Staff Accountant - Real Estate Fund Services

Reports to Financial Reporting Manager

This highly numerical position will be working with a newly established team in our US office, who service Real Estate mid-market and institutional clients.

This is an exciting opportunity for the candidate to make a significant impact to our growing US business.

Key responsibilities:

• Assist with all aspects of accounting matters for a portfolio of Real Estate Funds and SPVs, which includes responding to ad-hoc investor and client requests.
• Preparation of statutory annual accounts in accordance with US GAAP.
• Experience with liaising with auditors and ability to explain the accounting of items that the individual is responsible for.
• Preparation of bookkeeping, financial reporting/consolidations, investor reporting.

Skills, knowledge, expertise:

• Bachelor or MBA in Accounting or Finance.
• Experience of using Yardi
• At least 2 years previous experience in Fund Accounting, ideally in the Real Estate sector.
• Sound technical knowledge of US GAAP and reporting required for the Real Estate sector
• Computer literacy, word processing and spread sheet skills are essential
• Collaboration and teamwork skills

We will provide training to enhance your professional development (either in-house through the Aztec Academy, or externally through the use of accounting, legal and tax experts). You will need to be quick to learn new systems and great with people, as close working relationships between our colleagues and clients is at the heart of what we do.