Finance Director (New Home Builds)

Finance Director – New Homes (Part-Time/Flexible) Location – Romsey Rapidly expanding property development company have an urgent requirement for an experienced Finance Director to join the team at their offices perfectly located in central Romsey.

The Role We are seeking a dynamic and very experienced Finance and Accounting professional from within the Residential New Build industry to join our clients team in an important role as part of their continued growth. The role will suit a qualified accountant, who has been in a Finance Director, or senior management position for an established house builder or property developer. The role of Finance Director will drive the financial performance of the business and is a key member of the management team, supporting the Managing Director achieve the agreed business plan and sustainable, profitable growth. The Finance Director will have a broad level of operational knowledge to enable critical review and challenge of key decisions and information across all of the businesses disciplines. The position will probably suit a very experienced individual who ideally is wanting to work around 15-20 hours per week within this role, maybe alongside other engagements. Client is flexible regarding payment terms (Umbrella/Ltd Co Contract).

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop a business plan for the division with other functional heads within the business and ensuring it is aligned to the company’s strategic objectives.
• Ownership of the budget and three year forecast for the business, ensuring it is accurate and well managed, and ultimately delivering it.
• Review and challenge proposed land acquisitions, including areas such as the financial assumptions and VAT issues.
• Primary divisional contact for HR, payroll, IT and fleet issues with support available from business.
• Lead and manage the finance team and ensure accuracy, quality and efficiency are maximised.
• Manage the interim and year end process with external auditors through to sign off for the business.
• Oversee all month end processes for the business and timely delivery of management information to the senior leadership team.
• Treasury management – ensuring monthly and daily cash flow forecasts for the business are as accurate as possible.
• Accurately complete returns to the business such as at year end, half year end, budgets, pay review, bonus calculations, National Statistics and prompt payments.
• Management compliance and overall responsibility for all taxes relating to the business. This includes VAT, CIS, payroll taxes and corporation tax.
• Forecast valuation revenues in conjunctions with the Sales Director for inclusion in the quarterly valuations.

Experience

• Considerable post-qualified experience gained within industry in a role incorporating accounting and financial control responsibly.
• Experience must include: Financial and management accounting including leading month end close, evidence of responding to and working with external auditors, providing analysis, profit and loss and cashflow, forecasting and planning, supporting and challenging businesses to make optimal operational and performance decisions.
• Experience of successfully leading and developing a team ACA / CIMA Qualification or similar.
• Excellent administration and organisation skills
• Analysis, numerical and report writing skills
• Strong management and time management skills
• Strong communication, listening and problem solving skills
• Ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines
• Demonstrates a high level of discretion and confidentiality.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work on own as well as part of a team
• Proficient IT skills along with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and outlook) and the ability to adapt to new systems.