Estate Accountant, Single Family Office – London – PLACED

The Role

A brand new role within a Single Family Office has just opened for a Qualified Accountant. The right candidate will ideally have some experience within a small unincorporated enterprise or running country estates/agricultural (arable) businesses.

 IT skills required

• Sage 50 accounts
• Microsoft including Excel, Word, use of Outlook

Key responsibilities

• All aspects of bookkeeping for the operations as a whole based over two locations in the Midlands and North of England
  • One Limited Company (arable farming and one rental property)
  • A private estate and an unincorporated, farming, shooting and property rental business
• Some limited travel from London to the Midlands and North of England will be required.
• Preparation of annual financial statements (with external third-party accountancy firm), quarterly and monthly management accounts.
• Preparation of a set of rental accounts extracted from the full accounts.
• Preparation of annual budgets, cashflow forecasts and business plans.
• Inter-entity reconciliations.
• Maintaining the fixed asset register

Employees / Payroll / HR

• Monthly payroll – preparation of figures for processing by the payroll bureau, payments to employees.
• Annual payroll – including working with the payroll bureau regarding p11d, p60s etc
• Annual review of compensation
• Auto-enrolment pensions – dealing with new joiners, opt ins, opt outs, re-enrolment.

Business and site management

• Working with 3rd party agents: Midlands (arable farming and shooting); North of England (estate management agent and shooting agent) in connection with the smooth running of the estates.
• Attendance at monthly meetings with the third party agents – following up agenda points etc.

Other aspects of responsibility

• Creditors and Suppliers – Approval, processing, payment and filing of creditor invoices.
• Debtor management
• Management of the Estate/companies Banking
• Oversight of the Arable contract farming
• Accounting for Shooting activities incorporated into the overall business
• Governance
• Insurance
• Tax compliance
• VAT compliance
• Oversight of Property management including refurbishment projects
• Vehicles – fleet management; insurance, repairs, general management, etc.
• Inheritance Tax planning

 Salary – Dependant on experience

REF: AGR2736

If you would like to apply for this role, please send your CV to toms@agreusgroup.com.