Accounting Specialist - Senior Associate, Investment Management

Company Business Summary

Morgan Stanley has established a series of real estate investment programs around the world including the followings:

• North Haven Real Estate Funds - Series of global opportunistic closed-end real estate funds launched in 1991

• Prime Property Fund Prime Asia (Prime Asia) Asia Core open-end real estate fund launched in 2015

Morgan Stanley Capital is a part of the Firms investment management platform with a non-discretionary investment adviser license. Portfolio Specialist Group manages SPC accounting tax financial reporting fund reporting for the both funds mentioned above closely working with outside accounting vendors auditors tax advisors lenders trust banks acquisition team asset management team property managers corporate secretary team and others.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate shall take responsibility for and / or assist in all or part of the following:

• Be responsible for investment controllership for respective fund including accounting financial reporting and liquidity management

• Lead communications among various internal/external parties such as accounting vendors corporate secretary team acquisition team and asset management team for asset acquisitions/dispositions and day-to-day operations

• Maintain close communications with Singapore and New York team and provide essential accounting and financial reporting guidance for outside accounting vendors to maintain the consistency in reporting throughout entire portfolios

• Implement control and processes with the system for accounting vendors to properly report monthly financial statements in JGAAP IFRS and USGAAP and monitor local semi-annual audit and tax returns

• Monitor liquidity including local financing and maintain cash flow projection for Japan investment and process periodical contributions/distributions in a timely manner

• Assist asset management team for annual business plan of all Japan investments and provide financial information for quarterly fund reporting

• Run ad-hoc reports for various investment assumptions as required by management

• Form an effective conduit among local accounting vendors acquisition team asset management team and Singapore team

Education

• Bachelors degree required

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-year experience in the real estate investment required

• Demonstrates strong SPC accounting / Fund accounting skills

• Experience with J GAAP financial reporting and investment structure for real estate investment

• Exposure to IFRS and USGAAP

• Excels at working within an institutional leading organization that demands excellence without being micro-managed

• Strong interest and experience in real estate investment businesses

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel Word and PowerPoint

• Japanese CPA Japanese CPTA US CPA plus but not required

Language

• Japanese Fluency and Business English language skills in both written and oral form

Personal Attributes

• Capable of successfully integrating within the Morgan Stanley culture

• Self-starter problem solver strong on prioritizing and self-organized

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

• Meticulous yet efficient with ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously

• Self-directed team player who demonstrates maturity perseverance ambition and possess a keen entrepreneurial sense

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

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