Property
Our client, a leading property group, is looking for a Finance Business Partner for a 12 month FTC on the basis of 4 days a week. The successful candidate will be responsible for producing high quality reporting to the senior leadership team on the performance of the division to inform decision making and enhance business performance. The individual should be a confident communicator, able to skilfully summarise complex issues and maintain strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
Description
The duties and responsibilities for this Part Time Finance Business Partner role include but are not limited to:
- Effective partnering with the European team. Helping the team to understand, communicate and enhance their performance and the risks and opportunities in achieving it.
- Reviewing subsidiary management/statutory accounts for European entities and liaising with auditors.
- Year to date quarterly reporting (by asset) and other management reporting as required by the stakeholders.
- Act as the “Go-to” for all financial aspects of the Portfolio. Including JV partners, asset management, internal stakeholders, and other 3rd party service providers.
- Responsible for financial compliance of the portfolio, both from a legal and JV perspective. This includes ensuring appropriate involvement of tax, treasury, legal, and other 3rd party service providers.
- Lead the quarterly forecasting process for both internal and external purposes.
- Support the annual budget and strategic planning, providing insight and challenging the direction for the team. Ensure business stakeholders understand and own their numbers to facilitate high-quality discussions, at team and executive level. In addition, this will include reporting to the external JV partners.
- Work with the finance centre to support the production of all statutory and management reporting for a number of entities.
- Work to ensure delivery against the SLAs (reporting and financial control activities) and build appropriate technical knowledge to enhance outcomes.
- Assist with appraisals of assets sales within the portfolio, challenging assumptions, analysing financial models, undertaking due diligence.
- Maintain documentation on agreed processes and actively identify and implement ways to improve processes.
Skills
The skills and experience required for this Part Time Finance Business Partner role include but are not limited to:
- Qualified accountant (ideally 3+ years PQE).
- Experience of working in a large private or listed business. Property sector experience is advantageous.
- Experience of business partnering – able to challenge performance, recommend improvements and demonstrate strategic thinking.
- A self-starter with a proactive, common-sense approach.
- Highly effective written and verbal communication with clarity and simplicity.
Apply
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Please note that due to the expected volume of applications, we will only be able to respond to those candidates whose experience matches the requirements of our client. We are sorry, but if you have not heard from us within the next ten days, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Walker Hamill has been a specialist finance and strategy recruiter for over 30 years. We have an extensive client group, including major multinational listed organisations, private equity backed businesses and privately owned companies. We recruit across all sectors and have particularly strong client relationships in media, retail, pharma/biotech, technology, property/real estate, leisure and business services. Headquartered in London, we have additional offices in continental Europe.