Financial Controller

**Financial Controller - Private Debt - Corporate**

Paris, France

Permanent Contract

At AXA IM our purpose, to act for human progress by investing for what matters, is central to every action we take as a business. As a responsible asset manager, we actively invest for the long-term to help our clients, our people and the world to prosper.

As a future Financial Controller, you will report to the Head of FMCG Private Debt, and you will be part of AXA IM Alts - Real Estate.

**AXA Investment Managers** (AXA IM) is a multi-expert asset management company within the AXA Group, a global leader in financial protection and wealth management. AXA IM is one of the largest European-based asset managers with approximately €830bn in assets under management as of the end of September 2020. AXA IM employs 750+ investment professionals around the world and operates out of 15 investment centers.

Given its growth prospects, the Commercial Real Estate & Infrastructure Fund Management Controlling Group team of **AXA IM - Real Assets** is looking for Financial Controller - Corporate to join either its London or Paris office. We are looking for a dynamic, rigorous, motivated team-player with previous experience in real estate, debt or in finance to be part of our expanding team.

The role will focus on the Corporate Management of investment structures in Europe across different real estate asset classes, geographies and risk profile.

He/She will be part of a team of more than 10 professionnals interacting with the Fund Management team and other internal teams (client relationships and risk teams) and third parties (banks, borrowers, facility agents, legal advisors, accountants, auditors, etc).

**About AXA**

Would you like to wake up every day driven and inspired by our noble mission and to work together as one global team to empower people to live a better life? Here at AXA we strive to lead the transformation of our industry. We are looking for talented individuals who come from varied backgrounds, think differently and want to be part of this exciting transformation by challenging the status quo so we can push AXA - a leading global brand and one of the most innovative companies in our industry - onto even greater things.

In a fast-evolving world and with a presence in 64 countries, our 166,000 employees and exclusive distributors anticipate change to offer services and solutions tailored to the current and future needs of our 103 million customers.

**What we offer**

We are proud to foster a high-performance culture, which means that we seek to recruit and retain people who are not only technically-skilled but also globally-minded, innovative and able to leverage their unique perspectives and life experiences to support our success as a company. AXA IM is committed to building an inclusive culture, valuing diversity and supporting the career progression of all employees.

**DISCOVER your opportunity**

Corporate Management : You will be involved in the daily management of the debt funds, in collaboration with our fund management team. The main tasks include monitoring of the financial performance of the debt funds (IRR and Dividend Yield Calculation), Cash Flows, preparing investors’ reports, managing our FX hedging exposures and overseeing the fund distributions (dividends and capital upstreams) and capital calls.

Your role and responsibilities will include (but are not limited to)
- Supervision and monitoring of investment vehicles and separate accounts for his/her business area
- Management of the investment structure including notably cash management, maintenance of the tax structure and compliance with tax and legal obligations ;
- Responsibility of preparation of cash forecasts, capital calls and cash upstreams ;
- Derivatives (rools, CCS, collateral, hedging ratios) ;
- Compliance with fund / mandate documentation (incl. Guidelines checks) ;
- Fund performance monitoring (IRR, waterfall calculations).
- Reportings : reconciliation of dashboards (position, transaction, etc. in collaboration with service providers) and follow up of specific requests from clients,
- Reconciliation of financial information (Simcorp Dimension) as to ensure the quality of the internally and externally shared data,
- Audits/Service providers : Review and validation of partnership accounting, partner’s capital statements and Lux GAAP/IFRS financial statements, Service Review (TA, Domiciliary,etc.),
- Adhoc/transversal projects : Working on recurrent analysis and ad-hoc queries with other departments among the firm (Client Servicing, Compliance, Legal, Treasury, etc.), FMCG Private Debt processes reviews and upgrades.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

**SHARE your unique expertise**

We welcome different combinations of skills & experiences.

Your qualifications and experience
- Business schools, engineering schools or universities.
- Previous experiences (at least 5 years) in a financial institution will be appreciated (asset management company