Finance Director

Your new company
One of the Midlands' leading and most successful providers of good quality, affordable homes. Walsall Housing Group (WHG) has the strong financial metrics required to deliver 550 new homes each year and provide market leading service to its customers. The Group owns and manages 21,000 homes across the Midlands and in 2014 launched an ambitious 10 year corporate plan. In 2020 they reviewed and realign this strategy after successfully supporting thousands of customers to improve their employment prospects through employment and training programmes, reducing energy use in homes and offices and receiving recognition for these achievements by winning awards and securing external accreditation's.

Your new role
Reporting to the Corporate Director of Finance, you will take responsibility for the financial services and transactions teams covering financial accounting, management accounts reporting, tax, rent and service charge accounting and accounts payable with direct management for the Financial Controller and Rent Service Manager.

Your key duties will include:

• Working with the Senior Leadership Team to deliver the WHG Corporate Strategy
• Proving effective leadership, being performance and delivery focused
• Strategically lead WHG's financial and management accounting reporting and control activities across the Group
• Responsible for budgetary and forecast preparation. Implementation of policies and procedures to enable effective budgetary control and reliable reporting.
• Oversee tax and VAT, work closely with the FD for Strategic Planning to ensure any data for new tax requirements are captured correctly within accounting systems and statutory reports.

What you'll need to succeed
You must be a fully qualified accountant who has been responsible for financial accounting and experience of producing clear, concise and objective reports to management bodies, Boards and Committees. You will also have experience of successfully leading a team.

What you'll get in return
A competitive salary of £93,500 + a healthy pension and annual leave allowance.

What you need to do now
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