Senior Accountant

Sewell Wallis are recruiting for a fast-paced, growing property business in Manchester, who are looking to recruit a confident Senior Accountant with property experience. This role is for a 6-month fixed term contract, there is the possibility for extension, or to be made permanent due to the business's growth plans.

This role is newly made to support the Senior Finance Manager with production of management accounts and managing a small team.

This is an exciting business, and an excellent opportunity to get your foot in the door of a very forward thinking, progressive company that has a great work-life balance, really strong collaborative approach, open-door policy, and a fantastic reputable team to work alongside in a beautiful modern space.

What will you be doing?

• Review and preparation of monthly management accounts and variance analysis
• Review and preparation of balance sheet reconciliations
• Production of monthly and quarterly cash reporting
• Review of monthly CIS returns
• Review of monthly and quarterly VAT returns
• Preparation of quarterly debt compliance reporting
• Production of quarterly group consolidated management accounts and reporting
• Key involvement in the preparation and review of annual accounts and supporting the year-end audit
• Management of Assistant Accountant
• Supporting the Senior Finance Manager managing the team's deliverables
• Identifying opportunities for improvement in current financial processes and leading on projects to implement process enhancements

What skills are we looking for?

• Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)
• 3+ years of property accounting experience
• Ideally mentoring/management experience - although would consider those with a keen interest to manage with no experience.
• Strong IT skills along with advanced Excel.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent organisation skills with ability to set priorities, manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.

What's on offer?

• Competitive salary, 60,000- 65,000.
• Hybrid working model with 3 days in office and 2 days working from home.
• 6 month FTC, which has the potential to be extended or made permanent.
• Tons of progression opportunities and chances for development.
• Life Insurance and Private Healthcare.
• Excellent location, with free parking or 5 minute walk from the train station.

Send us your CV below, or contact Inci Evcil for more information.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.