Finance Manager

Finance Manager - Real Estate

£65k - £70k plus bonus & benefits.

Permanent

Central London (Hybrid working)

Direct reports

• Senior Accounts Payable Officer
• Assistant Accountant
• Accounts Assistant (Business Rates)
• Accounts Assistant (Utilities)

Periodic Reporting

• Preparation of monthly consolidated P&Ls, Balance sheet and Cashflow, including:
• Preparing and inputting journals as well as review of other journals prepared by the team.
• Preparation of accruals for all sites (currently 75), fixed asset register, accrued income for the business.
• Review of site-by-site P&Ls, including month-on-month variance analysis.
• Review of Head Office P&L including month-on-month variance analysis.
• Preparation of Finance sections of the monthly Board Report including Actual vs Budget commentary.
• Monthly review of the detailed and consolidated bank reconciliations (for all of the group’s bank account).
• Preparation of Quarterly Balance Sheet reconciliations
• Preparation of Group quarterly VAT returns and working with Senior Tax Manager to ensure VAT compliance.

Business Rates

• Management of the Business Rates portfolio including but not limited to developing processes to effectively manage and mitigate Business Rates costs for the business.

Support the Accounts Assistant (Business Rates) with complex queries/issues from tenants.

Accounts Payable (AP)

• Management of Accounts Payable within the business:
• Working with the AP team and other stakeholders to support improvements in the Purchase-to-pay cycle
• Lead on process and policy documentation and monitor the AP process to ensure performance levels are maintained with appropriate metrics.
• Identify key risks to the AP process & ensure appropriate controls and mitigations are put in place and communicated with key stakeholders.

Audit/Tax

• Liaising with Financial Reporting Manager & Audit team in dealing with audit queries.
• Liaising with the Senior Tax Manager in dealing with tax compliance queries.

Other

• Dealing with general finance queries from Regionals & Business Centre Managers to identify cost savings.
• In house software champion for accounting system, dealing with all related queries and system development opportunities. (e.g System Security, Purchase Order Production etc. with support from the system provider/IT provider.
• Review/Approval of payments/invoices/credit notes to customers/suppliers
• Work with FP&A to prepare and deliver Site & Head office budgeted costs as part of the annual budget process.
• Strengthening internal controls and process improvements of finance operations.
• Provide support, mentoring and coaching to establish a high-morale culture and enable staff to fulfil all responsibilities effectively and accurately.

Supporting Head of Finance with adhoc queries as required.