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Overview of the Role

To be responsible for the accurate accounting information of the Property Division and provide timely reporting, useful for decision making.

The main duties of this role, include;

Monthly MI reporting and analysis

2nd Tier reporting

Revenue and Rebate control

Overseas office accounting and reporting (management and statutory)

Planning and forecasting support

Line management of Assistant Property Financial Controller

Main Duties and Responsibilities

In more detail, the role involves the following tasks;

Overall responsibility for the month end close and reporting process (including reviewing all general ledger balances)

Variance analysis – actual compared with budget/forecast & prior month including providing commentary

AUM and Headcount reporting

Provision of overseas office MI for Jersey, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Italy & Austria

Preparation and review of quarterly accounts for Jersey & Luxembourg companies and preparation of annual statutory accounts for Jersey, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Italy & Austria including close working relationship with relevant overseas administration companies and dealing with local external auditors and directors

Calculation and payment of management fee rebates

Maintaining the register of all fee and rebate agreements

Control of all revenue and rebates ensuring all revenue billed and recorded correctly, rebates are properly accounted for and paid within relevant deadlines

Assist the Head of Property MI in preparation of the annual plan and working on any relevant projects

Production of reporting of 2nd tier MI to the Director of Finance, Property, including debtor balances, unbilled income and balance sheet analysis

Line management of Assistant Property Financial Controller including setting annual targets, performance reviews and day to day management

Technical Skills & Qualifications Required

Circa 4 years post qualification

Strong accounting knowledge including trial balance review and analysis and financial accounting for overseas companies Excel – intermediate to advanced level

Word/PowerPoint – intermediate level

Strong experience of general ledger systems – experience of Coda is desirable but not essential Keen to learn and develop

Competencies Required

Experience of working within a professional financial services environment

Able to build and develop relationships both internally and externally

Enthusiastic and confident in own ability

Pro-active and keen to learn – self starter

Able to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines Identify opportunities for improvements and implement appropriate changes

FSA Registration Required No

Overview of the Role

To support the Sales Support and Business Support areas with administrative/secretarial tasks, as well as helping on the Sales Support responsibilities.

Overview of the Role

· Data entry into our Sage system

· Administrative support within the Sales Support and Business Support teams (i.e. booking meetings, printing material, making photo copies etc)

· Organizing the Fund Managers meetings/conf calls/video conf calls

· Providing reports for our clients as required

· Actioning queries from the Sales Support team’s shared Inbox

· Acting as backup for some of the Sales Support Specialist’s tasks and providing cover when required

· Sending out the Daily Deal report to our UK Distribution channels

· Acting as liaison between Sales people and Fund Managers, organising client meetings, European road shows and Fund update meetings

· Following up with the Sales team on completing the Fund Manager Meeting Request Template and providing feedback to Fund Managers prior to the client meeting

· Liaising with Fund Managers secretaries on the 4th floor in terms of checking the FM’s diaries and availabilities for meetings/fund events

· Preparing all marketing material prior to Fund Manager-client meetings

· Sending various reports/marketing materials out on client/sales people's request.

· Helping the Sales Support team in providing support to our Sales channels and driving sales. This entails occasionally longer working hours to ensure that all deadlines are met.

· Learning basic RFP tasks and gaining a greater understanding of Henderson’s products

· Providing support to our Spanish Sales team.

· Responding to queries from our Spanish, Portuguese and South American clients (as well as understanding and responding to enquiries coming from other European, Asian and UK clients).

· Short translations from/into Spanish

Technical Skills & Qualifications Required

· MS Office to an Intermediate standard – PowerPoint and Excel Advanced

· Educated to A’ Level standard or equivalent

· Foreign language: Fluent Spanish Essential (Portuguese and any other European language would also be beneficial)

· Candidates with previous secretarial/administrative and sales support experience required.

· Experience of Financial Services, either Asset Management or Banking, is desirable.

Competencies Required

· Candidate should be pro-active, taking a pride in their job and have an eye for accuracy and layout

· Ability to work under pressure and to act on own initiative is essential

· Good communication skills - ability to liaise confidently at all levels

· Team player – able to work effectively with all members of the team and other individuals throughout the company

· Flexible and able to adjust quickly to business requirements.

FSA Registration Required No

Overview of Role

Managing a team to deliver management reporting for the European listed asset product range.

Assisting in delivering the financial analysis and management information required to support the European listed assets business.

Team Deliverables

Review and validate revenues, costs and funds under management, sales and performance data received.

Prepare and review monthly management accounts, monthly reports, strategic plans, operating plans and forecasts.

Develop and maintain product/client/asset class/investment team profitability analysis.

Provide ad-hoc financial analysis and support.

Provide financial modelling for product launches and closures, projects, mergers, acquisitions, divestments and other corporate transactions as required.

