Akelius Brainee Program

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1 Akelius Brainee Program Career opportunities Akelius has been growing at a high and steady pace for twenty years. This guarantees good career opportunities within the company. Below you can find earlier Brainee s experiences as well as some career examples. Brainee As a Brainee you will participate in an extensive two year program. We have a Property program where you will learn everything about properties from scratch. We have an Accounting/Finance program. The two programs differ the first two periods. You will get to work within different departments: Letting, Accounting, Property & Asset management, Finance, Business analysis & controlling, Transactions & valuations. For a couple of periods you will be based abroad, in Stockholm, Malmö, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, London or Toronto. Your own interests and suitability, as well as the company s needs, will determine your placement after the two years. Akelius University As a Brainee you will participate at Akelius University. Akelius University is an internal MBA education in Residential real estate. Akelius University s fourth course will be given 2014/2015. You will be one of forty internal students who goes to Toronto, Stockholm, Cyprus and Berlin. One objective of Akelius is to be at the top in Europe in terms of staff education, qualifications and competence. One way of achieving this is to carry out the Akelius University periodically. You can find out more about Akelius University at Your background You have an Academic degree. You do not have any problems with English or mathematics. Offices You will be based in Stockholm, Malmö, Berlin, Hamburg or Cologne. Please state in your application in what city you want to be based. August 2014 You will start, by the latest, in August 2014.

2 Language The language of the group is English, but for a placement in Sweden you have to be fluent in Swedish, for a placement in Germany you have to be fluent in German. For a Swede it is an advantage to be fluent in or have good knowledge in German and/or French. For a German it is an advantage to be fluent in or have good knowledge in Swedish and/or French. Application before second of May For questions and applications in Sweden, contact Fredrik Lindgren, Brainee Program manager at fredrik.lindgren@akelius.se or +46(0) For questions and applications in Germany, contact Jessica Nowek, Hamburg, jessica.nowek@akelius.de, Klaus Pelzer, Cologne, klaus.pelzer@akelius.de, Ralf Spann, Berlin, ralf.spann@akelius.de,

3 Career opportunities Eric Hansson 27 years Education: Master of Science in Building and Real Estate Economics During the work on my master's thesis I came across an ad for the Akelius Brainee program. It instantly appealed to me. After exchange studies and internships abroad, I had a whetted appetite to gain further experiences from the global real estate sector. Now, being at the end of the program, I can without any doubts say that it has been the perfect step in to the industry. After starting in Stockholm with letting, property and asset management, I moved on to London working with business analysis and controlling. Berlin was next, where I did transactions and valuations. Throughout the program I ve been assigned great responsibilities within many fields. It has been an excellent way to learn and a chance to influence on how we operate within the company. I was also given the opportunity to attend the Akelius University, an international MBA with focus on presentations and reports. Today I m working on an extensive implementation of a brand new business system. It s an exciting project where I get to apply my assembled skills and benefit from my enterprise social network.

4 Jenni Fliegner My expectations were high when I found the job opening for the Brainee Program of Akelius in summer Having studied and lived in different countries I was eager to start my career in an international company with the possibility to continue to live and work in new places. My economical background gave me a profound understanding of numbers and economies in general. For the real estate business, however, I had to start from scratch. Starting with lettings, property management and asset management in Hamburg I got to know the core business. Later on I got an overview of our key figures due to my experiences in controlling in Malmö. Furthermore, this knowledge served as a good introduction to my most recent work as business developer in London. Thanks to the Akelius University and additional projects I could deepen my theoretical knowledge and learn a lot about our business model in detail. After one and a half years with Akelius I can conclude that my expectations were right to be high.

