Finance Manager

Description:

This role will be working as part of the Real Assets Fund Finance Team and reporting to Candice Goodwin, Fund Finance Director, Real Assets. You will be working closely with the Aviva Investors Real Assets business, including Fund / Investment Managers, Tax and Performance and Analytics, as well as the firm’s key outsource partners’ including HSBC Security Services. You will act as a business partner to Fund Managers for new growth funds / transactions within the UK, supporting on their structuring and set-up as well as being an escalation point for all fund finance issues arising throughout the transactions. The Real Assets business invests and manages real estate, private debt (infrastructure debt, real estate debt, private corporate debt and structure finance) and infrastructure investments in the UK and Europe for a range of internal and external clients. Your key responsibilities will be to partner with the Fund Manager and tax team to provide new structure support and set up particularly on key growth funds within the UK and support with the selection, statement of work engagement, onboarding, and budgeting for third party administrators. Alongside this you will support the Fund Manager in providing liquidity analysis and cashflow forecasting.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:
 

• Experience in Real Assets Fund Control, Structuring, Financial Reporting and / or Administration
• Experience in common structures for investing in UK real assets, such as unit trusts (Jersey) and UK Limited Partnerships and securitisation vehicles
• Commercially focused finance professionally with an interest in real estate, funds, sustainability, and investment management
• Experience working through complex new fund launches and transactions (acquisitions, disposals, private debt)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to clearly articulate and assist with decision making.
  
   

What you’ll get for this role:
 

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in
• Eligibility for annual performance bonus
• Family friendly parental and carer’s leave
• Generous holiday entitlement plus bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
• Up to 40% discount for Aviva products
• Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars
• Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme
• 21 volunteering hours per year