Salary: £65,000
Location: Dorset
Hours: 37 hours per week
Position Type: {Advertised Full Time / Part Time}
Expiry Date: 12/08/2026 23:59
The Vacancy
We’re looking for a Senior Group Financial Accountant to join our Group Financial Reporting team. In this leadership role, you’ll coordinate and manage the delivery of external regulatory reporting for the Aster Group, including VAT, NROSH, and annual financial reports. You’ll play a key part in ensuring compliance, supporting technical accounting matters, and driving process improvements, while developing and leading a high performing team.
This is an excellent opportunity to make a real impact and further your career.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading the preparation of statutory accounts for subsidiary companies and supporting the consolidation of group accounts.
- Acting as a key contact for external auditors, coordinating and managing audit requests ensuring timely, high quality responses.
- Coordinating and delivering regulatory reporting, including VAT returns, NROSH submissions, and other external returns.
- Liaising with tax advisers to ensure accurate and timely corporation tax computations.
- Supporting technical accounting matters and training the wider finance team on new developments.
- Driving continuous improvement initiatives within the team.
- Managing and developing a team of Financial Accountants and Assistant Financial Accountants, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence.
- Deputising for the Head of Financial Reporting and Analysis when required.
About you
A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with at least five years post-qualification experience in financial or management accounting. You will have:
- Strong technical accounting expertise, including consolidation and statutory accounts.
- Experience of managing external audits and external reporting requirements.
- Solid knowledge of VAT and regulatory reporting, ideally within the housing sector.
- Excellent communication skills and the confidence to engage with senior stakeholders and external advisers.
- Good attention to detail, with the ability to review work critically and constructively to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- A proactive mindset with the ability to manage complex workloads and deliver to tight deadlines.
- Proven leadership skills with experience mentoring and developing people.
This is a hybrid role, enabling you to base yourself from home. There is a requirement to attend the office on a regular basis, so you will be suitably located for the role.
What’s in it for me
- Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
- Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
- Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
- Enhanced leave
- We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives
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