Finance Manager, GLA Land & Property

Do you want to be part of making London the best city in the world?

The Greater London Authority (GLA) is the centre of government for London, serving both the Mayor and the London Assembly. The Mayor of London sets the budget and is responsible for making London a better place for everyone and the Assembly holds the Mayor and Mayoral advisers to account. The GLA itself plays a key role in delivering projects across Greater London over areas including Housing, Transport, Environment, Culture, Economy and Regeneration.

One of the Mayor’s highest priorities is the delivery of affordable homes. The Mayor aims to use all of the levers available and, as the GLA is a public authority, it is not permitted to play a commercial role in driving housing developments. Therefore, the GLA has set up, and will continue to set up, limited companies to enable the Mayor to take a commercial role (for example, joint ventures, equity investments) in supporting a range of housing developments.

Of these companies, the largest is GLA Land and Property Limited (GLAP) which was set up in April 2012. This company inherited 635 hectares of land with a value at that time of £365m. All of the land inherited has now either been developed, is in the course of development, is contractually committed for development or is subject to a procurement process. This is with the aim of encouraging investment, creating jobs and helping meet London’s housing needs, particularly the provision of affordable housing.

The developments include a site on the Greenwich Peninsula that is seeking to deliver over 17,000 new homes, as well significant development sites in the Royal Docks in East London.

We are recruiting for a qualified accountant to lead on the production of company accounts for GLAP. This is a new role and there is significant scope for the new post holder to shape this role, which would sit within the growing GLAP finance team. This role would report to the GLAP Director of Finance.  In addition, this role would look at the production of accounts for GLA Holdings Limited (the parent company for GLAP) and a new entity set up to cover the development at Silvertown Quays (part of the wider Royal Docks development). This role would also feed into the wider accounts process for the GLA as a whole, as these companies are consolidated into the GLA’s group accounts.

To be suitable for the role you need to be a qualified accountant with excellent technical knowledge and previous experience of delivering accounts. These accounts could be within the public or private sector, given that this role would be covering private companies that report to an ultimate parent that is a public authority (the GLA).  Experience of providing credible professional advice, challenge and innovative solutions to senior stakeholders is also desirable, as is any experience delivering accounts for housing-led organisations.

GLA offers a hybrid working environment.

To find out more about the role, the GLA and why you should work there, please click here https://ivyrockpartners.wixsite.com/london . If you have any questions, please contact Will Ryan at Ivy Rock Partners on 07909 030 965 or willryan@ivyrockpartners.com

Application is via CV and supporting statement. The supporting statement should be no more than 2 pages and should cover why you are interested in the role and use the STAR method to highlight your relevant experience.

The closing date is Monday 3 November