Finance Manager - London

Knotel is one of the world’s leading flexible workspace platforms that matches, tailors, and manages space for customers. Knotel caters to established and growing companies, giving them the freedom to focus on their business, culture, and people. Knotel was founded in 2016 to give businesses the flexibility and speed to scale on their own terms. All Knotel spaces are tailored to the needs of each individual company by an in-house team of architects, interior designers, and workplace strategists.

JOB DESCRIPTION / PURPOSE: The Finance Manager will play a key role in fulfilling the accounting operations within the finance department and will assist with special projects across the UK as required. At Newmark, we embrace curiosity, integrity, hospitality and tenacious problem-solving. Speed bumps are seen as opportunities to showcase one’s skill. The ability to create and adhere to scalable processes with strong controls and juggle multiple priorities is a must.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Oversee the day-to-day accounting for the Knotel UK Group (20 trading companies)
• Support and develop 3 Management Accountants
• Support the UK Accounts Payable team with invoice and credit memo processing, payments and accruals
• Support with sales invoice processing, revenue reconciliations, bad debt provisions and customer service management
• Overseeing the fixed assets management and attending the year end stock take
• Manage month end deliverables to ensure timely reporting into Newmark US
• Manage month end for the team, ensuring that journals are reviewed and accurate ahead of posting
• Reviewing balance sheet reconciliations and adhere to tight deadlines to ensure completeness, in-line with Newmark US timetable
• Preparation of month end reporting pack with detailed commentary
• Assist with Business Rates processing and liaise with our Commercial Real Estate Partners
• Manage and plan to ensure maximum Empty Property Relief is able to be claimed
• Liaise with European Lease Administration Team for Landlord Payments and assist with Building requirements
• Oversee property related accounting (completion statements, lease incentives, stamp duty, deposits, LL contributions etc)
• Review monthly CIS returns
• Manage the quarterly VAT returns and co-ordinate with Cantor VAT team to identify automation opportunities
• Provide reporting for various tax submissions - quarterly VAT returns, payroll related taxes
• Maintaining financial reports, records, and General Ledger accounts
• Manage audit deliverables and relationship with our auditors
• Provide responses to audit requests
• Prepare the Statutory Trial Balance with a full audit trail from the Oracle source records, including review of all statutory and audit journals
• Support the Leadership team with operational and financial requirements
• Create and distribute accurate internal reports / project summaries to various stakeholders across the organisation, as required
• Identify and drive process improvement projects across finance
• Other duties and ad-hoc projects as assigned

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Progressive accounting experience
• Experience working in large multinational businesses across multiple geographical entities preferred
• Experience working in a multi-function shared services and/or offshore environment a plus

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Advanced knowledge of UK GAAP required
• Basic knowledge of US GAAP preferred
• Strong knowledge of commercial real estate preferred
• Strong communication and organizational skills as well as impeccable attention to detail
• Ability to work independently, multi-task and handle several deadlines simultaneously
• Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Advanced excel skills, required
• Experience with Oracle, Coupa, and FloQast a plus

We do not accept any agency introductions and no fees will be payable for unsolicited introductions.

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Function: Finance and Accounting/Auditing