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About the Role
This interim role focuses on driving and delivering financial improvement projects across the business, identifying opportunities to improve processes, create efficiencies, and strengthen financial operations. You will work closely with Finance and IT teams to enhance Management Reporting, Balance Sheet Control, Statutory Reporting, and potentially Tax.
Responsibilities
- Design and establish regular balance sheet reconciliation, reporting, review, and controls.
- Roll out new processes to the management accounts team and supervise the team during process establishment.
- Support year-end and audit with key technical accounting analyses, policies, and memos.
- Prepare statutory accounts and workbooks for auditors.
- Analyze historic VAT exposures and design/implement controls to mitigate risk.
- Automate the inter-company recharge process.
- Improve ERP system integration with P2P system and implement robust non-recoverable VAT processes.
- Schedule system rollouts.
- Identify and improve other system inefficiencies.
- Develop and document accounting policies and standing operating procedures.
- Migrate old accounting systems to a cloud database.
- Drive a speedier month-end process by identifying and supporting the implementation of new processes.
- Manage group restructuring, including cleansing historic dormant companies and disposing of non-core operations.
- Facilitate transition to new lease standards.
Requirements
- Good knowledge of Excel and Microsoft Office package.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to consistently produce accurate results to deadlines without continuous supervision.
- Experience with process improvements to drive efficiency in month-end reporting, balance sheet control, or transactional tax.
- Excellent communication skills with a customer-focused attitude.
- Ability to cope with high volumes and peak periods.
Skills
- Excel
- Microsoft Office
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Process improvement
- Management Reporting
- Balance Sheet Control
- Statutory Reporting
- Tax accounting
- VAT accounting
- Inter-company recharges
- ERP system improvements
- Accounting policies
- Standard operating procedures
- Cloud database migration
- Month-end processes
- Group restructuring
- Lease accounting
Location
- London
Work Type
- 12-month fixed-term contract
- Potential to become permanent
Experience Level
- Qualified ACA / ACCA / CIMA accountant
- Experience with implementing new core business platforms
- Experience running multi-entity applications
- Financial accounting experience
- Knowledge of VAT rules and their application to the property industry
- MS Power Automate experience
Education Level
- Qualified ACA / ACCA / CIMA accountant
Benefits
- Private Medical Insurance
- Medicash
- Life Assurance
- Pension Scheme
- Birthday Off
- Volunteering Days
About the Company
- Retirement Villages Group is a company focused on financial improvement projects.