Notting Hill Genesis
Financial Accountant - Reporting and Control
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Job Introduction
What You’ll Do
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.
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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.
What’s in it for you?
Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.
Benefits include:
- 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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All About Us
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.
For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:
We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.
To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit:
Selection Process
Step 1:
If you are interested, please send your application now!
Step 2:
Successful candidates will be asked to do an assessment
Step 3:
Successful candidates will be invited to interview
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk.
NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.
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