Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Accountant

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We are Places Developments, we build thousands of well-designed, innovative homes across the UK each year. When we develop new places, we put everything into delivering homes and neighbourhoods that work for the whole community.

We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this? We surround ourselves with focused people, commercial people, and collaborative people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.

More About Your Role

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ROLE WILL REQUIRE TWO DAYS PER WEEK WORKING FORM OUR OFFICE IN LONDON

This is an exciting role for a commercially minded Accountant (either fully qualified or able to demonstrate capabilities through experience) who is looking for an analytical role where the work you do supports financial and operational performance. You will provide a fully comprehensive planning and budgeting service for our organisation.

Providing a full appraisal, accounting, reporting, and financial administration service with respect to a portfolio of PM&R projects in collaboration with the Finance Manager and Finance Director (Placemaking & Regeneration).

In this role you will oversee, analyse, and create evaluations which will allow the project team to maximise project cash flows and returns, the models must be sufficiently advanced to support a range of project scenarios and options

Examples of such projects are Gilston Park and East Wick & Sweetwater; two of the Group’s largest development opportunities. The East Wick project will deliver 1,850 homes over a 10+ year period with a development value of over £900m. The Gilston Park project will deliver infrastructure of up to £1bn to facilitate the development of circa 8,500 homes.

This is a Hybrid role, your time will be split between the office & home based role, ideally 2 days a week in the Grays Inn Road, London office.

For more information please download our job profile available on our website.

More About You

We are looking for a qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or someone who has considerable experience within an FP&A type role. You will also be looking for a position that combines day to day reporting with routine and ad hoc project work and collaboration with the Finance Manager, and as such will be a natural multi-tasker. You will have experience of working for a housebuilder and working with joint ventures.

You will need advanced Excel skills and be comfortable with modelling complex spreadsheets with large amounts of data, with this in mind it would be ideal for you to have experience working in a large matrixed business, preferably a housebuilders. You should also be able to evidence where you have identified and implemented process improvements that have increased efficiency and made a tangible difference. The role will involve some work with the wider business so good stakeholder management skills are also required.

The Benefits

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you job security and all the challenge you could wish for. Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.

Benefits

We know that there’s always more we can do to make you smile, that’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier which can include

• Excellent holiday package and rewards
• Pension with matched contributions
• Training
• Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.
  

What’s next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.