Accountant

About This Role

Firm Overview

Lunate is a new Abu Dhabi-based, Partner-led, independent global alternative investment manager with more than 200 employees and $110 billion of assets under management. Lunate invests across the entire private markets spectrum including buyouts, growth equity, early and late-stage venture capital, private credit, real assets, and public equities and public credit. Lunate aims to be one of the world’s leading private markets solutions providers through SMAs and multi-asset class funds, seeking to generate best-in-class risk-adjusted returns for its clients.

Role Overview

The Senior Associate – Finance will play a key role within Lunate’s Finance team, supporting core accounting, consolidation, and tax activities across the group. The role is suited to a Big 4–trained accountant with strong technical foundations, hands-on execution capability, and the confidence to contribute to senior-level reporting, including board materials.

This position offers broad exposure across financial reporting, group consolidation, and stakeholder-facing outputs in a fast-paced, high-quality investment environment.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Accounting & Reporting

• Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial accounts in accordance with IFRS (or applicable standards)
• Maintain accurate general ledger accounting, including journal entries, reconciliations, and closing activities
• Support statutory audits and act as a key point of contact for external auditors

Group Consolidation

• Perform group-level consolidations across multiple entities and investment structures
• Ensure accurate intercompany accounting, eliminations, and reconciliations
• Support the preparation of consolidated financial statements and related disclosures

Tax & Compliance

• Support corporate tax, VAT, and other regulatory filings in coordination with external advisors
• Assist in monitoring tax positions, provisions, and compliance timelines
• Contribute to tax-efficient structuring discussions from an accounting perspective

Board & Management Reporting

• Prepare financial inputs for board decks, investment committee materials, and senior management reporting
• Ensure clarity, accuracy, and consistency of financial data presented to boards and stakeholders
• Assist in responding to board and senior leadership queries on financial performance and positions

Process Improvement & Controls

• Support the enhancement of finance processes, controls, and reporting frameworks
• Contribute to documentation of policies and procedures
• Assist with ad-hoc finance projects as the platform continues to scale

Qualifications & Experience

• Big 4–trained accountant (Audit or Accounting Advisory background preferred)
• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent)
• 4–7 years of relevant experience, including post-qualification exposure
• Strong experience in accounting, consolidation, and financial reporting
• Strong technical accounting knowledge with high attention to detail
• Comfortable working with complex group structures
• Clear communicator, able to translate financial data into board-ready outputs
• Proactive, hands-on, and able to work effectively in a lean, high-performing team
• Strong Excel skills; experience with consolidation systems is an advantage