Total 11 job vacancies by IQ-EQ

New in the accounting field and still unsure of which career path to go to?

This role will be the best opportunity for you as it will provide you the experience and exposure that you will need to thrive in the financial field. You will be with a team of highly competent and supportive individuals where your development is a priority. You will be exposed to global clients and will be taking care of the timely and accurate preparation of financial statements of cluster clients for funds and/or corporate clients you are assigned to.

Not too confident with your fund accounting and/or private equity skills? No need to worry because we highly value training and development. We will be providing you with the supplemental training that you will need to be successful in your core responsibilities alongside your supervisor’s support.

Click on the apply button and we’d be more than happy to walk you through the hiring process so we can jumpstart your accounting experience in IQ-EQ.

As a Legal Onboarding & Business Junior Officer you will:

• Assist the team with the coordination and preparation of fee proposals for Alternative Investment Funds investing in alternative asset classes e.g. real estate, private equity, debt, and infrastructure, as well as Corporate structures with the guidance of your line manager.
• Coordinate between various internal and external stakeholders, with the guidance of your line manager, to ensure a smooth onboarding process for clients until handover to the operational teams, including the following team duties:
  • AML/ KYC analysis, and driving our internal compliance approval process;
  • Bank account opening coordination;
  • Preparation, and coordinating the review, of service agreements;
  • Attend weekly calls with clients, as well as other key stakeholders;
  • Coordinating the review of legal documents for the structure setup;
  • Actively manage the communication between the client and all stakeholders; and
  • Track and perform all Luxembourg regulatory filings during the onboarding phase.

The creation of Asset Owner Solutions stems from many years of servicing Multi-Asset, fund of fund clients. Clients have been requesting solutions that provide full transparency on their portfolios, including fundamentally Private Equity Funds and equities & Bonds. Investors need to know the finer details of their total portfolios. They require to “drill down” into their underlying assets and sub-portfolios.

Investor solutions, in addition to providing Investment Accounting services to the Private Markets Fund of Fund clients, is leveraging state-of-the-art technology (“Cosmos”) alongside the technical expertise in delivering dynamic and transparent reporting solutions to the community.

Responsibilities

• Monthly delivery of pre-agreed performance reporting for various clients’ portfolios
• Preparation and review of investment parameters reporting
• Provision of ad-hoc analysis of performance/quantitative reporting
• Resolution of performance-related queries and the main point of contact for clients from a performance analysis perspective
• Implementation of change requests, including project work in new client onboardings
• Participation in workshops and requirements gathering sessions with clients, documenting those relevant to performance reporting and taking action with the broader team on delivering these reports and dashboard visuals
• Continuous review of the processes and procedures and taking initiatives to improve the control environment of the reports delivered to the clients and identifying ways to improve the efficiency of the department
• Liaise daily with IS colleagues based in London & overseas, attending conference calls and advising on proposed performance analytics and any additional project work
• Playing an integral role in the development and implementation of new investor reporting solutions, including participation in the testing & design environments
• Documentation of project tasks and group work and assigning these to relevant parties with required supporting communications
• Proactive in documenting procedures and policies as part of new client take-on to enhance resilience

Job Summary  

• To provide and ensure the timely and high quality service and deliverables to the cluster clients for funds and/or corporate clients allocated to you on a regular basis.  

• Concentrates on delivering consistent results by focusing mainly on preparation of core processes, low complex ad hoc work and minimal client requirements.  Performs self-review of core processes to demonstrate self-awareness in gaining productive insights into professional and personal strengths and weaknesses.  

• This entails assisting in all reporting requirements, such as but not limited to financial statements, working papers/ management accounts, partner statements and ad-hoc client deliverables.  

• To assist in various accounting and administration processes and conduct all work in accordance with IQ-EQ Philippines Inc.'s policies and procedures.  

Core Responsibilities   

• Responsible for the preparation of Financial Statements with Disclosures and other ad-hoc service requests for funds and/or corporate clients.  

• To ensure all deliverables are timely and accurate   

• Acquiring knowledge of designated clients' requirements and deliverables.  

