Senior Accountant, Investment

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate platform offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates over $300 billion of real estate in over 260 markets globally with offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and the Asia-Pacific region.

The role will be based in London / The Netherlands within the growing European Investment Finance Team, with significant scope for development and role expansion in the future. Whilst supporting the Finance director, the role has a broad range of responsibilities working on our flagship European closed-ended fund series and future potential funds. The role supports fund level decision making through detailed cash flow analysis, forecasting, scenario modelling, and performance analytics for closed ended real estate funds and related investment structures.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Cash & liquidity management, including monitoring of cash held across the fund structures, sources and uses monitoring on deals and monitoring of pursuit budgets, liaising with various deal team leads to prepare forecasts.
• Preparation of forecasts due to investors.
• Preparation of quarterly or ad hoc intra-group distribution and capital call waterfalls, including monitoring of cash balances and knowledge of capital expenditure budgets.
• Assisting with the investor capital call and distribution processes prepared by the fund administrators, liaising with Portfolio Management, Investor Relations, Operational and Corporate Accounting and Administrators as required.
• Monitoring of upcoming deals including planning for liquidity needs, liaising with deal leads to understand and document timing for upcoming funding commitments.
• Coordination of consolidation of fund level budget v actuals and relevant commentary, including preparations of presentation material.
• Assist with managing the capital commitment facility, including liaising with provider, provision of borrowing base certificates, monitoring of loan expiries, and ownership of the subline model, forecasting out expected deal amounts, timing and providing recommendations to the portfolio management team on approach to expiring loans and frequency of drawdowns for development projects.
• Presentation to the portfolio management teams on liquidity planning and financial forecasts.
• Input into deal closing files prepared by the finance managers, as a result of new acquisitions.
• Assist in provision of information to external auditors.
• Preparation of investment level management fees and rebates, including forecasts.
• Assist with annual budgeting and re-forecasting for investment entities.
• Preparation of ad-hoc files for investor due diligence requirements.
• Monitoring of covenants linked to mortgages throughout the structure & assist with lender reporting requirements / compliance certificates and covenant calculations where required.
• Preparation and presentation of covenant forecasts with input from finance and asset management teams.
• Assist with the investor reporting process, providing financial tables and charts and consolidated budget variance analysis commentary.
• Knowledge of structure agreements, including lender requirements, investor requirements and external reporting requirements.
• Provision of information required for input in quarterly (internal) and annual (external) property valuations.
• Review of valuation output.
• Assist with regulatory reporting requirements.
• Assistance in preparing process notes / memo’s laying out procedures followed by finance & PM teams for audit, AIFM management and for internal teams.
• Assist with INREV reporting requirements.
• Provision of information on ad-hoc investor requests.
• Support Portfolio Management with financial inputs into models / presentation decks.
• Responsible for updating LoF model for actuals and working with PM teams to reforecast monthly.
• Preparation of fund performance metrics and management of returns calculations.
• Preparation and updating of fund carried interest calculation.
• Key business partner with deal teams, asset management teams and portfolio management teams.

Knowledge & Qualifications:

• Excellent written and numerical skills.
• ACA qualified accountant (or equivalent / similar transferrable qualification).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Experience & Skills:

• Confident in Excel with basic modelling skills.
• Good communicator with the ability to interpret and explain complex financial data.
• Knowledge of Accounting, IFRS and Audit.
• Debt compliance and investor reporting experience preferred.
• Positive “can do” attitude with desire to learn, train and develop in the role.
• Excellent attention to detail, methodical and takes pride in work.
• Self-starter who takes initiative to grow within the role.
• Strong time management skills to organize a multitude of concurrent tasks.

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