DirecciónOverview
When you join Hines, you will work alongside innovative leaders who set the standards responsible for our reputation as an industry leader today, and you’ll be a part of shaping our future in the years to come.
Responsibilities
As Financial Controller with Hines, you will coordinate external service providers to perform the day-to-day financial operations and accounting and oversee the financial reporting of the living assets whilst supporting the finance team in preparing budgets and financial forecasts for different projects.
Assets will comprise mainly Student Housing and BTR. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to :
- Work based in Madrid and report to the Chief Financial Officer for Spain
- Work with external accountants ensuring that the finance system links to the property booking systems
- Oversee the external accountants in reporting financial performance
- Review and provide commentary on monthly performance liaising with applicable managers to ensure that all variances are investigated and explained.
- Liaise with the Operations team and the local property managers in providing incisive information on business performance, identifying key issues and trends to enable business decisions to be made.
- Ensure that all the tax reporting (VAT and Corporation tax) and company reporting requirements are met
- Assist with the annual audit
- Ad hoc financial analysis and regular forecasting
- Drive the annual budgeting process
- Keep relationships with all main counterparties including administrators and tax advisors, payroll consultants, management companies in charge of the investment funds owning the buildings
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will be :
- An experienced accountant with three or four years of experience
- Experienced in working in an international environment
- Knowledgeable of Spanish GAAP and IFRS
- Technically strong with an attitude for business process improvement
- Highly numerate and excellent analytical ability
- Customer orientated with proven ability to develop close working relationships
- Enthusiastic and motivated team player with the ability to plan and execute tasks unsupervised
- Flexible and able to work to tight deadlines
- Ability to translate complex information for a non-finance audience
- Knowledgeable of Microsoft Excel
- Able to speak and write in English and Spanish
Closing
Hines is a global real estate investment, development and property manager. The firm was founded by Gerald D. Hines in 1957 and now operates in 28 countries.
We manage a $92.3B¹ portfolio of high-performing assets across residential, logistics, retail, office and mixed-use strategies.
Our local teams serve 634 properties totaling over 225 million square feet globally. We are committed to a net zero carbon target by 2040 without buying offsets.
