Finance Manager

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Finance Manager

• Full time - 35 hours per week
• Permanent
• Office Location: Croydon
• Salary - £63,767.38 PA
• Benefits on offer: 25 days leave (+1 day increase after each year of employment), extra holidays for celebration days, matching pension, private healthcare and health plan benefit provider flexible working, and more.
• Screening call dates: Monday 1 June
• Interview dates: Tuesday 9 June
• Advert Closing date: Wednesday 27 May @ 23.59

As Finance Manager, you will play a central role in delivering accurate, timely and insightful financial information across the organisation. You will lead on management accounts, statutory reporting, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis, ensuring full compliance with Housing SORP and FRS102.

You’ll partner closely with senior leaders, operational managers-acting as a trusted adviser and providing the financial insight needed to drive performance, value for money and long term business planning.

You will also lead and develop a small, high performing finance team, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and excellent customer service.

Key responsibilities

• Produce high quality monthly management accounts, Board reports, budgets and forecasts
• Lead the preparation of statutory accounts and manage audit processes
• Provide expert financial analysis and business partnering to support operational and strategic decisions
• Maintain robust financial controls, cashflow planning, treasury oversight and covenant monitoring
• Oversee VAT, fixed asset, service charge and development accounting
• Lead, motivate and develop a small finance team
• Support long term financial planning, stress testing and value for money initiatives

Essential requirements

• Right to work
• DBS check

About you

We’re looking for someone who is:

• CCAB qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA)
• Experienced in producing management and statutory accounts
• Confident leading teams and managing workloads in a fast paced environment
• Skilled at building strong relationships across the organisation
• Able to communicate complex financial information clearly
• Highly proficient with Excel and modern financial systems

Experience in the housing sector, and familiarity with SUN Finance system and CX Housing management systems would be an advantage but is not essential.

About us Founded as Croydon Churches Housing Association, ccha is a social housing provider with a focus on quality homes and excellent customer care. We have over 1600 homes across 3 London Boroughs, Croydon, Sutton & Bromley. We provide a variety of homes including social housing, Shared Ownership and outright sales.

If you’re interested, please apply via https://ccha.biz/about-us/working-for-us/ where the full job description can be found. Please apply for this role through the ccha website (detailed above) to complete an application to be considered.

Please note, correspondence regarding your application form will come from either of the email addresses email@vacancyfiller.net or HR@ccha.co.uk.

Equal Opportunities Statement: ccha is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. If you need any assistance please with your application please contact hr@ccha.co.uk