Financial Accounting and Control Manager

As the Financial Accounting and Control Manager, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining a robust financial control environment across designated group entities. Reporting into the Finance leadership team, you will oversee statutory reporting, financial controls, audit delivery and regulatory submissions, ensuring the organisation meets its financial and governance obligations with accuracy and integrity.

You will lead the preparation of statutory accounts, manage interim and year-end audits, oversee key financial reconciliations, and provide expert technical accounting advice across the business. You’ll also drive continuous improvement within the Financial Accounting and Control function, ensuring high-quality reporting, strong financial governance, and value-adding financial insight.

As a senior member of the Finance team, you’ll champion customer focus, continuous improvement and collaboration, helping to deliver excellent financial services that support the organisation’s strategic objectives and deliver the best outcomes for our residents.

How you’ll do it

• Lead the preparation of quarterly and annual statutory accounts for designated group entities, ensuring compliance with all accounting standards.
• Oversee the delivery of interim and year-end external audits, working closely with auditors to ensure timely completion.
• Conduct detailed analytical reviews of financial statements, identifying risks, trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Prepare and submit regulatory financial returns, including Financial Viability Assessments (FVA) and Companies House filings.
• Manage monthly intercompany and payroll control account reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Monitor and report on the financial health of group entities, providing assurance to senior management and the Audit & Risk Committee.
• Deliver continuous improvements across financial accounting processes, controls and reporting.
• Partner with Finance Business Partners and operational teams to ensure timely completion of balance sheet reconciliations.
• Monitor departmental KPIs and performance, implementing corrective actions where required.
• Support the development of finance processes, standards and training across the team.
• Line manage, coach and develop Financial Accountants, fostering a culture of high performance and continuous learning.

The ideal candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation. Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.

Essential:

• CCAB recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA) with evidence of continuing professional development.
• Significant experience within financial accounting, statutory reporting and financial control.
• Strong knowledge of UK statutory reporting requirements and regulatory financial returns, including FVA and Companies House submissions.
• Experience leading interim and year-end external audits.
• Ability to provide expert technical accounting advice across a complex organisation.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial information and provide practical recommendations.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Proven experience managing and developing finance professionals.
• A continuous improvement mindset with experience implementing more efficient financial processes and controls.

What’s in it for you?

Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.

Benefits include:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Generous pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
• Health cash plan
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
• Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary

All about us

Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 65,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,800 employees.

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.

Selection Process

Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 12 July 2026.

Step 2: Successful candidates may be asked to do an assessment

Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview

Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk. NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.