Our client, a global real estate investment company, manages realestate investments across multiple locations for the Group. They seek anexperienced Manager to act as a Fund Controller: oversee, coordinate and controltheir portfolio of real estate and private equity investments. You will beresponsible for the financial and reporting responsibilities for real estatefunds and their subsidiaries.
The position requires someone with strong alternative funds experience,ideally within real estate, who is able to communicate effectively, understandthe different relationships and stakeholders in the lifecycle of real estatefunds.
You will join a solid, experience and stable team managing the fundoperations of these alternative funds and their underlying structures. Therewill be plenty of contact with the deal teams, portfolio managers and assetmanagement teams, so you will be exposed to the ‘nuts and bolts’ of thebusiness.
Responsibilities include:
- Ownership of financial controland reporting of a mixed portfolio of real estate investments, including fundsand the underlying assets
- Develop, build a relationshipwith the service providers and foster an environment of trust and mutualbenefit
- Oversight of the (fund)accounting functions performed by third party providers
- Review of monthly, quarterlyaccounts of Funds, SPVs and subsidiaries in compliance with Lux GAAP and IFRS
- Preparing and reviewing fundflows for various activities including closings, upstreams, downstreams, exitsand refinancing
- Responsible for the annualstatutory audit of accounts for funds and Luxembourg companies
- Coordinate the financial andregulatory reporting for these funds
- Performing profitabilityanalysis and monitoring the fund performance
- Understand and advise on theimpact or regulatory changes on the funds and prepare reports for managementand clients
- Liaise with other Controllersand acquisition teams on additions to the funds
- Providing operational riskassessments of current processes and identifying issues