FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING

• Ensure timely and accurate completion of monthly financial and management reporting packs for institutional clients within the Residential Management & Lettings property portfolio.
• Monitor service charge accounts and property-related financial transactions, ensuring compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements.
• Proactively manage the finance relationship with internal and external service providers including the establishment and monitoring of service level agreements.
• Analyse financial data to identify areas for improvement and provide actionable insights.
• Develop and monitor KPIs to ensure alignment with strategic goals.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning initiatives.
• Co-ordinate with key stakeholders to ensure that reporting commitments for each of the properties are met and that any issues are appropriately resolved on a timely basis.
• Oversee the financial management of the portfolio ensuring all key reconciliations are completed appropriately and with supporting documentation.
• Working with internal colleagues and external consultants to ensure compliance with filing obligations relevant to the property portfolio.
• Provide support to colleagues in the Accounts Payable and Cash Management teams to resolve queries and ensure that both the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable subledgers are maintained to a high standard, accurate and up to date.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

To get this job, you will have the following skills, knowledge and experience:

• Qualified ACCA/ACA/CIMA accountant with 5+ post qualification experience in a senior finance role.
• Experience within real estate and/or property management finance is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of financial principles, operational processes, and best practices.
• Demonstrated experience in overseeing accounting functions, implementing process improvements, completing month end and year end close activities for multiple entities including financial and management reporting.
• Ability to analyse problems, develop and implement solutions to generate immediate results. The ability to challenge established practices and policies.
• Experience in delivering financial and operational improvements ideally with a using technology as a key enabler.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, (written and verbal) with the ability to build effective working relationships with key stakeholders.
• Positive and flexible attitude with the aptitude to take ownership of work as required and see it through to completion.
• Ability to work well under pressure, to prioritise tasks and focus on meeting deadlines.
• Proven track record of strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Highly proficient in accounting software and Microsoft Office, in particular Microsoft Word and Excel.

• Experience in the use of system based financial, data analytic, audit and workflow-based monitoring tools would be an advantage.System knowledge desirable e.g. Yardi, Cube, MRI, Dynamics 365, Salesforce.

• Savills Ireland is an equal opportunity employer.
  Savills aims to attract, recruit and retain the best people from the widest possible pool of talent. As such, we are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse working environment for all employees by striving at all times to be an organisation which does not discriminate, values everyone’s talents and abilities and where diversity is positively promoted

THE ROLE / LOCATION

Savills is one of the world’s leading real estate advisors with more than 600 offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East. The scale of the organisation gives it wide-ranging specialist and local knowledge, enabling its people to provide best-in-class advice to individuals, businesses, and institutions in making better property decisions.
As a full-service real estate advisor covering the island of Ireland, Savills Ireland is comprised of sixteen separate fee earning departments with close to 400 employees based at offices in Dublin, Cork, Belfast and across client properties. Savills Ireland has been at the forefront of the Irish property market for more than 50 years and is firmly established as the number one player in the commercial real estate advisory market in Ireland.
Savills is seeking a highly skilled and experienced finance professional to take on the role of Head of Finance within its Residential Management & Lettings team. This individual will manage all financial deliverables to clients ensuring seamless service delivery and financial accuracy for our 6,000+ unit portfolio across multiple institutional clients. The candidate should also be able to assess, maintain and improve reporting, operational and financial processes, enhancing performance of both internal procedures and external operations for our clients.
The role involves working closely with the Residential Management & Lettings, Commercial Property Management and Central Finance teams and requires a strong technical finance background, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a strategic mindset to optimise financial reporting, operational efficiency, and client service standards.
The role is an onsite role based in Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Key tasks and responsibilities include the following: