Group Financial Accountant

We are Places for People Group; we are placemakers; our work impacts on the lives of people across the U.K. – providing homes to live in, communities to retire to, spaces to stay active, supported homes for independent living, and student accommodation. Our places work when they work for everyone.  

How do we do all this? By surrounding ourselves with driven people, proactive people and customer focused people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.

So, we want you to join us and the 12,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped us create places, maintain 195,000 homes, manage £4 billion of assets and teach 75,000 children to swim each week.

More about your role

As our Group Financial Accountant you will take a lead in ensuring the Financial Accounts and Projects team deliver high quality, timely statutory reporting for the Group, its subsidiaries and related undertakings.  You’ll lead on various technical finance projects, as well as working on a cyclical basis completing financial accounts, audits and the group annual report, whilst continuously looking for improvements.

This is a high-profile role within the Finance department with exposure to the Group Finance Director and senior staff across the Group. This role has been created to ensure the Group is able to deliver its ambitious growth strategy and meet the changing needs of the industries in which the Group operates.

For more information please download our job profile available on our website.

More about you

You will be an ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified accountant who is known for being a first class Financial Accountant.  It is essential that you are highly experienced at accounts preparation and audit with knowledge of working with large/complex organisations.  You will enjoy working autonomously with defined objectives and deadlines; we are a busy team that enjoys taking ownerships of individual tasks and projects. In order to be successful in this role you must have the ability to switch between tasks quickly and easily without losing focus, as well as the drive to progress your career with us as the role grows with the successful candidate.

It is a pre-requisite that you enjoy stakeholder engagement and can build and maintain effective working relationships. You will be an advanced user of Excel and be highly proficient using various different systems, experience of using Business World would be beneficial.

The benefits

Our ambition gives you all the challenge you could wish for and that’s why we can offer you tangible and exciting career progression in a diverse and pioneering business.  

Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.

We know that there’s always more we can do to make you smile, that’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier; from a pension, generous holiday pay, training, sick pay, and free or discounted gym membership – to a wealth of extra perks including interest-free loans for colleagues, discounts and offers on thousands of retailers, restaurants and leisure outlets and much more.