Transaction Advisory Manager | Asset Management Finance - Macquarie Group

Our Transaction Management Control team serves as a pivotal accounting advisory and financial control function, offering essential finance support for acquisitions, ongoing management, and disposals of investments within Macquarie Asset Management. We are dedicated to ensuring the financial integrity of Macquarie Asset Management EMEA's balance sheet, guiding the business through the complexities of accounting standards to meet commercial timelines and optimise outcomes.

In this role, you will become an indispensable partner to the Macquarie Asset Management EMEA business, providing expert advice on all aspects of finance and accounting for your business line. You will evaluate and advise on accounting and financial control consequences for new products and complex transactions, using both your technical accounting expertise and financial controllership skills to support the approval process of new transactions from a finance perspective. The opportunity involves becoming a key Finance contact/business partner, collaborating with other parts of the Financial Management Group to provide an excellent end-to-end finance service to Macquarie Asset Management.

You will have financial controllership responsibility of Macquarie Asset Management EMEA's balance sheet and P&L, providing support to offshore finance teams with core accounting processes such as month-end close and audits. Using your strong communication skills, you will regularly translate complex accounting topics to non-accountant stakeholders.

What you offer:

• A solid foundation in accounting, experience with IFRS, AASB, or FRS, particularly with IFRS 10, IFRS 9, and IAS 28.
• Preference for candidates possessing experience in a chartered or commercial setting, ideally within the financial services sector.
• A proactive approach to problem-solving, with the ability to independently identify and address issues, manage to timelines, and demonstrating strong initiative and commitment to achieving efficient outcomes.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of effectively engaging with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership and global finance teams.
• Strong organisational skills, with the capacity to manage multiple priorities and deadlines, ensuring high-quality outputs and adherence to strategic objectives.
• A university degree, coupled with formal accounting qualification (ACA or equivalent), and 2-5 years of post-qualification experience.

We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us. If you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie, we encourage you to apply.

About the Financial Management Group:

In our Financial Management Group, you will work in the financial hub of Macquarie, driving real change for our businesses. You will be part of a team that plays an important role building relationships with our regulators, partners, communities, and shareholders - all of which play a key role in upholding Macquarie's brand.

Benefits:

• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements.
• One wellbeing leave day per year and minimum 25 days of annual leave.
• Primary carers are eligible for minimum 20 weeks paid leave and minimum 6 weeks for secondary carer.
• Paid volunteer leave and donation matching.
• Range of benefits to support your physical, psychological, and financial wellbeing.
• Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioral health network with counseling and coaching services.
• Recognition and service awards.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion:

We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. As an inclusive employer, Macquarie does not discriminate on the grounds of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, race (including color and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief.

A career at Macquarie means you’ll have the opportunity to develop and utilise new skills, explore interesting fields and do challenging work that will impact the lives of people around the world—whether it’s accelerating the green energy transition, helping sustain global food supplies, financing social housing projects or investing in essential infrastructure. At Macquarie, we’re empowering people to innovate and invest for a better future.

Our size and international presence means your work can take you anywhere—across business groups, disciplines, sectors, and borders. With employees and offices in 31 markets around the world, we’re a truly global organisation. You’ll be supported by a diverse team where the unique perspectives, ideas, and experiences that all of our people bring are valued. You’ll be empowered to address unmet needs in our communities whilst advising and investing alongside our clients and partners. Working with us, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference.

Macquarie is a global financial group providing clients with asset management, retail and business banking, wealth management, leasing and asset financing, market access, commodity trading, renewables development, specialist advisory, capital raising, and principal investment.