Senior Accountant

LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cycle2Work

Lease Car

Tech Scheme

GymFlex

Employee Discounts

Bromley Benefits

Job summary

LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY is seeking a Senior Accountant to join the housing financial management team and contribute to budget monitoring and year-end reporting.

Reporting to the Head of Finance for Housing, Adult Social Care & Health, the role involves leading on budgets for housing, subsidy checks, and developing staff. The post is permanent, full-time with hybrid working and standard office hours.

Qualifications

• CCAB qualified accountant; part-qualified considered, with significant senior financial management experience.
• Ability to deep-dive into data and present insights via Excel and Power BI.
• Knowledge of housing development schemes and the ability to review financial and operational aspects.
• Knowledge of HRA rents, service charges and operations would be of benefit.
• Ability to triangulate between disparate data sources and provide actionable insights.

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.

Skills

Financial analysis

Data visualization

Stakeholder engagement

Housing sector knowledge

Problem solving

Education

CCAB qualified accountant

Part-qualified considered

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Excel

Job description

• Job title: Senior Accountant
• Grade: MG6
• Contract: Permanent / Full-time - 36 hours per week
• Working hours: Monday to Friday, standard 9:00 to 17:00
• Location: Bromley Civic Centre
• Working pattern: Hybrid - minimum 2 days per week office attendance

Bromley Council is looking for a senior accountant to join their housing financial management team. Reporting to the Head of Finance for 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.

We offer a generous package including competitive pay, career average pension scheme, flexible working practices and the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work, Salary Sacrifice Lease Car, Technology Scheme, GymFlex and a wide range of local and national discounts.

Please note that we do not accept CV submissions from permanent recruitment agencies.