Senior Accountant, Fund Finance

About the role

ESRESR is an Asia-Pacific real asset owner and manager focused on logistics real estate, data centres and energy infrastructure. The Senior Accountant, Fund Finance supports the management of multiple private equity funds in terms of financial management, reporting, operations, compliance, budgeting and forecasting, and also supports senior management, investment professionals and the transaction team on fund raising, investor relations, fund set-ups, deal structuring, acquisitions and dispositions.

Key responsibilities

• Accounting and reporting: support day-to-day accounting, monthly/quarterly/yearly closing and consolidations, and prepare financial, management, capital account, net asset value and investor reports for the funds and their entities
• Calculate management fees, performance fees and carried interests; review vendor invoices and payments
• Capital and treasury: support capital calls, distributions, investor allocations, cashflow and liquidity forecasts, fund transfers, equity tracking and bank account management
• Process improvements: map finance processes, standardise SOPs and templates, improve data quality and governance, and track improvement outcomes
• System implementation: support migration from SAP to Yardi, and onboarding of a new accounting service BPO, including UAT, parallel runs and go-live support
• Investor relations: respond to investor requests and due diligence questionnaires, coordinating with legal, compliance, company secretary, tax and external advisors
• Business partner: support financial and tax due diligence, completion accounts and capitalisation structures

Required profile

• Qualified accountant (CA/CPA/ACCA) with at least 4 years of experience in private equity fund accounting, logistics real estate, data centres, infrastructure and one of the Big Four audit firms
• Strong understanding of IFRS, SFRS(I), financial regulations and compliance
• Ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines and to work with third-party fund administrators and fund accountants
• Leadership and mentoring ability, strong analytical and communication skills

Required skills

• Advanced proficiency in Excel
• IFRS and SFRS(I)