Aster requires an experienced and ambitious Senior Management Accountant to join the Finance team to assist with the delivery of a professional financial service to our internal customers.
You’ll be someone who has a positive attitude towards delivering financial support to our operational colleagues, taking a collaborative approach to problem solving.
As a Senior Management Accountant, you’ll be responsible for producing monthly management accounts, being involved in a variety of tasks from posting transactions to producing management reports to operations.
You will be actively involved in budgeting and forecasting of Aster’s housing division with the aim of providing Aster with an accurate financial position.
You will be working in collaboration with our operational teams to help them understand their management accounts and provide insights and suggestions to help improve the services we provide our customers.
The successful candidate must be an advanced user of Excel and would be comfortable analysing data and using functions such as VLOOKUPs, SUMIFs and pivot tables. Experience writing reports in Sun accounts via vision XL or a similar financial management system would also be required.
Experience working in a fast-paced management accounts, where working together to meet joint goals is essential. You will enjoy working in a team and willing to help others knowing support will be replicated when you need it.
You’ll need to be an effective communicator, establishing and building relationships across the business to enable collaborative working where applicable.
You need to either be a qualified accountant and member of a CCAB body (CIMA, ICAEW, ACCA) or working towards qualification alongside experience in management accounts and budget preparation.

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

• Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business’ needs
• A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• 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

To apply, please use information provided in the advert and role profile to let us know why you’d be good for the job. Please submit a copy of your up-to-date CV along with a supporting statement.
We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

Please refer the Job description for details