Aster Group UK
Financial Accountant
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Financial Accountant
Salary: £55,000-£60,000 per annum (depending on experience)
Location: Dorset
Hours: 37 hours per week
Closing date: 10 July 2026
We’re looking for a Financial Accountant to join our Group Financial Reporting team. This is a key role where you’ll take ownership of external regulatory reporting for the Aster Group, including VAT, NROSH, and annual financial reports.
You’ll play a vital part in supporting the year end audit, providing technical accounting guidance, and driving process improvements. This is a fantastic opportunity for a proactive and detail-oriented finance professional who enjoys working collaboratively and making a real impact.
What you’ll be doing
- Preparing statutory accounts for subsidiary companies and supporting the group’s consolidated accounts.
- Assisting with the year end audit and responding to queries to ensure a smooth process.
- Coordinating and delivering regulatory financial reporting, including VAT returns and submissions to HMRC.
- Providing technical accounting support across the business and staying up to date with reporting requirements.
- Leading and developing an Assistant Financial Accountant through effective delegation and coaching.
- Championing continuous improvement and supporting process enhancements across finance.
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About you
A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with at least two years post-qualification experience in financial or management accounting. You have:
- Strong technical accounting expertise, including consolidation and statutory accounts preparation.
- Experience with audits and external reporting requirements.
- Knowledge of VAT and corporation tax, ideally within the housing sector.
- Excellent communication skills and the confidence to engage with stakeholders and external advisers.
- Good attention to detail, with the ability to review work critically and constructively to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- A proactive mindset with the ability to manage workloads and deliver to tight deadlines.
- Experience managing or mentoring others.
What’s in it for me
We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:
- Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business’ needs
- A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
- We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
- Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
- Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
- Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
- Enhanced leave
- We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives
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We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.
All candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.
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