Group Accounting Manager (Treasury)

We identify and shape places that create opportunity, enhance quality of life, and bring joy to the people connected to them. This is how we’ve created the UK’s leading portfolio of urban places and one of the largest real estate companies in Europe. Our £10 billion portfolio is built around premium workplaces, the country’s pre-eminent retail platform, and a residential pipeline that will redefine urban life. We’ve honed this ability over 80 years. Spotting the opportunities, building the partnerships, and continually adapting to shape the places that meet the needs of a changing world. Places where life happens. Where businesses grow. And where cities are defined.

Location

This role is based at London, Victoria and offers hybrid working (minimum 3 days in the office).

The Team

You will join the Group Reporting team overseeing the Treasury Back Office function but also working closely with colleagues across our Treasury Front Office, Statutory Accounting, Asset Management and Performance Management teams. The Treasury Back Office function is a team of three, comprising a qualified Treasury Financial Accountant and two Cash & Bank Accountants.

The prime reporting responsibility will be to the Head of Financial Accounting but on certain issues it will also be to the Group Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer as well as the Group Financial Controller and Group Finance Director.

The Group Reporting team sits at the heart of the organisation and plays a key role in supporting Landsec’s internal and external financial reporting. The team culture is collaborative, supportive, and focused on continuous improvement. You will work alongside experienced finance professionals who value clear communication, teamwork, strong analytical skills, and a proactive mindset that embraces accountability and delivers positive change.

The role
The Group Accounting Manager (Treasury) is a pivotal role managing the Treasury Back Office team, with onus to reshape this into one of our highest performing teams. This is an exciting role, providing the successful applicant with insight into our core treasury operations in a particularly dynamic macroeconomic environment.

As a key member of Finance, the role drives continuous improvement and automation, champions new systems and ways of working, and ensures high‑quality, on‑time delivery that strengthens our reporting compliance and stakeholder confidence. A core expectation of the role is to proactively challenge the status quo, drive change and process improvements, enhance controls, elevate reporting quality and embed more efficient, data‑driven ways of working.

What makes this role unique?

• You will have end‑to‑end responsibility of our key treasury nominals and metrics ensuring these are reported accurately in both monthly management packs and periodic statutory financial statements.

• You will not simply identify improvement opportunities, but own and deliver change initiatives from concept through to implementation, making this a role that truly creates lasting benefits.

• You will proactively leverage new systems to deliver efficient, automated and system-led solutions, challenging the status quo and improving end-to-end processes across reporting, analysis and insight.

• You will be responsible for nurturing and empowering your team, and giving them opportunities to drive further system and process improvements whilst ensuring business-as-usual outputs are delivered timely and accurately.

• You will work closely with key stakeholders across our Treasury Front Office, Statutory Accounting, Asset Management and Performance Management teams, building strong partnerships to influence accuracy, transparency, and control.

• You will develop a strong technical and commercial foundation across key treasury balances/instruments and gain insight from an award-winning Treasury Front Office team.

Principle Accountabilities

• Overseeing the accounting needs of the Group’s Treasury structure, including journal postings for fixed/floating debt and derivatives.

• Preparing Group Treasury analysis for the Senior Management Information pack relating to net finance expense, borrowings and treasury metrics and exception analysis, where needed.

• Ensuring effective operation of all Treasury Back Office internal controls, particularly around periodic bank reconciliation, daily deal ticket control sheet checks, treasury management system approvals, ensuring accuracy of treasury related postings and balance sheet reconciliations.

• Manage audit readiness with continued maintenance of process documentation, ensuring end‑to‑end finance processes are clearly documented, kept up to date, and aligned to current controls, governance requirements, and ways of working.

• Embrace system optimisation and process improvement initiatives, championing new tools, controls and ways of working to improve efficiency, insight and data quality.

• Preparing all Treasury related notes and a thorough support file for the half year and full year Group financial statements and other external presentation slides as well as for individual company financial statements.

• Oversight and ultimate responsibility of the teams dealing with daily bank uploads, preparation of periodic bank reconciliations and regular resolution of reconciling items as well as management of the tenant deposit accounts.

• Providing ad-hoc information and analysis on treasury related balances to Treasury Front Office, Senior Management or the Board.

• Reviewing treasury related metrics in the annual budget and forecast model, and contribution to relevant sections in the budget and forecast documents, where required.

• Reviewing financial statements and related note disclosures for entities within the securitised group structure as well as helping pull together covenant calculations for quarterly reporting.

• Keeping abreast of the latest IFRS accounting requirements / standards as well as EPRA reporting requirements and applying these as necessary to the Group and standalone entity’s financial statements. When required, assisting with commentary on accounting standards exposure drafts and consultation papers.

• Contributing towards and curating the management of the Treasury section of the Group’s Sharepoint site.

• Adapting the current working files used for reporting into simpler workpapers for review for Senior Management and the direct reporting lines.

• Undertaking ad-hoc accounting projects, transactions and special reviews, as required, including tasks or duties considered to be relevant to the general function of the Group Finance department and wider business.

Essential Criteria

• Qualified Financial Accountant with demonstrable financial accounting and reporting experience.

• Strong people manager with a track record of developing high performing teams and partnering across various business functions and demonstrating leadership.

• Fast learner with a willingness to delve into the detail and resolve issues proactively.

• Demonstrates clear ownership and accountability for deliverables, with a strong commitment to producing high‑quality, timely outputs.

• Brings a strong change and improvement mindset, with the ability to pragmatically assess processes, challenge the status quo, and embed sustainable improvements into business‑as‑usual ways of working.

• Effective communicator, ensuring all reporting lines upward/downward are aware of significant business developments and key priorities.

• Keen to volunteer for special projects to enhance their own professional knowledge and provide further learning to their team.

• Previous treasury reporting and experience of working in real-estate is desirable but not mandatory.

• Agile and adaptable, with a willingness to champion new systems, tools, and ways of working.

• Strong Excel capability; exposure to, or an interest in developing skills in, Power BI is desirable.

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