Finance Manager

Sewell Wallis Ltd; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% annual bonus

Company pension (7%)

Health Insurance

Hybrid working - 3 days on site

On site gym

Free Parking

Local to the train station

Job summary

Sewell Wallis Ltd in Greater Manchester is recruiting a Finance Manager to support a growing PE-backed property business in Stockport. A senior technical accounting role covering ~160 entities, with focus on property disposals, acquisitions and restructurings.

You will lead complex consolidations, model restructures in Excel, review legal documents and provide guidance to the finance team. The role offers significant growth opportunities and reports to the Head of Project Accounting.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA) with practice or industry experience.
• Experience in large multi-entity businesses and complex consolidations.
• Strong Excel modelling and ability to review legal documents.

Responsibilities

• Review ~160 entities and perform complex consolidations.
• Lead accounting for property acquisitions, disposals and revaluations.
• Build Excel models for restructures, debt and distributions.
• Analyse group structures and intercompany flows across entities.
• Provide technical accounting guidance to finance and senior stakeholders.
• Support reporting, audits and process improvement initiatives.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Excel modelling

Technical accounting

Reviewing legal documents

Questioning transactions

Education

ACA/ACCA

Job description

Sewell Wallis are recruiting a Finance Manager for a growing Greater Manchester PE-backed property business in Stockport.

A senior technical accounting role supporting ~160 entities, with a key focus on property disposals, acquisitions and entity restructurings depending on performance.

Responsible for accounting for complex transactions across multi-tier group structures, including debt, distributions, capitalisations and revaluations.

Requires strong technical accounting, Excel modelling and legal document review skills, with the ability to translate complex transactions into the correct accounting treatment.

This role would suit someone Practice trained, with experience in a large multi-entity business, who is currently doing complex consolidations, or someone from a Transactions and M&A background, and is keen to take their next step into a phenomenal business which will offer massive growth opportunities. This role reports to the Head of Project Accounting, who is a great mentor!

What will you be doing?

• Support the Head of Accounting with review of approx. 160 entities, which involves complex consolidations of accounts.
• Lead accounting for property acquisitions, disposals and annual revaluations across relevant entities.
• Build and maintain Excel models for restructures, debt, distributions, capitalisations and other complex transactions.
• Analyse multi-tier group structures and transaction flows across holding companies, subsidiaries, partnerships and trusts.
• Review legal documentation to determine the appropriate accounting treatment for transactions.
• Provide technical accounting guidance, training and review to the wider finance team and senior stakeholders.
• Investigate and resolve complex accounting issues, including intercompany and entity-level discrepancies.
• Support reporting, audit, finance transformation and process improvement initiatives, strengthening controls and efficiency.

What skills are we looking for?

• Qualified Accountant - ACA/ACCA
• Experience working in a large multi-entity business
• Confident with complex consolidations of 50+ entities.
• Strong stakeholder management experience
• Confident in questioning transactions and challenging information that appears incomplete, inconsistent or unsupported.
• Highly proactive, motivated and comfortable taking ownership of deliverables.

What's on offer?

• Starting salary of £70,000
• 20% annual bonus
• Company pension (7%)
• Health Insurance
• Exciting quarterly social events
• Hybrid working - 3 days on site
• On site gym
• Free Parking
• Local to the train station