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Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Portfolio management: provide analyst support to client managers
- Support on-going portfolio management over the client lifecycle
- Analyse client collateral reporting, and provide commentary on variances, observations, changes to AFC funding calculations and risk profile
- Review and analysis of client financial reporting (monthly management accounts, short term cash flow forecasts), including commentary of client trading performance to the AFC team
- Review covenant reporting and supporting calculations
- Reconcile final signed audited accounts to previously submitted client management accounts
- Preparation of monthly portfolio update reports for presentation to senior management (and ultimate distribution to AFC board)
- Perform checks on samples to audit documentation and seek evidence to validate collateral which supports AFC loan security
- Assist with any other portfolio management operations as required
Financial Reporting: support and lead certain aspects of AFC finance and accounting
- Prepare client invoicing, and investigate any outstanding / overdue amounts
- Manage the payment of invoices for AFC expenses
- Support in the preparation and review of monthly management accounts
- Preparation of monthly financial and covenant reporting to senior lender (Wells Fargo)
- Preparation of monthly actual to budget variance analysis for reporting to shareholder, explaining key performance drivers
- Update the AFC forecast model for actuals on a monthly basis and reconciliation of variances
- Liaising with the wider Aurelius Group finance team, and delivering reporting requirements
- Lead communication with external auditors: prepare information, respond to auditors questions, manage information flow
- Consider the accounting treatment for new transactions, intra-month movements, amendments, and upon repayment of loans
Risk management operations
- Administration of client / AFC bank accounts e.g processing trust / blocked account transfers
- Preparation of Wells Fargo collateral (borrowing base) reporting
- Manage, forecast and process sources of funding for AFC
- Investigate and complete Know Your Client (“KYC”) and Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) requirements
- Support with the management of clients on AFC collateral monitoring system
- Assist in the update of internal process and policy documentation
New client on-boarding
- Support the onboarding of new clients
- Prepare collateral and financial monitoring templates for new clients
- Attend credit committee meeting, and prepare minutes to document key discussion points, follow up actions
- Ad-hoc support to review new opportunities, analyse information, prepare parts of credit papers for credit committee.
Other duties
- Occasional travel to UK to support the AFC team
- Any other reasonable duties as requested by senior team members
Qualifications
- Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CFA or equivalent qualification
- Experience in a transaction, lending or advisory role would be desirable but not required
Skills
- Experienced user of PowerPoint and Excel
- Financial analysis / diligence and experience of preparing or reviewing financial models desirable but not required
- Ability to think laterally and problem solve
Personality characteristics
- Accurate and precise
- Self-starter / highly motivated, reliable and results driven
- Willingness to learn and develop
- Pro-active, independent worker, as well as collaborative team player
- Organised to manage workload of multiple tasks, whilst prioritising competing deadlines
- Ability to embrace and adapt in fast changing environment
Interested candidates should send their CV together with a covering letter.