Senior Finance Manager

**JOB TITLE**

Senior Manager, Finance

Our client develops and invests in high-quality real estate properties, projects and companies that are shaping the urban fabric in dynamic cities around the world. It does so responsibly, with a view to generate long-term performance.

They invest internationally alongside strategic partners and major real estate funds that are leaders in their markets. Through subsidiaries and partnerships, the Company holds interests in more than 1,100 buildings, primarily in the industrial and logistics, office, residential and retail sectors. They have circa $70 billion in real estate assets worldwide.

**Department**: Finance

**Position type**: Salaried

Specific accountabilities

Based out of our Singapore office, you will be part of a dynamic, fast-growing, and high-performance team. You will work closely with the Senior Director, Finance, and the rest of the team to implement and execute the company’s financial strategies in the region, both within existing partnerships and through the creation of new ones. In this role, you will be responsible for the quarterly and annual financial information of existing investments, the activities associated with capital transactions as well as overseeing the calculation of total real estate returns for the business unit. You will be expected to liaise with external partners, managers, and other stakeholders on a regular basis. Main responsibilities will include:

- Review monthly, quarterly, and annually financial statement package provided by the Managers and ensure timely submission to Group Corporate Accounting, respond within a reasonable timeframe to ad-hoc queries.
- Perform quarterly actual versus budget variance analysis on NOI and Capex for existing investments and review the quarterly reforecast.
- Work with partners and Asset Managers to analyze the financial performance in the annual budget and business plan for the existing investments.
- Contribute to reviewing financial information and resolutions generated for acquisition transactions and ensure the proper accounting of designated real estate investments.
- Review the financial information for disposition transactions, evaluate gain and loss on disposition and work with Group Transaction Accounting on accounting treatment of the relevant dispositions.
- Work with partners on Group’s reporting requirement and co-ordinate initial accounting for new investments.
- Review funding requirement for new investment and subsisting investment, create cash call transaction in OLAF and co-ordinate Group’s internal funding process.
- Review cash flow forecast of the existing investments and ensure timely submission to Group Treasury, respond within a reasonable timeframe to ad-hoc queries.
- Work with partners and Asset Managers to review external debt financing proposal, draft debt approval memo for the review of Corporate Financing and co-ordinate internal debt approval process.
- Update financing dashboard and review compliance with LTV, Debt service coverage ratio and other covenants included in borrowing covenants, ensure timely submission to Group Financing Team, respond within a reasonable timeframe to ad-hoc queries.
- Other duties as assigned.

Key requirements
- Minimum of ten years of relevant accounting experience in positions of increasing responsibility.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, ideally with CPA designation or similar.
- In-depth knowledge of international accounting standards.
- Excellent knowledge of the accounting aspects related to transactional accounting and consolidation.
- Big-four accounting firm or real estate investment experience would be a plus.
- Strong communication, teamwork and collaboration skills. Ability to establish productive working relationships with people at all levels of the organization as well as with external partners.
- Strong leadership skills and ability to influence others.
- Ability to work flexible hours, and able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Confidently innovative; creative and comfortable in challenging the status quo.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including advanced knowledge of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Knowledge of accounting ERP and consolidation system, an asset.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.