Company Accountant

Overview

Company Accountant

Join us as a key player in shaping the financial success of Great Places. In this pivotal role, you’ll provide both strategic and operational finance support, embedding strong financial planning, commercial insight, and robust budgetary control across our operations.

Working closely with our newly appointed Head of Finance, you’ll play a vital part in supporting our subsidiary companies — helping them grow, succeed, and deliver lasting value for our customers and communities.

Responsibilities

• You’ll ensure there are robust financial plans and sufficient financial reporting to enable better decision making

• You’ll provide support in financial appraisals of schemes

• You’ll prepare business plans and budgets for the relevant subsidiaries in line with the Group timetable and with sufficient granularity to allow input into the group model in Brixx using group assumptions

• You’ll prepare monthly management accounts, financial KPIs and cash flows for the relevant subsidiaries, in line with Group timetables

• You’ll prepare statutory accounts for the relevant subsidiary, calculate and pay gift aid in line with agreed policies

• You’ll contribute to service improvements within the wider finance teams

• Undertake all balance sheet reconciliations for companies affected by transactions involving the relevant subsidiary

• Drawdown and repay intercompany loan funding, administer inter group interest payments and manage the inter group trading balances

• You’ll contribute to financial modelling and appraisals of schemes

• You’ll contribute to management or board reports specifically around financial implications and financial impacts

Qualifications

• Recognised professional accountancy qualification or strong QBE

• Extensive experience in financial management

• Experience of preparing budgets, forecasts and management accounts

• Strong IT skills and proficient in excel and report writing

• Proven relationship builder and influencer with stakeholders

What we need from you

• A commitment to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist in the communities in which we work. We particularly value lived experience in social housing

• A passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities

• A passion for customer service

• A commitment to work in partnership with others for the benefit of Great Places

• A commitment to continuous learning and improvement

• Ability to work flexibly and when needed outside normal working hours to ensure service continuity

• An ability to work in uncertainty.

• To be professional and work with integrity, inclusivity and respect for diversity

• You will be required to attend a number of face to face training sessions as well as virtual sessions and e-learning. This part of your role is vital and of equal importance as the day to day aspects

What we give you in return for your hard work and commitment

• Pension DC scheme (up to 10% contribution from both colleagues and Great Places)

• WPA Healthcare auto enrolled at no contribution level with £1250 of savings available – option to increase & add family members

• Annual leave Start at 26 days annual leave, increasing up to 30 days + Bank Holidays

• Greater Working We offer Hybrid and flexible working.

• Reward & Recognition You Count Rewards are individual reward’s for going ‘above & beyond’

• Professional fees The business pays the cost of one professional membership fee for each colleague

• The Market Place High street, restaurant & supermarket discounts, gym memberships, cycle to work, smart tech loans and much more

• Health and wellbeing initiatives Our colleagues enjoy wellbeing campaigns throughout the year, with activities designed around our four pillars of wellbeing, these include career wellbeing, mental wellbeing, physical wellbeing and financial wellbeing

Interview details

We are looking to hold interviews on Tuesday 23rd and Thursday 25th September, subject to availability.

The interview will include a short assessment followed by a Q&A session, further details will be provided in advance.

Great Places Housing Group exists to improve the lives of the people living in our 25,000 homes across the North West and Yorkshire. We are much more than just a landlord, providing a wide-range of services and promoting partnership work to create vibrant, sustainable communities.

You can find details of our story, our vision and our values here.

At Great Places, we are committed to using inclusive hiring practices. By embracing diversity and difference, we enrich our teams with varied perspectives, drive, and innovation to create an environment in which everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures and are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone can be their authentic self; building a workforce that truly reflects the diverse communities we serve.

We love to hear from anyone who is enthusiastic about working in social housing. We know people can be reluctant to apply if they don’t fill 100% of the job requirements. So, if you are unsure that your qualifications and skills are what we are looking for in this role, why not let us decide?

We want to create a recruitment process that allows you to perform at your best! Should you need any support or information throughout the process, please reach out to our recruitment team at recruitment@greatplaces.org.uk.