Finance Placement Assistant
by Savills Investment Management
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Finance Placement Assistant
Purpose of the Job
The Finance team at Savills Investment Management have two 12-month full-time placement opportunities open to university students who will be in their penultimate year of university which offers hands-on financial management and financial reporting working experience within the team.
This is an ideal opportunity for an individual considering a career within finance to learn new skills and experience what it is like to work within finance and the investment management industry.
Responsibilities and Tasks
The key objective for the Finance Placement Assistant (“FPA”) role is to assist the Finance team with their management accounting and financial reporting responsibilities.
They will be provided with on-the-job one-to-one training, and will have the following key responsibilities:
Management accounting
- Regularly process payments either via the oversight of the purchase ledger function or through preparation of weekly payment recommendations
- Liaise with third parties (banks, lawyers) to facilitate processing of payments and liaise with suppliers to resolve queries
- Maintenance of intra-group loans and loan interest schedule
- Maintain cash books
- Perform bank reconciliations
- Assist the team with the Sales Ledger function, dealing with credit control and liaising with Fund teams
- Assist FM with reviews of management accounts for senior management
- Assist FM with monitoring budgets and cash flow analysis / forecasting
Financial reporting
- Assist FM with review and preparation of annual statutory financial statements
- Assist FM with and develop an awareness of the audit process
- Assist FM with other ad hoc reporting as required
- Develop an awareness of corporate governance
- Develop an awareness of relevant taxation matters
Other
The FPA may also be required to assist the FM with other ad-hoc tasks from time to time. Full guidance will be provided on all work given to the FPA by the FM.
Job Requirements
- Undertaking a relevant undergraduate university degree e.g. Finance, Accounting, Business Studies (must be in penultimate year)
- Strong GCSEs and A-Levels (or equivalent)
- Basic Excel skills and competence with other Microsoft Office packages;
- Good attention to detail;
- Good communication skills;
- Strong inter-personal skills;
- Self-starter with a proactive attitude, willingness to learn and be able to demonstrate this during interview;
- Excellent written and spoken English; and
- A team player.
Please specify on your application the earliest date you will be available to start.
About Savills Investment Management
Savills Investment Management is a subsidiary of Savills, which is a strong and successful brand in the property services industry. Savills Investment Management supports investors in creating a competitive return on their investment in Real Estate. Our investors vary from pension funds and insurance companies, through to charities and high net-worth individuals. Savills Investment Management provide advisory services to investors on emerging markets and geographies and hold numerous funds, mandates and separate accounts within which investors can invest. We currently have circa €18 billion of assets under management invested across the world and we have a clear strategy to expand as a business. Our strategy as a business is to utilise the local knowledge and experience of our ‘on the ground’ Asset and Portfolio Managers to provide an opportunity for global investors to invest in foreign markets.
Savills Investment Management has circa 300 employees, spread over 17 offices around the world. Many of our office locations are in Europe, yet we have a strong presence in APAC with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. We promote a hard working yet fun culture and celebrate cross cultural and diverse teams. We encourage our employees to learn and work with international colleagues as much as possible and want to hire more people who hold a desire to work in and grow a global business.
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