Trident International Associates
Fund Controller - European Real Estate
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Ref: D22D168
Salary: £ 110,000 – 130,000 DOE + c30% Bonus + Benefits
Specialist Area: Fund Controller
Type: Permanent
Start Date: ASAP
About the Opportunity
OUR CLIENT is an established international real estate investment platform is strengthening its European finance function and is looking to appoint a senior commercial Fund Controller to take full financial oversight of a pan-European investment strategy.
The business has a substantial European real estate portfolio and is continuing to evolve its finance model, with greater use of external administrators, advisers, and technology. This creates a genuinely commercial Fund Controller position. The Fund Controller will sit close to the investment and asset management teams, providing financial oversight, challenge, and insight rather than simply managing the production of accounts.
This is an exciting opening for an experienced Fund Controller who wants broader ownership across fund finance, capital, transactions, and structuring. This is an opportunity to operate at the centre of a sophisticated European real estate platform.
The Role
The Fund Controller will take ownership of the financial governance and control of the relevant pan-European funds, including:
- Full oversight of fund accounting, statutory, and tax reporting.
- Ownership of quarterly and annual closes, NAV, and investor-facing financial outputs.
- Oversight of portfolio entity accounting across multiple European jurisdictions.
- Fund liquidity planning, cash management, capital flows, and distributions.
- Oversight of debt facilities, covenant compliance, and lender reporting.
- Management of external administrators, accountants, auditors, and other service providers.
- Acting as finance lead on acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, and refinancing activity.
- Working closely with Tax, Legal, Fund Operations, Investment, and Asset Management.
- Supporting new jurisdictions and assessing the financial, tax, and governance implications.
- Ensuring structures remain compliant, efficient, and commercially robust.
- Developing scalable processes as the platform continues to grow.
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The Fund Controller will be expected to translate complex portfolio and fund activity into clear, reliable, and commercially meaningful financial information.
The Person
We are looking for a fully qualified accountant with significant post-qualified experience gained within real estate private equity, fund management, or an institutional real assets environment.
You will ideally bring:
- Strong pan-European real estate fund experience, including multiple jurisdictions.
- Experience with Luxembourg fund structures.
- Excellent technical fund accounting knowledge.
- Strong understanding of capital structures, debt, and liquidity.
- Experience operating within an outsourced fund administration model.
- The confidence to manage and challenge external administrators and advisers.
- Strong commercial judgement and an ability to understand the wider investment strategy.
- Experience partnering with investment and asset management professionals.
- The ability to take ownership of complex workstreams and see them through.
- A pragmatic, solutions-focused approach and the confidence to challenge constructively.
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European real estate fund experience and the ability to operate commercially are central to the brief.
The successful Fund Controller will be someone who can move comfortably between the detail and the bigger picture: understanding the numbers, questioning them where necessary, and explaining what they mean to senior stakeholders.
Benefits
- C30% Target bonus and full benefits suite.
- London-based hybrid working, with around three days per week in the office.
- Senior exposure to investment, asset management, tax, legal, and fund operations teams.
- Broad pan-European remit across multiple jurisdictions.
- Significant involvement in capital management, transactions, financing, and structuring.
- Opportunity to help shape a modern, technology-enabled finance function.
- Collaborative and international environment with genuine scope for commercial influence.
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