Job Description
FINANCE DIRECTOR
THE BERNERS-ALLSOPP ESTATE
Attractive salary
Near Faringdon, Oxfordshire
A key leadership position, alongside the Chairman and Managing Director, on a long-held and successful commercial and rural property estate split between Central London and Oxfordshire.
Retirement has given rise to the opportunity for a new Finance Director to join and play a fundamental role in supporting the family and trustees as they look to ensure the Estate’s vitality and careful custodianship into the future.
THE POSITION
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* Provide the Estate’s in-house financial leadership – acting as the first point of reference for financial and tax planning across the Estate and delivering efficient and comprehensive financial management and reporting.
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* Take a leading role in the successful execution of selected strategies and opportunities across the Estate as well as representing the Estate’s interests with third parties such as lenders and advisers.
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* Work closely with the Estate’s advisers to implement the key elements of capital tax planning and management that is inherent to the Estate’s structure.
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* Play a crucial part in the Estate’s meetings and governance structure and develop a close working relationship with the family, including supporting the management of their financial and tax affairs.
THE CANDIDATE
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* A qualified accountant with a well-grounded, commercial perspective (that ideally includes experience of property-based asset management) as well as an empathy for long-term, family-owned businesses.
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* A collegiate executive who enjoys the challenge of a working week that spans from the strategic to hands-on execution and who thrives in a highly collaborative, non-hierarchical working environment.
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* A consummate professional who has an eye for detail and has the intellectual agility and curiosity to embrace working within an organisational structure that includes a number of trusts with their capital tax planning and management requirements.
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* A confident executive who has the gravitas and communication skills to contribute to and influence decision-making at the most senior levels.
Please email your application by clicking the apply button, quoting reference E262, enclosing a copy of your CV.