Group Financial Controller, London
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A unique hostel and boutique hotel company is looking to appoint a Group Financial Controller to be based at their corporate office in London.
The role and duties will include:
Financial systems and control
- Maintain and improve financial control and processes and integration with other business systems – this includes control systems within Head Office as well as within our assets
- Responsible for balance sheet control and reconciliation
- Optimising cash flow utilisation
- Supporting the development and integration of key business software
- Manage debt and equity draw downs
- Reviewing monthly payroll
Compliance
- Ensure systems are in place to ensure entities are fully compliant with regulatory and taxation requirements – to include company house filings, statutory accounts, income tax, corporation tax, VAT, PAYE
- Ensure compliance with all debt facilities
- Ensure costs are allocated correctly across the business and transfer pricing legislation is complied with
Management Information
- Drive budget setting and reporting process across the business
- Preparing monthly Management Accounts to set deadlines, including group consolidation
- Forecasting income, expenditure and cash flow & tracking progress for each asset and for overhead
- Debt facility reporting to banks
Commercial
- Build strong and trusting relationships within the business
- Keep abreast of changes in taxation accounting and tenancy law
- Be instrumental in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the financial processes through-out the business
- Drive the management reporting to provide timely, accurate and relevant information on the business
- Work with legal and taxation advisors to ensure the overall business structure is optimised for efficiency
Skills
- CCAB qualified accountant with broad demonstrable experience in the real estate industry.
- Experience of creating statutory accounts, preferably IFRS
- Experience of operating compliance systems
- Experience of working directly with and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of running the financial function for an entity or division
- Experience of setting up and managing internal control systems and reporting systems
- Excellent Excel skills
- Experience of managing a small team
- Highly organised and very proactive
For more information or to apply, please contact Andrea at fm@fmrecruitment.co.uk or call directly on +44 208 600 1161
