Financial Accountant (Team Leader)

Housing Quality Network; United Kingdom; Sur place; GBP 55 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Housing Quality Network seeks an experienced Financial Accountant (Team Leader) to guide a small team, coordinate month-end activities and deliver timely, accurate financial reporting. You will work with senior accountants and business partners to ensure strong controls, provide clear financial insights, and contribute to budgeting and stakeholder reporting.

The role is based in Eastleigh with hybrid working options and a friendly finance team.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with leadership experience in finance.
• Experience leading people in a finance team and coordinating month-end processes.
• Strong ability to translate financial data into meaningful insights.

Responsabilités

• Lead, support and develop the finance team, coordinating month-end activity and contributing to management accounts and reporting.
• Collaborate with Senior Accountants, Finance Business Partners and the wider Finance team to ensure robust processes and clear financial information.
• Champion strong financial controls, learn and improve how the team works and communicate outcomes clearly.

Connaissances

Team leadership

Month-end processes

Financial reporting

Excel

Formation

Qualified accountant

Outils

Microsoft Excel

Finance systems

Description du poste

Are you a confident finance professional who enjoys developing people and turning financial information into meaningful insight? We’re looking for a Financial Accountant (Team Leader) to lead our Assistant Financial Accountants and deliver a timely, accurate and customer-focused service.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll lead, support and develop the team, coordinate month-end activity and contribute to management accounts and reporting. Working with Senior Accountants, Finance Business Partners and the wider Finance team, you’ll ensure issues are reflected accurately, processes remain robust and financial information is clearly understood.

You’ll strengthen analysis and reporting, support annual budgets and our understanding of costs, and collaborate with colleagues and external stakeholders on statutory returns, accounts and budgets. You’ll champion strong financial controls, share knowledge and keep improving how we work.

What we’re looking for

You’ll be a qualified accountant, hold a relevant qualification or bring equivalent experience. You’ll have experience leading people in finance, with strong knowledge of transactional finance, month-end processes, financial returns and stakeholder reporting.

A clear and supportive communicator, you build trusted relationships and bring people together. You’re confident using finance systems and Microsoft Excel, able to challenge the detail and turn complex information into reliable insight. You’ll also keep your knowledge current and demonstrate our values and behaviours in everything you do.

You’ll be working from our Eastleigh office a minimum of three days per week to connect and collaborate with colleagues and the other two days can be worked from at a place of your choosing whether that’s at another of our offices, a cafe or at home.

Ready to make a difference?

If you’re curious, collaborative and ready to make an impact, we’d love to hear from you. Bring your expertise, ideas and leadership—and help us deliver a finance service that makes a positive difference every day.