Overview
Management Accountant – Great Places Housing Group
Salary: £41,315
Location: Didsbury, Manchester
Employment type: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)
What you’ll be doing
- Updating non-core financial systems with financial information ensuring both systems remain reconciled;
- Advising and training budget holders in matters of financial understanding and budgetary control;
- Preparing routine journals ensuring the management accounts accurately report income and expenditure and the balance sheet accurately records assets and liabilities, for each period;
- Supporting the production of the Directorate Packs, analysing in month and year to date variances against budget and projection and quantifying the year end impact and any potential impact to future years budgets;
- Using business performance information and KPI’s in the commentaries to support financial variances;
- Challenging the budget holders on overspends and poor financial performance and assist budget holders to manage any financial risks or opportunities that have been identified
- Preparing working papers for statutory and regulatory return, statutory accounts or the business plan in line with timetable agreed by the Senior Finance Team;
What you’ll need
- AAT Qualified (or qualified by experience)
- Use of full range of Microsoft Office, with specific knowledge in Excel
- Effective liaison with colleagues / other stakeholders to give information / find information / resolve problems
- Ability to deliver a high standard of customer service
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 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 rewards 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
Seniority level
Employment type
Job function
- Accounting/Auditing, Finance, and Management
Industries
- Civic and Social Organizations, Non-profit Organizations, and Financial Services
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