Group Technical Accountant in Thornton

Following the 2024 combination of Barratt and Redrow, the newly merged finance function continues to evolve, enhancing efficiency while providing more tailored support to the business and key stakeholders. As integration progresses, the team must address challenges in process alignment while ensuring data accuracy, regulatory compliance, and financial control. The Group Reporting team focuses on accurate, transparent, and compliant financial and non-financial reporting, consolidating and delivering group and statutory accounts, leading technical accounting and financial control, and delivering ESG reporting and insight. It provides information and insight to users of the accounts, while enhancing decision-making and corporate accountability.

The Group Technical Accountant is a member of a team that develops and maintains the Group's accounting policy and procedures, delivers technical judgments, and drives knowledge of accounting and control across the organisation. Responsible to Group Accounting Manager.

• Conduct reviews of complex or unusual transactions, including IFRS 15 contract reviews to ensure revenue recognition compliance and accuracy across business divisions.
• Maintain and enhance the Finance Policies and Procedures Manual, ensuring alignment with evolving regulatory and business requirements.
• Provide expert technical accounting support to divisions and Group functions, addressing complex financial reporting challenges.
• Oversee group provisions reviews, collaborating with Group Legal and SHE to assess and manage financial liabilities.
• Lead impairment reviews of inventories (current WIP and land options) and intangible assets, ensuring appropriate valuation adjustments.
• Prepare and present key Audit Committee papers, including assessments on going concern, goodwill, provisions, and land & WIP valuations.
• Support the wider Group Reporting team and, where necessary, organisation, on developments in IFRS and UK GAAP.

• Strategic thinking – Aligns accounting policies and new business processes with long-term financial objectives.
• Confident yet humble in approach, able to lead discussions with senior leaders while valuing diverse perspectives and fostering constructive dialogue.
• Highly collaborative, working effectively within a tight-knit team of three while engaging seamlessly with wider finance functions and business stakeholders.
• Technically authoritative, bringing significant technical accounting expertise and applying deep knowledge to complex reporting and compliance matters.
• Patient and methodical, investing time and energy in understanding, articulating, and explaining accounting standards, judgments, and processes in a clear and accessible manner.
• Integrity-driven and rigorous, ensuring financial reporting reflects accuracy, compliance, and ethical decision-making.
• Proactive problem solver, anticipating challenges, identifying solutions, and driving continuous improvement in financial controls and reporting practices.
• Strong IFRS expertise, particularly in complex areas such as IFRS 15, IFRS 9, and IFRS 16.
• Experience in audit desirable — either from working in external audit or engaging extensively with auditors during financial reporting cycles.
• Financial governance experience, ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks.
• Stakeholder engagement skills, able to engage with more senior executives and colleagues across the business.
• Exposure to listed company reporting preferred.
• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with extensive PQE.

We’ve been nationally recognised as a 5 star housebuilder since 2010 for supplying high-quality homes for all generations. That’s more than any other major housebuilder. It’s because we combine the brightest minds, the latest technology, and a genuine commitment to putting customers first. We want the best people in the industry to help us shape the future of building.

Barratt adopts a hybrid way of working which assumes that where roles allow, our office-based colleagues divide their time between working in the office, on our construction sites and sales offices, and working from home, as the role dictates. We recognise the many benefits that an effective hybrid working culture brings to both the Company and our colleagues.

As part of working for Barratt Redrow PLC and specifically for this role we offer:

• Competitive Salary
• Competitive Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Cover - Single Cover
• 26 days’ holiday (increase by 1 day for every 3 years’ continuous service up to 29 days)
• Choice of Flexible Benefits
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies

Our Benefits Are Fit To Measure Today’s housebuilding professional need tomorrow’s benefits, so they’re ready for whatever the future brings. When you join Barratt, you get the kind of support you would expect from a business built for a modern working world.

• Private medical cover
• Pension with the option of up to 10% employer contributions.
• Annual Health Assessment
• Financial Benefits
• Lifestyle Benefits
• So much more…