Job Description

Senior Accounts Assistant
Worcester based with a balance of home and office working
30,549.02 per year
35 hours per week
12-month secondment covering MAT leave to start in November 2025
As a Senior Accounts Assistant, you will be ambitious and enjoy a varied role within a busy and supportive team. In this role you will be responsible for supporting the completion of management accounts to ensure income and expenditure is appropriately accounted for, whilst also ensuring data is accurately recorded. The ideal candidate will come from a finance background and will possess excellent data analysis skills. The role sits within the Supported Living and Commercial teams which is responsible for the accounting within Sanctuary.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to take the next step in their career. You will be joining a fast-paced team, assisting in the delivery of effective financial services including budgeting and forecasting, variance analysis, stakeholder management and reporting.
The role of Senior Accounts Assistant will include:

• Providing accurate and timely financial information whilst maintaining effective financial systems, to support decision making and business planning
• Developing, building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders
• Providing an effective administration service ensuring workloads are manageable in line with business requirements
• Identifying areas for improvement and shortfalls in service delivery and recommending actions to remedy this, as appropriate
• Supporting and assisting the management accounting function within the team

Skills and experiences:

• AAT part/fully qualified, or equivalent level of qualification is essential
• Previous experience in a similar transactional finance role along with strong analytical skills is essential
• The ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise work loads
• Excellent communication, customer service and interpersonal skills allowing you to negotiate effectively
• Outstandingly organised with a high degree of attention to detail and accuracy
• Basic user of Microsoft Office with strong Excel skills

Why work for us?
Sanctuary Supported Living is a leading provider of housing related care and support services supporting a diverse client group to live as independently as possible. We employ over 2,400 staff across England and have ambitious plans to continually develop and grow our business over the next few years.
Our Benefits
As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:

• 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays (pro rata)
• A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
• Life Assurance
• Employee Volunteering scheme
• Employee Advice Service including counselling
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Voluntary health plans
• Employee discounts
• Wellbeing support and tools
• Employee recognition scheme
• Employee platform to access your reward and wellbeing package online, find exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources and recognition tools
• Employee Networks, with a shared interest in inclusion, and who provide invaluable support to colleagues

Job reference number : 226234
If you are applying internally, don't forget to use your internal careers account to submit your application.
We might get a lot of applications so reserve the right to withdraw this advertisement at any time. Don't miss out, please apply early.
Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers' needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference. We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission. We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary's commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.
Building Equality and Diversity
Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent illegal working.
An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be necessary in the event of a successful application which we will pay for.
Sanctuary Supported Living is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association and Sanctuary Home Care Limited, both exempt charities.

Skills Required