ABOUT GREYSTAR

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. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, managing more than one million units/beds globally. Across its platforms, Greystar has over $79 billion of assets under management, including approximately $36 billion of development assets and over $30 billion of regulatory assets under management. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 to become a provider of world-class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more, visit www.greystar.com.

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

The role will be based in the Madrid office within the growing European Fund Finance Team. Whilst supporting the Fund Controller and Finance Director, the role has a broad range of responsibilities working on our growing funds platform, taking ownership of investment and fund accounting responsibilities, review of financial reporting information, co-ordination of teams, investor reporting, cash & liquidity management and transactional support and entails working with various head office teams, external advisors, as well as partnering with key stakeholders across the business.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Key Role Responsibilities

• Review and oversight of financial reporting information produced by internal finance teams and external service providers.
• Coordination of the quarterly consolidation process including gathering of financial data from the finance teams throughout Europe and the relevant service providers / administrators.
• Supporting/advising internal finance teams in application of accounting standards and onboarding of financial information.
• Review of month-end and quarter-end reporting packs and year-end reporting activities for entities within the fund structures, including reports and supporting schedules for all balance sheet line items and commentary on profit and loss line items.
• Input on transactional workstreams and preparation of deal closing files as a result of new acquisitions.
• Cash & liquidity management, including monitoring of i) cash held across the structure ii) sources and uses on deals and iii) of pursuit budgets.
• Preparation and management of quarterly or ad hoc intra-group distribution and capital call waterfalls.
• Oversight / review of the preparation of investor capital calls and distributions, liaising with Portfolio Management, Investor Relations, Operational and Corporate Accounting and Administrators as required.
• Assistance on quarterly lender reporting including cash waterfalls, compliance certificates and covenant calculations.
• Review of subsidiary audited and unaudited financial statements and supporting schedules.
• VAT returns support preparation and coordination of teams to make required filings.
• Assist administrators with information required for the preparation of annual statutory accounts.
• Co-ordinating deliverables for year-end audit process & management of the audit timeline and progress, liaising with the auditors to manage queries & requests.
• Oversight of the preparation of annual tax filings, coordinating the information to be provided by the fund administrator.
• Knowledge of structure agreements, including lender requirements, investor requirements and external reporting requirements.
• Review of investment level management fees.

Role Scope

• Assist the Finance Director with the management of investment accounting across the entities of the Fund.
• Role will be based the Madrid office

Knowledge & Qualifications

• Excellent written and numerical skills.
• ACA qualified accountant (or equivalent) with post qualified industry experience.
• Thorough understanding of accounting policies and procedures.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Experience with Yardi (preferred).

Experience & Skills

• Sound knowledge of Accounting GAAPs, IFRS and Audit.
• Debt compliance and investor reporting experience.
• Good communicator with the ability to interpret and explain complex financial data.
• 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.
• Experience working within the Real Estate sector.
• Experience working with off-shore real estate structures.
• Experience in acquisition accounting, including financial due diligence.

Important Notice: Greystar will never request your banking details or other sensitive personal information during the interview process. Greystar does not conduct any interviews via text or messaging, and all communication will come from official Greystar email addresses (@greystar.com). If you receive suspicious requests, please report them immediately to AskHR@greystar.com.