• Ensure compliance by following procedures and checklists following SSAE and other similar statutory requirements  

• Proactively seeks adequate training, feedback and support in both technical and non-technical aspects of the role  

Tasks & Duties  

Cluster Client Delivery  

• Acquires knowledge and understanding of the clients’ agreements, Scope of Work (SOW), SLA’s and other necessary information needed to prepare deliverables.  

• Ensures complete information, data, supporting documents, etc. are received for the preparation of the needed requirements.  To acknowledge or to escalate the completeness of the information, data, supporting documents, etc. to the Senior Accountant.  

• Delivers consistent and quality information within the agreed timeframes.  

• Prepare, complete, and ensure the quality of the assigned clients’ deliverables within the agreed timelines.  

• To be knowledgeable with the components of the reports generated by the appropriate platform/s.  

• To be able to review outputs and all other deliverables prepared.   

• To address review comments.  

• Takes ownership, prepares and replies to cluster/Client/Investor’s queries within 24 hours.  

• Escalates any job-related issues and concerns to the appropriate authorities in a timely manner.  

• Provides support to the rest of the team and other teams, as needed.  

Workflow Management  

• Ensures timesheets are completed daily and accurately filed for all hours worked knowledge and understanding of the clients’ agreements,   

• Sets up, monitors, updates and closes all deliverables via the workflow planner  

Systems  

• Understands and uses best practice on accounting platform/s.  

• Understands and becomes knowledgeable on how to generate reports using reporting platform/s.  

Risks  

• Ensures relevant procedures, checklists and SSAE requirements are adhered to and completed to mitigate errors.   

• Reports any breaches, complaints or errors to appropriate authorities in a timely manner.  

• Assists in the preparation of error reports, identifies the areas of operational risk and participates in proposing appropriate remedial actions within 24 hours of identifying the error.  

Other

• May undertake any additional tasks and/or responsibilities as part of their professional development which may or may not be related to their specific function.  

• Escalates any other work-related issues and concerns to the appropriate authorities in a timely manner. 

Key behaviours we expect to see :

In addition to demonstrating our Group Values (Authentic, Bold, and Collaborative), the role holder will be expected to demonstrate the following: 

• Demonstrates Self-Awareness - Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses. 

• Action Oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm 

• Being Resilient - Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations 

• Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences 

• Customer Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions 

• Self-Development - Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels 

• Plans & Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organisational goals 

• Manages Conflict - Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise 

• Interpersonal Savvy - Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people 

• Organizational Savvy - Manoeuvring comfortably through complex policy, process and people-related organisational dynamics 

Drawing on your existing experience in Corporate, Company or Fiscal law you will be responsible for coordinating the day to day administrative and legal formalities for our varied and complex client portfolios. This will include regulated and unregulated real estate and corporate entities including funds, trusts and companies.

You’ll be highly organized, pay close attention to detail and know your subject matter as you will be dealing with queries relating to account opening, acquisitions, board resolutions, official publication and filing, notarial and private deeds, incorporation and liquidations.

You will build strong customer relationships with existing and new clients, banks and other external parties, gaining insight into their needs and delivering customer-centric solutions also ensuring we meet our legal and contractual requirements.

Compliance and regulations has never been more complex; you’ll need to ensure we comply and meet our KYC obligations by preparing, monitoring and maintaining robust client files, safeguarding from potential risks.

You will lead board and shareholders meetings, reviewing related minutes, agreements and documentation.

We are never complacent and always encourage our people to look for ways to improve our business; here everyone’s opinion counts and we will value your contribution.

Your long-term career goals are important to us too. We want to make sure we’re providing the support and opportunities you need to achieve your dreams so we can build a successful future, together. 

The Junior ITSM Developer supports the delivery of the toolset development roadmap and assists with daily administration tasks to ensure the ITSM tool provides agile, automated, and user-friendly solutions to enhance service quality and efficiency for our customers.

In this role, you'll play a key part in maintaining a customer-centric approach, recognizing the significance of a streamlined ITSM toolset in gaining a competitive edge. Your contributions will help drive improvements in operational efficiency, leveraging your skills to support the platform's advancement.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Support analysis and enhancement of automated procedures.
• Aid in identifying areas for automation in ticket support processes.
• Assist in creating request templates and improving tool functionality.
• Support integration management with third-party tools.
• Help maintain Business Services and CI links.
• Assist in implementing solutions to improve Service Desk efficiency.
• Support workflow package implementation.
• Participate in reducing manual input for routine tasks.
• Assist in managing SSO integration.
• Support ITSM toolset integrity across instances.
• Aid in ServiceDesk Plus configuration and customization.
• Design, configure and develop forms and business rules.
• Monitor and analyze system performance and make suggestions for improvements.
• Creating and updating reports and dashboards based on business requirements.
• Participate in creation of Knowledge bases in terms of How To documents and User/Admin guides.
• Familiarity with ITSM processes and best practices.

