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Group Financial Accountant

Please Note: The application deadline for this job has now passed.

Job Introduction

Job Title:                           Group Financial Accountant

Salary Banding:               £42,000-£47,000

Job Location:                   Homebased

Contract Duration:           Permanent

Hours (weekly):                35 (Monday to Friday)

Are you a commercially focused Fully Qualified Accountant with experience in group consolidation, financial and statutory accounting?

Are you looking for a brand-new opportunity that you can develop and shape as your own?

Your Housing Group has a fantastic opportunity for a Group Financial Accountant, to join our medium sized Finance Team.  Although this is a homebased role, our head office is in Birchwood, Warrington, you’ll need to live within a reasonable travelling distance to be able to attend meetings and training when required.

As Group Financial Accountant, you will consolidate monthly group management accounts, providing insightful narrative, KPIs and a PowerPoint presentation for Board.  You will also be responsible for VAT and other taxation within the organisation.      

Annually, you will prepare statutory accounts for the ten group Companies which include charities, commercial limited companies and LLPs.  You will take the lead on managing the external audit to ensure that all accounts and Housing Sector returns are signed and filed within agreed deadlines.

It’s a given as Group Financial Accountant, you will have excellent technical and analytical skills, with experience of using excel to an advanced level.

You will also have line management responsibility, including coaching, development and performance management of a partially qualified Accountant.

In addition to the above you will embrace the culture of continuous improvement to support Value for Money throughout the organisation and have a passion for doing things right first time.

You will receive fantastic benefits including 22 days holidays, plus all Bank Holidays and as we also close between Christmas and New Year,  if working with us at that time you will get these 3 days as bonus holidays.  There’s also a pension scheme with contributions matched up to 8%, a cash claim back on medical treatments and discount cards, to name a few! 

Prior to completing your application, please review the attached Role Profile to better understand the role and key responsibilities.                             

Closing date:    29th January 2021

Should we receive a high number of applications, we may close this vacancy earlier than the date indicated above, therefore, you are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible.

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for tenants or anyone who resides in a Your Housing Group property.  It also operates the scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability. Those applicants who meet the minimum requirements for the role as set out in the role profile will be guaranteed an interview.  Some roles may be subject to probity checks which will override the scheme where a potential conflict of interest or a probity matter has been identified.  YHG2

Your Housing Group

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