Work closely with the Statutory Accounting team to ensure that statutory accounts for the European Listed Asset companies are prepared in a timely and accurate manner.

Key Responsibilities

Manage the team to ensure that monthly results are based on accurate information and correctly reflected.

Provide support and development to team members in order to achieve objectives set.

Proactively support the business in understanding the business financials and the impact of decision making on profitability.

Work closely with other senior managers within Finance to deliver process improvements in efficiency and quality of analysis.

Liaise re financial matters with key administration partners.

Review the team monthly balance sheet packs for the relevant entities including commentary on key variances and movements.

Work with other members of the Finance team on adhoc projects.

Technical Skills & Qualifications Required

Qualified Accountant

Educated to degree level or equivalent

Asset Management industry experience is essential

Previous experience of working with international entities is desirable

Excellent computer skills and spreadsheet modelling ability

Previous experience of managing a team

Experience of using CODA & TM1 is desirable

Competencies Required

Demonstrable track record of strong accounting and management skills

Results driven

Ability to analyse complex situations and take appropriate action

A good team worker and leader - providing inspiration to the team, demonstrating the ability to tackle the most difficult issues head-on, and focused on coaching the team to ensure they perform as individuals and a unit

Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken

Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, working under pressure dealing with a wide variety of issues and meeting tight deadlines

Business focused

Proactive

FSA Registration Required No

Overview of the Role

• Act as the sole in-house research analyst covering the listed Australian/New Zealand real estate market
• Develop and maintain insightful knowledge about the office, residential, retail and industrial property markets in Australia and New Zealand
• Closely monitor and maintain investment viewpoints in over 40 major Aust/NZ real estate companies and REITs
• Make critical qualitative and quantitative arguments to present stock investment recommendations internally
• Have a level of maturity to be able to interact independently with senior management from different listed companies
• Be proactive in alerting the team about key research findings from Aust/NZ and building cross-regional knowledge for the team
• Work closely with Fund Managers based in Singapore and assist in other portfolio management responsibilities
• Will be required to undertake occasional traveling

Technical Skills & Qualifications Required

• Strong experience in analyzing Australian equities (approximately 4-6 years).
• Derivatives experience will be beneficial.
• Strong local knowledge of the Australian/NZ real estate market CFA charter holder preferred
• A sound understanding of performance measurement and investment analysis principles
• A good understanding of accounting principles
• Strong analytical and spreadsheet skills
• Report writing skills

Competencies Required

• Adaptability - Willingness and flexibility to deal with new and existing tasks when required.
• Communication - Ability to concisely present complex information and analysis for internal and external purposes. Ability to proactively deal with asset and fund managers, both in respect to data provision and the delivery of performance analysis outcomes.
• Results and Client Orientation - Recognition of key factors that will add value. Employment of logical and measurable processes to ensure consistency in approach and auditing of analysis.
• Leadership - Ability to deliver appropriate and relevant analysis to Fund Managers.
• Customer Focus - Understanding of industry developments and the impact that these may have upon Performance Analysis. Assist fund managers in delivering consistent performance that meet and exceed our client objectives
• Decision Making - To seek conclusions on the impact of asset, portfolio and fund investment decisions in an effective manner and to make timely value based decisions.
• Team Work - Flexibility to work with and support team members and also work on an individual basis.
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement - Ability to identify continued improvement in best practice performance measurement and attribution at the asset, portfolio and fund level. Development of innovative and scalable ways of delivering performance measurement and analytical capabilities.

This role is primarily (but not limited to) providing front line telephone support for all IT problems. It involves logging the problem, attempting to solve it (including taking remote control of the client PC to assist in the diagnosis and or correction), and if required, passing the call on to the relevant third line support teams. The role requires the ability to manage customers expectations while at the same time ensuring that IT standards are met.

Requirements:

• Experience of working in high-pressure environments.
• Ability to identify, isolate and resolve IT problems / requests.
• Detailed knowledge of Microsoft Windows XP.
• Microsoft Office 2003 including MS Outlook 2003.
• Symantec Anti-Virus tools.
• Ability to use helpdesk management tools to log/monitor/close client problems/requests.
• Build PC’s using GHOST and verifying new images before deployment
• Liaise with relevant resolver groups to provide first level technical LAN/WAN support, system backups (servers, where required) and emergency site visits (server down, etc).
• Understanding of Microsoft Active Directory
• Understanding Microsoft Systems Management Centre.
• 2/3 years Desktop Support experience – MCSE/MCDST level.
• Basic understanding of LAN technologies and protocols including TCPIP, IPX/SPX, Wireless networks

The Application Support team provide product support for all Henderson business specific applications. They also provide testing and training on internally produced applications and undertake assignments on projects as agreed on with the various Projects and Development work streams.

