A Senior Accountant is sought by a commercial lending business based in Central London where you’ll act as the company's eyes and ears on commercial joint ventures and debt financing projects.

This role involves coordinating with JV partners and internal and external stakeholders to ensure a robust management reporting and financial control framework is in place for joint venture development companies within the group. As the Group Finance Director puts it “I’m searching for a strong communicator, who knows real estate, with a commercial mind set. They will work with our JV partners to improve the reporting and financial governance around our JV projects.”

• Preparation of monthly management accounts for SPV and JV companies
• Liaison with senior debt and JV partners to ensure loan covenant and reporting obligations are met
• Maintain JVC cash positions and develop forecasts to assist asset management
• Coordinate with JV partners to improve the quality of their financial reporting
• Continuous process improvement on end to end processes from cash transactions through to accounts preparation
• Oversee delivery of annual statutory accounts for JVC & SPV companies
• Assist in presenting reports to senior executives, stakeholders and board members
• Other ad hoc financial reporting as required

With a large number of ventures set up across the group, they are searching for someone who will relish the challenge of improving and upgrading the quality of information provided to the senior leadership team and investors. You’ll be front and centre for their commercial activities providing financial insight to where projects are up to and what investors should expect.

We’re targeting qualified accountants with significant industry led PQE, who are confident and can speak up when processes can be improved. This is likely to be an individual who has worked in a hands-on position to date, has a solid grasp of real estate, debt finance and commercial joint ventures, communicates effectively, has the gravitas to present to senior leadership and can think on their feet.