5 Julia Reif The decision to participate the Akelius Brainee program was easily made, when I heard about the diversified structure of the 24 month program. My work within Akelius began on a flight to Cyprus, where we had the first intense session of the Akelius University. The mix of knowledge transfer and meeting new colleagues from Germany and Sweden was a perfect introduction to the company. The first months I worked mainly with Property and Asset Management, guided by my experienced colleagues from Berlin. The next stations I spend in Stockholm, where I worked with corporatecontrolling and business analysis and Toronto, where I focused on transactions and valuation. Both stays abroad gave me the opportunity to think outside the box and learn about new markets. My tasks were complex and I had the opportunity to work independently and responsibly. Right now all trainees are working on a global project. But in a couple of month the program is over and I am excited about the options within the company. Akelius is a very vital and dynamic company and offers motivated employees many perspectives. I can highly recommend to attend the program since the learning effect is huge and the work within the company fun.

6 Lennart Mumm Education: Engineering physics with a major in statistics and financial mathematics. After graduation in 2012 I started working as a trainee at Akelius. In the program there were five major blocks: letting, i.e. I leased residential apartments in Stockholm; property and asset management in Stockholm, where work duties included both service toward the existing tenants as well as the overall economic picture of the properties controlling and business analysis in Toronto, e.g. I created an automated tool compiling the numbers for the monthly and quarterly reports as a temporary solution until a new software system could be implemented transactions and valuations in Hamburg, i.e. I was involved in the step by step acquisition of new properties from prospect and valuation to signing and payment in addition to the valuation of our internal portfolio; and being a core member in the implementation of a software system in Toronto together with describing and devising our internal processes. Upon completion of the trainee program in 2014 an extensive and diverse understanding of the real estate business has been acquired.

7 Mattis Falkentoft 24 years Education: Master of Science in Business Administration with a major in Business Strategy I started to work at Akelius, and attend at the Akelius Brainee program, in September 2012 just after that I finished my university studies. I had no previous knowledge from the real estate business but I was tempted by opportunity to learn the business from scratch. Additionally, I was thrilled about the opportunity to be working abroad. Since I started the program I have been working within various departments such as: asset management, business analysis and transactions. I have been guided and educated by inspiring personal resulting in that I now have a great understanding of Akelius business. I have had the possibility to work in international metropolitan areas like Toronto, Berlin and London which has been developing both on a professional and personal level. When I summarize my Brainee period I feel like I have gotten a great foundation to work from and I am really looking forward for my future career within the growing Akelius group.

8 Sandra Blomqvist 36 years Education: Master of Science in Business Administration with a major Finance. After having graduated from University I worked some years for the Swedish Enforcement Authority and for Lindorff, a credit management service company. When I applied for the job as a Treasury Manager at Akelius, I had no previous experience from real estate financing, but I have learned a lot during my seven years. My role as a Treasury Manager has developed and changed over the years, going from assisting the Head of Finance with bigger projects and being responsible for minor projects and administrative tasks in the beginning, to now dealing with bigger financing projects in Sweden, Germany and the UK by myself.

9 Pål Ahlsén 42 years Education: Masters of Economics and Business Administration I am CEO of Akelius. I started within Akelius in My first task was to sell our own bonds via meetings and telephone sales. I moved on to be an analyst preparing a lot of basis for business. I am good at mathematics and mathematics is vital in the real estate business. More or less everything is built on calculations, whether to buy, sell, make renovations, make improvements. Akelius started in Germany in 2006 and I was one of the first to move there. Soon I became the CEO of Akelius Germany. In 2010 I moved on to be CEO for the whole group. My mission is to double the equity in seven years. Today we are focusing on streamline production in order to be able to renovate with 25 per cent lower costs.

10 Jordan Milewic 32 years Education: Prokurist I have been working at Akelius since April I started my career at Akelius as an Asset Manager in Munich. In this role I was responsible for the property portfolio in Bavaria. Then I became the Regional Manager of Southern Germany. In this role I was responsible for the acquisition of multi residential properties in Munich, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Stuttgart and Frankfurt am Main and also responsible for the Akelius offices in Munich and Frankfurt am Main including personnel and coordination of asset management and property management. Since September 2011 I am the President of Akelius Canada Ltd. and Akelius Real Estate Management Ltd. In this role I am responsible for the development of the operations of Akelius in Canada including setting up an office in Toronto, acquisition of multi residential properties in Toronto and in a midterm period in other Canadian cities, recruitment of personnel simultaneously to the growth of the property portfolio.