Client Manager - Aviation Accounting

Company Description

ABOUT IQ-EQ

Is a global investor services group with deep expertise in private markets. We support investment managers, asset owners and global businesses with the administration, compliance, governance, data and reporting that their structures depend on.

Across 25 jurisdictions, our 6,500+ professionals combine technical strength, connected technology and human understanding – the IQ and the EQ – to free clients from operational complexity and give them the peace of mind to focus on their core business activities.

Our IQ is our technical, regulatory and operational expertise, underpinned by data, technology and coordinated global delivery. Our EQ is our human partnership: understanding the business behind the numbers, the culture behind the structures and the individuals behind the screens.

With more than US$950 billion of assets under administration, our global client base includes 13 of the world's top 15 private equity firms* and 19 of the top 25 private debt firms**.

One relationship connects our clients to the right expertise as needs evolve, helping them move forward with clarity and confidence, wherever they operate.

Job Description

The Client Manager - Aviation Accounting is responsible for delivering accounting, financial reporting and administrative services to a portfolio of aviation clients, including aircraft leasing structures, aircraft-owning special purpose vehicles (SPVs), aviation investment platforms and aviation financing entities.

The role serves as the day-to-day accounting contact for allocated clients and is responsible for ensuring high-quality service delivery, timely financial reporting, regulatory compliance and effective management of client relationships.

Working closely with their Senior Manager, the Directors, Transaction Management, and Aviation Accounting teams, the successful candidate will support clients throughout the lifecycle of aviation structures and transactions.

What You'll Do:

• You'll manage an allocated portfolio of aviation and aircraft leasing clients, serving as their primary day-to-day contact for all accounting-related matters.
• You'll demonstrate exceptional ability to manage multiple deadlines and competing priorities across your client base.
• You'll build and maintain strong relationships with clients, ensuring consistent and high-quality service delivery.
• You'll embody our Group Values of being Authentic, Bold, and Collaborative in all client interactions and internal communications.
• You'll provide strategic accounting support and guidance to clients, positioning yourself as a trusted advisor within the aviation sector.

What We Offer

• Comprehensive remuneration and pension: motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile
• Wellbeing: additional social benefits such as private health and dental cover, life assurance, discounted gym membership, eye test and corporate GP
• Annual leave: our employees are entitled to 25 days paid leave plus all Ireland public holidays
• Enhanced maternity and paternity, including shared parental leave and adoption leave
• Flexible working: we recognise the value of working flexibly and want to ensure all employees enjoy an excellent work-life blend. As such, we are open to conversations with employees related to setting up flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

About you:

• You hold a degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related discipline
• You possess strong accounting knowledge with experience in financial reporting and regulatory compliance
• You demonstrate excellent client relationship management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• You have proven experience working in professional services or aviation sector environments
• You embody authentic, bold and collaborative values in your professional interactions

Additional Information

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT

As a forward-looking business, sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining meaningful, long-term relationships with all our stakeholders – including our employees, clients, and local communities – while also reducing our impact on our natural environment.

There is always more we can, and should do, to improve – whether in relation to our people, our clients, our planet, or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee.

Our learning and development programmes and systems (including PowerU and MyCampus) enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers, while our hybrid working approach supports our employees in achieving balance and flexibility while remaining connected to their colleagues. We want to empower our 5,500+ employees - from 94 nationalities, speaking 41 languages across 25 countries - to each achieve their potential. Through IQ-EQ Launchpad we support female managers launching their first fund, in an environment where only 15% of all private equity and venture capital firms are gender balanced.

We’re committed to growing long-term relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients' sustainability and success leads to our sustainability and success. We’re emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.