Fund Controller recruitment

AXA REIM has an extensive local real estate infrastructure, with 500 staff operating in 21 countries. It is a global real estate investment management player with established European platforms and on going deployment in Asia. As such, it is one of Europe's largest and most diversified real estate investment management businesses providing significant multi-disciplinary expertise across a broad variety of property types.

The reporting and controlling team is in charge of producing financial information requested by clients for reporting as well as KPI information and servicing our clients with plan budgets, performance measurements, risk controlling, fund models and analysis controls

Therefore it is working closely with fund management and Fund Accounting.

Main area where Controlling Reporting will be involved are :

 Administrative/legal/process

• coordination and supervision of the Accounting Property Manager activity (main activities of the Accounting Property Manager: issuing invoices to the tenants, checking of the suppliers invoices, monitoring of the rent payments, sending of documents to the Corporate Manager with instructions for the bookkeeping, …)

• payments of the suppliers invoices and of the other expenses (local taxes, interest payments, derivative payments, …)

• sending of documents and data to the Corporate Manager with instructions for the bookkeeping

Controlling Reporting, Planning Budgeting

• coordination and supervision of the Corporate Manager activity (main activities of the Corporate Manager: monthly accounting closing and calculation of NAV, local taxes fulfilments, accounting communications with Banca d’Italia and Consob…)

• editing of the periodical Fund Reports (quarterly, semi-annual, annual)

• contribute to reporting to investors: Coordination of Financial reporting (quarterly Accounts for the fund and its subsidiaries, quarterly consolidation under IFRS);

• analysis of the Fund results

• Coordination and support to the activity of External Auditor, Statutory Auditors,
Internal Auditors and Local Risk Manager

• managing the data flow with the Tax Consultant

• coordination of the Fund Planning Budgeting process

Experience/Qualifications:

• 2/5 years experience in Investment Banking, Audit Firms or Corporate Finance consultancy services (ideally with real estate related experience)

• IT skills (Microsoft Office)

• Knowledge in Controlling and Accounting ideally within a real estate context

• Experience in real estate (players, products and markets) an advantage

• Fluency in English

• Strong cross-cultural management skills

• very good analytical skills

• good presentation skills

rigorous, assertive, self motivated and autonomous