Job Title: Assistant Finance Manager

Reporting to: Senior Finance Manager

Location: London

Sector: Property Investment

Overview of the Role

• Financial management of investment properties
• Provide support to the respective Asset Managers
• Close interaction with other offices globally and assisting with all reporting requirements
• Hands on involvement with reporting, cash flow management and process improvement
• Indirect management of third party service providers

Responsibilities

• Preparation of year-end financial statements
• Preparation of year-end audit files
• Rolling over and preparing statutory accounts for dormant entities
• Prepare distribution calculations
• Preparation and presentation of accounts and financial reports at board meetings
• Preparation of VAT returns and tax analysis data
• Assisting with CIS filing
• Preparation of loan compliance covenants
• Preparing rental reconciliations, reviewing bank reconciliations, calculation of net asset value
• Compliance with filing and reporting legislation to ensure all deadlines for preparation of income tax, VAT, filing of accounts, etc. are met
• Posting journals to MRI
• Coding invoices to Basware
• Calculating and checking to make sure payments, amounts and records are correct.
• Day to day accounting issues
• Provide assistance to the Finance team
• Liaising with all parts of the business as appropriate to ensure that all financial and operational matters are dealt with and managed
• Additional ad-hoc project work will be required

Technical Skills & Qualifications Required

• PQ/Finalist/Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)
• Property and/or Fund experience
• Debt experience is desirable
• Excellent academics - degree level educated (2:1 or above)
• Good knowledge of Excel, Word, Outlook & accounting systems (MRI experience desirable but not essential)
• Working with Excel, MRI and other systems
• Team player - Close liaison with fund management and other areas of the finance and operations team, as well as external advisers
• Excellent interpersonal skills - to deal with investors and external contacts
• Good organisational skills and ability to work to, and sometime implement own processes
• Communication & presentation - Clarity of presentation of information to boards and internal and external clients/investors as appropriate
• Teamwork/Commercial - Support the other members of the team in their relationship with various onshore and offshore third party suppliers