At a Glance
- Tasks: Prepare financial accounts, manage audits, and ensure accurate regulatory reporting.
- Company: Join Notting Hill Genesis, a leading not-for-profit housing association in London.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible working, generous leave, and discounts at major retailers.
- Other info: Collaborative environment focused on continuous improvement and professional development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on financial governance while supporting affordable housing.
- Qualifications: Fully qualified CCAB accountant with experience in statutory accounts and audits.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
As a Financial Accountant, you'll play a key role in maintaining a strong financial control environment across your designated group entities.
Reporting into the Financial Accounting & Control team, you'll be responsible for preparing statutory accounts, coordinating interim and year-end audits, and ensuring regulatory reporting is delivered accurately and on time.
Working closely with colleagues across Finance and the wider business, you'll provide technical accounting expertise, support continuous improvements to financial reporting, and ensure robust financial governance.
Your work will contribute directly to delivering high-quality financial services that support better outcomes for our residents.
- How you'll do it
- Prepare quarterly and annual statutory accounts for designated group entities, together with supporting schedules.
- Lead analytical reviews of financial statements to facilitate smooth interim and year-end audit processes.
- Maintain and reconcile intercompany balances, investments and borrowings, ensuring statutory accounting schedules remain accurate.
- Manage the delivery of assigned interim and final audits, working collaboratively with internal and external auditors.
- Support the preparation and submission of regulatory returns, including Financial Viability Assessments (FVA) and Companies House filings.
- Prepare monthly control account reconciliations to ensure a robust financial control framework.
- Produce quarterly financial health reporting, identifying key risks and providing assurance to management and the Audit & Risk Committee.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across the Financial Accounting & Control function.
- Partner with Finance Business Partners and operational teams to ensure financial reconciliations are completed accurately and on time.
- Contribute to departmental performance reporting, KPI monitoring and the development of best practice across the team.
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
- Fully qualified CCAB accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIPFA or equivalent) with evidence of continuing professional development.
- Experience preparing statutory accounts and delivering financial reporting within a complex organisation.
- Strong knowledge of regulatory financial returns and statutory filings, including Financial Viability Assessments (FVA) and Companies House submissions.
- Experience managing interim and year-end audit processes.
- Excellent technical accounting knowledge with the ability to provide expert advice across the organisation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to build effective relationships across a range of stakeholders.
- A collaborative approach with a commitment to continuous improvement and delivering excellent customer service.
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.
- 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
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Financial Accountant employer: Notting Hill
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