Financial Planning - Preston, United Kingdom - Appcastenterprise

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We are Places Developments, we build thousands of well-designed, innovative homes across the UK each year. When we develop new places, we put everything into delivering homes and neighbourhoods that work for the whole community.


We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in.

How do we do all this? We surround ourselveswith focused people, commercial people, and collaborative people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.


More about your role


This is an exciting role for a commercially minded Accountant (either fully qualified or able to demonstrate capabilities through experience) who is looking for an analytical role where the work you do supports financial and operational performance.

Youwill provide a fully comprehensive planning and budgeting service for our organisation.

Woking in conjunction with the Head of Finance and Finance Director of Developments to provide commercial support on a number of the Group's development and business decisions by:

  • Contributing to the development and maintenance of financial models to assess and understand the key performance metrics of Group investment and development decisions, assessing the impact on the Group's cash flow, borrowing requirements, regulatory requirementsand financial statements.
  • Working closely with the Development and Group Finance teams, Development Managers, Group and company Directors to understand the scope of projects, gather and challenge relevant information and assumptions.
Clearly present and explain the financial performance of a project and provide advice so that effective decisions can be made as to how project returns can be improved whilst considering, and where possible, reducing risks

In this role you will oversee, analyse, and create evaluations which will allow the project team to maximise project cash flows and returns, the models must be sufficiently advanced to support a range of project scenarios and options

For more information please download our job profile available on our website.


More about you
We are looking for a qualified Accountant (/ACA/FCA/CA)).

You will also be looking for a position that combines day to day reporting with routine and ad hoc project work and collaboration with the Finance Manager, and as such will be a natural multi-tasker.


You will need advanced Excel skills and be comfortable with modelling complex spreadsheets with large amounts of data, with this in mind it would be ideal for you to have experience working in a large matrixed business, preferably a housebuilders.

You shouldalso be able to evidence where you have identified and implemented process improvements that have increased efficiency and made a tangible difference.

The role will involve some work with the wider business so good stakeholder management skills are also required.


The benefits


We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you job security and all the challenge you could wish for.

Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.

We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier which can include:

  • Excellent holiday package and rewards
  • Pension with matched contributions
  • Training
  • Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.
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