Description:
Given the significant transformation and growth of Plus X Innovation, we are looking for a finance professional, preferably with experience at a flexible workspace operator and / or hotel operator or more generally within the real estate sector, to work closely with our CFO, and partner closely with key internal and external stakeholders. With a commercial and analytical mindset, you will embrace the Plus X Innovation brand values of Collaboration, Innovation and Positive Change, for our business and our community.
This role has a broad remit - you will be expected to cover all aspects of finance related to a property operating business, from processing invoices, through to analysis and reporting for the financial and management accounts. You will have the opportunity to shape our finance function and the commercial culture at Plus X Innovation. We are looking for someone with a hands-on attitude, willing to take full ownership of all accounting and reporting processes and responsibilities. As a key role at Plus X Innovation, there is scope for this individual to grow and take on more responsibility in the future.
Main Duties:
- Running the accounts function for the three current trading companies
- Purchase ledger, payment runs, bank reconciliations, payroll & income reconciliation
- Ensuring that our digital approvals and payment systems including customer billing, are set up correctly to maximise automation and accuracy. We currently use OfficeRnD, ApprovalMax, Expend and Xero.
- Owning month end ensuring reporting is accurate, timely and complete to include, accruals, prepayments, deprecation etc.
- Working with location teams to produce monthly occupancy statistics on members, contracts, sales etc.
- Preparing timely, accurate and insightful reporting both weekly and monthly to inform management decisions
- Variance analysis of financial and operating data
- Supporting the CFO in monitoring and adding value to business performance
- Partnering with a broad range of business stakeholders in preparing management information and providing 'real time' support and analysis
- Ensuring there are the efficient and effective systems and processes in place to support and enable our colleagues across the business
- Support the year end annual accounts process
Key Result Areas
- Month end close down and reporting completed on time
- Subsidiary ledgers are neat and reconciled
- All key control accounts reconciled
- Supplier payment runs are prepared on time to meet internal deadlines
- Location Teams supported with complete and accurate monthly billing
- Internal budget holders have a clear understanding of their monthly figures and ensure accurate posting of costs to their ledgers
- Positive feedback from internal stakeholders on finance business partnering support
- Improvements and efficiencies made in the existing accounting procedures and systems.
This role reports into our CFO.
Qualifications and Skills
- A finalist or part qualified ACCA, CIMA or ACA
- Strong technical skills coupled with working knowledge of a multi-site Real Estate or flexible workspace office operating environment
- Understand and enjoy the accountability and variation that comes with working in a scale-up environment
- Proven experience setting up and embedding effective processes and procedures
- Strong Excel and system skills and ideally experience of using Xero.
- Be willing to challenge the “status quo” and find new technology and innovative ways to improve processes and systems to increase efficiencies
- Proactive approach to continuous improvement and problem solving
- Enthusiastic, with the desire and ability to learn about the operational and commercial side of the business
- Capacity to maintain exceptional attention to detail whilst managing high volumes of data