Trident International Associates
Financial Controller - Real Estate
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Salary: £ 80,000 - 90,000 + 20% bonus + benefits
Financial Controller - Global Real Estate
- Our Client: An established investment business with a substantial real estate portfolio and a strong track record within its specialist market.
- Role Overview: The business is looking to appoint a Financial Controller to join its London team as part of the continued development of its finance function.
The Role:
As one of a number of Financial Controllers, the successful candidate will have responsibility for the financial management and control of an allocated real estate portfolio, including:
- Ownership of accounting and financial reporting across the relevant SPVs.
- Oversight of VAT, corporation tax, withholding tax, and other local compliance requirements.
- Reviewing third-party accounting and tax outputs and ensuring the underlying requirements are properly implemented.
- Working capital forecasting, cash requirements, distributions, and fund flow preparation.
- Loan management, lender reporting, and intercompany reconciliations.
- Supporting acquisitions, disposals, refinancing, and wider transaction activity.
- Supporting financial and tax due diligence.
- Oversight of audits, statutory reporting, and financial control processes.
- Working closely with Property Management, Asset Management, Development, Tax, and external advisers.
- Monitoring controls, KPIs, SLAs, and escalation processes across an outsourced operating model.
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The Financial Controller will effectively "hold the pen" on the financial position of the allocated portfolio, ensuring information is accurate, controlled, and commercially useful.
The Person:
To apply, you will most likely be a qualified accountant with strong property, fund, or SPV accounting experience (gain in real estate) and ideally 7+ years' experience, including meaningful financial control or equivalent oversight responsibility.
You are likely to have:
- Strong technical accounting and financial control experience.
- Experience with property / real estate structures and SPVs.
- Good understanding of tax compliance and period-end processes.
- Experience working with outsourced administrators, accountants, or property managers.
- The confidence to challenge and manage external providers rather than simply receive their output.
- Strong cash flow, working capital, and loan management experience.
- Excellent attention to detail combined with commercial judgement.
- The communication skills to work effectively with stakeholders at different levels.
- An organised, pragmatic, and solutions-focused approach.
Real estate experience is a pre-requisite, but the key is the ability to combine technical control with ownership and commercial awareness.
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Benefits:
- Target bonus of 20%.
- Solid benefits package.
- London-based hybrid working, with around three days per week in the office.
- Broad exposure across a pan-European real estate portfolio.
- Genuine ownership rather than a processing-focused finance position.
- Close exposure to investment, asset management, tax, and transaction teams.
- Opportunity to work within an increasingly technology-enabled finance environment, including AI and data-led reporting.
- International, collaborative working environment with scope to develop commercially.
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Application Process:
- Every application is reviewed carefully and retained on our database for future opportunities.
- Whilst we are unable to respond to every applicant individually, if you have not heard from us within 5 working days, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion.
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