At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage financial reporting and controls for property projects, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
- Company: Join a leading hospitality company with a focus on innovation and growth.
- Benefits: Enjoy a matched pension scheme, discounts on stays, and hybrid working options.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on property strategy while driving process improvements.
- Qualifications: Qualified Accountant with strong accounting knowledge and team management experience.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
Location: Dunstable Head office LU5
Hybrid working, 3 days a week in the office
As a Property Accounting & Projects Manager you’ll play a central role in delivering best-in-class financial reporting and control for the Group’s evolving Property strategy—owning the accuracy, efficiency and integrity of fixed‑asset and lease accounting across key transformation projects. Working closely with the wider FR&C team, you’ll ensure robust reporting, strong controls, and clear insight on disposals, write‑offs, depreciation changes and strategic site activity. With direct exposure to external auditors, responsibility for statutory compliance, and the opportunity to drive process improvements through Oracle Fusion, this role offers real influence over how the business manages risk, strengthens governance and unlocks value across major property initiatives.
What you’ll be doing:
- Financial reporting integrity: Own the accuracy, completeness and statutory compliance of all fixed‑asset and lease reporting for property projects, ensuring specialised transactions are correctly accounted for and reflected in the right entities.
- Financial control: Strengthen and operate robust controls under the Financial controls framework, delivering clean audit outcomes, monitored control status, and a well‑maintained, fully reconciled asset register.
- Process setup: Build clear, well‑defined processes for complex property transactions, ensuring end‑to‑end documentation, controlled workflows, and alignment with the target operating model.
- Process improvement: Drive continuous improvement across fixed‑asset and lease processes, reducing rework, enhancing automation, embedding “right‑first‑time” principles, and benchmarking against external best practice.
- Oracle optimisation: Advance the use of Oracle Fusion and Financial controls framework to clean, streamline and optimise asset registers and trial balances, enabling controlled accounting for disposals, Accelerated Growth Plan extensions, assets held for sale, adjusting items and sale‑and‑leaseback activity.
Why you’ll love it here:
- Matched Contributory Pension up to 10%
- Up to 60% off Premier inn and Hub stays
What you’ll need:
- Strong working knowledge of enterprise accounting systems and Microsoft Office, including strong Excel skills
- Proven broad accounting knowledge, ability to talk through ideas & assess wider impacts
- Qualified Accountant - recognised accounting qualification
- Experience of managing teams
- Proven experience of driving process improvements
- Broad Finance experience, including period close, financial planning and reporting
