Job Description

Grafton Banks Finance are working with a Commercial SME company with offices in Hove, East Sussex to recruit a Finance Manager on a full-time permanent basis. Reporting into the Head of Business Operations and managing a small finance team, you will be responsible for heading up the finance team to manage the smooth running of the companies\xe2\x80\x99 finances.

Duties and responsibilities will include:

• Overall management of income and expenditure across the property portfolio, taking responsibility for full reconciliation of monies at all times.
• Overall responsibility for the preparation of annual accounting packs for review by external auditors, including profit and loss, balance sheets prepared to statutory format.
• Ensure full compliance of year end accounts in accordance with the 18 month rule.
• Liaise and manage 3rd party accountant/auditor relationships accordingly.
• Facilitating the process of expenditure budgets (set by the property team) for properties with periodic review and monitoring against actual expenditure.
• Periodic reporting to freehold clients including review calls, monthly reports and analysis and meetings.
• Overseeing a team of 4 property accounts staff. Including heading the department, leading the team, improving team members, managing appraisals, performance of team members, training, leading, guiding and developing team members. Task allocation and roles and responsibilities across the department. Ensuring pathway, development and growth for team members,
• Supervising the accounts payable and accounts receivable functions.
• Supervising client bank account reconciliations. Including the authorisation of payments using bankline systems.
• Updating data and financials resulting from lease extensions, legal completion, changes in tenancy, changes in client entity and liaising with internal legal completion team.
• Supervise credit control and cash collection processes, progressing to referral packs and subsequent liaison and collaboration with external litigation lawyers regarding arrears recovery.
• Support the businesses outsourced finance team on day to day accounting, including VAT, payroll, and audit queries as the main point of contact for external auditors.
• Oversee, action and account for companies\xe2\x80\x99 fees, with regards to billing, collection and reporting.
• Drive improvements via suggestions, innovation and opportunities in finance systems and processes.
• Build strong relationships with property management and surveying departments and provide full collaborative support to the Managing Director.
• Encourage knowledge sharing across the team and develop growth of team members, focusing on individual improvement plans, training & development and in turn plans for the department\xe2\x80\x99s future evolution.

The successful candidate will have practical experience of working in a busy finance function, in a Lead finance role, ideally within Property management / Real Estate/ Construction and or lettings. You will need to have strong IT skills including Microsoft packages and Excel ideally you will also hold experience of (MRI, YARDI, TRAMPS, Quickbooks/XERO, or QUBE. You will need to have excellent communication skills to communicate effectively to both finance professionals and non-finance professionals alongside strong people management skills.

This job is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional to further develop their expertise within a fast-paced environment. The working hours are full time 38 hours working Monday \xe2\x80\x93 Friday. For your experience you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and benefits package.

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