BLUE OCTOPUS RECRUITMENT LTD
37 hours per week
Looking for a fresh challenge and to find that spring in your step at Gloucestershire’s best place to work? Do have experience delivering monthly management accounts, financial statements and regulatory returns? Are you a dynamic leader with a real passion for getting things done? If yes, we would love to hear from you!
We’re an ambitious, dynamic housing association with strong community roots. We are focused on building homes and communities where people can thrive and delivering valued services to our customers.
We’re now seeking a Financial Reporting Manager
– someone to be responsible for the coordination and completion of the monthly management accounts, annual budgets, statutory accounts, regulatory and other financial returns. You’ll manage the Finance Business Partner Team, ensuring the team consistently deliver high performance, ensuring they have clarity of direction, purpose, and developed to meet potential and individual aspirations.
Ensuring all statutory financial obligations are met and are compliant with the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP), you’ll ensure all areas of the business are financially well managed as a result of receiving regular financial updates and being supported and challenged on performance against budget.
With proven experience of delivering accurate management accounts, annual financial accounts and regulatory returns with insightful analysis, you’ll have strong knowledge of social housing regulation and compliance, or similar regulated environment. We’d like you to have experience of managing finance teams in a housing setting with excellent experience of effective leadership, performance management and communication skills.
We’d also like you to
- Have experience of successfully managing complex projects, working within tight deadlines and budget, whilst promoting stakeholder involvement at all levels.
- Act as an ambassador for the company – encouraging co-operation and collaboration, readily sharing ideas and information
- Hold a CCAB qualification (or equivalent) or finalist level accountant
- Take ownership of problems and work positively with others to resolve them, ensuring that organisational targets and objectives are met.
Application Information
For more information on the role accountabilities and skills required, please check out the job description.
Closing Date: 1 November 2024
Shortlisting will be carried out throughout the period of the advert and this closing date may be brought forward should a suitable candidate be found. After shortlisting, we’ll hold initial informal interviews via Teams, as part of the selection process. Candidates successful in these sessions will be invited to attend in-person interviews on a date to be confirmed.
We are committed to equal opportunities. We actively encourage applications from all sections of our community, particularly those with lived experience of our work.
We celebrate the diverse nature of our customers and colleagues, striving to develop diverse teams where everyone can be their authentic self through an inclusive, family friendly, flexible and fun culture. Our values of pride, quality, integrity and innovation are at the heart of what we do. So if this sounds like you, we’d be delighted to hear from you!
