Financial Accountant

We identify and shape places that create opportunity, enhance quality of life, and bring joy to the people connected to them. This is how we’ve created the UK’s leading portfolio of urban places and one of the largest real estate companies in Europe. Our £10 billion portfolio is built around premium workplaces, the country’s pre-eminent retail platform, and a residential pipeline that will redefine urban life. We’ve honed this ability over 80 years. Spotting the opportunities, building the partnerships, and continually adapting to shape the places that meet the needs of a changing world. Places where life happens. Where businesses grow. And where cities are defined.

Location

This role is based at London, Victoria and offers hybrid working (Minimum 3 days in the office).

The Team

You will join the Property Accounting team within Group Finance, working closely with colleagues across Finance Operations, Financial Reporting, Performance Management and Commercial Finance. The team sits at the heart of the organisation and plays a key role in supporting Landsec’s internal and external financial reporting.

The team culture is collaborative, supportive, and focused on continuous improvement. You will work alongside experienced finance professionals who value clear communication, teamwork, strong analytical skills, and a proactive mindset that embraces accountability and delivers positive change.

The role

The Financial Accountant has full accountability for the integrity, timeliness, accuracy and governance of key income lines of the P&L, delivering high‑quality variance analysis and insight, and supporting year‑end reconciliations across the portfolio.

As a key member of Finance, the role drives continuous improvement and automation, champions new systems and ways of working, and ensures high‑quality, on‑time delivery that strengthens regulatory compliance and stakeholder confidence. The Financial Accountant is known for high quality, accurate and timely reporting, has strong technical capability and can leverage systems to enhance insight, streamline processes and embed automation.

A core expectation of the role is to proactively challenge the status quo, drive change and process improvements, enhance controls, elevate reporting quality and embed more efficient, data‑driven ways of working.

What makes this role unique?

• You will not simply identify improvement opportunities, but own and deliver change initiatives from concept through to implementation, making this a role that truly creates lasting benefits.

• You will have end‑to‑end ownership of key income P&L lines for month‑end close across, ensuring delivery is accurate, on time and fully aligned to agreed SLAs.

• You will work closely with key stakeholders across Finance Operations, Financial Reporting, Performance Management and Commercial Finance, building strong partnerships to influence accuracy, transparency, and control.

• You will proactively leverage new systems to deliver efficient, automated and system-led solutions, challenging the status quo and improving end-to-end processes across reporting, analysis and insight.

• You will develop a strong technical and commercial foundation across key income P&L lines

• You will be tech-literate proactively utilising new systems to streamline, automate and improve current ways of working.

• You will be a core member of the Property Accounting team, delivering high quality, on time outputs and earning the trust of key stakeholders.

Principle Accountabilities

• Manage the month‑end close and reporting for key income P&L lines across gross rental income, commercialisation and other income across the portfolio.

• Proactive processing of month end journals, accruals, deferred income and prepayments to ensure month end runs to time and to a high quality.

• Support interim and year‑end activity, partnering across Finance to deliver robust analysis, audit‑ready evidence and high‑quality disclosures.

• Manage the timely review and sign‑off of balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring strong controls, compliance and accuracy.

• Manage audit readiness and the ongoing maintenance of financial controls, proactively partnering with the wider Group Finance team to resolve issues and strengthen governance.

• Partner closely with Commercial Finance to ensure business impacts, for example leasing events are appropriately assessed, accurately accounted for and consistently reported.

• Actively support budgeting activities where relevant and partnering with the Commercial Finance team.

• Build strong, credible relationships with internal stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor across the P&L.

• Streamlined end to end processes delivering accurate and timely reporting.

• Own and deliver portfolio‑level variance analysis and insight identifying risks/opportunities and actionable recommendations for stakeholders.

• Monitor, interpret and communicate key financial KPIs, highlighting emerging trends and escalating material risks and opportunities in a timely way.

• Embrace system optimisation and process improvement initiatives, championing new tools, controls and ways of working to improve efficiency, insight and data quality.

• Continued maintenance of process documentation, ensuring end‑to‑end finance processes are clearly documented, kept up to date, and aligned to current controls, governance requirements, and ways of working.

• Work collaboratively with the Property Accounting team to design and embed a suite of standardised, scalable reporting that enhances decision‑making and provides consistent insight for Commercial Finance and other stakeholders.

Essential Criteria

• Qualified Financial Accountant

• Proven financial accounting and reporting experience, with a strong understanding of complex accruals, prepayments, balance sheet reconciliations, and variance analysis, ensuring accuracy and strong financial governance.

• Demonstrates clear ownership and accountability for deliverables, with a strong commitment to producing high‑quality, timely outputs.

• Understanding of budgeting processes, with the ability to actively support budget preparation and review.

• Highly analytical and commercially minded, with strong attention to detail and the confidence to challenge existing practices and recommend improvements.

• Proactive problem solver, able to identify issues early, escalate appropriately, and contribute to continuous process and control improvements.

• Strong prioritisation skills, able to balance accuracy, efficiency, and business priorities in a fast‑paced, complex environment with competing deadlines and stakeholder needs.

• Brings a strong change and improvement mindset, with the ability to pragmatically assess processes, challenge the status quo, and embed sustainable improvements into business‑as‑usual ways of working.

• Effective communicator with strong written and verbal skills, able to explain and distil complex financial information clearly for non‑financial stakeholders.

• Works collaboratively across teams, building effective relationships to support delivery and shared outcomes.

• Strong Excel capability; exposure to, or an interest in developing skills in, Power BI is desirable.

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