Job Description

Finance Manager - Financial Accounts

Full Time Salary

62,500

Employment Type

Full time

Hours Per Week

35

Region

Merseyside

Location

Watson Building 4 Renshaw St, Liverpool L1 2SA

Contract Type

Fixed Term Contract

Contract Duration

12 months

Job Type

Finance

Closing Date

05/11/2025

Ref No

2588

What you can expect from us

We offer a competitive salary of 62,500 per annum. 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks. Salary Finance - access both short and long terms loans, plus provides access to a savings facility. Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or though the holiday purchase scheme. Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%) A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family.
Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave. Access of up to 150 annually through the 'Learning for life' scheme Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme. Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.

About the role

The purpose of the role is to manage the Finance Accounting team and co-ordinate the production of the annual Financial Statements within regulatory and accounting standards. This role will be a 12 month fixed term contract at one of our 3 office locations: Liverpool, Didsbury, Accrington.

Responsibilities

Accounting

Manage the Financial Accounts Team and liaise with wider business colleagues to produce annual Financial Statements for all the legal entities within Group in compliance with regulatory and accounting standards

Reporting

Liaise with the Finance Manager (Mgmt Accounts) to produce the monthly management accounts pack including supporting schedules through sharing resources and maximising system outputs. Co-ordinating and collaborating with peers to complete monthly reconciliations and analysis to validate and confirm balances accurately reflect business performance.

Systems and Data

Work collaboratively with colleagues to support automation leading to clear and concise end to end processes.

Cash Flow

Liaise with Treasury to manage cash flow planning and monitoring, ensuring transactions are reflected in the correct entities at all times and to support cash management across the business.

Linking

Provide a link between the analysis of data across teams. Provide data assurance to ensure that information decisions are made at the right level. Effective collaboration across teams to enhance delivery and performance.

Developing the Service

Identify, build and develop an extensive network of external contacts to keep abreast of best practice and benchmarking to deliver efficiencies, improvements and value for money.

Management, Leadership and Culture Change

Manage the budgets, resources and priorities of the team ensuring effective and efficient use of resources to deliver agreed performance targets and customer satisfaction. Drive culture change across the organisation based on the 8 values

Skills/Experience

Essential:

Experience of delivering financial support to internal and external customers. Experience of managing and reporting financial performance information. Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels with both financial and non-financial management team members. Experience of working with finance ledgers. Experience of interpreting complex financial information and using it to inform business decisions. IT skill - Microsoft Office, Excel at intermediate level. Experience of leading & developing people to deliver high performance.

Desirable:

Experience of Commercial Modelling and Options Appraisal. Experience of housing finance systems.

Qualifications

Full qualification with a recognised accounting body (ACCA, CIMA, ACA).

About Onward Homes

Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the North West, with 35,000 properties across the region.



We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we're committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers' heads, we're here to make a real difference.



In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.



We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.



If candidates have any questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on

HumanResourcesTeam@onward.co.uk

and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early prior to the closing date.

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