Associate - Real Estate Fund Accounting

**Associate**
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**Real Estate**
**Fund Accounting**

**Johannesburg -**
**South Africa**

**Reporting**
The position reports to AVP - RE Fund Accounting

**About Apex**

The Apex Group is a global financial services provider with 11,000 staff across 50+ offices globally. We look to recruit bright, articulate and numerate employees who are not afraid of a challenge and are prepared to work hard and love what they do.

Every employee plays a part in making Apex who we are today and the more that we grow, the more important that becomes. Whatever your career path or specialism Apex provides a global platform to allow you to thrive.

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- Performs Fund Accounting/Property Accounting related activities of Real Estate Funds/Properties.
- Performs Net Assets Value calculations and Financials of the Real Estate Funds / Properties for verity of client needs as well as different fund structures.
- Perform Management Accounts and various client reporting that include booking journal entries/accruals/adjustments and various fund level fee calculations.
- Perform and sign off Interim/Annual NAV packs/Financials for Real Estate Funds/Properties including the consolidated accounts/financials for SPVs and Properties.
- Perform Fund/Property/Lease set-up, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable related activities in accounting platform (Yardi).
- Verifies complex fund transactions, audit comments within scheduled timeframes and resolves exceptions on a timely basis.
- Ensure that you comply with all controls, checklists and general company policies.
- Collection/verification of relevant information for Fund/Property/Lease set-up and to facilitate the Net Assets Value calculation and preparation of NAV pack.
- Prepare Cash/Position/Market Value/Inter-company Reconciliations.
- Ensure all scheduled work is completed by agreed deadlines and flag any service delivery issues to Management as early as possible.
- Identify and implement process improvement techniques to improve the process efficiency and team productivity.
- Support in migration of Real Estate Funds from onshore location independently and ensure SLA targets are met.
- Managing the client relationships for the Funds and individually handle the deliverable requirements on daily/weekly/monthly/Quarterly basis.
- Liaising with Onshore team, clients and Auditors on various requirements and ensure all supports are provided to the auditors to get the financials approved on the agreed timeline.
- Support operations on projects related to Automations / Work migrations / Conversions etc.

**Skills Required**:

- Experience working in Fund Accounting, Property Accounting, NAV calculation and Financial Statement preparation of Real Estate Funds.
- Experience in Transition of Real Estate Funds from onshore locations.
- Worked on on-boarding new clients and develop reporting templates for the clients
- Good Experience in handling the client relationships and should be good in written and oral communication.
- Good conceptual knowledge in accounting principles and financial statement preparation.
- Experience in handling audit requirements and ad hoc client requirements in Real Estate Fund accounting.
- Good experience working on Yardi Voyager, MS Office and Macro enabled workbooks.
- Relevant Experience - 0-4 years of experience preferably into Real Estate Fund Accounting and Property Accounting.
- Post graduate in Commerce, MBA Finance, CA/CMA/CFA

**What you will get in return**:

- A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business
- Exposure to all aspects of the business, cross-jurisdiction and to working with senior management directly

**Additional information**

We measure our success as a business, not only by delivering great products and services and continually increasing our assets under administration and market share, but also by how we positively impact people, society and the planet.