eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Options Financial Recruitment

• Location

  UK-London

• Compensation

  On Experience

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  20 Nov 2009

• eFC Ref no

  587046

Our client requires a dynamic person who is comfortable working in a small team in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment. This person must be comfortable delivering multiple complex projects while also managing critical on-going operational and financial issues. The person must be well organized, very “hands on” and enjoy the challenge of building a company as part of a cohesive team.

Suitable candidates are likely to have gained previous experience working in alternative investment such as hedge funds, fund of fund, private equity.

Core responsibilities

- Ultimate responsibility for all areas of the firm’s operations.

- Managing all aspects of accounting systems, control and reports. 

- Setting financial strategy, budgeting and forecasting

- Ensuring regulatory compliance. 

- IT system management.  

- Office management.

Experience / Qualifications

- Graduate, ideally in a finance, economics or accounting discipline, with a second qualification, such as; ACA / CIMA / CFA / MBA.

- Previous COO/CFO experience in the financial services 

- Prior experience managing a finance function and/or back office in a financial services firm.

- Experience gained in a fast growing smaller entity would be advantageous.

- Exposure to the alternative investment markets, such as hedge funds or private equity preferred.

- A track record building a strong operational infrastructure to support growth.

- Ideally experience of managing other areas, such as: Compliance, Office Management

This position is exclusively represented by Options Financial Recruitment