during periods of absence.
- Perform other duties to support the PE team as may be necessary from time to time.
- Ongoing feedback from all key stakeholders on ongoing tasks including CDD ops, Ops, compliance and client services.
- Keeping KPIs within the tolerance levels set by the business.
- Manage performance and development of direct reports and their teams.
- Obtain and enhance detailed client specific knowledge to assist in providing more holistic solutions and identify potential opportunities to deepen existing relationships.
- Review and provide comments on fund related documents e.g. LPA.
- Identify and suggest solutions to operational issues.
- Liaise with lawyers, general partners, external auditors and tax advisors for fund related matters.
- Perform other duties as necessary to support the internal procedures and external strategic development in line with the scope of this role.
- Professional qualification CA(SA).
- Ideally three - four years experience in a similar relevant capacity in the finance industry.
- An understanding of regulatory and financial reporting regime and IFRS.
- Ability to motivate and influence a team, high level of managerial skills.
