As a Head of Finance within urbanbubble, you will play a crucial role ensuring that our operational colleagues have accurate and timely financial and non-financial information to enable robust decision-making. If you're an ambitious and adaptable finance professional, with a strong desire to drive improvements in reporting, processes, and controls, this may be the role for you!
You will be tasked with providing strong leadership, controls and innovation within the Build to Rent finance space to enable the Company to achieve its overall business objectives. This is a broad and all-encompassing role which exposes you to a wide variety of stakeholders in the business.
As a Head of Finance, you'll find yourself working with a team of talented people who are committed to driving financial improvement, scalability, and customer experience. As part of the urbanbubble finance team and the senior management team, the role will be varied and challenging, supporting a large (and growing) property management business.
You will build strong relationships and drive improvements to help this fast-paced business continue to thrive and will enjoy an environment that encourages the development of skills, knowledge and experience and offers long-term career progression. New ideas and initiatives are encouraged, and we believe will make a difference and help shape the future of the business.
What do we offer?
* Salary of up to £65,000, 10% bonus, 30 days holiday plus birthday off, hybrid working, PMI, enhanced family leave policies, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, Pet lovers Friday, enhanced sick pay, study support and much more.
What will you do?
* Overseeing all financial operations and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, laws and both internal/external SLA's.
* Define and deliver the Finance/SMT agenda in conjunction with the urbanbubble strategic planning cycle.
* Act as a Business Partner to the Build to Rent management leadership team.
* Drive commercial returns of the Build-to-Rent business through constructive challenge and support of the SMT.
* Be responsible for the day-to-day finance support of the operational build-to-rent business across three key areas: Client Reporting: production of monthly client statements and reporting - including analysis of budget vs actuals for institutional grade clients. Financial Planning & Analysis: Oversee all aspects of budgeting, financial forecasting, and financial analysis. Transactional Operations: Accounts receivable, billing, accounts payable and cash/banking.
* Be responsible for the production of KPI/MI reports produced for stakeholders in the build-to-rent and Finance teams.
* Provide timely and accurate financial reporting to the ELT/SMT and financial modelling to the internal team as and when required.
* Responsible for overall levels of debt across the Build-to-Rent portfolio.
* Proactive relationship management of Key Clients.
* Act as a role model and mentor for the values and key behaviours across the organisation.
* Promote peak performance and develop colleagues through effective people management, embracing the one-to-one and review process.
* Ensure the team operates with a clear set of processes and procedures with inbuilt measures of quality and control - with the ability to make this visible to the business.
What are we looking for?
* Qualified CIMA, ACCA, AAT or qualified by experience.
* Proven experience in a similar financial leadership role.
* Previous management of a finance team is essential.
* Experience in owner managed SME businesses.
* Experience in maintaining the accuracy and integrity of accounting records of designated portfolios preferably within the property sector or something of a similar nature.
* Demonstrable experience in delivering excellent results through people.
* Knowledge of Yardi is desirable.
* Excellent People Management Skills.
* Excellent attention to detail and strong organisation skills.
* Great communication skills, particularly in terms of presenting financial information to non-finance people, both verbally and in writing.
* Able to work on own initiative and manage own workload to strict deadlines.
* Analytical with good attention to detail and numeracy skills.
* Strong IT skills, with particular competence in spreadsheets/Excel (advanced) and finance systems.
* Engaging, possessing good stakeholder management skills.
* Ability to analyze information and processes.
* Positive attitude to Change and embracing new ideas and ways of working.
* Ability to work within a broad finance team and consider cross-team impacts of new processes.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and invite applicants to contact us to identify any additional support you may need during the recruitment process.
urbanbubble requires people who are professional, hardworking, innovative, passionate; who are effective in their roles and who truly engage with the customer.
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