Langham Hall is a professional services firm formed to provide excellent fund administration and accounting services to alternative investment fund managers. The alternative investment funds industry is one of the fastest growing areas in financial services and we work with the best names in private equity, debt, infrastructure and real estate. Langham Hall was formed to provide professional services by providing high quality accounting, fund administration and investor reporting services to real estate, debt, infrastructure and private equity fund clients. The Company was started in 2006 and now has operations in London, Southampton, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shenzhen, New York, Philadelphia, and the Channel Islands, with over 800 staff representing net assets of USD 180bn
Graduate intake
To support our ongoing growth, the Langham Hall graduate scheme provides excellent candidates with the opportunity to learn and train in a structured environment. They will receive study support towards their preferred accountancy qualification (ACCA). The programme will encompass client facing interactions and a focus on fund accounting. At the end of the first year, successful graduates will be promoted to an Assistant Accountant position within a specific team.
This role will start in September 2025.
Key responsibilities
Below are some of the core skills our graduates will be learning:
- Interaction with the highest profile fund managers and investors in alternative assets
- Accounting for structures and investments in private equity, debt, real estate and infrastructure funds;
- Intensive training from the basics of bookkeeping to construction of complex financial statements and consolidations;
- Technical training on the impact of the latest accounting standards;
- Building financial models based on funds’ legal agreements;
- Managing a range of associated deliverables including compliance reporting, tax and ad hoc accounting projects;
- Learning how to manage a team including delegation and organisational skills; and
- Life skills such as leadership, communication and problem solving.
Skills, knowledge and expertise
- Be educated to degree level (2:1 and above desirable) or; AAT level 3 qualified with significant accounts preparation experience
- Strong A-Levels and GCSEs;
- A keen awareness and interest in the alternative investment industry;
- A desire to become a qualified accountant (ACCA);
- Good MS Excel and MS Word skills;
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
- Strong numeracy and literacy; and
- Intellectual curiosity.
If you have been affected by the exam markers strike, please make us aware of these circumstances.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance (after successful probation period)
- Discounted gym membership
- Pension of 5% employer - 4% employee
- Cycle to work scheme
- Numerous wellbeing initiatives
About Langham Hall
Langham Hall provides premium quality accounting, fund administration and investor reporting services to Real Estate and Private Equity Fund clients. Langham Hall invests in people and in developing them professionally. We are extremely proud of our leadership-focused culture which fosters a dedicated, approachable and collaborative way of working. We offer the opportunity to progress your career and study professional qualifications; through intensive training and where applicable, full exam tuition and study support.
Langham Hall is a fast-growing company and as such staff experience a variety of responsibilities and inclusion in exciting initiatives beyond their day-to-day role. Employees are supported and encouraged to deliver a first-class service and opportunities are identified at an early stage for employees to engage with our clients which enables them feel involved and challenged in their work.
We are proud of our positive working culture which is reinforced through our employees and our extremely low staff turnover and we seek out people that believe in our values.
