Financial Accountant

We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs.

Our Finance team is friendly, knowledgeable and we love what we do. We are proud of our expertise and passionate about the high-quality, service we deliver to all of our customers and stakeholders.

We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to people’s lives, each and every day.

Join our Finance team as a Financial Accountant on a 15 month contract

Our Finance team play an important role in helping us to achieve our vision by supporting colleagues across the organisation to achieve the best value for money, pay for goods and services and understand complex financial information. Our finance specialists work across a number of teams including Corporate Finance, Financial Management and Procurement. Working collaboratively with colleagues we prize our accountability, empathy and a genuine desire to be helpful and informative.

We’re an organisation with strong values. We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve. These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.

The role

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Financial Accountant in Camden. This role will have hybrid working. In this role, you will be responsible for producing monthly statutory accounts and the year-end financial statements, whilst contributing to a good control environment through schedules, reconciliations and the investigation of unusual balances. Some further responsibilities will include:

• Prepare monthly statutory financial statements, assigned notes to the accounts and lead schedules for subsidiaries. 
• Support other areas of financial accounting and the wider finance team to ensure accuracy of the accounts and a good control environment.
• Analysis of balance sheet items and work with other areas of the finance department to ensure regular balance sheet cleansing.
• Completion of balance sheet reconciliations
• Work closely with the Group Financial Controller to ensure smooth operation of month end tasks.
• Assist with the preparation and collation of audit evidence and working papers

What you will need to succeed

We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who is positive and friendly. The successful candidate will:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CIPFA) 
• A degree or equivalent qualification preferred
• Previous experience in either a G15 Housing Association or in a comparable company
• Working knowledge of SUN Systems, Q&A
• Working knowledge of K Trinity or other statutory reporting package

The offer

Our Life@One benefits offer you an array of perks designed with your wellbeing in mind.

• Salary: £50-55,000
• Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues
• Looking forward to your big bucket list trip? You can buy or sell up to five days annual leave each year.
• Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
• Well done! With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
• Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
• We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.
• Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
• Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service.

About us

As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and their workforce reflects that. We understand the strength we gain from having and supporting our diverse teams. The different skills and experiences that our colleagues from different backgrounds bring to us allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work.

We welcome applications from everyone.