Assistant Accountant - Financial Planning & Analysis

Closing date - 21/12/2022

Interviews - w/b 09/01/2023

Working in a team with Vanessa Armstrong our Senior Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis, the Assistant Accountant - Financial Planning & Analysis will play a critical role in supporting the team in achieving accurate and timely budget monitoring and management, to enable the appropriate business decisions to be taken by the business leaders. You will be joining our enthusiastic and experienced team, who are committed to making positive changes in enhancing the financial information available to budget holders to support the business in delivery, and the Agency's mission and objectives.

Vanessa is dedicated to delivering a first-class customer service, taking an innovative and creative approach to budget monitoring and management issues. Vanessa believes in working in a collaborative/flexible way to foster good decision making and problem solving within their team.

This is a rare chance to shape the future in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional Finance team you will review data to ensure accuracy, provide advice and guidance to budget holders, undertake financial analysis and have a willingness to challenge processes in order to improve the service offered by Finance to the rest of the Agency.

Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn't always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a strategic finance team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an experienced finance professional, you'll be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

Homes England, the government's housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.

Following the publication of the government's Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to hybrid working. We'll support you, wherever possible, so that you don't miss out on what matters to you.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

If you are a member of a professional body, we'll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you'll be good to go.

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We were all working from home?during the pandemic and have since moved to a hybrid model, moving back into our office environments and utilising our space and time together in the most conducive way.

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.

If your application is shortlisted to interview, we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage.