Legal Entity Controller

Department: Fund Finance

Location: Manchester, UK

Description

We are seeking to recruit an experienced individual to join the Fund Finance as a Legal Entity Controller to oversee the financial operations of our SPVs across multiple funds and jurisdictions. While day-to-day accounting is performed by third-party administrators, this role is responsible for managing the internal oversight of those activities, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant financial reporting and control.

You will lead a team responsible for the communication with administrators on new investment structure, regulatory reporting, reviewing administrator outputs, managing intercompany reconciliations, supporting statutory reporting and any audit processes, serving as a critical link between the administrators, fund controllers and other stakeholders, both internal and external.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and review monthly, quarterly, and annual SPV financial statements with external administrators, ensuring compliance with applicable accounting standards (e.g., Lux GAAP, IFRS, UK GAAP).
• Manage annual regulatory reporting and audit processes for SPVs in collaboration with administrators and external auditors.
• Develop and maintain a strong understanding of investment fund flows and legal structures to identify and communicate key information to both external administrators and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure transaction cost allocations, purchase price components, interest accruals, and expense recharges are accurately recorded and aligned with fund expectations.
• Reconcile SPV-level data with Aggregator cash flows to ensure consistency and completeness.
• Provide accounting input and support for acquisition, disposal, and restructuring transactions at the SPV level.
• Oversee timely and accurate intercompany reconciliations across SPVs, local investment entities, HoldCos, and Aggregators.
• Review interest calculations, manage loan schedules, and assess working capital requirements.
• Monitor financing instruments, NAV movements, investment cost tracking, and upstream payments, ensuring alignment with legal documentation and fund-level reporting.
• Maintain strong financial controls across all SPV transactions, including capital movements, income distributions, and loan servicing.
• Collaborate closely with fund finance, fund operations, treasury, investment teams, tax, legal, and governance teams to support integrated reporting, regulatory compliance, and sound decision-making.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent).
• Post qualification experience in fund finance, SPV accounting, or financial reporting within private equity, real estate, infrastructure, or fund administration.
• Strong technical knowledge of IFRS and/or local GAAP (e.g., Lux GAAP).
• Experience with fund structures (LP/GP, HoldCos, BidCos, REOCos, debt stacks) and intercompany accounting, or structured finance more generally.
• Experience in transaction closing processes, with a strong understanding of fund flows within multi-tiered fund structures preferred.
• Previous team management or leadership experience preferred.
• Experience working with third-party administrators or shared service models.