| Company Brookfield is a global alternative asset manager with over $500 billion in assets under management. We have over a 120-year history of owning and operating assets with a focus on property, renewable power, infrastructure and private equity. Brookfield is a global organization with over 100,000 employees and operations in 30 countries in 5 continents. Brookfield is co-listed on the New York and Toronto Stock Exchanges under the symbol BAM and on NYSE Euronext under the symbol BAMA. For more information, please visit our web site at www.brookfield.com. Our asset management business consists of 5 business groups (Real Estate, Infrastructure, Power, Private Equity, and Public Securities) in addition to the Global Manager group which covers the corporate functions. We operate on a decentralized basis where each business group is responsible for the activities of the business. Global Manager acts as a partner to each business group, performing certain functions that are shared across all groups (e.g.IT), sharing best practices, facilitating communication across the groups to ensure that activities that require consistency across groups are coordinated. Accordingly, we operate in a matrix environment requiring everyone to consider who might be impacted by a decision and/or who needs to be involved or aware. Department Overview The finance team look after all finance-related matter in Luxembourg. Besides typical finance tam responsibilities of bookkeeping and internal reporting, ownership and good practice of financial controls, planning and forecasting, the team are responsible for external reporting and compliance, including regulatory filings, leading and directing finance lead improvement initiatives as well as ensuring the overall Brookfield Global Manager strategies are fulfilled Role Overview - In charge of accounts receivable/payable, payments and VAT returns for the German property portfolio. - Close liaison with the Asset Management/Property Management team in Germany. Key Responsibilities - Monitoring collection of all rental income and service charge income; - Preparation of aged debtor report; - Review, posting and payment of supplier invoices; - Manage and create recurrent invoices in Gypsilon; - Booking of quarterly intercompany invoices for the in-house Property Manager; - Dealing with queries from tenants in relation to rent or service charge invoices; - Pro-active participation in the quarter-end / year-end close process in relation to AP/AR; - Prepare the monthly, quarterly and annual VAT returns for Germany; - Liaison with the tax authorities and tax advisors; - Booking cash transactions from bank statements and handling the direct debit process; - Liaison with auditors and all relevant banks; - Participation in cash management cycle; - Payment of service charge balances and debtor credit notes upon instruction of Property Manager; - Manage and reconcile the tenant deposit accounts; - Draft reminder letters in relation to outstanding rent and service charge balances; - Monitoring of insurance payments in co-operation with Property Manager; - Prepare legal expense report for London HQ; - Filing all relevant documents in the folders; - Participation in tax and accounting setup for new properties and companies; - Act as backup for the rest of the team as required during holidays/absences. Technical Skills - Fluent German - Fluent English - Proactive and dynamic team player - 1-2 years experience in an accounting environment - Excellent communication skills - Experience in the real estate sector is a plus |
