Senior Client Accounting Manager

1 month ago


Caldecotte, United Kingdom Connells Group HQ Full time

**Senior Client Accounting Manager**
**Based in Milton Keynes but occasional travel to Nottingham**
**Our Nottingham office is minutes away from J27 of the M1.**
**Examples of _what_ you will be doing**:

- Lead, direct and take responsibility for the Countrywide client accounting teams
- Ensure that accurate management information is produced on a monthly basis and presentation of key data at Monthly Operational Board Meetings
- Establish a framework that will guide client accounting behaviours and monitoring
- Review and recommend the client accounting team structure and reporting lines
- Improve the control environment, embedding minimum control standard through regular review and ongoing communication, enforced by periodic audits
- Maintain and develop policies and procedures;driving standardisation (where appropriate) and change
- Ensure processes are optimised to record client funds accurately and timely, working with colleagues in a wider process optimisation project
- Review existing client accounting managers;experience, training and competency
- Development and preparation of a monthly dashboard to inform the CFO and Managing Directors of the status of client accounting
- Reviewing the control environment and procedures at each client accounting centre
- Reviewing the controls in branches where clients funds may be handled
- Review our regulatory obligations relating to client accounting
- Develop a plan to consolidate the smaller remote client accounting teams into the main centres
- Work in partnership with Finance Directors, Client Accounting Managers and their teams to identify synergies and share best practice, skills, insights and feedback to enhance effective, consistent delivery of financial reporting activities to the business

**Examples of how you will know you are doing a great job**:

- Insights for improving the control environment are successfully implemented
- Internal communication around the robustness of our client accounting operations is supported by accurate and timely reporting
- Excellent feedback from the Finance Directors
- All internal and external audit recommendations are cleared in the agreed time frame
- Positive feedback from client accounting managers in terms of support, also evidenced by proactive communications and consultations from them

**Experience you have that will set you up for success**:

- You will have experience as an auditor, internal or external, and a good understanding of risk and control environment
- You are recognised for your diligent approach and attention to detail
- You will have developed and maintained robust procedures strengthening controls and mitigating risk
- You have strong written and verbal skills to communicate succinctly
- You are motivated and enjoy working autonomously and have effective project management skills to ensure deadlines and conflicting priorities are managed
- You will enjoy working as part of an open and friendly team, with demonstrable experience of commitment to delivery of wider team goals and getting hands-on under pressure
- You will have thrived in dynamic environments, challenging the status quo and driving genuine change and improvements across businesses

Connells Group is one of the largest and most successful estate agency and property services providers in the UK and as of March 2021 also encompasses Countrywide.Founded in 1936 and with a network of over 1,200 branches nationwide, the Group combines residentialsales and lettings expertise with a range of consumer and corporate services.



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