Financial Controller - Real Estate

Financial Controller – Real Estate. OUR CLIENT is a property investment and development boutique who own a range of properties across the UK. They are now looking for a Financial Controller to take responsibility for the group accounts and oversee their in–house property accounting function.

THE ROLE:

• Preparing consolidated management accounts and cash flows models.
• Managing capital allowances, HMRC liaison on VAT and corporation tax.
• Being responsible for SDLT, CIL, purchase and sale, land registry, VAT claims on property development costs.
• Liaising with external auditors to submit statutory accounts after development of audit files, year–end adjustments for accruals and prepayment and other accounting treatment as needed.
• Preparing board packs, including cash flow projections, budgets, and financial reports.
• Reporting to financiers for loan covenant monitoring to include interest cover, and compliance certificates.
• Being responsible for debt restructuring.
• Reviewing and interrogating the variances.
• Overseeing the production of payroll.
• Overseeing and occasionally help prepare service charge budgets.
• Managing the accounts payable and receivable functions.
• Reviewing and streamlining processes and procedures.

THE PERSON: You will be a qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with several years of experience working in a senior group finance role within the real estate sector. Good, solid technical accounting experience and the ability to independently run the accounting function is important. You will have a proven track record of reviewing and streamlining processes and procedures to make things more efficient. It is essential you have strong management / leadership skills and excellent communications as you will be managing a small team.

This is very good opportunity to work with a company where you can make a difference.

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