Full Time – Permanent – 37 hours per week – Ideally located within 1 hour of Peterborough

We have a fantastic opportunity to join our growing team as a Finance Manager, Accounts at Cross Keys Homes!

The role is responsible for leading and managing the team to ensure that financial reporting and the accounting function across the organisation, meet the highest level of customer service. In addition to ensure that compliance with regulatory and legislative standards are maintained and continuously improved.

To be successful in this role the incumbent will need to be a fully qualified accountant; ideally with an understanding of the social housing sector and experience of managing and leading cross functional teams.

This role is home based with the requirement to attend our Peterborough Head Office as required for meetings. There also is an occasional requirement to work outside of office hours.

If this sounds like the ideal role for you, we would love to hear from you!

We are looking for someone

• To Prepare statutory financial statements for the organisation and its subsidiaries, with associated narrative and notes, in accordance with relevant accounting requirements and the Statement of Recommended Practice, managing inputs from other team members.

• To prepare and submit accurate, timely and relevant financial returns and reports required by regulators, funders, tax authorities, board, directors team and other key stakeholders.

• To ensure management and financial accounting records for subsidiary companies are accurately recorded and reported, including transactions between joint ventures.

• To ensure the accounts payable function operates efficiently for the business and suppliers

• To maintain clear and accurate VAT and corporation tax accounting records, work with external and internal partners to maximise VAT recovery on behalf of the business, and liaise with VAT inspectors as required to ensure compliance with legislation. Actively plan to optimise the organisation’s tax position whilst ensuring legal compliance.

• To support the Service Manager, Finance in developing and implementing the service plan for the finance team, taking ownership of delivery of one-off special projects and utilising internal and external resources as directed.

• To take responsibility for maintaining and continuously improving the quality of customer service.

• To ensure current account banking relationships and payment functionality are reviewed and optimised in order to meet the requirements of the business.

• To manage services provided to joint ventures under service level agreements

• To take responsibility for reviewing and improving internal controls, minimising control failure and proactively define and implement improvements in the compliance framework.

• To take responsibility for reviewing and updating key financial policies and procedures to ensure statutory compliance and maximise efficiency within the organisation.

• To act as a key point of contact for internal and external auditors to ensure that internal controls, accounting systems and published accounts accord with best practice.

• To act as key source of technical advice to colleagues and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Qualified Accountant, with a recognised professional body.

• Ideally have housing sector experience

• Expertise in financial accounting and reporting, including external audit and statutory reporting, VAT and group structures

• Knowledge of team management techniques and an understanding of business and performance management

• Knowledge of how large organisations work and the role of finance within them

• Experience of managing a finance function

• Can demonstrate and has a proven practical finance/accounting experience

• Experience of developing and implementing finance, audit and management reporting systems, leading to successful achievement of business objectives

• Experience of working within and developing a strong internal controls framework

• Experience of budgeting/forecasting and data modelling

• A proven record of supporting new opportunities to develop the service provided to the organisation

• A proven track record in delivering efficient business operations

• Advanced Excel skills and good working knowledge of other Microsoft office applications

• Strong verbal, reasoning and written communication skill

• Ability to communicate complex financial ideas and data to a wide range of users at all levels within the organisation

• Accuracy and attention to detail

• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise effectively, in order to achieve targets and meet deadlines.

• Ability to command the respect of colleagues and generate the same high standing with external contacts

• Ability to continuously improve team and individual performances through leadership, motivation and encouragement

• Ability to manage projects from inception to implementation

• Ability to work with technical language of other functional areas

• Ability to clarify and streamline complex business processes while strengthening control mechanisms

• Ability to manage customer care through periods of significant change in business processes

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