Fund Analyst

Fund Analyst

Goodman

Vilvoorde, Belgium

The role will entail a steep learning curve and involve all aspects of the Partnership, including asset management oversight, financial analysis and reporting. The role will also include closely involvement in capital transactions, including equity raises and bond issuances, and property acquisitions and disposals. There will be regular interaction with other offices and departments throughout Europe and with the Goodman Sydney head office.

More concretely, this means you will get the opportunity to:

• Drive the financial forecast models in order to ensure accurate and timely forecasting of the Partnership’s property income, Partnership’s level earnings, distributions, return metrics (as applied in Business Plan, Reforecasts, equity raises and debt issuances);
• Drive the Capital Management Plan to ensure accurate medium/long term cash flow projections and capital drawdown timings, liaise with treasury to maintain accurate short term cash flow forecasting;
• Maintain the Covenant Testing Model in order to meet the reporting deadlines as set out by the debt agreements (including public bonds); Monitoring headroom and risk analysis;
• Compile and verify data for Quarterly reports;
• Address Investor specific queries through ad-hoc analysis;
• Assist and guide the property analyst with property level forecasting;
• Assist in analysis with regards to property transactions (acquisitions and disposals) and financial projects (equity raisings, debt structuring) in the Partnership;
• Assist with the writing of the annual Business Plan and Quarterly Reforecasts;
• Assist in the preparation of presentations, including investor presentations, market presentations, etc.

Do you recognize yourself?

The ideal candidate will have a finance or engineering degree with a broad interest ranging from corporate finance to property management, and will have the following qualifications:

• Eager to learn and apply, and take on increasingly more responsibility;
• Strong arithmetic/analytical skills (Advanced excel skills and willingness to become proficient in VBA are a must);
• Good understanding of corporate finance;
• Understanding of real estate is a plus;
• Prior financial analytics/accounting experience is an asset;
• Excellent written and spoken knowledge of English.

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