Commercial Finance Manager

High Growth Real Estate business based in Central London is looking for bright enthusiastic qualified Accountants to join it's Commercial Finance team. Property / Real Estate experience is highly desirable.

Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance in a Commercial Finance team of 3, as part of a wider Finance department of 17, duties will include:

• Reviewing the relative financial strength of tenants prior to lettings activity (new lets, rent reviews, concessions, assignments, etc) and of suppliers prior to appointment
• Taking ownership of key financial reporting line items, partnering with the relevant parts of the business to ensure reports and analysis are produced accurately and on a timely basis to both aid and challenge the relevant operating teams
• Reviewing and commenting on actual performance against budget and assessing the impact of current trading on the year-end forecast
• Extensive input in the annual budgeting process, working with the operational and commercial parts of the business to model, challenge, and agree forecasts
• Input into, and development of, the various management, operational, and shareholder reporting packs and other key financial data, identifying opportunities to improve current methodology and processes
• Involvement in financial month-end processes, highlighting and correcting errors, and proposing necessary accounting system transactions and journals
• Other ad hoc reporting and analysis as required
• Communicating with all levels within the organisation and being able to present financial and numerical information to finance and non-finance members of staff.

You will need to be a qualified accountant with strong commercial and technical skills. You will play a crucial role within our commercial finance team, involved in preparing and reviewing tenant and supplier covenant assessments, assume primary responsibility for specific line items within the organisation's financial and operational reporting, business partnering with relevant operating teams, and assist with the production of monthly management accounts and other regular and ad hoc reporting for the business’s lenders and shareholders. You will support the existing commercial finance team and collaborate with senior management and other staff including Management Accounting, Business Modelling, the Property / Asset Management / Facilities Management teams, Treasury, and Accounts Payable & Receivable. Good communication and influencing skills are essential, along with broad knowledge of financial activities, which will require a keen eye for detail, strong analytical skills, a commercial outlook, and a proactive mindset.

Requirements:

• Recently qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA
• Strong preference for Real Estate / Property experience, be that in the form of Property Clients within an Audit role, or working directly for a Property business in a Commercial Finance / FP&A / Finance Business Partnering role. Property is not absolutely essential, so applications are welcome from applicants who feel their experience is otherwise suitable.
• A sound commercial outlook, adept at preparing analysis to support or challenge operational decision making
• Sound understanding of accounting concepts and principles
• Previous experience of, or willingness to develop, business partnering
• Ability to manipulate large volumes of data, and experience in carrying out a detailed analysis of data to drive insight, aid decision-making, and robustly challenge the operational teams
• Experience of reporting financial and other information to management and other stakeholders, including investigating and explaining variances against budget and their impact on full-year forecasts
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload, including coordinating with others to ensure deadlines are met
• To work both as part of a team and independently to deliver a common goal or objective
• Excellent IT skills including accounting software, Microsoft Excel and Word
• Excellent oral, written, and presentational communication skills