• Management and preparation of the financial and management accounts for both the individual and Group entities including reporting to different stakeholder groups within the business.• Preparation of the Group’s annual and half-yearly financial statements under IFRS including the planning, management and completion of the year-end and half-year audits and ensuring all new standards are implemented and adhered to.• Development and management of the annual Group budget and financial planning process, including the individual entity budgets (both foreign and UK entities), including presenting the annual budgets to the Board for approval.• Day to day cash management including cashflow forecasting, planning and FX to ensure the obligations of the Group are met across all territories. • Establishment of US subsidiary entities and responsibility for ensuring all regulatory requirements are met with the establishment of financial policies for ongoing compliance. • Oversight and management of foreign subsidiaries to ensure group policies and procedures are adhered to and all obligations of local laws are met on time and correctly. • Member of the Board of Directors representing Gate Ventures in a JV company which includes responsibility for the establishment of financial, operational and regulatory functions of the business.• Responsible for ensuring the Group meets all regulatory requirements for its listing on the Nasdaq First North exchange.• Attendance of quarterly Board meetings including contribution of financial and operational information. • Preparation and submission of Group VAT returns and review of corporate tax returns prepared by tax advisors for both the UK and foreign subsidiaries. • Engaging and managing external legal counsel for Group matters including investment and production agreements, employment and engagement contracts and the establishment of standard template agreements.• Company secretarial assistance for UK entities.• Payroll.

• Preparation and review of monthly consolidated financial and management accounts for submission to the Global CFO in Australia for consolidation in to the Group accounts. • Day-to-day management of all ledgers for each UK entity. • Monthly production of the finance report for circulation to the Senior Management Team and quarterly submission to the Board. • Year-end statutory reporting for the corporate entity, including preparation of individual entity accounts and consolidated group accounts. Led the transition from UK GAAP to IFRS.• Ensuring compliance of the regulated entities through production and submission of monthly, quarterly and yearly reports for the regulator in both the UK and Jersey as well annual review and update of the Internal Capital Assessment Adequacy Process (ICAAP).• Development, mentoring and management of 1 qualified and 2 part qualified accountants.• Management and main point of contact for the audit process to facilitate on time completion of the audit and submission of the accounts to Companies House and the FCA/JFSC.• Yearly budget preparation and continual monitoring and reporting throughout the year to enable the company to meet targets set by head office.• Preparation and submission of VAT returns and review of corporate tax returns prepared by tax advisors.• Responsible for the financial and process integration of a business that was purchased by the UK Group including process change and improvement for increased workload. • Ad-hoc project work such as selection and integration of new accounting system, preparation of financial information for a business restructure and forecasting capital requirements for new business ventures.• Oversight of daily fund deliverables including NAV preparation and reconciliation and Preparation of monthly distribution calculations, interim and year-end accounts and review of annual budgets for the OEIC’s.

• Senior team member, including responsibility for development of junior team members • Review of forecast to actual fund expenses (Management fees, Incentive fees, etc) to be paid to Man and provide explanation where variance exceeds set limits.• Expert stakeholder in moving Accounts Payable to an external administrator and ongoing quality assurance, including weekly and monthly review of all payments.• Ensuring that official product valuations produced by administrators are accurately reviewed including day-to-day queries on products and cash and trade reconciliations on Man systems.• Providing Quality Assurance on product fee calculations, including various types of performance fee calculations. • Review of monthly fund updates for investors including accurate product performance data and AUM movements.• Supporting auditors and external valuation agents to complete both product audit and statutory reporting requirements. Internal liaison with Tax and Legal departments.• Full spectrum implementation of finance reporting systems and processes (implementation process includes both design and testing). Specifically focussed on ensuring that the data availability and reporting quality was not compromised across the change. • Review of weekly and monthly fund capital movements from TA.• Yearly Fund budget review.

This role offered the unique opportunity to look after the full financial and management accounting function of the Fund Manager, oversight and sign-off of all accounting, audit, tax and back office work for the externally administered Investment Fund, Board and Compliance Committee reporting and presentation, and the monthly NAV production, distribution calculations and financial reporting of the internally administered Fund.• Month end GL reconciliations for Investment Manager and preparation of management accounts for reporting to Directors, including investment reconciliations for investments held by the Manager.• Day to day accounting functions for the Investment Manager including accounts payable/receivable and maintaining the GL.• Month end performance and AUM calculations and reporting for the Smallco Investment Fund, trial fund and private mandate.• Yearly budget preparation including P&L forecasts based on multiple market conditions and investor flows for the Funds. • Monthly cash flow analysis, cash flow budgeting and comparison of actual to budgeted figures for the Investment Manager including reporting to the Directors on figures and variances.• Preparation of year-end financial statutory accounts for the Investment Manager.• Quarter end reporting and presentation to the Compliance Committee and Board on the performance of the Fund, AUM, investor flows, compliance of the Investment Manager to both the Compliance Plan and meeting of the AFSL conditions.• Review and approval of all accounting work for the externally administered Fund including daily unit pricing, half-year and year-end accounts, and distributions.• Liaison point with Auditors to ensure on-time completion of audits, answering of audit queries and completion of Statutory Accounts for signing by directors.• Day-to-day relationship management with outsourced accounting, registry and back office functions.

• Preparation/review of manual unit price calculations for a variety of unit trusts including long, long/short and international stock Funds.• Preparation/review of manual NTA calculations for listed investment companies.• Preparation/review of statutory accounts for both registered and unregistered unit trusts and listed investment companies.• Preparation/review of distribution calculations.• Business Activity Statement preparation/review.• Aiding client auditors for completion of half year and year end financial audits.• Maintaining client unit holder registers including reviewing all processed transactions, distribution calculation inputs and queries from investors.• Systems testing and development for the implementation of an automated unit pricing system and program updates to the Unit Registry system Trust Architect.• Year end timetabling and supervision for all client distribution calculations and mailing out of distribution and tax information to investors.• Managing small teams to ensure on time completion of client work.• Training of junior staff.• Recruitment of staff.