Head of Corporate Accounting (Vice President)

Caxton Associates; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000

Job description

Head of Corporate Accounting (Vice President)

About Caxton Associates:

Caxton Associates, founded in 1983, is a global trading and investment firm with offices in New York, London, Monaco, Singapore, and Dubai. Caxton Associates' primary business is to manage client and proprietary capital through a suite of products designed to fit the specific needs of investors. Employing a multi-portfolio manager framework, Caxton excels in discretionary global macro investing, leveraging its diversified expertise across asset classes and markets.

About the Opportunity:

Joining Caxton offers the opportunity to work alongside world-class professionals in a dynamic environment that values continuous learning, innovation, and personal growth. This role offers an exciting prospect of shaping the strategy of the finance function, ensuring its continued success. As Head of Corporate Accounting, you will be working in a fast-paced Finance department, leading a small team to deliver financial reporting for the global partnership group.

Responsibilities:

• Leadership - direct and manage the Corporate Accounting team, ensuring appropriate support, learning, and development.
• Financial Reporting - oversee day-to-day financial operations of the group including monthly board reporting. Maintain robust financial systems and effective internal controls.
• Treasury - manage the cashflow needs of each entity, including currency exposure.
• FP&A - prepare annual group budgets, provide variance analysis.
• Compliance - ensure adherence to all regulatory reporting requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Stakeholder Management - develop strong relationships with external auditors, bankers, other advisors, and internal teams.

Characteristics:

• Vision: Creates and communicates a clear and compelling strategy for the Corporate Accounting function and empowers and supports the team to deliver on it.
• Decision-making and problem-solving: Makes decisions in a timely and effective way. Deconstructs complex problems and solves them. Balances arguments to reach decisions. Able to work comfortably with complexity and ambiguity.
• Performance: Establishes priorities to ensure results. Strong focus on task, perseverance, and delivery.
• Hands-on: Delegates effectively, at the same time hands-on and detail-oriented.
• Relationship Building: Forms networks of positive relationships that enhance success. Low ego and collaborative, fits seamlessly into the existing team.
• Proactive mindset: Seeks to improve, evolve, automate.

Requirements:

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, or ACA) with senior-level experience.
• Sound understanding of management company partnership structures, transfer pricing methodology, group consolidations, and cost centres.
• Detailed knowledge of AIFM regulatory reporting requirements.
• Experience with Oracle NetSuite (or similar system) and the ability to work with large data sets. Knowledge of process design and project management tools.
• Displays and operates at the highest degree of ethics and integrity.