Management Accountant - High-growth Real Estate Investor & Developer

Deverell Smith; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic real estate investor-developer in London is seeking a Management Accountant to help shape and build their finance function. You will have full ownership over your own portfolio, streamline month-end reporting, and provide critical insights into financial decision-making. The ideal candidate is part-qualified or newly qualified with management accounting experience, ideally within real estate. This competitive role offers a bonus and hybrid working.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Bonus

Hybrid working environment

Clear progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong management accounting experience required, ideally within real estate.
• Part-qualified or newly qualified accounting professional.

Responsibilities

• Full responsibility for portfolio of assets and developments.
• Budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial modelling.
• Month-end reporting for senior leadership and enhancing controls.

Skills

Management accounting experience

Strong analytical skills

Real estate exposure

Education

Part-qualified or newly qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Job description

If you're a Management Accountant who's tired of repetitive month‑end and wants a role with real ownership, visibility, and influence - this is the one you take seriously.

A high‑growth real estate investor‑developer has just entered a major Build to Rent partnership and is now scaling its finance team from the ground up. This isn't replacing someone who left. This is building the blueprint.

Why this role is exciting

• Brand-new finance team - you're joining at the point where systems, processes, and reporting are being designed, not inherited.
• High‑impact work - your analysis directly informs investment decisions, development strategy, and operational performance across BTR schemes.
• Commercial exposure - partner with land, development, operations, and the investment team daily.
• A new Financial Controller from a top‑tier developer - strong leadership, mentorship, and a clear path to career progression.
• Fast‑growing business - genuine future opportunity to step into Finance Manager or FP&A roles as the portfolio scales.

What you'll own

• Full responsibility for your own portfolio of assets and developments.
• Budgeting, forecasting, and long‑term financial modelling support for key projects.
• Month‑end (but streamlined) and improved reporting packs for senior leadership.
• Building new processes, implementing systems, and enhancing financial controls.
• Providing insight that shapes how tens of millions of pounds are deployed.

What they're looking for

• Part‑qualified or newly qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA).
• Strong management accounting experience - ideally with some real estate exposure.
• Someone who wants more than BAU - someone who wants to build, influence, and own.

The package

• Competitive base salary + bonus
• Hybrid working
• High‑growth environment with clear progression

If you want a Management Accountant role where you're closer to the action, shaping the finance function, and influencing decisions that actually matter, this is it.

Sound interesting? Get in touch for the full brief.