Development Accountant

Pobl Group; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent pension scheme

26 days annual leave, increasing to 31

Flexible weekly or monthly pay

Wellbeing, rewards and recognition

Job summary

Codi Group invites an experienced Development Accountant to join our Corporate Finance team in a permanent, full-time role. You will lead a small team and provide strong financial insight to shape investment decisions across development and new business opportunities.

The role combines property accounting, financial modelling and leadership to drive value. The role covers appraisal through to handover, ensuring viable, sustainable projects and long-term customer benefits.

Qualifications

• CCAB qualified accountant with strong commercial awareness.
• Experience in complex financial appraisals, property or capital investment projects.
• Experience with Brixx and revenue viability modelling in Care & Support is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team and provide clear financial insight, challenge and assurance for development opportunities.
• Support major development and investment projects from appraisal through to handover, ensuring financial viability and value.
• Analyse development lifecycles, perform financial reporting, and monitor investments across the group.

Skills

Financial modelling

Property accounting

Leadership

Communication

Excel

Business partnering

Education

CCAB qualified

Tools

Brixx

Excel

Job description

We're excited to be looking for a qualified Accountant with exceptional Business Partnering skills to join our Corporate Finance team on a permanent, full-time basis. With the option of a traditional Monday to Friday working pattern or a compressed nine-day fortnight, this is a role that offers flexibility alongside genuine career impact. This is a rare opportunity to play a key role in delivering 10,000 new affordable homes across South Wales over the next decade. Working closely with the Head of New Business, Property & Financial Planning, you'll provide the financial insight and challenge that helps shape investment decisions and turn development opportunities into reality.

You'll support major development and investment projects from appraisal through to handover, helping ensure schemes are financially viable, sustainable and deliver long-term value for our customers and communities.

About the role This is a varied and influential role where you'll combine strong communication skills, financial modelling, property accounting and leadership to support investment decisions across the Group. Leading a small team, you'll evaluate development opportunities and investment proposals, providing clear financial insight, challenge and assurance to support decision-making. Using Excel, viability tools and Brixx, you'll assess financial performance, affordability and risk across a range of development and new business opportunities. You'll work closely with colleagues across Development, Asset Management, Care & Support and Finance, helping to ensure opportunities are financially viable and represent value for the Group.

As Development Accountant, you'll play a key role in managing property accounting throughout the development lifecycle, supporting financial reporting, audit requirements and investment monitoring up to the point homes are handed over. You'll also contribute to long-term planning and help shape the Group's future investment ambitions. It's a fantastic opportunity to use your technical expertise, commercial insight and leadership skills to support the delivery of 10,000 new affordable homes across South Wales.

Please note: This role is being advertised as Development Accountant to reflect its close involvement in our development programme. However, throughout the recruitment process and once appointed, the role title used within Codi will be Property Accountant (pre-handover). This reflects the role's primary focus on property accounting, financial reporting and project monitoring throughout the development phase up to handover.

We will be interviewing on 14th and 17th September at one of our head offices, with the location confirmed following shortlisting. The assessment process will include a panel interview, a competency-based Excel assessment and a roundtable exercise with colleagues from across the business. The roundtable will be a scored assessment designed to explore your communication, collaboration and business partnering skills in a practical setting.

We're looking for a qualified accountant with strong commercial awareness, experience of strong collaborations, financial modelling and property accounting, and the confidence to challenge assumptions, influence decisions and lead others. You'll enjoy analysing complex information, spotting risks and opportunities, and helping colleagues make informed investment decisions. You'll be a CCAB qualified accountant with strong Excel skills and experience of undertaking complex financial appraisals, property or capital investment projects. Experience of Brixx and revenue viability modelling, particularly within Care & Support, would be advantageous.

You'll have a strong understanding of property accounting across the development lifecycle, alongside the ability to analyse complex information, challenge assumptions and present clear recommendations to senior stakeholders. We're also looking for someone who can build strong relationships across teams, develop others, manage competing priorities and continuously improve processes and ways of working.

Codi Group is one of Wales' largest not-for-profit housing and care organisations, providing safe homes, personalised support, and vibrant communities where people can thrive. In 2024, Codi and Linc merged, combining our shared values and strengths to deliver even better services and create greater opportunities across Wales. Together, we are committed to being compassionate, inclusive, and focused on making a positive difference every day.

Join us in a permanent, full-time role (37 hours per week) earning £57,048, with hybrid working and a choice of office base in Cardiff, Newport or Swansea. We offer flexibility through either a traditional Monday to Friday working pattern or a compressed nine-day fortnight, helping you achieve a better work-life balance. Alongside the opportunity to help shape major investment decisions and support the delivery of thousands of new affordable homes across South Wales, you'll benefit from:

• Excellent pension scheme
• 26 days annual leave, increasing to 31 days with service
• Generous occupational sick pay
• Flexibility to be paid weekly or monthly
• A wide range of wellbeing, reward and recognition benefits

There are also excellent opportunities to develop your career across the Group. You can explore our full range of colleague benefits on our careers site: https://codigroup.co.uk/careers

Values At Codi, our values are Compassionate, Authentic and Progressive. You'll continue to embrace these principles and thrive in an environment shaped by them.