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Accounting & Finance
Associate Director/Senior Associate - Aviation Finance
- TypePermanent
- Salary£80000.00 - £120000.00 per annum
- LocationDublin
- Published17 Jan 2023
- Ref#BBBH11989
- Apply now!
Azon is delighted to be partnering with a global alternative investment firm with approximately $20 billion in assets that focuses on asset-rich and cash-flowing investments in undercapitalised, inefficient private markets.
This is a new role created following the appointment of our client’s CFO last year. Reporting directly to the CFO, the appointee will be responsible for maintaining the complex financial model utilised daily to support key investment and portfolio management decisions across the company as a whole. This will require participating as a key member of the Aviation team focused on supporting investments decisions and the operational, financial, and servicing needs of the strategy.
Day-to-Day:
- Maintain complex financial model utilised daily to support key investment and portfolio management decisions
- Utilise information gathered from multiple internal and external sources to both update forecasts and analyse variances in results on a regular basis
- Support various processes, including quarterly fund valuations, Board and investor reporting, monthly management reporting, and rating agency re-forecast processes
- Support investment, financing, and accounting decisions by creating analysis and outputs detailing impacts of various assumptions
- Create and maintain various forecasts for use by broader management teams
- Participate in the implementation of a forecasting software solution for the aircraft leasing platform
- Ad-hoc analytical support for aircraft leasing strategy
Candidate requirements include:
- Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting, or related major is required
- Six or more years of Finance or related experience; preferably including aircraft lessor FP&A
- Extensive modelling experience, including expertise in advanced Excel functions and creating financial models
- Working understanding of aircraft leasing accounting concepts
- Effective organisational and time management skills
- Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines, manage multiple high-priority projects, and transition smoothly as projects stop or start
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Able to deal with ambiguity, analyse and create a solution
- Detail oriented, self-motivated, and service-oriented
- Ability to develop good working relationships with internal team and with external advisors
- Team player and flexible; willing to perform tasks necessary to achieve common
Conor Brick
Senior Recruitment Consultant - Accounting - Tax
Conor graduated from the University of Limerick with a Bachelor of Business Studies in 2008. Post university, he spent a number of years in Dubai working in the education sector. Returning to Dublin in 2013, he has since specialised in Accounting and Financial recruitment - the desk he presently sits on with Azon Group. In the past, he has recruited for Funds & Asset Management companies as well as clients in the Fintech space.