About the Role
The Group Accounting Manager (Treasury) is a pivotal role managing the Treasury Back Office team, with the onus to reshape this into one of our highest performing teams. This is an exciting role, providing the successful applicant with insight into our core treasury operations in a particularly dynamic macroeconomic environment. As a key member of Finance, the role drives continuous improvement and automation, champions new systems and ways of working, and ensures high-quality, on-time delivery that strengthens our reporting compliance and stakeholder confidence. A core expectation of the role is to proactively challenge the status quo, drive change and process improvements, enhance controls, elevate reporting quality and embed more efficient, data-driven ways of working.
Responsibilities
- Overseeing the accounting needs of the Group’s Treasury structure, including journal postings for fixed/floating debt and derivatives.
- Preparing Group Treasury analysis for the Senior Management Information pack relating to net finance expense, borrowings and treasury metrics and exception analysis.
- Ensuring effective operation of all Treasury Back Office internal controls, particularly around periodic bank reconciliation, daily deal ticket control sheet checks, treasury management system approvals, ensuring accuracy of treasury related postings and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Manage audit readiness with continued maintenance of process documentation, ensuring end-to-end finance processes are clearly documented, kept up to date, and aligned to current controls, governance requirements, and ways of working.
- Embrace system optimisation and process improvement initiatives, championing new tools, controls and ways of working to improve efficiency, insight and data quality.
- Preparing all Treasury related notes and a thorough support file for the half year and full year Group financial statements and other external presentation slides as well as for individual company financial statements.
- Oversight and ultimate responsibility of the teams dealing with daily bank uploads, preparation of periodic bank reconciliations and regular resolution of reconciling items as well as management of the tenant deposit accounts.
- Providing ad-hoc information and analysis on treasury related balances to Treasury Front Office, Senior Management or the Board.
- Reviewing treasury related metrics in the annual budget and forecast model, and contribution to relevant sections in the budget and forecast documents.
- Reviewing financial statements and related note disclosures for entities within the securitised group structure as well as helping pull together covenant calculations for quarterly reporting.
- Keeping abreast of the latest IFRS accounting requirements / standards as well as EPRA reporting requirements and applying these as necessary to the Group and standalone entity’s financial statements.
- When required, assisting with commentary on accounting standards exposure drafts and consultation papers.
- Contributing towards and curating the management of the Treasury section of the Group’s Sharepoint site.
- Adapting the current working files used for reporting into simpler workpapers for review for Senior Management and the direct reporting lines.
- Undertaking ad-hoc accounting projects, transactions and special reviews, as required, including tasks or duties considered to be relevant to the general function of the Group Finance department and wider business.
Requirements
- Qualified Financial Accountant with demonstrable financial accounting and reporting experience.
- Strong people manager with a track record of developing high performing teams and partnering across various business functions and demonstrating leadership.
- Fast learner with a willingness to delve into the detail and resolve issues proactively.
- Demonstrates clear ownership and accountability for deliverables, with a strong commitment to producing high-quality, timely outputs.
- Brings a strong change and improvement mindset, with the ability to pragmatically assess processes, challenge the status quo, and embed sustainable improvements into business-as-usual ways of working.
- Effective communicator, ensuring all reporting lines upward/downward are aware of significant business developments and key priorities.
- Keen to volunteer for special projects to enhance their own professional knowledge and provide further learning to their team.
- Agile and adaptable, with a willingness to champion new systems, tools, and ways of working.
Skills
- Strong Excel capability
- Exposure to, or an interest in developing skills in, Power BI is desirable.
Location
- London, Victoria
Work Type
- Hybrid working (minimum 3 days in the office)
Experience Level
- Previous treasury reporting and experience of working in real-estate is desirable but not mandatory.
Education Level
- Qualified Financial Accountant
Benefits
- Performance based annual bonus plan
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) rising to 27 days after 2 years and the option to purchase up to 10 additional days each year.
- An additional three-day December festive break on top of your leave and a special ‘My Day’ to take off for whatever you choose.
- Enhanced pension contributions – Landsec will contribute up to 10.5% subject to your contribution.
- Private medical insurance, Health Cash Plan, Life assurance and income protection.
- Enhanced maternity, adoption, shared parental leave policies
- Two different share plans enabling you to share in the success you will help to build
- Up to 4 working days to volunteer per year and 'Give As You Earn' programmes allowing you to donate to charities straight out of your pay and we top up by 20%
- Employee assistance programme
- Digital GP
- Cycle to work scheme
- A mindfulness app
- A health app supporting fertility and menopause
About the Company
- We identify and shape places that create opportunity, enhance quality of life, and bring joy to the people connected to them. This is how we’ve created the UK’s leading portfolio of urban places and one of the largest real estate companies in Europe. Our £10 billion portfolio is built around premium workplaces, the country’s pre-eminent retail platform, and a residential pipeline that will redefine urban life. We’ve honed this ability over 80 years. Spotting the opportunities, building the partnerships, and continually adapting to shape the places that meet the needs of a changing world. Places where life happens. Where businesses grow. And where cities are defined.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, disability, gender identity and gender expression, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy and/or parental status, ethnicity, race, nationality, citizenship, cultural background, socio-economic background, religion or belief
