Financial Reporting Senior - FAAS Advisory
A Career at Grant Thornton
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Roles and Responsibilities:
Will work with asset management clients on financial reporting engagements, business process reviews and remediation projects, and short-term interim staffing assignments. The role involves working within a team environment to deliver high-quality outcomes and meet client deadlines. Responsibilities may include:
- Prepare annual and interim financial statements and supporting schedules for investment funds under IFRS, US GAAP, Lux GAAP, FRS 102 or other applicable frameworks.
- Perform financial statement tie-outs, prior-year comparisons and first-level checks; maintain clear supporting documentation.
- Coordinate with fund administrators, auditors and internal reviewers to resolve queries and meet deadlines.
- Use approved AI tools for disclosure drafting, document comparison, variance summaries and checklist support.
- Validate AI-generated content against source records and escalate accounting, data or confidentiality concerns.
- Will build a strong relationships with client representatives.
- May also be involved in fund accounting engagements and other regulatory reporting activities.
Qualifications & Skills Required:
ACA/ACCA/CPA qualified or equivalent IFAC qualification.
2-3 years experience in financial services sector or worked in the top ten auditing firms specialising on financial services industry.
Good working knowledge of IFRS and at least one relevant GAAP framework.
Strong Excel and Microsoft Office skills; attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines.
Basic AI literacy, including effective prompting, output validation and secure handling of client information.
Desired:
Multi-GAAP or multi-jurisdiction reporting exposure.
Experience in fund accounting, including period-end and regulatory reporting.
Exposure to ERP and fund accounting systems such as Geneva, Investran, and Yardi, as well as financial statement production and reporting tools including Workiva, Donnelley/DFIN, Confluence, OneStream, and similar platforms
Experience delivering financial reporting transformation and automation, developing technology-enabled propositions or client solutions.
Strong external market awareness and ability to translate emerging AI capabilities into controlled, practical use cases.
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What does this mean for you?
At Grant Thornton, we provide equitable opportunities for all our colleagues. We are a responsible, sustainable business where equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is at the forefront of our workplace culture agenda, and today, we continue to build and develop on our existing ED&I structure and strategy to meet our workplace culture needs. People are at the heart of our business and teams built with varied individuals present diverse viewpoints, which need to be heard and valued.
We are all at our best when we are able to be ourselves and we view integrity and authenticity as integral values to bring to our day-to-day work-life at the firm. We are excited to see the personality and perspectives you will bring to our team because we know we will all benefit from them. Diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision-making, improves the quality of our delivery, and helps us to meet the needs of our clients. Our firm is built on people and their ideas, so we want to hear all the new perspectives and fresh thinking you have to offer. You form the bedrock of our firm's best-practice principles and we will champion you as leaders from day one.
Reward and benefits
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Recognition
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