Financial Controller Milano

Financial Controller
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Financial Controller** **(**220001X4**)

**PRIMARY LOCATION**: ITALY-ITALY-MILAN

**ORGANIZATION**: AXAIM Alts - Real Assets

**CONTRACT TYPE**: Regular

**SHIFT**: Day Job

SCHEDULE**: Full-time

**DESCRIPTION

**Job Purpose

The Financial Controller will be primarily responsible for managing financial, tax, reporting and governance aspects of the investments in scope, providing an active contribution, concerning the financial aspects, in the investment/divestment phase, financing/hedging and structuring of the investments.

The Financial Controller would co-ordinate the production of Investor and regulatory reporting and support the monitoring of investment performance, working closely with Fund Management and Asset Management teams.

The role will involve liaising with parties both within and outside the organization and requires an individual who has strong communication and presentation skills.

This position requires someone who is proactive, can take the initiative and has strong communication skills.

**Key Accountabilities

- Ensure accuracy, completeness and timeliness of productions of external service providers (Corporate Managers, Corporate secretary, Property Managers and Tax Advisors)

- Preparation and coordination of quarterly reporting closing and fund reporting including investor and regulatory reports (annual, semi-annual, quarterly or monthly reporting, incl.

regulatory reporting) and ad-hoc external and internal reports (i. e.

Management Board or Supervisory Board)

- Managing all the accounting, reporting, financial, tax aspects and governance aspects of all the investment vehicles in scope (Regulated and not Regulated - typically Funds, Sicafs, SPVs)

- Coordination of the providers (corporate manager and tax advisor, property manager, auditors, corporate secretary, banks, depo banks, legal, compliance and risk manager)

- Coordination of budgeting process

- Monitor performance (variance actual vs budget, asset performance, capex monitoring, rent arrears etc.

)

- Contribution in acquisition/disposal, financing/hedging and structuring of investments

- Contribution in transversal projects if requested and perform other tasks and projects as assigned from time to time

**QUALIFICATIONS

**Role Requirements**:

- Education/Qualifications- Engineer or business school degree with specialization or master in Finance

- Experience_

- 2/3 years' experience in audit, financial control

- Experience in Real Estate, Asset Management is desirable

- Knowledge and Skills_

- Knowledge in financial engineering, corporate legal and accounting ideally within a real estate context

- IT skills (cash flow analysis and forecast)

- Fluent in English

- Competencies_

- Strong cross-cultural management skills

- Strong negotiation skills

- Very good analytical skills

- Good presentation skills

- Rigorous, self-motivated and autonomous

- Team player

- Proactive, enthusiastic and result oriented

**ABOUT AXA

Would you like to wake up every day driven and inspired by our noble mission and to work together as one global team to empower people to live a better life?

Here at AXA we strive to lead the transformation of our industry.

We are looking for talented individuals who come from varied backgrounds, think differently and want to be part of this exciting transformation by challenging the status quo so we can push AXA - a leading global brand and one of the most innovative companies in our industry - onto even greater things.

In a fast-evolving world and with a presence in 64 countries, our 166, 000 employees and exclusive distributors anticipate change to offer services and solutions tailored to the current and future needs of our 103 million customers.

We are an active, long-term, global, multi-asset investor focused on enabling more people to harness the power of investing to meet their financial goals.

By combining investment insight and innovation with robust risk management we have become one of the largest asset managers in Europe, managing €746bn in assets as of the end of 2017.

We employ about 2, 400 people around the world and operate out of 21 countries.

**WHAT WE OFFER

We are proud to foster a high-performance culture, which means that we seek to recruit and retain people who are not only technically-skilled but also globally-minded, innovative and able to leverage their unique perspectives and life experiences to support our success as a company.

AXA IM is committed to building an inclusive culture, valuing diversity and supporting the career progression of all employees.