Senior Accountant

London Borough Of Bromley; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

competitive pay

career pension scheme

flexible working practices

Cycle2Work

Technology Scheme

GymFlex

wide range of local and national-discc

Job summary

London Borough Of Bromley is seeking a senior financial professional to lead budgeting and year-end closing for housing services. The post supports temporary accommodation, housing developments and subsidy administration, with a focus on robust data insights.

The role requires CCAB qualification (or part-qualification) and proven experience in housing finance, data visualisation with Excel/Power BI, and stakeholder engagement. This is a public sector post with flexible working options.

Qualifications

• CCAB qualified or part-qualified with significant financial management experience.
• Strong data analysis skills and ability to visualise data with Excel and Power BI.
• Knowledge of housing development schemes and housing revenue account is beneficial.
• Experience with subsidy claims and related returns to funding bodies.

Responsibilities

• Lead budget monitoring and annual budget setting for housing including temporary accommodation.
• Close service accounts at year-end and manage RO/RA returns to London Councils.
• Review housing subsidy claims to maximise subsidy and minimise errors.
• Ensure housing developments meet client lead demand and strategic aims.
• Develop staff to deliver financial management support to housing services.
• Respond to FOI requests and external audit queries in a timely manner.

Skills

Data analysis

Power BI

Excel

Education

CCAB qualified accountant (part-qualified considered)

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Housing, Adult Social Care & Health, you will play a key role in contributing to housing's strategies for managing temporary accommodation and housing developments. Bromley is a great place to work and we are proud of the high-quality services we deliver to residents. The Council has been recognised as being outstanding by Ofsted for its Children's services in 2024 and won an excellence in asset management award in 2021. Like many councils, we face financial challenges; however, there is sound financial management at Bromley which means that we are well positioned to support the Council to respond effectively. Oracle Fusion was implemented in 2022 and the finance team continues to explore opportunities where technology can improve our offer. Innovation, insight and the ability to influence a wide range of stakeholders will be vital in addressing the challenges ahead.

Key responsibilities:

• Leading on budget monitoring and annual budget setting for housing including demand lead areas such as temporary accommodation
• Closing the service's accounts at year-end and ensuring thorough workings for RO, RA and other returns to London Councils and grant funding organisations
• Knowledge of housing benefits subsidy and checking through subsidy claims, ensuring the Council maximises subsidy and minimises loss through avoidable errors
• Ensuring that housing developments maximise the Council's ability to cater for client lead demand
• Manage and lead the development of staff in supporting the delivery of the financial management offer to housing services
• Responding in a timely and substantive manner to Freedom of Information requests and external audit queries

About you:

• CCAB qualified accountant (consideration given to part qualified accountants) with significant financial management experience at a suitably senior level
• Seasoned ability to deep dive into data and produce meaningful information for managers, presented both via high quality graphical visualisations
  (Microsoft Excel and Power BI) and narrative
• Knowledge of housing development schemes and the ability to review the financial and operational aspects and advise upon the particularities of these
• The Council may reopen its Housing Revenue Account and knowledge of the HRA rents, service charges and operations would be of benefit
• Keen sense of professional curiosity to draw reasonable conclusions from disparate data sources and triangulate between experts within the services
• High level of drive and initiative to support services by providing a critical ear and eye on interpreting facets of housing law and legislation
• If you have a zest for Power BI and can convert budget monitoring and budget setting outputs into a dashboard for the service, we would love to hear from you

We are forces family friendly and are part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Bronze Award).

We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and as a disability confident committed employer we encourage applications from people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we will consider reasonable adjustment to support disability employment.

Benefits and Perks:

• competitive pay
• career average pension scheme
• flexible working practices
• the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work
• Salary Sacrifice Lease Car
• Technology Scheme
• GymFlex
• a wide range of local and national discounts