Financial Reporting Accountant - Birmingham

Job summary

We believe that great homes build better lives. At the heart of this mission is a high-performing Corporate Finance team managing millions in investment, delivering reporting our leaders, the regulator and tenants can trust, and maintaining the financial strength that keeps us moving forward.

Responsibilities

• Accounting for the Mutuals business area, including accounting for property sales, mortgages and taxation – Mutuals are unique Retirement Housing schemes with each one being their own legal entity and governed by their appointed committee.
• Provision of Service Charge Accounts.
• Production of annual statutory accounts for each individual mutual company with differing year ends, as it stands 36 financial accounts and 160 statements per year.
• As the Financial Reporting Accountant, you'll lead on more complex accounting, including the production of year end annual accounts, and it's 4 subsidiary accounts.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified Accountant status (e.g. ACA/ACCA/ACMA).
• Experience of producing, overseeing the preparation of and presenting Statutory Accounts, reconciliations and month end / year end accounting.
• Experience of managing, coaching and developing a team in a Finance / Accounting setting; OR the ability, passion and leadership aptitude to do this as evidenced in your Cover Letter.
• Experience of supporting external audits or liaising with external auditors.
• Proven ability to present financial information to a broad range of business stakeholder / non-financial audiences and influence positive outcomes.
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Outlook, Excel & Word.

Desired requirements

• Experience of working from home.

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