Senior Finance Officer

This growing London based property development and hospitality company are looking to recruit an experienced Senior Finance Officer, who will be responsible for the finances for the Hotel & Hospitality division, managing the flow of work, leading a small finance team, supporting their performance in the overall delivery of the companies’ objectives.

Reporting to the Group Head of Finance, your daily duties will include:

• Prepare annual statutory financial statements including balance sheet reconciliations for Auditors, for the hospitality division of the Group.
• Responsible for the preparation of the statutory and management accounts for the Hotel & Hospitality division.
• Proactive cash control; overseeing the credit control, sales, and purchase ledger; ensuring the team are accurately recording data for reporting purposes.
• Undertaking debt control responsibilities, ensuring aged debtors do not exceed set parameters and bad debts minimised through recovery procedures.
• Management of bank accounts including overseeing of timely reconciliations & monitoring cash balances to meet budgetary requirements.
• Support the Head of Finance with the development, implementation and monitoring of processes & procedures which will evolve to meet the changing needs of a growing business,

The successful candidate will be a newly qualified, finalist accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA), or part qualified with significant relevant ‘ hands-on’ experience. You must have significant experience with a broad finance role, ideally within the Hotel and Hospitality sector, that has covered both the financial/management accounting and reporting requirements.

You must possess excellent supervisory and leadership experience from a similar sized organisation, ensuring that you are hands on and the team is motivated to deliver the tasks against the deadlines. It is imperative that you have strong interpersonal and communication with the ability to support and communicate with senior internal and external stakeholders.

It is essential that you have excellent systems skills including varied finance systems including Sage, Xero, QuickBooks whilst being a excellent experienced using Excel.