Finance Manager

This role is responsible for delivering corporate accounting for Greystar Europe. This includes applying generally accepted accounting principles to analyse financial information, reconcile financial statements, prepare general and standard journal entries, assist in budget and strategic planning, and prepare standard accounting and financial reports for management.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for Corporate Accounting across Europe, including monthly financial reporting that includes accurate and timely variance analysis commentary.
• Responsible for monitoring and reporting of all operating expenses and providing monthly updates to the FP&A team on potential risk and opportunities.
• Working closely with the FP&A team and the relevant business and finance owners during the reforecast and Business Plan cycles.
• Assist with the accounting for monthly payroll and delivering the payroll walks for both monthly reporting and forecast and business plans with assistance from the other finance managers.
• Prepare and review monthly balance sheet reconciliations packs are completed for each region.
• Business partner with the budget holders and provide detailed monthly analysis tracking actuals against budget and forecast.
• Work with the Corporate Finance team to document processes and drive process improvements, efficiencies and automate monthly tasks.
• Implement process and procedural improvements to streamline work, increase productivity, and maintain service and quality excellence.
• Review and approve weekly supplier payments, provided by the AP Support.
• Responsible for compliance reporting including country VAT submissions.
• Assisting with development and implementation of accounting control procedures.
• Ensures customer satisfaction by responding to requests from owners, business leaders, community managers, and others related to financial reports, statements, and established budgets.
• Completes various financial, accounting, administrative, and other reports and analysis, and performs other duties as assigned or as necessary.

About You

You’re a qualified accountant with strong real estate finance experience and a solid grasp of GAAP, VAT, company structures, and financial controls. Confident with Excel, audits, and complex financial data, you can turn numbers into clear insights for senior stakeholders.

Organised, commercially aware, and hands‑on, you take ownership, manage competing priorities, and lead others with confidence. You bring a positive attitude, sharp attention to detail, and the ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, multi‑jurisdictional environment.

What We Offer

We include a range of benefits for our corporate team members, including competitive pension, healthcare, and holiday allowance, amongst others as standard.

About Greystar

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated real estate company offering expertise in investment management, development, and management of rental housing properties globally. The company’s business model is unique in its ability to own, operate, and develop multifamily, student, and senior housing across the globe. Building a global platform with a local presence, Greystar continues to expand its geographic reach around the world, bringing a globally interconnected professional rental housing platform and industry funded with institutional capital to countries where the sector does not yet exist. Greystar’s pan‑European platform was established in 2013 and has scaled rapidly, now with investment, operational and development presence in the UK, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and Spain.

One of Greystar’s core values is Equality, and as such, we continue to pride ourselves on being an equal opportunities employer, accounting for all protected and identifiable characteristics. We truly value diversity of thought, background and of experience.