You must have deep financial accounting knowledge, be a qualified or part-qualified accountant, with experience in real estate operations or audit of real estate funds. Familiarity with IFRS and various private markets fund wrappers is essential.

You will build relationships with stakeholders, prepare regulatory reporting, assist with audit support, manage cash movement, and support acquisitions/disposals for real estate funds at abrdn.

Banking & Finance

Germany

Frankfurt

Large

At abrdn, we empower our clients to plan, save and invest for their futures. We structure our business into three areas – and together they reflect our focus on enabling our clients to be better investors:Investments: We work with clients to create solutions across markets, asset classes and investment strategies – combining our global network of investment professionals with research, data and technology. Adviser: We offer market-leading platform technology and tools that enable UK wealth managers and financial advisers to look after the diverse needs of their clients. Personal: We help people throughout the UK plan for their financial futures – through our financial planning business, our digital direct-to-consumer services and discretionary fund management services. Through the expertise, insight and innovation of our team, we aim to help clients create more ways for money to make an impact. We set our sights on giving them more confidence to achieve their goals, and more clarity about what they need next. And we focus on delivering outcomes that are more than just financial – by investing sustainably to build a better world. We’re a global business. We manage and administer £532 billion of assets for our clients, and we have over 1 million shareholders. (Figures as at 30 June 2021)Capital at Risk.

Finance

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Job Description:<ul><li>At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors.</li><li>Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help empower them to make better decisions, while the powerful partnerships we build help to enhance the expertise that we offer. And by enabling clients to invest responsibly, it helps us to build a better world.</li></ul>About the department:<ul><li>Global Private Markets Operations is a specialist operational partner providing expertise and support to the Private Markets’ asset classes and Investment teams whilst leveraging a number of services from the rest of Operations.</li><li>Global Private Markets Operations supports all alternative and real estate asset classes whilst recognising the differences in execution and specialism across different asset classes, clients, geographies and systems. We also support emerging new asset classes and new products combining different Private Markets and/or traditional asset classes. By bringing these and related activities together, we work together on common initiatives enabling us to become more scalable, efficient and consistent globally.</li></ul>About the role:<ul><li>Based in Frankfurt, as the Assistant Fund Controller you will get the opportunity to work on complex direct real Estate funds in Europe containing multi layered corporate structures (consolidated), bank debt, tax and foreign currency translation.</li><li>You will get the opportunity as the Assistant Fund Controller to be responsible for performing analysis on a portfolio of funds and their investments, cash flow and bank debt and using the output from this analysis and from the financial models to populate a variety of client reports both bespoke and regulatory in nature.</li></ul>Key Responsibilities:<ul><li>Ensure excellent service delivery and build strong trusted relationships with key stakeholders working collaboratively across a variety of functions (Operations, Investments, Structuring and Tax);</li><li>Assisting with the preparation of bespoke and regulatory reporting for clients within tight deadlines and to a high standard of quality;</li><li>Audit support for consolidated Fund accounts;</li><li>Responsibility for investment country specific topics as review of reporting packages, local audit support, bank account maintenance;</li><li>Assist in acquisitions and disposals of SPV/Real Estate;</li><li>Cash Management - assist with the effective management and movement of cash around Fund corporate structures in timely and accurate manner;</li></ul>About the candidate requirements:<ul><li>Comprehensive knowledge of financial accounting applied in a commercial context;</li><li>University degree and/or Qualified or part qualified accountant, profound understanding of accounting;</li><li>Experience of working in real estate operations or audit of real estate funds/SPV´s;</li><li>Working knowledge of IFRS preferable;</li><li>Experience of working with different types of private markets fund wrappers e.g. Luxembourg RAIFs, Limited Partnerships, investment trusts etc.</li></ul>

Job Description:At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors.Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help empower them to make better decisions, while the powerful partnerships we build help to enhance the expertise that we offer. And by enabling clients to invest responsibly, it helps us to build a better world.About the department:Global Private Markets Operations is a specialist operational partner providing expertise and support to the Private Markets’ asset classes and Investment teams whilst leveraging a number of services from the rest of Operations.Global Private Markets Operations supports all alternative and real estate asset classes whilst recognising the differences in execution and specialism across different asset classes, clients, geographies and systems. We also support emerging new asset classes and new products combining different Private Markets and/or traditional asset classes. By bringing these and related activities together, we work together on common initiatives enabling us to become more scalable, efficient and consistent globally.About the role:Based in Frankfurt, as the Assistant Fund Controller you will get the opportunity to work on complex direct real Estate funds in Europe containing multi layered corporate structures (consolidated), bank debt, tax and foreign currency translation.You will get the opportunity as the Assistant Fund Controller to be responsible for performing analysis on a portfolio of funds and their investments, cash flow and bank debt and using the output from this analysis and from the financial models to populate a variety of client reports both bespoke and regulatory in nature.Key Responsibilities:Ensure excellent service delivery and build strong trusted relationships with key stakeholders working collaboratively across a variety of functions (Operations, Investments, Structuring and Tax);Assisting with the preparation of bespoke and regulatory reporting for clients within tight deadlines and to a high standard of quality;Audit support for consolidated Fund accounts;Responsibility for investment country specific topics as review of reporting packages, local audit support, bank account maintenance;Assist in acquisitions and disposals of SPV/Real Estate;Cash Management - assist with the effective management and movement of cash around Fund corporate structures in timely and accurate manner;About the candidate requirements:Comprehensive knowledge of financial accounting applied in a commercial context;University degree and/or Qualified or part qualified accountant, profound understanding of accounting;Experience of working in real estate operations or audit of real estate funds/SPV´s;Working knowledge of IFRS preferable;Experience of working with different types of private markets fund wrappers e.g. Luxembourg RAIFs, Limited Partnerships, investment trusts etc.

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