Finance Lead

5 months ago


London, United Kingdom Home Made Full time

**Finance Lead | Home Made**

We're looking for an experienced Finance Manager to come and lead, develop and grow our finance team - a great opportunity to work on developing our processes and systems, enabling the business to continue in its fast expansion

This is a great opportunity to be part of a fast-growing property-tech start-up that is dedicated to fix renting for good.

**Office location**: London, Waterloo (close to Blackfriars, Southwark and Waterloo stations)

**Salary**: £60-80k (Dependent on experience)

**Working Days**: Monday - Friday 9am-6pm. **Hybrid working**: 3 days in office, 2 days at home

**Working with us**:
Home Made is the fastest-growing lettings property-technology company in the UK. Utilising unique technology and a focus on customer centricity we are improving the renting experience to be better, safer, and fairer for all. Our work culture is based on driving change, working with integrity, encouraging a diverse workforce where everyone has the right to be heard. Together we are on a mission to fix renting for good

**Role and Opportunities**:
Include but not limited to
- Leadership and management of the finance function in partnership with the CFO, being an expert for the business
- Take charge for ensuring that the money flowing into and out of the business is correctly allocated, reconciled, and reported on
- Ensure the correct rents are collected from Tenants and transferred to Landlords, flagging to the Property Managers if any rents are unduly delayed
- Ensure relevant money is held on our accounts for management fees, pre-approved contractor invoices, and any appropriate service charges
- Ensure our accounts are always reconciled and our balances are consistently updated to reflect the true state of the account
- Lead on regular account audits: ensuring all money in the client account is accurately allocated
- Coordinate monthly and annual statements of account to send to clients
- Be a main point of contact for our larger clients and an escalation point for the team
- Liaise with external services for tax preparation, auditing, banking, investments, and other financial needs as necessary, including HMRC
- Drive process improvement and review of finance templates and systems, ensuring they are fit for purpose i.e. sales ledger
- Management and growth of a small finance team from attraction and retention to development and motivation
- Review financial data
- Responsible for ensuring our Finance system MRI is working to suit our needs
- Stay up to date with technological advances and accounting software to be used for financial purposes
- Understand and adhere to financial regulations and legislation Establish and maintain financial policies and procedures for the company

**About You**:

- Qualified Accountant (ACCA or equivalent)
- 2-3 years prior demonstrated experience in property / real estate finance position
- 2+ years experience of managing a small team
- A solid understanding of data privacy standards
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- A problem solver and solution finder
- Excel and/or Google Sheets champion

**Benefits of working with us**:

- Annual Leave: 24 days leave + your birthday off
- Modern, state of the art offices
- Employee Perks: discounts for stores, cinema etc
- Yearly Half Day Charity Day
- Office Social Events (Summer and Winter Parties)
- Culture Club: Running Club, ad hoc events for notable dates (St. Patricks day, Diwali, Movember), Meditation Sessions, Mental Health Champions, CSR opportunities
- On site Gym access, showers (towels & shower gel), and indoor bike storage
- Weekly Friday 5pm Happy Hour in the office
- Opportunities to upskill in your career through our Learning and Development Programme

**Interview Process**:
Application: Application & CV - help us get to know you

1st Round: VC with Head of People

2nd Round: Online Assessment

3rd Round: F2F with CEO, CFO and Assessment

**We are an equal-opportunity employer



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