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Homes England
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Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
Senior Help to Buy Accounting Manager
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Salary: £51,258 - £71,761 |
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Overview
This is an overview of the role: With Help to Buy Equity Loan assets valued at over £11billion at March 2019 and expected to increase to over £20billion over the next few years, this is a key role within the Agency’s finance team. The role is responsible for managing the maintenance and development of asset registers and models for Help to Buy and other legacy home equity programme assets which inform Homes England’s annual statutory financial reporting, quarterly departmental group reporting and budget forecasting. The role has a line management responsibility for directing a team which reports on transactions and balances across all home equity loan programmes and which prepares regular data analysis to identify trends which inform asset valuations and future budget forecast estimates. Supporting this, the role has a responsibility to ensure that there are clear lines of assurance for data and assumptions supporting financial reporting and modelling. This is to be achieved by building strong relationships directly and indirectly with internal and external stakeholders, especially in the Agency’s Help to Buy Operational & Risk Teams and the Ministry. The role will feed into governance processes through the regular preparation of papers for senior decision makers within the Agency, ensuring that emerging issues are surfaced to inform operational actions and key modelling assumptions supporting the financial statements and future budget requirements are subject to appropriate oversight. The successful person will be responsible for: • Responsible to the Assistant Director - Financial Reporting and Accounting for monitoring and reporting on Homes England's home equity investment portfolio. • Overseeing work performed by the Help to Buy accounting team to confirm that Homes England’s growing Help to Buy portfolio is captured correctly on databases and accounted for correctly. • Manage the requirements arising from the external audit process, as it relates to home equity investments. • Contributing to/preparing papers to keep the Help to Buy Executive, Audit and Risk Committee and Board informed of emerging issues in relation to the Help to Buy programme. • Preparation of quarterly and annual financial accounting information for inclusion in annual accounts and quarterly consolidation returns to MHCLG, including all required disclosures under IFRS. Qualifications: • Recognised professional accountancy qualification, such as ACA, ACCA, CIPFA, CIMA Essential Skills/Experience: • Significant, relevant accounting experience at manager level in public/private sector. • Excellent level of technical accountancy knowledge including IFRS • Experience of year-end accounts closure process • Advanced data interrogation and analytical skills • Excellent report writing skills Desirable: • Experience of government accounting requirements, in particular resource accounting and budgeting • Property/housing sector experience • Advanced knowledge of Business Intelligences or similar reporting tools • Experience of projects to develop bespoke systems and business processes would be an advantage Ambition: • Sharing your view, providing advice and backing it up with facts. Positively engaging with change. • Taking personal responsibility for closing off tasks, projects and activities. Commercial values: • Using communication, influencing skills and tenacity to effectively progress complex situations and achieve results. Apply the highest standards in the management of public money Homes England We are the Government’s national housing agency. Our role is to accelerate the pace of house-building across the country, particularly in areas where there are the most serious affordability issues – meaning people are struggling to find homes. We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resources to drive positive market change and meet the Government’s ambition to deliver 300,000 new homes a year. We are using our land, influence, funds and knowledge to increase the pace, scale and quality of new homes accelerating delivery in areas of greatest demand and helping create great places to live. Within the next few years, we will have invested over £27 billion across our programmes. To deliver against these aims we’re building a different kind of public service - join us to help make this happen. Homes England Telephone number: 0300 1234 500