Real Estate Fund Accounts Specialist-London

Ref: (Ref: D21D919 )
Salary: £ 65,000 - 75,000 + Bonus and Benefits – DOE
Specialist Area: Fund Accountant
Type: Permanent
Start Date: ASAP

OUR CLIENT are a well-established and active international Investment and Asset Management business with a £multi-billion AUM and decades of experience in helping institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world to invest money. After internal re-organisation, they now have a vacancy for an enthusiastic Real Estate Fund Accounts Specialist who will be a qualified accountant, ideally with a real estate fund accounting background and great communication skills to oversee their outsourced service providers on various European & UK Real Estate fund structures.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES for the Real Estate Fund Accounts Specialist are:

• Overseeing the services provided by service provider teams including production of Statutory Reporting, Investor Reporting, Board Papers, NAV Calculations, Income Distribution Calculations and Income Tax and VAT Returns for the various Real Estate Funds.

• Identifying and working with the outsourced provider to document all stakeholder and regulatory requirements, along with timings for responsibility, production and delivery.

• Monitoring that that all stakeholder and regulatory requirements are met, within the given deadlines, also providing oversight of agreed service levels and KPIs for specified fund range.

• Periodically checking the integrity of data held by the service provider, ensuring appropriate records are maintained for entities and assets.

• Managing any issues escalated by the service provider in relation to other 3rd parties in the operating model.

• Presenting information to the Boards /Operating Committees/Others charged with governance.

• Ensuring group policies are adhered to and that existing procedures/practices and processes are refined to reduce operational risk.

• Providing oversight of and involvement in invoice authorisation and cash management operations.

• Providing oversight of loan administration and oversee production of compliance reporting where required. 

THE PERSON skills and requirements:

• YOU will be a Qualified Accountant ACA/ACCA with previous experience of fund accounting and real estate or private equity structures. This may have been gained in an audit environment, working for another Fund M/ investment Manager or 3^rd party service provider.
• Ideally you will have exposure to different fund structures not limited to, but including JVs, Lux Hold Cos. Lux Sarls, JPUTs etc

• You will have strong technical accounting skills and be driven to keep abreast with current requirements.

• You will be able and have experience of planning your own workload typically against a background of changing priorities and /or external events for the month ahead.

• You will possess strong interpersonal and communication skills.

• You will have a ‘Teamwork’ mindset including the ability to work with a wider team also partnering with those in the service provider.

• You will possess strong attention to detail.

• You will be able to work autonomously, keeping your superiors abreast of status as necessary.

BENEFITS:

• Hybrid working model - 3 days in office.
• Good contributory pension scheme.
• Full flexible benefits package.

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