We’re looking for a motivated and commercially minded Assistant Financial Controller to join Phoenix Community Housing. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to step up in their finance career, take on leadership responsibilities, and play a key role in keeping our financial transactions running smoothly.
Reporting to the Financial Controller, you’ll oversee core financial transactions – including cashflow, insurance, accounts payable and receivable – making sure everything runs efficiently, with strong controls and on time. You’ll also support statutory reporting, VAT returns, reconciliations, and year-end processes, while helping to drive system improvements and automation.
You’ll manage and develop colleagues in our Accounts Payable team, build strong relationships with auditors and banking partners, and act as a trusted advisor to non-finance colleagues across the business.
We are looking for someone who is experience in financial transaction management, VAT, reconciliations and statutory reporting, ideally with a background in the housing sector.
You should be a qualified accountant, or by experience, or part-qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA
If you are a confident leader, able to manage your own workload while supporting others and are strong in systems and processes, with an eye for efficiency, then this could be the role for you!
At Phoenix, our values are Community, Customer, Consideration, and Collaboration. We’re looking for someone who will bring these to life every day, helping us deliver excellent homes and services for our residents.
Closing date for applications is Noon on Thursday 16 October, with interviews scheduled to take place on 22 October 2025.
About Phoenix Community Housing
Phoenix is a housing organisation with a difference. We’re led by our residents, with a tenant as our Chair and with residents as the largest group on our Board. Some housing associations talk about resident involvement. We live and breathe it every day.
We believe this is our core strength and it’s helped us achieve a wide range of accolades and awards.
We’re based in south Lewisham, London, and are proud to be building new homes in our area. We’ve grown as a housing association, taking on the management of 1,500 more homes in late 2021 to bring our total number of homes to around 7,800.
Our new Corporate Plan will help us deliver on our vision of ‘together building a better future for our Phoenix Community’, supported by strategies to refresh our approach to resident involvement, customer service, sustainability and ensuring that all residents can enjoy good quality, safe and affordable homes.
Our big ambitions apply to our staff too. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package, including our wellbeing programme, comprehensive learning and development and a culture of employee involvement.
If you think you’re the right person to help us make the next stage of our journey, then we’d love to hear from you. We strongly believe in a work-life balance so we’d be pleased to talk about part-time flexible working and job sharing options.
Phoenix is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.