Management Accountants

Saffron Housing; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing association in the UK is looking for a Management Accountant to support the Finance team. You'll prepare monthly management accounts, assist budget managers, and enhance financial processes. Ideal candidates should possess a recognized accounting qualification and strong analytical skills. The role promotes a collaborative work environment with flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Innovative e-learning platform

Agile working options

Supportive team culture

Qualifications

• Familiarity with month-end and year-end processes.
• Experience of preparing and analysing financial information.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting and planning.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly management accounts and support analysis.
• Support budget managers with preparation of budgets and forecasts.
• Manage external reporting for housing properties and fixed assets.
• Review financial performance with budget managers.
• Participate in improvement of financial controls and processes.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Time management

Attention to detail

Problem-solving skills

Commercial awareness

Education

Qualification with a recognised accounting body (ICAEW/ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Management Accountant to join our Finance team, supporting the Financial Controller in delivering high quality financial support and expertise to the business. As part of a small, collaborative team of Management Accountants the successful candidate will have exposure to a wide variety of responsibilities and projects. This role offers the chance to develop and use skills across multiple areas including monthly reporting, forecasting, business planning, financial analysis, treasury management and statutory reporting. Business partnering is an important element of the role, supporting senior leaders with financial decision‑making and planning while working to increase financial awareness and acumen across the operational teams. Alongside day‑to‑day responsibilities, the team play an active part in driving efficiencies and improving financial processes, contributing to the continuous enhancement of systems and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly Saffron Group management accounts and Saffron's subsidiaries, supporting analysis and commentary.
• Support budget managers with preparation of their budgets and quarterly forecasts.
• Manage the external reporting and record‑keeping relating to housing properties and other fixed assets.
• Hold regular reviews with budget managers to review financial performance, field day‑to‑day queries and provide challenge to budget/forecast assumptions and expenditure.
• Proactively participate in the development, improvement and automation of financial controls, processes and systems.

Qualifications

• Qualification with a recognised accounting body (ICAEW/ACCA/CIMA).
• Familiarity with month‑end and year‑end processes.
• Experience of preparing and analysing financial information and discussing this with senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting and planning.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to effectively communicate financial information to non‑financially trained colleagues, building strong relationships across the organisation.
• Technical knowledge of financial reporting, including a working knowledge of the requirements of FRS102.
• Strong skills in using common IT systems and software, particularly in Microsoft Excel.
• Time management skills. Will be methodical and analytical and be able to plan time effectively to meet internal and external deadlines, collaborative and adaptable approach. Comfortable handling varied tasks working in a small team.
• Able to build positive relationships across the business.
• Proactive mindset, taking the initiative to identify issues and suggest improvements.
• Commercial awareness and curiosity to understand the wider business impact of financial decisions.

Please note this role is subject to a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service check.

We are a housing association based in Norfolk providing quality homes and services to people across the county and in Suffolk. We manage over 6,000 homes including affordable homes for those in housing need who cannot afford to rent or buy in the open market. We offer specialist homes for older and vulnerable adults and are committed to providing new homes to help solve the housing crisis.

At Saffron we have a huge commitment to our employees. We want the team at Saffron to be happy, empowered, motivated and feel proud to be part of the Saffron community. We know by having great people we can do a great job for our tenants. We trust our colleagues to do the right thing and we are looking for people whose values are aligned with ours (PACE – Professional, Accountable, Collaborative and Evolving). You will have the freedom to learn and grow. We are passionate about investing in our people, providing them with the skills they need now, and for their future aspirations. We do this by offering a blend of learning opportunities, including our innovative e‑learning platform where learning is self‑directed allowing people to learn what they want, when they want to. We work with and support our people to work in an agile way to ensure that they have the right work/life balance. They have the choice to work in the office, work from home, coffee shop, park or a combination of all. We have recently refurbished our offices to encourage collaborative, agile working.

As an inclusive employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and have a zero tolerance policy relating to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join the Saffron Community.