Financial Reporting Accountant

MIDLAND HEART HOUSING; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A housing organization in the Midlands is seeking a Financial Reporting Accountant to manage financial reporting for mutual companies. This role involves leading a small team, preparing statutory accounts, and liaising with external auditors. Candidates should be fully qualified accountants with experience in financial accounting and team management. The position allows hybrid work with a base in Birmingham.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified Accountant status required.
• Experience of producing statutory accounts and reconciliations.
• Experience in managing and coaching a team in finance.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of two Assistant Financial Accountants.
• Accounting for Mutuals, including property sales and taxation.
• Production of annual statutory accounts for mutual companies.

Skills

Qualified Accountant status (e.g. ACA/ACCA/ACMA)

Experience in producing statutory accounts

Management and coaching experience in finance

Ability to liaise with external auditors

Ability to present financial information to stakeholders

Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Excel

Education

Fully qualified Accountant status (ACA/ACCA/ACMA)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

Financial Reporting Accountant
Location: Birmingham B15 1LZ, Hybrid
Salary: £54,560 per annum
Hours: 35 per Week
Term: Permanent

We believe that great homes build better lives. At the heart of this mission is a high-performing Corporate Finance team managing millions in investment, delivering reporting our leaders, the regulator and tenants can trust, and maintaining the financial strength that keeps us moving forward.

Joining us as a Financial Reporting Accountant, you'll achieve this by ensuring accurate and robust accounting for Midland Heart, subsidiaries and Mutual companies. You'll lead a team of two Assistant Financial Accountants to deliver:

• Accounting for the Mutuals business area, including accounting for property sales, mortgages and taxation – Mutuals are unique Retirement Housing schemes with each one being their own legal entity and governed by their appointed committee.
• Provision of Service Charge Accounts.
• Production of annual statutory accounts for each individual mutual company with differing year ends, as it stands 36 financial accounts and 160 statements per year.

As the Financial Reporting Accountant, you'll lead on more complex accounting, including the production of year end annual accounts, and it's 4 subsidiary accounts. Importantly, you'll partner effectively with key business stakeholders, particularly key stakeholders within the Mutuals team and work closely with external Auditors throughout the audit timetable.

This is a varied yet structured role, offering you the opportunity to utilise your financial accounting skills, build strong relationships with business stakeholders and undertake meaningful work that has a real impact on our Leasehold and Shared Ownership tenants.

Our Ideal Candidate?

• Fully qualified Accountant status (e.g. ACA/ACCA/ACMA).
• Experience of producing, overseeing the preparation of and presenting Statutory Accounts, reconciliations and month end / year end accounting.
• Experience of managing, coaching and developing a team in a Finance / Accounting setting; OR the ability, passion and leadership aptitude to do this as evidenced in your Cover Letter.
• Experience of supporting external audits or liaising with external auditors.
• Proven ability to present financial information to a broad range of business stakeholder / non-financial audiences and influence positive outcomes.
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Outlook, Excel & Word.

In this role, you can expect to work from our Birmingham, Bath Row office a minimum of 3 days per week, with 2 days working from home.

We're one team working together for our tenants; a large and ambitious housing organisation providing more people an affordable place to call home. We welcome people from every walk of life, at every stage of their career.

Closing Date: 31 October 2025
We reserve the right to appoint prior to the advertised closing date.

Interested? Applying is easy - simply click the apply button. You will be directed to our candidate portal, there you can see a link to the full Role Profile and submit your CV and Cover Letter which together highlight your suitability against the above criteria.

Please note, we're unable to consider applications without a Cover Letter for this role.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. Please feel free to contact us if you would like to discuss any adjustments you might need in order to be successful in this role.