Senior Financial Accountant - Assets

About The Role

What you can expect from us

• • We offer a competitive salary of £54,400 per annum.
• 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks.
• Salary Finance - access both short and long terms loans, plus provides access to a savings facility.
• Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or though the holiday purchase scheme.
• Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%).
• A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies.
• Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family. Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
• Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Access of up to £150 annually through the 'Learning for life' scheme.
• Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
• Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.

About the role

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Financial Accountant - Assets to join our Finance team on a permanent basis. The purpose of this role is to support the provision of financial accounting services including monthly management reporting, performance reports, internal control compliance and statutory reports in line with relevant accounting and sector standards.

To ensure the correct treatment of the Group's capital expenditure, including components accounting, housing properties, land, other fixed assets and disposals, including Shared Ownership, Right to Buy and Right to Acquire.

Responsibilities

Fixed asset register

• Responsible for the maintenance and accuracy of the fixed asset register. Ensuring the necessary controls are in place to ensure correct classification of asset and useful economic life. Ensuring the depreciation of the Group and its members, to facilitate good quality and accurate statutory and regulatory reporting outputs.

Accounting

• Support the preparation of the annual financial accounts for group and subsidiary legal entities including consolidation and preparation of statutory disclosures required under applicable accounting standards. Liaise with external and internal auditors to provide information and resolution to queries and put in place improvements based on recommendations.

Reporting

• Support the coordination and production of the month end accounts, prepare control account reconciliations and analysis, ensure all reporting is delivered within agreed group time scales. Develop and manage a link between the analysis of data and other teams. Provide data assurance to ensure that information decisions are made at the right level.

Collaboration

• Work in collaboration with finance colleagues to develop and maintain effective processes and reporting through systems. Encourage a culture of cross team collaboration; support workplace mentoring for finance team members wanting to progress. Required as and when necessary to support areas of the finance team at peak times or on major projects.

Process improvement

• Drive continual process improvement to deliver financial control and assurance across the group. Develop and manage a link between the analysis of data and other teams. Provide data assurance to ensure that information decisions are made at the right level.

Skills / Experiences

Essential

• Experience of working in an asset focussed accounting role.
• Experience of people management and development.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to plan and prioritise workload.
• Able to work at all levels within the company.
• Experience of developing and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Good knowledge of various accounting software packages.
• A Full UK Driving Licence and access to your own car.

Desirable

• Experience of working in the housing sector.
• Demonstrate good technical understanding asset accounting and capitalisation.
• Ability to work with fixed asset software.
• Experience of working in a financial accounting role.
• Experience of year end process and working with external auditors.

Qualifications

Essential

• Full/Part or working towards qualification with a recognised accounting body (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) or relevant professional experience.

About The Organisation

About Onward

Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across the region.

We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we're committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers' heads, we're here to make a real difference.

In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.

We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.

If candidates have any concerns / questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.

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