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Cluttons

Finance Analyst – 12 Month FTC

Cluttons

Finance Analyst delivering high-quality client and property accounting services in Reading. Ensuring accurate, timely financial reporting and supporting accounting service delivery.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeReading • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Prepare and deliver monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting statements (P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow), ensuring accuracy, clarity, and adherence to agreed deadlines.
  • Perform detailed reconciliations of ledgers, client balances, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and prompt resolution of discrepancies.
  • Deliver robust variance analysis, providing clear insights and meaningful commentary to support informed decision-making by clients and internal stakeholders.
  • Support the preparation and ongoing management of property budgets and forecasts, offering analysis and actionable recommendations to enhance financial performance.
  • Prepare VAT transaction reports and support compliance with relevant tax legislation.
  • Manage service charge accounting processes, ensuring accurate cost allocation, timely reconciliations, and alignment with approved budgets in collaboration with property managers.
  • Support internal and external audit processes, preparing required documentation, liaising with auditors, and ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
  • Act as a key point of contact for clients, delivering proactive financial insight, resolving queries efficiently, and supporting effective portfolio financial management.
  • Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency, strengthen controls, and improve data quality, including resolving historic discrepancies.
  • Deliver high-quality financial analysis and provide support on client-specific projects and strategic initiatives as required.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Previous experience in a client accounting role, ideally within real estate, property management, infrastructure, or a related sector.
  • Proven experience in property management accounting, including rent collections, service charge accounting, and property-related financial transactions.
  • Experience using property management systems (e.g. TRAMPS, Yardi, MRI, or similar) is highly desirable.
  • Strong analytical and financial reporting skills, with the ability to interpret, challenge, and clearly communicate complex financial information
  • Excellent communication skills, with confidence interacting with clients, tenants, property managers, and other key stakeholders
  • Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple portfolios, priorities, and deadlines simultaneously
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, particularly for financial analysis, reconciliations, and reporting
  • Proactive, analytical mindset with strong problem-solving capabilities
  • **Qualifications**
  • Part-qualified or actively working towards a recognised accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) is highly advantageous or qualified with experience
  • Understanding of real estate accounting principles and industry practices is preferred
  • Strong academic background or equivalent practical experience in accounting or finance

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Holidays: 25 days increasing in line with length of service to a maximum of 30 days
  • Wellbeing hours: 2 per month where no location flexibility cannot be offered
  • Enhanced auto enrolment pension scheme - to help you save for the future
  • Life assurance - to protect your loved ones
  • Interest free season ticket loans
  • Cycle to work scheme - discounted bicycles
  • Flu and eye care vouchers - to keep you healthy
  • Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 health & wellbeing support
  • Help@Hand Remote GP app - to give you and your family access to medical experts quickly
  • Platform hosting 1000s of discounts at your favourite retailers, restaurants, supermarkets, leisure & days out venues, gyms and more
  • Family & wellbeing policy - including enhanced maternity pay, menopause support, neurodiversity support, carer support, company sick pay and much more
  • Plus a Flexible benefits policy that allows you to pick and choose additional benefits as below:
  • Purchasing up to 5 days additional holiday
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Discounted dental insurance
  • Discounted private medical insurance
  • Discounted critical health insurance and more

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Hard Skills & Tools
accounting statementsreconciliationsvariance analysisbudget managementfinancial analysisVAT transaction reportsservice charge accountingfinancial reportingMicrosoft Excelproperty management accounting
Soft Skills
analytical skillscommunication skillsorganizational skillsproblem-solvingclient interactiontime managementproactive mindsetattention to detailstakeholder managementprocess improvement
Certifications
ACAACCACIMA