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About the Role
The Senior Fund Finance Manager will be responsible for all transactions, management, financial accounting, and reporting for fund entities and mandates. This role involves building and managing key relationships with auditors and service providers, and providing local finance support to non-finance colleagues and investors. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract covering two maternity leaves.
Responsibilities
- Manage the financial aspects of transactions, including tax-efficient structuring, financial due diligence, incorporation of holding companies, drafting transaction approval papers, preparing funds flow, and ensuring debt and investor equity financing.
- Coordinate finance elements for monthly pricing, quarterly investor reporting, and annual statutory accounts.
- Manage outsourced accounting service providers, review their outputs, sign off consolidated accounts, review NAV calculations, and write financial commentary for investors.
- Manage the audit process and resolve audit queries within agreed timetables.
- Act as the finance representative for the fund/mandate with client services teams and investors.
- Respond to investor queries, attend investor meetings, and input into investor presentations.
- Prepare drawdowns and review distribution calculations.
- Manage cash flow across the fund/mandate structure, approve payments, review intercompany interest, manage bank reconciliations, and prepare cash forecasts.
- Support the treasury team with debt-raising activity, including covenant modelling and bank reporting.
Requirements
- Qualified Accountant
- Typically around 5+ years of work experience post accountancy qualification
- Knowledge of and experience working with property investments is essential
- Advanced Excel skills and competence with other Microsoft Office packages
- Knowledge of IFRS (and local GAAP, if IFRS is not accepted locally)
- Knowledge of real estate tax structuring, including local corporate and VAT taxation requirements
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to interface with non-finance colleagues, investors, banks, and service providers
- Strong project management and communication skills
- Self-starter with a proactive attitude
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Staff management experience and a team player
Skills
- Excel
- Microsoft Office
- IFRS
- Real estate tax structuring
- Interpersonal skills
- Project management
- Communication
- Written English
- Spoken English
Work Type
- 12-month fixed-term contract
Experience Level
- 5+ years post accountancy qualification
Education Level
- Qualified Accountant
About the Company
- Purpose is to build prosperity by investing in resilient real assets.
- Vision is to be a trusted investment manager, respected for expertise in restorative real estate investment enabling people, communities and eco-systems to thrive.
- A dedicated real estate and real-estate debt specialist managing €25.5bn on behalf of institutional investors globally.
- Global platform of 15 locations combining a global perspective with local expertise.
- Over 30 years of experience delivering real estate strategies for investors.
- Over 380 staff dedicated to positive client outcomes.
- Strategies span office, logistics & industrial, retail, living and debt sectors.
- Responsible investment is integrated into the investment-management process.
- Savills Investment Management: Resilience. Responsibility. Results.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all individuals, regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race and religion.
- Focused on fostering a culture and environment that allows for inclusion and diversity throughout the business.
- Offers several employee-led forums that provide support and guidance around Diversity & Inclusion.
- Ensures principles are built into all processes, practices and expectations.