Finance Controller - Real Estate Investment

Our client is a professional services and investment management company specializing in real estate looking for a candidate who can handle the following responsibilities:

- Leading the Finance & Accounts Dept., Direct and Indirect Taxation, Treasury, Audit, Legal & Secretarial, IT function from the stage of planning, directing & controlling standpoint.

- Budgetary control on various fund on the basis of each fund and MIS for the same.

- Finalization of Financial Results & Accounts and coordination with Statutory Auditors, Tax and Internal Auditors.

- Control over all legal issues/ cases of the Company under FEMA, RBI, Excise, and Income Tax. Checking / scrutiny of all contracts of new area/ major work before entering.

- Submission of data and arrangement for filing of various returns to ROC, SEBI, RBI & Trustee & Stock Exchanges for REIT. Responsible for all legal compliances including Corporate Governance & REIT Listing Agreement.

- Planning and coordination in between fund & Departmental Heads and review/ guide the performance of the fund.

- Facilitating Statutory & Internal Audit, Fine Tuning Processes, Implementation of SOPs & standardization of accounting practices, Presentation of accounts (IFRS (Futuristic) /IGAAP) & Corporate Financial Management reporting. Ensuring all statutory compliances. Transaction closure with VAT, Service Tax, MAT scenarios.

- Working with the Investment Advisory team assisting them in structuring funds, developing financial models for various fund proposals /investment opportunities. Analysis of costs for construction of commercial assets, identifying areas of Improvement.

- Conducting functional process reviews, Review covers deploying strategies for improving top line with an eye on bottom line. Ensuring compliances for these transactions.

- Fixation of legal contractual terms for crystallized proposals in coordination with legal dept.

- Monitoring of actual against budget and corrective measure for deviations, revision of budget estimates/benchmarks.

- Financial vetting of third party contracts.

- Developing periodic strategy based on threshold fund returns & in consideration of fundcost escalations.

- Monitoring of fund IRRs : Actual Vs Business Plan.

- Maintenance of Accounts in TALLY, filing periodic audited results with authorities.

- Working Capital Management : Treasury & Banking.

- Preparing and submitting the quarterly financials.

- Deposition of Tax and filing of Returns on timely basis for Advance Tax/TDS/Service Tax including the reverse charges.

- New Companies Law- Filing of Various Returns and forms on regular basis.

- Compliance with FEMA requirement for Foreign Direct Investment.

- Liaison with the respective Departmental Authorities for the purpose of responding to notices, assessments or any other routine correspondence etc; managing tax litigation and making sure that the company defends its positions appropriately.

- Keeping abreast of the recent developments in law and updating the team on amendments which will impact business.

- Liaison with the internal business teams to ensure that data required for statutory requirements is being captured accurately in the documentations.

- The incumbent may also be required to travel on account of any of the foregoing profile requirements.

About the company:

Our client is a professional services and investment management company specializing in real estate. Global headquarters are located in Chicago, with an operational remit covering the Americas regional market. Sub-headquarters operate in London (covering the Europe, the Middle East and Africa regional market) and Singapore (covering the Asia Pacific regional market).

The company has about 53,000 employees including professional and support staff. It has over 200 offices worldwide in 75 countries. Global revenue in 2014 was $4 billion and the firm has a portfolio of 3.0 billion square feet under management.