Management Accountant

Management Accountant

Location London Office

Reports to Financial Controller

Role description:

Four Corners is growing fast. Building structure as we go and figuring things out together. Not everything is in place yet, and that is exactly what makes it a truly exciting place to be.

We’re creating a UK platform focused on homes and neighbourhoods that work for real people. Building on the deep experience and competence of Heimstaden, one of Europe’s largest residential specialists with over 150,000 homes across nine countries, we have the ability and scale to make things happen, but the pace and freedom of a much smaller business.

This is a place for people who like the build; who see opportunity in the unknown, stay hands-on, and want to leave things better than they found them. The culture is still taking shape, and we are bringing in people who want to help define it; curious and driven. A performance mindset matters here; people who set high standards and move with intent.

 We are seeking a proactive and highly organised Management Accountant to join our growing UK finance team. This role plays a key part in ensuring accurate financial reporting, robust controls, and will partner with operating teams to offer insight into performance and support decision making.

We’re building something special together, and that’s best done side by side, so this role is based in our London office alongside the rest of the accounting and reporting team.

This is a role for someone who wants to be close to the numbers and close to the business. You will be hands-on across the full finance cycle, from the ledgers and reconciliations through to management accounts, statutory reporting and lender packs, while helping shape how the function works as it grows. The right person takes pride in getting the fundamentals right, enjoys the variety of working across multiple entities, and sees the job as more than producing the numbers: it is about explaining what they mean and helping colleagues in the operating teams make better decisions. You will be comfortable raising your hand when something could be done better, and leaving each process in better shape than you found it.

Key accountabilities:                  

· Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual management accounts for multiple entities and groups, including consolidations, and all supporting schedules and workings to meet reporting deadlines.

Financial accounting and reporting

·Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual management accounts for multiple entities and groups, including consolidations, and all supporting schedules and workings

·Prepare annual statutory reports and financial statements and supporting schedules

·Support the financial year-end audit process, including preparation of audit files, schedules, and responses to auditor queries

·Calculate and post all transactions, accruals, prepayments, and adjustments, for multiple entities and groups, ensuring the correct accounting

·Maintain and reconcile the ledgers, ensuring accuracy and completeness at all times

·Perform monthly balance sheet and control account reconciliations, including debtors, creditors, intercompany balances, accruals, and prepayments

· Prepare monthly and other management reports and variance analysis for management, boards, lenders, and investors, partnering with the operating teams to offer actionable insight into performance and support decision making.

·Prepare budgets and forecasts for multiple entities and groups, coordinating with all teams to ensure accuracy

·Prepare monthly and other management reports and variance analysis for management, boards, lenders, and investors, partnering with the operating teams to offer insight into performance and support decision making

·Provide financial insight into portfolio performance, identifying key trends, risks, and opportunities

·Support preparation of cashflow forecasts and analysis

Lender and investor reporting

• Support with lender compliance reports, covenant calculations, and financial and property reporting information
• Assist with investor reporting packs, including performance metrics and financial summaries

Accounts payable, receivable, and banking

• Review supplier invoices, ensuring correct coding, approval, and posting
• Verification of new suppliers, including Construction Industry Scheme status and telephone verification of bank accounts
• Review and manage workflows
• Prepare ad hoc payments in accordance with approval policies
• Reconcile bank accounts across multiple entities on a weekly basis, investigating and resolving discrepancies promptly
• Prepare and/or manage invoicing, receipts, expenditure, allocations, and other cash movements in co-ordination with property management and transactional accounting teams

Tax and compliance

• Prepare and submit VAT and CIS returns, ensuring compliance with scheme rules
• Preparation of information packs for submission to tax advisors and responses to queries
• Ensure compliance with internal procedures, controls, and relevant accounting standards

Other responsibilities

• Manage finance mailboxes and respond to all queries promptly
• Support all finance team accounting, reporting, audits, and statutory reporting processes
• Develop and enhance finance systems, processes, and reporting frameworks
• Preparation of board minutes, resolutions and other support required to execute finance operations and other administrative matters
• Support internal audit by carrying out periodic reviews of other finance and wider team functions
• Assist with ad-hoc financial analysis, scenario modelling, and strategic initiatives

Your experience:

• Qualified accountant
• Proven experience in a similar role within property, real estate investment, or asset management
• Strong understanding of UK GAAP
• Experience of preparing management accounts and financial statements
• Proficiency with accounting systems and advanced Excel skills
• Organised with strong attention to detail, analytical skills, and ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• A collaborative team player with a continuous improvement mindset

How you work:

• Hands-on and self-motivated, taking real ownership of your work and seeing it through from start to finish
• Curious about the story behind the numbers, and able to explain it clearly to colleagues who are not finance specialists
• Organised and dependable, managing competing deadlines across multiple entities without letting standards slip
• Constructively challenging, quick to spot where a process could be simpler or a control tighter, and keen to put the improvement in place
• Commercially minded, focused on continuous improvement
• Calm under pressure, solution-orientated and pragmatic