Accountant – Group – Real Estate -London

Ref: (Ref: D21D907 )
Salary: £ 60,000 - 65,000 + Benefits
Specialist Area: Group / Chief Accountant
Type: Permanent
Start Date: ASAP

OUR CLIENT are an established and growing real estate investment and development group. The business has a range of properties under management and are a leading name within the Real Estate sector. They have instructed us to help them recruit a technically solid Group Accountant to be responsible for preparing statutory accounts, and contribute to the processing and audit of a sizeable group of Property companies. The role offers scope for growth and development.

THE ROLE responsibilities for the Group Accountant will include:

• Preparing statutory accounts including consolidations.
• Preparing dormant accounts, Owners Partnership account, National Statistics.
• Preparing interest calculations and supporting loan administration.
• Preparing analysis required for tax department.
• Internal control reviews to support Senior Accounting Officer.
• Preparing property company VAT returns.
• Maintaining fixed asset register.
• Assisting with Insurance processing
• Assisting with rent roll audit and checks.
• Processing analysis for expenses incurred on behalf of charitable entities.
• Ad Hoc Projects.

THE PERSON and SKILL REQUIREMENTS for the Group Accountant role:

• Qualified ACA or ACCA with at least 2 years PQE – ideally with real estate sector / property company exposure.
• Experience of preparing statutory accounts.
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint.
• Highly desirable knowledge of CaseWare for preparing statutory accounts
• Experience and understanding double entry bookkeeping.
• Ability to deal with accounting issues.
• Ability to understand taxation implications of accounting decisions.
• Ability to prioritise and work quickly and accurately to tight deadlines.
• Experience of VAT and CIS are also desirable.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including listening, building support, establishing rapport and demonstrating awareness of internal and external issues in a calm and polite manner.
• Happy to be mainly office based 4-5 days.

BENEFITS:

• Pension
• Life Insurance cover (4x)
• Discretionary bonus
• Health
• Sensible working hours / work-life balance.

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