• Responsible for processing financial information to trial balance and other ad-hoc financial information for PE Fund Structures.
• Responsible for preparation of administration tasks in relation to PE Fund Structures. 
• Ensuring that adequate training has been completed and support provided in order to complete the role and be proactive in defining areas needing attention or support.
• Knowledge of designated clients including a basic understanding, of the client structures, key points of the LPA, Fee Agreements, and SLAs.
• Knowledge of Client deliverables and early escalation of issues to the cell’s Accountant.
• Minimize risk to IQ EQ Philippines by following procedures and checklists and complying with SSAE16 requirements.
• Be proactive in identifying development and training requirements.

Job Description

• Responsible for processing financial information to trial balance and other ad-hoc financial information for PE Fund Structures.
• Responsible for preparation of administration tasks in relation to PE Fund Structures. 
• Ensuring that adequate training has been completed and support provided in order to complete the role and be proactive in defining areas needing attention or support.
• Knowledge of designated clients including a basic understanding, of the client structures, key points of the LPA, Fee Agreements, and SLAs.
• Knowledge of Client deliverables and early escalation of issues to the cell’s Accountant.
• Minimize risk to IQ EQ Philippines by following procedures and checklists and complying with SSAE16 requirements.
• Be proactive in identifying development and training requirements.

Job Description

• Responsible for processing financial information to trial balance and other ad-hoc financial information for PE Fund Structures.
• Responsible for preparation of administration tasks in relation to PE Fund Structures. 
• Ensuring that adequate training has been completed and support provided in order to complete the role and be proactive in defining areas needing attention or support.
• Knowledge of designated clients including a basic understanding, of the client structures, key points of the LPA, Fee Agreements, and SLAs.
• Knowledge of Client deliverables and early escalation of issues to the cell’s Accountant.
• Minimize risk to IQ EQ Philippines by following procedures and checklists and complying with SSAE16 requirements.
• Be proactive in identifying development and training requirements.

Job Description

• Responsible for processing financial information to trial balance and other ad-hoc financial information for PE Fund Structures.
• Responsible for preparation of administration tasks in relation to PE Fund Structures. 
• Ensuring that adequate training has been completed and support provided in order to complete the role and be proactive in defining areas needing attention or support.
• Knowledge of designated clients including a basic understanding, of the client structures, key points of the LPA, Fee Agreements, and SLAs.
• Knowledge of Client deliverables and early escalation of issues to the cell’s Accountant.
• Minimize risk to IQ EQ Philippines by following procedures and checklists and complying with SSAE16 requirements.
• Be proactive in identifying development and training requirements.

• Assist in tracking regulatory rules changes in APAC and help managing the SFC, JFSA, MAS, ASIC and other regulators’ calendars (consultation papers, regulatory updates/changes implementation date etc).
• Assist to conduct research relating to basic regulatory topics
• Assist in distributing client alerts.
• To understand the FRR rules in Hong Kong and help prepare a first draft of Financial Resource Rules (“FRR”) Form of Licensed Corporations (“LC”) as per SFC regulatory requirements.
• Assist with preparing draft regulatory disclosures for clients for client review and approval.  
• Prepare first draft of compliance reports for clients based on information provided by Regulatory Compliance case managers.
• Updating and monitoring of compliance registers for ongoing compliance support clients.
• Distributing notification reminders about changes in particulars and regulatory filings to the ongoing compliance support clients
• Maintaining and sharing of the industry training calendar to the Reg Com team.
• Assisting with research on clients and prospects.
• Collecting and checking on completeness of KYC documents from clients to assist client onboarding.
• Assists in administrative tasks for Regulatory Compliance training team.
• Maintain files and records in a proper and organized manner.
• Perform ad hoc support and other duties assigned.