Finance Director

WE ARE ONLY CONSIDERING SENIOR FINANCE CANDIDATES FROM WITHIN THE PROPERTY OR STUDENT ACCOMMODATION INDUSTRY FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY - THOSE OUT OF THE INDUSTRY WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED

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 role)

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
• Strong stakeholder management experience.

Applicants must be located and eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship.

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