Treasury Financial Accountant

We\’re Landsec
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 in London, Victoria, and offers hybrid working, with three days in the office.
The Role:

• The Treasury Financial Accountant is a pivotal role, working alongside the Treasury Reporting Manager to oversee the Treasury Back Office team, with onus to reshape this into one of our highest performing teams. This is an exciting role, providing the successful applicant with insight into our core treasury function, in a particularly interesting macroeconomic environment.
• Salary: competitive

The Team:

• The role will help oversee the day-to-day activities of two Cash and Bank Accountants who have responsibility for various daily reconciliations, bank transaction uploads, tenant deposit management and related journal postings.
• The role is also a key business partner to our Treasury Front Office team, and the broader Group and Commercial Finance teams. This includes ad-hoc reporting and transaction related support.
• The prime reporting responsibility will be to the Treasury Reporting Manager but on certain issues it will also be to the Group Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer as well as the Head of Financial Accounting and Head of Statutory Reporting.

What you will be responsible for:

• Working on the accounting needs of the Group\’s Treasury structure, including journal postings for fixed/floating debt and derivatives.
• Assisting in the preparation of the Treasury analysis for the Group Management Information pack relating to net finance expense, borrowings and treasury metrics and exception analysis, where needed.
• Ensuring effective operation of all Treasury Back Office internal controls, particularly around periodic bank reconciliation, daily deal ticket control sheet checks and ensuring accuracy of treasury related postings.
• Assisting in the preparation of Treasury related notes and a thorough support file for the half year and full year financial statements and other external presentation slides.
• Assisting with the day-to-day oversight of two Cash and Bank Accountants with responsibility for the daily bank uploads, preparation of periodic bank reconciliations and regular resolution of reconciling items as well as maintenance of the tenant deposit accounts.
• Providing ad-hoc information and analysis on treasury related balances to Treasury Front Office and Senior Management.
• Reviewing treasury related metrics in the annual budget and forecast model, and contribution to relevant sections in the budget and forecast documents, where required.
• Reviewing financial statements and related note disclosures for entities within the securitised group structure as well as helping pull together covenant calculations for quarterly reporting.
• Deputise for the Treasury Reporting Manager when required.
• Undertaking ad-hoc accounting projects, transactions and special reviews, as required, including tasks or duties considered to be relevant to the general function of the Group Finance department and wider business.

Your skills, experience and qualifications:
Essential criteria

• Accountancy Qualification
• Good understanding of IFRS
• To take initiative to identify and resolve issues
• Ownership of work, delivering to tight deadlines and with completing priorities
• Proficiency in adapting to and utilising new technology and software
• Ability to implement change to improve financial processes and systems
• Ability to clearly convey financial information to stakeholders
• Working effectively with cross-functional teams
• Building strong relationships across the business

Life and Benefits at Landsec
We have a great benefits package, there to support you with your work-life balance and in moments that matter. We offer fantastic Learning and Development opportunities to help you grow and reach your potential and we also play our part in supporting the communities where we live and work.
Below are some of our core benefits, make sure to visit our My Total Reward page for more information.

• Performance based annual bonus plan
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) rising to 27 days after 2 years and the option to purchase up to 10 additional days each year. Enjoy an additional three-day December festive break on top of your leave and a special \’My Day\’ to take off for whatever you choose.
• Enhanced pension contributions – Landsec will contribute up to 10.5% subject to your contribution.
• Private medical insurance, Health Cash Plan, Life assurance and income protection.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, shared parental leave policies (view our Family policies page for more details)

• Two different share plans enabling you to share in the success you will help to build
• Up to 4 working days to volunteer per year and \’Give As You Earn\’ programmes allowing you to donate to charities straight out of your pay and we top up by 20%

And when it comes to your health and wellbeing you will also have access to other benefits: our employee assistance programme, digital GP, cycle to work scheme, a mindfulness app and a health app supporting fertility and menopause
Diversity and Inclusion
At Landsec, we value diversity & inclusion. We work to better reflect the diversity of the communities we work within and empower everyone who works at Landsec to realise their potential.
We strive to ensure all our information, and services are accessible to and usable by everyone. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, please get in touch with our recruitment partners by emailing
To find out more about our approach, visit our Diversity and Inclusion page.

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