Financial Director

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Finance Director

MERJE is excited to present an exceptional opportunity for a Finance Director to join a prominent, fast growing, highly acquisitive and well-established Property and Student Accommodation Business. This role offers a chance to lead financial strategy and operations in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

The Finance Director will play a crucial role in driving the company's financial success and growth.

Salary: Up to £130k plus bonus

Location: Manchester (Office based)

The Role:

As Finance Director, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the ongoing financial stability, control and operational excellence of the group.

Key Responsibilities of the Finance Director:

  • Heading up the Finance function, lead a service driven transaction function and managing the finance team and ensuring a strong technical capability across the team
  • Responsible for maintaining robust financial controls, ensuring compliance with relevant regulation and reporting standards
  • Overseeing the smooth running of day-to-day financial operations.
  • Acting as figurehead for financial excellence across the business.
  • Ownership of the month end and year end close processes
  • Designing, documenting and developing robust financial controls and governance frameworks and dev financial regulations to reflect the structure and scale of the business
  • Lead the planning and preparation of the annual statutory accounts
  • Managing relationships with internal systems providers, internal audit partners to ensure high standards of assurance and collaboration.
  • Play a central role in building a culture of continuous improvement within the finance function and identify and improve manual processes where appropriate.
  • Contributing to leadership activity and support senior stakeholders with high quality financial reporting, analysis and insights

Required knowledge and experience for the Finance Director role:

  • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with significant post-qualification experience
  • Proven track record in senior finance role within the property sector or student accommodation industry
  • Previous experience within Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) would be highly advantageous,
  • Strong leadership skills and ability to manage high-performing teams
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • The ability to present financial information to both finance and non-finance stakeholders
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Location:
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Salary:
£150,000 - £200,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Finance

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