Senior Finance Manager

My client, a leading commercial Real Estate business are seeking to hire a Senior Finance Manager on a permanent basis. Reporting to the UK Financial Controller, you will have responsibility for the mana gement and financial accounting functions and delivery of timely essential Financial management information to the business. Continuous review and development of internal controls, SOX compliance and responsibility for the delivery of Statutory Financial Statements and audit process.

Key responsibilities:

• Management of a team of 16 spread across Management and Financial accounting and transactional finance
• Delivering high quality management information to Group and UK business heads on a monthly and quarterly basis
• Ensuring internal control environment design and application remain SOX compliant at all times
• Annual SOX audit management and liaison
• FCA Returns

• VAT Return review
• Payroll Review
• Delivery of annual FRS102 Financial statements for 22 UK entities
• Monthly journals and Balance sheet reconciliation review
• Manage audit relationship and delivery of audit file and completion to budget each year
• Support the development of a new UK Finance system (e.g. SAP) in 2017. Working with the Developers and rest of the finance team
• Any other task that may reasonably be required

Key skills

• ACA, but could be CIMA or ACCA qualified
• Ability to make decisions and use initiative in highly pressured environments 
• Excellent Stakeholder management and relationship building skills
• Experience of managing medium sized teams (10+)
• Strategic thinker, who can consider the bigger picture and the impacts to the business
• A proven track record of delivering results in a dynamic and rapidly changing environment
• A proven track record of delivering financial statements on time and achieving clean annual audit
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate and present at all levels from Board to non-financial senior management 
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience in business partnering
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to multi task in a highly pressured, fast paced environment
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel
• US GAAP Knowledge preferred but not essential
• SOX environment experience preferred but not essential
• FCA familiarity preferred