Finance Associate

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**Luxembourg**

Starwood Capital Group is a private investment firm with over $120 billion in assets under management and a primary focus on real estate. The Firm maintains offices in Miami (Headquarters), Arlington, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Greenwich, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, London, Sydney and Luxembourg. Starwood Capital’s hallmark is to invest opportunistically, moving between asset classes, geographies and positions in the capital stack as the firm perceives risk/return dynamics to be evolving. The firm has invested in nearly every class of real estate on a global basis, including residential, hotel, office, retail, industrial and student housing assets.

Starwood Capital Group’s affiliated Luxembourg office serves as the management, pooling and investment platform for the European investments of the Firm’s opportunistic real estate funds. The office has overseen more than 50 Starwood Capital fund investments since 2002, representing underlying assets in locations including the U.K., Spain, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as Luxembourg.

Starwood Capital’s Luxembourg team comprises more than 35 experienced investment and administrative professionals with a deep knowledge of Luxembourg and European real estate-related business practices and regulations. The team reviews investment recommendations and monitors, manages and coordinates the acquisition, asset management and disposition of Starwood Capital funds’ European investments. These professionals ensure active and efficient involvement in the development of underlying assets and their ongoing operations. In addition, the office supervises the administration, tax, compliance, accounting and treasury functions associated with local-country real estate investments.

**Position Description**:
Working with a variety of internal stakeholders (including Luxembourg legal and tax teams, UK Asset managers and US accounting teams) and reporting into a Senior Finance Associate, Finance Associates are responsible for the following tasks:

- Management of accounts payable (AP) - including:

- Invoice approval coordination
- Handling bookkeeping of AP
- Processing payments and preparing bank transfers
- Following up on bank accounts and contacts with the bank
- Bank reconciliations
- Prepare consolidation reports
- Cash analysis report preparation
- Day-to-day bookkeeping including but not limited to
- Prepaid, Accruals
- Payroll related entries (recharges)
- Updating loan cards & preparing interest calculations
- Assist to ensure the proper review of external (including foreign) reporting packs and the upload in Yardi
- Preparing financial statements for Holdings companies under supervision of the Senior Finance Associate, including GAAP conversion where applicable
- Preparation of annual impairment analysis’ for Property and Holding companies
- General company administration including eCDF, eRCS filings and VAT returns.
- Daily communication and interaction with both internal (tax, legal, treasury) and external parties (service providers, auditors, tax advisors)
- Various administrative tasks
- Participating in financial projects as required
- Other additional responsibilities as delegated by the Director of Financial Control or Senior Accountants

**Profile***:

- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and/or relevant accounting experience
- ACCA or equivalent certification would be appreciated (we will support continuation of studies if part-qualified)
- Accounting work experience gained in private equity, real estate, domiciliation company or “big four” desirable
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English (French or German would be an asset, but not essential)
- Proficient in the use of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint Outlook)
- Strong motivation to work in a challenging and dynamic environment
- Methodical and detail orientated
- Flexibility, proactivity and a “can do” attitude
- Good analytical, organizational & prioritization skills
- Ability to work to tight deadlines under pressure, while maintaining close attention to detail
- Knowledge of Yardi 7S and/or BOB 50 Expert is an advantage