Head of Finance

An excellent career opportunity has arisen for someone with aspirations to be a Finance Director with an entrepreneurial FTSE 100 property developer in London.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Finance professional to join a high profile property developer reporting to the PLC Executive board and taking a leading project management role in the company s operational activities. Reporting to the Regional Finance Director, the opportunity is a highly commercial position for an experienced, qualified accountant with a broad experience base to work with the lead Directors, Heads of Department and other key staff to take on a senior role to drive all financial aspects of the planning, control and delivery of the current and future development sites across West London.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Ownership of financial planning and oversight of revenue and cost reporting
• Setting of annual budgets, and forecast updates for each site through 6–monthly stack updates.
• Ownership of revenue, profit and cash delivery. Liaison with other departments to ensure budgets are delivered.
• Oversight of procurement and sub–contractor package awards to ensure best value.
• Oversight of commercial controls to ensure correct and accurate cost reporting
• Cash control and management
• Management and reporting of key business risks including forward sales, customer deposit payments, procurement budgets, construction programmes and sales completions.
• Data analysis to highlight key business risks and mitigation strategies
• Driving execution of commercial property sales, lettings and management of commercial tenants
• Oversight of estate and legacy matters to ensure swift and fair resolution of any issues on completed buildings
• Meeting with internal and external auditors
• Preparation of monthly board reporting
• Maintaining the consolidated profit and cash forecasts.
• Driving improvements in financial reporting across the business
• Ad Hoc FP&A work
• Liaising with both internal and external auditors.
• Sales budgeting and reporting analysis

Applicant Requirements

• Degree Educated
• ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified (or equivalent)
• Ability to review, dissect and appraise complex information and legal documents
• Advanced level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel, with the ability to develop and enhance complex financial models.
• Comfortable working in a site/office based environment, with flexible working when required
• Excellent communicator both written and verbal