Senior General Accountant Senior General Accountant

Are you passionate about maintaining the integrity of financial statements and driving process improvements? Join The Crown Estate as a Senior General Accountant, where you'll play a critical role in ensuring the smooth operation of our general accounting processes. This position is essential for generating accurate and insightful financial information for a range of internal stakeholders.,

• Month-End Close Activities: Lead the delivery of month-end close activities, including the review and analysis of P&L accounts, Balance Sheet reconciliation, and journal entry postings to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Collaboration: Partner with the Commercial Finance team on month-end close activities and improvements to the Financial Statement Close Process.
• Ongoing Accounting Tasks: Work closely with the General Accounting Manager on monthly accounting tasks such as processing journal entries, allocations, completions, revaluations, and treasury services.
• Process Transition: Assist in assessing and transitioning new processes from the wider finance community into General Financial Services, managing an effective front door process to evaluate process maturity and suitability.
• Automation and Innovation: Support the selection of intelligent tools for process automation and ensure the General Accounting team is upskilled accordingly. Collaborate with the finance projects team to drive process innovation through simplification, standardisation, centralisation, and automation.
• Service Improvement: Continuously enhance the service catalogue and corresponding processes offered to the wider finance community.
• Treasury Functions: Oversee treasury functions such as cash flow analysis, review of bank reconciliations, policy monitoring, and coordination with banks and stakeholders.
• Control Culture: Promote a culture of controls within the team, ensuring the operating effectiveness of all key controls across general ledger processes and related areas., We value that you get more time with your family and friends. Therefore, we offer everybody 28 days paid holiday, 2 volunteering days and the option to purchase further holiday.
• Flexible working
We value work-life balance highly, therefore we have flexible & hybrid working policies.
• Market leading family friendly policies
We want the support we offer to be inclusive of everyone, reflective of the wide range of situations people face in life.Workplace, Culture & Diversity It's our ambition to be an inclusive organisation that reflects our society, one where all feel welcome, able to be themselves and belong. A workplace where you're empowered to be yourself, diverse thinking is encouraged, and a place where you can realise your potential. Finance · The Crown Estate, 1 St James Market · Hybrid Remote


• Qualifications: ACA/CIMA/ACCA fully qualified with significant work experience in a finance team.
• Technical Skills: Excellent technical accounting skills and knowledge of IFRS.
• Analytical Skills: Analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Pressure Handling: Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Teamwork: Experience working within teams to achieve common goals.
• System Knowledge: Proficient user of integrated finance systems with a good understanding of internal financial controls.
Key Capabilities:
• Innovation and Change Leadership: A desire to innovate and lead change.
• Customer-Focused Service Delivery: Ability to demonstrate a customer-focused approach to service delivery.
• Communication: Clear communicator with the ability to present information logically and succinctly, both orally and in writing.
• Partnership Building: Ability to build effective partnerships with financial and non-financial colleagues.
• Flexibility and Collaboration: Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively to meet deadlines and changing business priorities.
• IT Skills: Excellent IT skills, including advanced Excel. Proficiency or experience in VBA, Power tools (e.g., Power BI), Blackline, and Visio is desirable.
• Influencing Skills: Proven influencing skills.
• Collaborative Approach: Flexible approach to work and a collaborator.
Join us at The Crown Estate and be part of a team dedicated to excellence in financial management and process innovation. If you are driven by accuracy, efficiency, and continuous improvement, we would love to hear from you!