Senior Management Accountant

• Working Hours:
  
  Standard (09:00am-17:30pm)
• Department:
  Financial Operations
• Office or Field Based:
  Office Based (Cheadle, SK8 3GW
  )
• Contract type:
  Permanent

Benefits of working at Together

• 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts

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Company Description

We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.

We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 750 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7 billion loan book.

As a
Senior Management Accountant you will play a pivotal role within the Financial Control team, responsible for the accurate and timely production of P&L and B/S month end reporting, including the production of complex financial disclosure notes and control schedules. You will have your own areas of the month end close process where they will be responsible for producing information in line with the Financial Control Framework.

This role is crucial for ensuring the full management and delivery of the Group’s financial reporting, both statutory and management related, whilst ensuring accuracy and control.

Beyond regular business as usual tasks the role will assist with establishing correct accounting treatment for any new complex transactions and ad hoc projects that look to either improve current process or look at new required processes. Stakeholder management is key and they will be responsible for developing and nurturing effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including within Group Finance, and other teams across the business.

This role is an ideal opportunity for a first or second time mover from practise to join an experienced team at the heart of a wider Finance team that supports a group that continues its long term growth within an exciting industry. The role allows for the opportunity for the successful candidate to either bring additional knowledge on more complex areas of accounting such as hedge accounting and IFRS 9 expected credit losses or for someone to learn and get involved with these more interesting areas of accounting

As a
Senior Management Accountant we are looking for someone to:

• Be responsible for the preparation of accurate Month End Reporting for the Group and its subsidiaries
• Prepare detailed balance sheet analyses and accompanying MI
• Manage Group Consolidation through building and maintaining key control schedules
• Uphold key controls that form part of the Financial Control Framework, ensuring an effective control environment
• Manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, such as divisional finance and external auditors
• Develop junior members of the team
• Prepare Month-End accounting for current and new hedging instruments (interest rate swaps)
• Be responsible for the Accounting for Special Purpose Debt Vehicles
• Manage IFRS 9 expected credit loss processes and controls

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Technical accounting experience
• Previous experience in communicating and influencing senior stakeholders
• Good knowledge of GL accounting systems, cashbook and purchase ledger systems
• Ability to work with stakeholders to identify requirements and appropriate solutions

If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role.

Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.