We are looking for a qualified accountant who believes every pound should be accounted for and can be explained.
This is the most senior finance role in our group. You will own the numbers across an education business and a portfolio of property companies, working directly with the founder and managing our in-house bookkeeper. If you take quiet satisfaction in a balance sheet that reconciles to the penny, you will enjoy this job.
About Premier Property
Premier Property is one of the UK’s leading property education businesses. We teach people how to build property portfolios and businesses that create genuine financial freedom, through live events, online programmes and one-to-one mentoring. Thousands of people have been through our training.
Alongside the education business we own and operate a number of property companies — investment, development and trading entities, each with their own portfolios, funding structures and reporting requirements. You will look after all of it.
What you will be doing
- Owning the month-end close across every company in the group, delivered to a fixed timetable
- Producing management accounts with written commentary that explains the variances, not just reports them
- Consolidating the group and keeping intercompany balances, loan accounts and recharges reconciled and documented
- Running the rolling 13-week cashflow forecast and reporting on it weekly
- Maintaining accounts for our property entities, including project-level cost tracking and lender and covenant reporting
- Working with our tax advisers on VAT, SDLT, CGT and corporation tax across the group
- Owning all statutory filings and taking the year-end through to signed accounts with our external accountants
- Designing and enforcing financial controls — approval limits, segregation of duties, expense policy
- Reviewing and challenging spend, and bringing savings to the founder before being asked
- Managing and developing our in-house bookkeeper, and building the checklists that make quality repeatable
What we are looking forEssential
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
- Trained at a Big 4 or top-10 practice, followed by at least three years in industry
- An audit background and the controls instinct that comes with it
- Experience across multiple legal entities — consolidation, intercompany and group reporting
- You have personally owned a month-end close, not only reviewed one
- Strong Excel — you can build and audit a model, not just use one
- Experience managing or developing a junior member of the finance team
- Willing to tell the founder directly when a number or a decision does not stack up
Nice to have
- Property finance experience — investment, development or trading — including lender reporting
- Experience in education, training, events or another high-volume consumer business
- Experience implementing or upgrading a finance system across a group
What we offer
- A salary of £70,000 – £85,000 plus a performance-related bonus
- The most senior finance seat in the business, reporting directly to the founder
- Real breadth — an education business and a property group under one remit
- The autonomy to build the finance function properly, with the systems and controls you think it needs
- A high-energy, high-standards team at our London HQ
- Ongoing professional development and access to our own property education programmes
The working pattern
This role is based full-time at our London head office. We work closely, we move fast, and we think the best decisions get made in the room together. If you are looking for a remote or heavily hybrid role, this is not the one — and that is fine, we would rather be upfront.
How to apply
Apply through Indeed with your CV and a short covering note answering one question: tell us about a discrepancy you found that nobody else had spotted — how you found it, and what it turned out to be.
Shortlisted candidates will complete a short online Working Style Profile (around 10 minutes) and a practical task using a set of month-end figures. There are no trick questions and no right or wrong answers on the profile.
Premier Property is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process.
Pay: £35,000.00-£70,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