This role is split between support assignment work and project related tasks. Tasks are assigned to individual team members either from a central call logging database or taken over the telephone. Team members will be expected to liaise with end users throughout the process to clarify requirements, identify issues or assist with training. The role requires the ability to manage customers expectations while at the same time ensuring that IT standards are met.

The purpose of this position is to ensure Henderson maintains an acceptable SLA with our business for all applications including liaison with 3rd party vendors, ensure applications are available to business users and that content is sanity checked to an agreed level each day. Manage the resolution of issues resulting from application checks, including communication to the business. Ensure support calls are resolved and business users are informed of progress at agreed intervals. Conduct user training on internal applications as required. Take an active role in the provision of disaster recovery to our business. Provide a QA resource to various project and infrastructure team. Take an active role in the change management and enhancement cycle Build and maintain support documentation for all applications. The team provides support on site between 07:00 – 19:00 and on-call from 19:00 to 24:00 – the role involves participation in rotas for both early/late starts and on-call.

Technical Skills & Qualifications:

• Skills in dealing with Excel spreadsheets and business logic interfaces with either market data or front office applications, SQL, and Access databases
• Proficiency in SQL (Structured Query Language), sufficient to analyse data
• IMC or similar industry qualifications desirable.

Experience of front office systems within the Asset Management Sector in one or more of the following, order management, portfolio modelling, market data or performance measurement Experience of investment securities such as, Equity/Fixed Interest/Derivatives etc Questioning and analytical ability, able to form conclusions and make recommendations from issues that arise An understanding of the principles of database, network and application structures Experience in querying SQL databases, tracing data through tables, views, stored procedures etc Initiative, willingness to seek and achieve improvements to processes and technology

• Ability to work as part of a team – circulate important information and contributes to team discussion
• Communication – provide documentation, updates to customers or IT Management that is clear, precise and understandable, communicates and presents in a clear and compelling manner
• Good time management / planning – manages personal workload effectively, sets realistic and achievable targets and delivers those targets
• Sound problem solving and investigative skills Desire to follow best practice and development standards as agreed within IT

The Department

Finance Department is responsible for:

· Financial management of the business;

· Financial stewardship of the business including all external statutory and regulatory reporting;

· Managing and coordinating the strategic and operational planning processes;

· Provision and development of financial and management information.

Within the Finance Department, the Listed Assets team is primarily responsible for management information on Listed Assets EMEA distribution and the investment teams, and the statutory financial reporting for some of the larger Henderson entities and the European entities.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

This role focuses on preparation of statutory accounts, review and posting of financial MI and balance sheet data in relation to the Listed Asset European overseas entities.

Financial reporting

· Communication and coordination with overseas entities to ensure timely receipt of weekly cashbooks, monthly trial balances from individual offices and third party providers.

· Full review of data and preparation of journals to post to CODA general ledger.

· Receipt of monthly payroll reports from third party provider, review of data and preparation of monthly payroll journals to post to CODA.

· Reconciliation of monthly payroll between CODA general ledger and third party salary sheets.

· Preparation of bi-monthly and annual statutory accounts for the European entities, including production of full audit file and liaising with the auditors and third party providers.

· Preparation of quarterly statutory accounts, together with supporting balance sheet pack to send to third party providers to complete statutory local country returns.

· Updating and maintenance of the European issue log, escalation of issues to Manager, and responsibility for the clearance of issues and projects in a timely manner.

· Preparation of monthly bank and balance sheet reconciliation’s for review by Manager.

· Responsible for the clearance and resolution of bank reconciliation and balance sheet items, within 30 days of the issue arising.

· Assist in the production of group weekly cash report variances, update and report on variances.

· Regular review and update of the European offices bank mandates and bank accounts.

· Preparation, processing and arranging authorisation for any ad-hoc funding requests

· Processing, posting and review of the monthly FX revaluation journal.

· Production, review and reconciliation of monthly VAT figures to control account and forward to third party providers for completion of VAT returns.

· Calculation of monthly intra group charges and post to general ledger.

· Attend monthly conference call meeting with the European office heads and administrator and Manager to discuss any MI, operational or financial accounting issues.

· Resolution of ad hoc queries from the offices in a timely manner.

Management Information

· Monthly review of European staff and other costs against budget and production of monthly variance report

· Liaising with European offices to gather information to prepare the annual operating plan and monthly forecast.

· Review and update of monthly European office headcount schedules.

· Development of monthly European office management information.

Technical Skills & Qualifications Required

· ACA/ACCA part qualified.

· Good Microsoft Excel skills.

Competencies Required

· Financial and statutory reporting background essential.

· A Team player who has the ability and drive to work on their own and take issues through to resolution.

· Good organisational skills and work ethic are essential, in order to consistently meet frequent internal and statutory deadlines.

· Reliable, diligent, and conscientious, with a high focus on the accuracy and understanding of the numbers they produce.