London - Real Estate Fund Accountant
My client is a well-respected Real Estate Investment Fund with offices based in Soho, Central London. They are looking for a Real Estate Fund Accountant to come on-board ASAP for an initial 12-month fixed term contract. All going well, there would be capacity to extend beyond this point into a permanent role.
Main duties would include but are not limited to:
- Production of financial statements and quarterly reports
- Distribution/drawdown notices
- Priority Profit Share calculations
- Cash flow management for funds
- Full management of the fund/group audit process
- Responding to Investor queries
- Assisting Corporate finance/investment professionals/Luxembourg in tax structuring during the acquisition process
- Assisting Asset Managers during the Investment Hold phase and sale process
- Assisting in legal documentation required for completing investments
- Assisting/managing due diligence costs
- UK/US tax processes
The successful candidate would be ACA/ACCA qualified or equivalent with at least 1 years post qualified experience with Fund Accounting withing Real Estate (ideally this would be 2+). This could come from working in-house at a Real Estate Fund or from having RE clients in a practice or Fund Administration environment.
Strong IFRS knowledge and understanding of other European GAAP standards would be a distinct advantage.
In return, you would be working in a collegiate and friendly environment with a solid team with low turnover. You would also be working on a hybrid basis of 3-4 days in the office and at-least one day from home (more likely two).
Please note, due to the urgent nature of this role, candidates on longer than 6 weeks' notice period cannot be considered for this role.
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