Senior Management Accountant

Cross Keys Homes

  • Peterborough
  • £55,685-58,616 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 21 days ago
Are you a qualified accountant with a passion for driving financial performance and demonstrable experience in Social Housing? Do you thrive in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment where your expertise can make a real impact? If so, we’d love to hear from you!About the RoleWe’re looking for a Senior Management Accountant to join our dynamic Finance team. In this pivotal role, you’ll support the Finance Manager in producing monthly management reports, preparing budgets and forecasts, and delivering high-quality financial insights to key stakeholders across the business.You’ll act as a trusted business partner, helping managers and budget holders understand their financial performance and make informed decisions. You’ll also play a key role in maintaining financial controls, supporting audits, and enhancing our reporting systems—including Power BI.Please note: While this role is primarily remote, the successful candidate must be able to travel to our Peterborough head office occasionally when required.Key Responsibilities
  • Prepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts and board reports.
  • Lead on accruals, prepayments, reconciliations, and variance analysis.
  • Support the annual budgeting and forecasting processes.
  • Provide financial advice and challenge assumptions to ensure value for money.
  • Maintain the general ledger and support statutory reporting.
  • Act as a “super user” for our financial systems (Open Accounts).
  • Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and templates.
What We’re Looking For
  • Qualified Accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
  • With 4–5 years of experience within the social housing sector.
  • Strong experience in management accounting and financial reporting.
  • Excellent Excel and data analysis skills.
  • Confident communicator with the ability to influence and challenge.
  • Experience working with budget holders and senior stakeholders.
  • Knowledge of financial systems (Open Accounts preferred) and Power BI.
  • A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with a commitment to continuous improvement.
Why Join Us?Remote WorkingOpportunities for career development and professional growthA chance to make a real difference in a values-driven organisation.Please see the attached job description for full details.We may close this advert early if we receive a high volume of applications, so don’t delay!Apply now and help shape the financial future of a purpose-led organisation.A commercial business with a social heart, our vision is to create opportunities that change lives through our drive, expertise, resources and passion.Our dynamic approach has made us one of the region’s leading providers of affordable homes for rent and sale. Developing new homes across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and the surrounding area, we’re committed to increasing the supply of affordable homes in the communities where they are needed most. Agility and innovation are central to our approach to adapting to change, and we’ll continue to grow our business in today’s fast-paced operating environment.There’s more to building communities than building houses. In addition to providing quality homes and delivering excellent landlord services, we also provide care at home and at our two extra care communities in Peterborough as well as around the clock support through our LifeLine personal alarm service. Our community investment programme sees us working with specialist partners to bring a range of employment, wellbeing and family-friendly services to the heart of our communities, with a rapidly expanding digital support offer too.You can find out more and the on the CKH website.Members of the National Housing Federation, PlaceShapers, Homes for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, the CBI and BuildEast.

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