Business – Real Assets
Our client's Real Assets division is one of the company’s core operating platforms. The group is a major global investor with a diversified portfolio spanning commercial buildings, residential assets, logistics facilities, hospitality, and other alternative real-asset classes across multiple regions.
Role Overview
Our cilent is looking for a proactive and analytical Transaction Execution Manager to join the European real-assets team. Reporting to a senior finance leader, the successful candidate will be responsible for managing the full life cycle of real-estate and corporate transactions. This includes coordinating deal workstreams, overseeing financial due diligence, managing completion mechanics and funds-flow processes, and ensuring smooth communication between internal teams and external advisors.
This role also supports treasury-related activities such as deal funding and foreign-exchange considerations, and contributes to capital-markets workstreams, including preparing financial inputs for offering documents and bond-related disclosures. This position requires strong technical skills, commercial judgement, and cross-functional coordination.
Key Responsibilities
Transaction Execution
* Support and coordinate the execution of acquisitions, refinancings, recapitalisations and disposals within the real-assets portfolio.
* Lead or manage the financial due-diligence process, engaging external advisors and internal stakeholders.
* Review and challenge due-diligence outputs, including working-capital reviews, net-debt adjustments and related analyses.
* Highlight material financial issues and communicate findings to investment and finance teams.
* Oversee review of completion accounts, accounting policies and transaction-agreement mechanics.
Technical & Financial Projects
* Analyse offering documents and transaction materials to determine appropriate accounting treatment for debt issuances under IFRS, consulting technical experts when required.
* Coordinate with legal, tax, and capital-markets teams to align accounting implications with transaction terms.
* Support audit-related processes, including interactions with external auditors.
Treasury & Funds-Flow Management
* Work closely with central treasury teams to ensure accurate funding, cash management and execution of transaction flows.
* Monitor FX exposures, escrow arrangements and intercompany funding structures.
Core Competencies
* Professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA or equivalent), ideally with training in transaction services or relevant deal-focused experience.
* 3–4+ years’ experience in deal execution, including understanding of due diligence, completion steps and funds-flow processes.
* Familiarity with treasury processes such as cash-flow forecasting and foreign-exchange management.
Preferred Profile
* Experience with private-fund or investment-vehicle structures.
* Background in real-estate or other tangible-asset sectors, ideally across multiple jurisdictions.
* Strong academic record.
* Advanced Excel proficiency and confident PowerPoint skills.