Senior Fund Controller recruitment

AEW Europe is a leading European real estate investment manager with 9 offices throughout Europe. In order to strengthen its team, AEW Europe is looking for a :

SENIOR FUND CONTROLLER

The position consists in ensuring the financial and administrative management of a real estate investment fund and includes the following tasks:

Business Plan

-Create and update it periodically

Cash Management

- Calculate and initiate capital calls to investors and bank drawdowns and monitor their implementation
- Ensure the cash returns to investors
- Manage the cash flows linked to external debt and intra group loans
- To effectively manage the cash-flows between the Fund and the different SPV

Debt Management

- Contribute to the negotiation and the management of financing and refinancing agreements
- Anticipate financial and legal constraints arising from the financing contracts

Production of Accounts

- Supervise the service providers for the accounting and validate the financial statements
- Organize the appointment of auditors and ensure the relationship with them (account reviews, ad hoc requests ...)
- Coordinate with the internal team for the production of consolidated accounts

Reporting

- Consolidate information from the Fund Manager, asset management and accounting providers to achieve timely and complete reporting to the attention of the investors of the Fund
- Answer investors’ requests
- Ensure the financial part of the reporting

Corporate and Tax

- Implement the restructuring of the Fund and its subsidiaries in coordination with legal and tax advisors (structuring acquisitions or divestitures, optimization of transactions, organizing and maintaining a flow optimal structure)
- Ensure compliance with tax and legal obligations in relation to the Legal Department, advisors and / or local providers
- Prepare presentations for shareholders’ meetings and investors’ committees in relation to the Legal Department and / or advisors and participate in meetings and committees in order to explain the financial matters
- Develop skills in corporate law and taxation both in Luxembourg and in the countries of intervention
 

Supporting role on transactions (acquisitions and disposals)

- Validate the Business Plans of acquisitions prepared by the Investments Department
- Set up the structure of acquisition, taking into account the financial, legal and tax constraints.
 

Structuring and organizing fund flows

- Establish "marketing" business plan of the Fund
- Contribute to marketing to potential investors, Questions / Answers on the business plan and financial performance
- Develop the structure of the Fund and manage the financial flows from companies owning real estate assets to Fund and investors
- Ensure the structuring task in coordination with the legal team group and the external legal and tax advisors

PROFILE

- 7-10 years minimum experience in the financial sector
- Good knowledge of real estate investment funds
- Strong accounting knowledge including financial modeling
- Interest in law and taxation
- Business School Degree or Masters in Finance
- Rigorous and flexible
- Fluent English French

Job based in Luxembourg.

Send application and CV to:

bernadette.servais@aeweurope.com